August 24, 20241 yr Author 3 hours ago, jon b said: Like Clint Eastwood? Ah! Yes. Firefox. I must watch that film again. Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind). I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio. Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's. Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.
August 25, 20241 yr 7 hours ago, Fiorentoni said: Honest question: What do you do with military aircraft in MSFS? You do exactly what most IRL military aircraft do: fly around - fast.
August 25, 20241 yr 7 hours ago, bobcat999 said: @Fiorentoni With the military training aircraft I currently have, like the Hawk, MB339 etc. I fly them like I am on a training mission. The Mach loop in Wales is one quite fun option. They are normally a lot quicker to cover ground of course between sight-seeing points. For "weapons loose" there is always DCS, but of course only limited parts of the world are modeled in that. There are also TONS of Military Training Routes in the US and other places. Most documented on Sectionals and SkyVector. With a little digging, you can find the complementary flight/planning guide that explains the details for them. Yes to DCS. I figured out that for MSFS I don't eve care about the weps - just drop tanks 😉
August 25, 20241 yr 6 hours ago, b1bmsgt said: PS: How does one go about finding the Mach Loop? Good gouge:
August 25, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, bobcat999 said: Ah! Yes. Firefox. I must watch that film again. If EVER there was a film that deserves a reboot, Firefox is it!!!
August 30, 20241 yr Released! About to post some pics from my first flight in the screenshot forum. Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
August 31, 20241 yr This sort of discussion always interests me... "What do you do with military aircraft in MSFS?" Fly it. I am fascinated by some of it, especially watching some of them at the Chicago Air Show... I am also pretty terrible getting around military birds in sims and just as terrible flying them. Put me in a GA or a Boeing or Airbus? No issues. Mil? It will be a struggle and it won't be graceful. So, it's a great way to yank yourself outside of your comfort zone and fly things that handle WAY differently. With cockpits that have button/lever arrangements that don't make any sense to a civilian pilot.
August 31, 20241 yr On 8/24/2024 at 7:31 PM, Fiorentoni said: Honest question: What do you do with military aircraft in MSFS? They generally are powerful machines, meaning a thrust to weight/aerodynamics ratio which makes them interesting to handle at takeoff and approach/landing. I use them for short cruise flights. Dominique Simming since 1981 - [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam
August 31, 20241 yr Here’s an example of what I did last night. Took off from CFB Greenwood in Nova Scotia, flew (pretty fast) across the Bay of Fundy, and headed to CFB Gagetown in New Brunswick, doing a high speed fly past of the Saint John waterfront on the way. Gagetown is an army base with a large training area, you see this on charts as the large area of restricted airspace east of Fredericton Airport. Once I got to Gagetown I did a number of low passes, high G climbs etc over the training area to simulate the role the T-33 played as a training target for the Canadian Army and Navy. Then I flew back to Greenwood taking the time to do some low level flying along the Saint John River on the way. Doing something like this takes some general knowledge of what the military used the aircraft for, and a bit of creativity/imagination, but is perfectly plausible and doesn’t require pretending I was firing weapons etc as the Canadian T-33”s would have been unarmed. Today I’ll head to the Mach loop. Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
August 31, 20241 yr On 8/24/2024 at 6:31 PM, Fiorentoni said: Honest question: What do you do with military aircraft in MSFS? Honest answer: just fly around in them! I got this yesterday and just did one quick flight from Gulfport-Biloxi to New Orleans. Flying at around 500 feet all the way. Great fun. A flight a couple of days ago was sightseeing around Germany in a Jaguar, similarly low-level. F-4s in Florida. B-2 over Wales. Etc, etc. If I like the aircraft, I'll fly it wherever and however I feel at the time. To me, that's one of the joys of the sim. I can never understand why some folk will only fly the "right" aircraft over the "right" routes (in the right livery at the right time) and so on. That just seems like work to me, and I'm done with work! (cue Sydney Lauper - "Boys just wanna have fun" <grin>) Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used
August 31, 20241 yr Author 39 minutes ago, andy1252 said: Honest answer: just fly around in them! I got this yesterday and just did one quick flight from Gulfport-Biloxi to New Orleans. Flying at around 500 feet all the way. Great fun. A flight a couple of days ago was sightseeing around Germany in a Jaguar, similarly low-level. F-4s in Florida. B-2 over Wales. Etc, etc. If I like the aircraft, I'll fly it wherever and however I feel at the time. To me, that's one of the joys of the sim. I can never understand why some folk will only fly the "right" aircraft over the "right" routes (in the right livery at the right time) and so on. That just seems like work to me, and I'm done with work! (cue Sydney Lauper - "Boys just wanna have fun" <grin>) True! MSFS is just another sand box to have fun in, and it is totally up to the purchaser what you want to do with it. Where did you get the Jaguar from? Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind). I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio. Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's. Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.
August 31, 20241 yr 35 minutes ago, bobcat999 said: Where did you get the Jaguar from? Hi Rob, my mistake, I should have said Tornado (from IndiaFoxtEcho). I always get those confused, probably because I'm still hoping someone will do the Jaguar! Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used
August 31, 20241 yr Author 1 minute ago, andy1252 said: Hi Rob, my mistake, I should have said Tornado (from IndiaFoxtEcho). I always get those confused, probably because I'm still hoping someone will do the Jaguar! Yes. AzurePoly are doing a Jag for MSFS, but at the moment it is only the Jaguar A - the French version. Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind). I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio. Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's. Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.
August 31, 20241 yr Why mil aircraft in MSFS? Because they are formidable machines, that can be a handful to tame? The most fun I have ever had in my flying career was when I flew aerobatics (backseat) in the T6 Texan with a legendary Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine - and that plane is a trainer, modest performer, slow even 😎 Anyway , few things have come close to that adrenaline kick, ( including racing supercars and skydiving). Bring them on! EASA PPL SEPL + NQ / CB-IR in progress MSFS24 | X-Plane 12
August 31, 20241 yr On 8/24/2024 at 7:31 PM, Fiorentoni said: Honest question: What do you do with military aircraft in MSFS? Because most times the real fighters are flying with fake weapons too. So... what are those pilots doing in their aircraft. 😉
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