042 'Easy CCRP'.....

Ok Video title says it all. CCRP with Autopilot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwfDIOz3eUk

041 BMS Electronic Flight Bag

Just a couple of things i came across lately that may be of interest to you or not.

BMS Electronic Flight Bag is an App for Android and it has just about anything you need at hand with regards to procedures and frequencies. All the charts are in there and loads more. You can get it here

The other thing is a website where you can upload your logbook and it expands all the information into something more comprehensive than the one used in game. I have never bothered with the logbook and keeping stats on my career etc i usully just start a new one whenever i re-install the sim., until now. Just got my first promotion after flying this sim for well over 10 years. Now i will die a happy man. Anyway if that floats your boat you can upload it here. If nothing else it's a good place to send multiple logbooks for backup.

040 VFAT 2012

Big Virtual Air Show event this weekend, Might be something of interest..

http://www.virtual-airshows.com/

039 A Bum Steer...

01-24 Target steerpoints (and waypoint steerpoints)
25 Bullseye
26-30 Mark Points (5)
31-50 Lines, (4 groups of 5 points)
56-70 Pre planned threats (15)
71-74 Incoming Mark points

DTE
2 files hold the DTE data,

D:\BMS\Data\SAVE\TEmissioname.ini. 
Gets used in TE's. only contains Target SPs, LINES, PPT data.

D:\BMS\Data\Campaign\SAVE\callsign.ini
gets used in campaigns (and TE's). Saves all the other DTE data, EWS, Mastermodes, Preset frequencies, + the Target SP.s, lines and PPT data for the campaign mission you are about to fly.
So
1. Only SP, Lines, PPT data can be transferred, and only for a TE.
2. All the other stuff is handled by the callsign.ini file, which cannot be passed on!
3. You only need to SAVE, if you have made any changes to the DTC data, either type.
4. Always hit save before leaving briefing.
5. Added items will appear in the pit, unless you have disabled the DTC auto load on RAMP, and you intend to do a ramp start, forcing you to load the DTC data from within the pit.

038 'Cold Turkey'

Well guys that's me. No gaming till me office is re-decorated. Still I will be back soon with a dual gtx670 in SLI mode. So even those very rainy, dull windy ILS approach's are gonna look silky smooth @6100x1200.

Ill try keep the server running, and if there's any requests, let me know here, and i'll try to accomodate them on the server. I keep a save most days, so i can restore some old saves if needed.

Server now running stable @3.95gHz.

037 OCA Strike

Jinef and I have been contributing to the campaign effort tonight. This is the mission de-brief. Naturally i was leading us in. :) The image is not blurry that's your old eyes.

036 'A hunting we shall go'

Escort Mission, Campaign day 1.
11.04 Take off time
12.44 Touchdown

First BMS Campaign mission fully complete. Fairly uneventful. It was an escort 2 ship, so i decided to go wingman and let the AI show me the way. Had a Long trip east (170miles) from Kunsan, to intercept 4 b2b lancers, and another 50 into enemy territory north east to target, Choongwon They came out of Kadena Airbase off the east shore of south Korea. 

Take off was full ramp, and aligned not a second too soon, as we were queued in a long line to taxi. Lots of both out going and in coming traffic at Kunson, mostly A10, and F16 B50's stationed there. Following the caret, intercept was neat to see the lancers below. At the target site, did have a bit of action a group of mig 23's got airborne, but between me and lead, we dispatched them quickly. I splashed  3 with single missiles, using fox 3 and fox 1 close. Luckily it was quick, cause we had a long journey home and fuel needed to be managed.

Once they were disposed of, we headed back to the original intercept point, and said goodbye to the lancers. (what i didn’t realise was that they did no damage to their targets, which made the thing a waste of time).  I was empty on the outboard fuel tanks, so decided to ditch them, and joined my no1. At the airbase i got some atc instructions, but was behind lead, and think ATC kind of forgot about me. Perhaps I needed to follow Lead in. Will a little time left to call emergency, i grappled with the ILS, and input the frequency for Kunsan, and we were good to land. Still had 3k lbs on board.

I thoroughly enjoyed the sense of immersion with lots going on around, and was nearly taken by surprise when we encountered bogies. AI lead behaved, Strike group were disappointing. Server was solid, with no lag i could see, and though I had to kill BMS, due to ALT TAB bug at the end, i managed to get a briefing snap, and server kept up, and still runs.