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DCS is by far the most realistic sim I have ever flown!

Hey Duck... When the camera is not doing what you want, set it to Auto, take the photo. There's no shame in taking the photo any way you want, it's the photo that matters. Meghan is always teasing me that I spend far too much time learning and studying the mechanical details and not enough time taking photos. She's right. I happen to enjoy taking my time to see what various combinations of settings will do to any given photo. That's part of the fun with digital... you can take thousands of photos, to get one nice photo. And when the photo isn't quite nice enough, post-production is a real thing that can make great photos out of near disasters. My photo above was terribly under-exposed when I shot it. A few minutes in LightRoom, and it looked a lot better. Not great, it's still got lots of grainy crud in it due to using too high an ISO, but it's better than it was.

less than a gig. couple of nice fix's 58. Three factory chimney smoke effects for mission creators were added: Chimneystalk_smoke_white, Chimneystalk_smoke_grey, Chimneystalk_smoke_black; 59. The “DummyGroundExpl” explosion effect set in the mission has been restored;

I would venture to posit here that next to Orville and Wilbur, he was the most important aviator in US history, possibly the world. Certainly in the discussion. Sam Shephard's portrayal of him in The Right Stuff was epic. Godspeed General Yeager. S!

Spent all day on frozen Lake Winnipeg, 7” of ice. Iced 15 walleyes, kept 9 between myself and a Buddy. Biggest was a 27” tank. Now all I have to do is fillet them, and that’s at least 2 (probably more) feasts.

frigging camera has tooooo many settings...

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I loved RB. I had been doing Chuck Yeager's Combat Simulator (lol) and the early versions of MSFS and had already a life-long fascination/infatuation with these WWI kites. I dreamed of buiding a Sopwith Triplane in real life (it's just some wood and wires and fabric!!) and had built many a scale model. So, the chance to FLY these WWI birds was a gift from heaven. It made putting up with the growing pains of early online multiplayer quite acceptable. It was the mod for MSCS - Over Flanders Fields - that got me flying with Duck. That was an impressive simulator for its time, and totally player built. Then came the early IL2 iterations, particularly the Pacific where we flew Wildcats agaisnt Zeros off carriers in the slot with Fawlty and Robby and Dudley and Mustang and the rest of the Boys of '60. Some of the most fun I've had. So sad the new BOX franchise has abandoned the Pacific. I loved the old single player Aces series (Europe and Pacific) as well and really miss that theater. When we all switched to RoF was when we Old Fokkers started flying with the WW folks, I think. Lots of good co-op and squad v squad battles back in those days. I miss some of the more zany folks in those older crews! (What is Rod up to these days anyway?!?!...and I've been talking to Aussie about DCS some lately). Sorry for the trip down memory lane. Sandy started it. And I'm of that age....

I really enjoy the WW1 birds, used to love playing RB. That being said, I never really got on that well with RoF. I could never get it to just... work... There was always an issue. With FC1 and hopefully 2, at least the inevitable system hiccups are manageable, and the experience is enjoyable, much like the entire IL2 franchise has been. I still have all of my original CDs from Forgotten Battles, Pacific Fighters and 1946. In terms of the on-line experience, I started out on Air Warrior with a dial-up modem on GeNie and AOL. I found out though, that the experience, although sometimes rewarding, was mostly an exercise in frustration, as I seemed to always be that 1-hit-and-I’m-dead guy, after pouring my entire arsenal into someone, then he warps behind me and “3523 was killed” happens. Voice command was a big step, but I soon had had enough of 10year olds on their parents account screaming into their mic, taunting everything that moved. I think that finding the right fit of like-minded and like-aged folks to share the on-line experience with, regardless of what sim is used, is where it’s at. The sim is merely the vehicle.

Kali was that network lobby frontend.