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Old 10-20-11, 06:26 PM   #3151
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Old 10-22-11, 09:16 PM   #3152
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Cool shot HBB!

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Old 10-30-11, 01:25 AM   #3153
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Old 10-30-11, 03:19 PM   #3154
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It was a bit windy today.



Lost both tires (1 on touch down, second during braking), but survived so balls to them.
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Old 10-30-11, 05:42 PM   #3155
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As I'm severly lacking in my knowledge of dropping munitions on enemies(I only really know how to fire the GUA and AIM-9's) I load up the unguided bombs tutorial. I plan on dropping all my munitions and then heading towards the nearest friendly base to practice landing. Fate had other plans.

Here's a shot of an MK-82AIR coming down on some tents. Managed to take two tents out. You can see my other crater which took out a tank in the center of the runway.

As these were my last MK-82AIR's I switch over to the regular MK-82's and get ready to practice CCIP CR 3/9 mode. I come back around and enter a dive, since the piper was looking like it was going to overshoot the target I dropped the dive a little more and released the bombs.

A chain of events flashed before my eyes, first Betty started telling me to pull up, then the release piper went funky, and then there was an explosion, and I was no more.

Here's the aftermath. In the background you can see the two tents my last MK-82AIR took out, in the foreground you can see what's left of me.

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Old 10-30-11, 07:08 PM   #3156
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Considering the conditions (summer heavy thunderstorm preset IIRC), I call it great success!


Bloody miracle I even managed to find the field let alone the runway.
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Old 10-30-11, 09:25 PM   #3157
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Did you land this visually or with ILS and instruments?
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Old 10-30-11, 09:36 PM   #3158
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Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

Great landings are those that leave the plane intact
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Old 10-30-11, 10:32 PM   #3159
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Here are some shots from the Guided missions training mission.


GBU-38's bringing down the Hammer of vengeance on cargo containers everywhere!



My last GBU-38, and my last kill for the day.


Coming around for the last run. This one actually went wide and was my only bomb that did not destroy a target. 3/4 is not bad though.


Barely visible, but there are 3 boats down there. I had the urge to buzz them, but decided against it.


Home safe and sound with all the systems off. The landing was a close one, on the first run I'm almost down when the tower told me to go around. Mind you I touch down (in the middle of the runway ) a second later, but I know that I'm not going to have enough runway to stop, so I throw the throttle back into full, retract the speed brake, and go around. The picture of the boats is actually from my go around approach. I come around again, meet up with the runway almost at the half way marker(bastard plane just kept floating). I had full speed brakes, flaps, and brakes and I still wasn't stopping. The end of the runway was approaching fast so I turned the wheel a little back and forth. Some frightening tire screeching sounds later and I'm at a complete stop. Luckily I did not blow any of my tires, I turn the plane around and taxi into position.


Tomorrow I take on the Maverick training mission!


@Dowly, if you want screenshots without the little information bar at the bottom, hit LShift+Y. I'm fairly positive It's LSHIFT, but to be fair I did press LCTRL+Y and Lalt+Y too, so It could be one of the three. It's in the controls as Turn off or Remove Info bar.
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Old 10-31-11, 01:23 AM   #3160
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Considering the conditions (summer heavy thunderstorm preset IIRC), I call it great success!


Bloody miracle I even managed to find the field let alone the runway.

Nice landing Dowly. I'm pretty sure your chief is going to shoot you, but nice none the less.
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Old 10-31-11, 07:40 AM   #3161
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Did you land this visually or with ILS and instruments?
Visually using TAD and navpoint I had set to the AF.

Of course, I didn't remember that the navpoint is on the center of the AF, instead of the
start of the runway, so I had to do some quick maneuvers around the time I
saw the runway number flash past my right window.

Hard right rudder, nose down (had around 100m altitude at that point), managed
quite a smooth first touchdown (as in, didn't break anything), but the angle
I came in made me bounce and lost the left wing on final touchdown.
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Old 10-31-11, 07:59 AM   #3162
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Practicing guys? That's cheatin'!

I can successfully deploy cannon, sidewinder, one mav (never two?), cluster bombs. I can't deploy second or more mav (I'm usually in the ground or on fire by now!), or any guided munition like the Mk-82.

CBUs my favourite - a nice coverge for taking out soft targets, occasionally it'll take out a T-55 too.

Must practice myself, but not tonight - BF3 finally arrived through my letterbox!
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Old 10-31-11, 08:27 AM   #3163
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Managed to figure out Mavericks, need to check out the bombs tonight.
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Old 10-31-11, 10:21 AM   #3164
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Practicing guys? That's cheatin'!

I can successfully deploy cannon, sidewinder, one mav (never two?), cluster bombs. I can't deploy second or more mav (I'm usually in the ground or on fire by now!), or any guided munition like the Mk-82.

CBUs my favourite - a nice coverge for taking out soft targets, occasionally it'll take out a T-55 too.

Must practice myself, but not tonight - BF3 finally arrived through my letterbox!

Hey! It's not cheating when everyone else(save dowly ) can kill things better than I can.

I just finished the Maverick tutorial and managed to kill 4 targets with my 4 mavericks. Last target that died wasn't the one I wanted to kill(I had been trying to get a second T-52 farther up) but the aiming with the Maverick is a bit of a pain. So I settled on another target that it wanted to lock onto.

There would be pictures, but I failed to take them while flying, and then failed to realize I couldn't view tracks for tutorial missions.
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Old 10-31-11, 06:12 PM   #3165
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While everyone else was enjoying themselves online, I was having connection problems and was forced to play with myself()

Here are the shots I got when playing. As I'm used to flying MP missions where there are no Labels, I forgot to make sure my labels were off, so the following pictures sadly all have labels.



Shilka and I enter epic chicken match.



He missed.


I didn't.


Maverick Meets Ural


UAZ "tries" to outrun the next maverick.


Keyword "tries"


BDMP gets a round in on me.

Only noticed loss of right MFCD.


Fairly good day of killing if I say so myself. Although I lost my two back wheels in the landing process
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