To: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) From: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) Reply-To: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) Sender: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) Return-Path: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) Errors-To: postmaster@onion.rain.com Precedence: bulk Bcc: hitech-sim-out Subject: Hitech Simulation Digest V2 : I24 Hitech Simulation Digest Volume 2 : Issue 24 Wed Apr 13 06:52:19 PDT 1994 Compilation copyright (C) 1994 Jeff Beadles Send submissions to "hitech-sim@onion.rain.com" Send add/drop requests to "majordomo@onion.rain.com" Archives are available via ftp from neon.rain.com [199.2.109.18] Today's Topics: The F14 needs AMRAAMS Chera Bekker FST Demo - Comming soon! stenger@tron.gun.de (Joerg Stenger) ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Chera Bekker Subject: The F14 needs AMRAAMS Hello aviators, Flying the F-14 up until now has led me to the following tentative conclusion: The F-14 desperately needs the AMRAAM. The Phoenix just won't hack it against fighters, especially not if they know you are there. Sparrows are of no use against a MIG29 or SU27 with AA-10c or AA-12 active radar missiles. You lock them and fire a Sparrow. They react by firing an AA-10C or AA-12 and are free to manouver. I have to keep the lock on them to guide the sparrow. Which means BOOM, I get speared. So I have no choice than to start manouvering to defeat the missiles fired at me. This I usually manage but I break lock and my Sparrow goes ballistic. The MIG's (clever bastards) know this and use the time I need to defeat the missiles to close in (all the time firing active radar missiles) and finally finish me off with an AA-11. In my opinion this is caused by the lack of a medium ranged active radar missile like the AMRAAM. Using the AMRAAM would give me the same tactical advantadge as the MIG29 and SU27 i.e. freeding to seek an advantadged postion while the other one is sweating it out with my missile or at least putting him in the position as I am.. If FD is realistic in this respect then the US Navy better make sure they get AMRAAMS on their Tomcats FAST especially when they come up against SU-27's from the Kutznetsov. Stuart, do you know if the US Navy has any plans in that direction? Chera P.s. I have AUTHENTIC settings for everthing and level 5 enemy pilots. H.G. Bekker (bekker@tn.utwente.nl) Voice: +3153893107 Applied Physics (ELTN 5214) Fax: +3153354003 University of Twente PGP public key - finger: The Netherlands bekker@slater.tn.utwente.nl ------------------------------- From: stenger@tron.gun.de (Joerg Stenger) Subject: FST Demo - Comming soon! Hi, I just got a letter (snail-mail) from the guy who is running the FST- user-group (FYI, it's a commercial service that is offered by Simis/ Domark, the manifactures of FST). In this letter he confirms -among other things- that you are allowed to distribute your own created flight-sims if do it for free. (I was afraid that I would violate Copyright-laws if I'd do so.) Anyway, I'll hopfully upload a demo in the course of the next week. Status now: the landscape (300km x 300 km) is designed (took me about 3 hours; it's a pure fantasy landscape), the first airfield is roughly complete (half an hour), and I've implemented my first easter-egg (10 minutes - I can understand that commercial software firms implement those, it's like rewarding yourself ;-) I thought of implementing both, a civilian and a military world but I don't know if I have the time to do that until next week. I would be glad if you would send me your wishes for this or the next flight-sims (i.e. what scenario do you want, what planes, etc.). I can definately not promise that your wishes will be implemented in the first version but I think of ''upgrading'' that one from time to time. Please send your suggestions to both of the adresses in my .sig; I promise that I will try to answer all ;-) Thank you for your interest, Joerg "Dancer" Stenger PS: for the flight-sim, I'm looking for pcx/gif/jpg/whatever-files of cockpits (inside front-view). If you have one, please also send me an e-mail. (I'm also looking for a cool opening-screen, if you have one... Of course I'll try to mention everybody who helped me in the credits-section in the opening-screen ;-) -- Internet: stenger@zeus.uni-duisburg.de | Z-Netz: stenger@tron.gun.de ## CrossPoint v2.93 ## ------------------------------- [[ End of digest Volume 2 : Issue 24 ]]