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Appreciating my "1G Cockpit"


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8 hours ago, Varibraun said:

but this one is still definitely worth a double post!

Absolutely... great video, and notice how the pilot gets to check his six and keep situational awareness, keeping a good lookout behind.

He's not tightly strapped into the seat... remember all the complaints that used to come from people about TrackIR, lol!

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2 hours ago, Trooper117 said:

Absolutely... great video, and notice how the pilot gets to check his six and keep situational awareness, keeping a good lookout behind.

He's not tightly strapped into the seat... remember all the complaints that used to come from people about TrackIR, lol!

Yeah, I had exactly that same thought when watching it about that ongoing debate about TrackIR and VRNecksafer.

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Thanks for sharing. He made me chuckle with his comments about 12 hours of mission planning and up to 4 hours of debriefing. Ummm things have changed a lot since I was living that dream. Back in the Jurassic era maybe 4 to plan and no more than 60 minutes of debriefing.

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  • Executive Producer Skystreak Productions

And what's cool is these guys fly over my house everyday and during Red Flag it's a non-stop airshow on my driveway.

Jason

P.S. watching that video, the spotting in that game is whack!!!! 🙂

 

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3 hours ago, Jason_Williams said:

And what's cool is these guys fly over my house everyday and during Red Flag it's a non-stop airshow on my driveway.

Jason

P.S. watching that video, the spotting in that game is whack!!!! 🙂

 

Reminds me of something Dart said in a SimHQ article he wrote in 2010.

Flight Sim to Flight Line by Frank "Dart" Giger

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Draw distance for other aircraft needs to be improved. While I spotted a helicopter at five miles, it started out as a small black dot above the horizon and was very slow to resolve to a recognizable shape. A white Citation was invisible to both the instructor and me even though we were told where it was until less than a quarter mile away — and it was only 1000 feet lower than us! Something is screwy when you can’t see a white plane over green forests at one o’clock in the afternoon in clear skies.

 

He even gave RoF a nice plug in the article.

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Reaction to turbulence was reflexive. Thank you, Rise of Flight, for those horrible rainstorm missions in the Nieuport 17. I cursed you the whole way, but in the rolling air of an afternoon Alabama sky in July it paid off — I wasn’t shaken by it and neither over reacted or let it bully me.

 

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Anyone have contact with Dart? I've always wanted to thank him for his excellent air combat videos in his twangy down home style.

Fett

“I’d say we’re offering a fair deal under the circumstances.”

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22 hours ago, Boba Fett said:

Anyone have contact with Dart? I've always wanted to thank him for his excellent air combat videos in his twangy down home style.

Dart still hangs around at SimHQ.

He had a plane crash with his home built and some health issues in the last few years but he did post at SimHQ in May saying he was still on the mend from neck surgery last year.

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Thanks for the call.....just slowly healing.

 

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