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The F-14 is by far my favorite child hood aircraft but lost its edge. It's old, not maneuverable and all it can claim over the super hornet is speed. The F-18 can do a lot more and do it better. It can dig fight its way to what it wants to bomb and doc fight its way back home. It's more manuverable and can just do so many roles and do them well. The Phoenix missle had a huge array of issues. It operated nothing like its mythical status suggests. It was innacurate, a maintenance nightmare and was originally conceived as a nuclear tipped squadron killer not a precision intercept missle. The F-14 was awesome for it's time but it got old and was surpassed by a better plane.

Well a blessing in disguise. I'll save money this year. My Sandy and GTX 670 perform perfectly fine.

Well I guess I'll get quite a lifespan out of my Sandy.

For me definitely the PMDG 737. All though I've got back into the MD 11 lately. I can't wait for the 747 V2.

I'll get them posted in a day or two. I wasn't allowed to take a lot of pictures out on the flight line but got some nice ones.

As said above gold comes with everything ready to go plus acceleration. It's what I recommend and use.

Well he was able to secure a photo pass for the flight line so that's an awesome deal. Ill be able to take all the pictures I want while touring the actual Bone and visit to the flight deck. Should be a great deal. Better deal is brothers couldn't go so the entire hour of stick time in the sim belongs to me!

I forget how hard it is for people to find places to shoot. I can walk out my front door and shoot all day long. I love the military and try to get as many as I can a place to hunt through the year. This is the first time anything like this has been reciprocated. Very nice and very unexpected. Will be my first full motion sim and what a sim to start on.

He's working on a photo pass for the flight line so told me to bring my camera. Just none in the sim building.

Eh I was kinda surprised about no photos in the sim but apparently all the B1 simulators just underwent a huge upgrade. Brought up to modern capabilities and visuals. Outside he's working on a photo pass so when I go to the flight line and crawl around the airplane I can at least take some photos there. Got moved back to Thursday afternoon due to training but will post what I can Friday. Lookin forward to how truly terrible of a pilot FSX has made me.

It's a bummer. Apparently can't take photographs inside the sim building or the sim itself however after the sim time were going to the flight line to crawl up inside and around the actual aircraft. Ill take as many photos as I can and share them. Was hoping to film the sim.

Maybe it will be like the last cycle. XP great, Vista terrible, 7 great, 8 terrible so well get a fantastic Windows 9.

On Wednesday I'll have some great pictures and story to share. I live about 45 mikes from Dyess AFB which houses a huge wing of B1-B Lancers. I let a group of guys come down to hunt hogs and took them on a few guided hunts as thanks for their service. Today out of the blue one of them, a Lt. Col, called and has set up Sim time for me and my two brothers Wednesday. Ill post all the pics I can and share what goes on in training as soon as I get back. I'm 37 and feel like a 5 year old kid on Christmas Eve.

I prefer just two sticks when I build a PC. However no you won't notice a gigantic difference by adding two more sticks. It's cheaper and makes sense in your case. Add em and enjoy.

My convorsations with myself usually start with "You idiot!"