FSPilot

This one is fun. http://www.flasharcade.com/game.cgi?floridaelection lol

I'm disgusted the way so many people are turning on the U.S. and it's soldiers despite the billions of dollars in financial aid we put into the world, and our intentions to protect ourselves and innocent people. But that's just IMO, I don't want to get off topic. Yes, pilots are going to get excited when they blow something up. Like it has already been said, you have to de-humanize your targets. I don't think any pilot would be able to live with themselves if they fully realized what their bombs were doing to people. I know I wouldn't. And you have to admit, it is very impressive. Especially footage of the smart bombs dropped by B-2s. The airplane was at, I estimate, 15,000 feet. Someone's looking out the window with a camera at the targets below. There are I think 6 or 8 of them, and he goes from one target to the next, each of them explode with almost perfect accuracy while the B-2 is completely out of harms way. How can you not be impressed by that?

Ok, well, I searched for a tutorial about the tutorial about mission briefings and didn't find anything. I created a mission, put it in a seperate folder as it's filename (uh-oh.noe for the folder, uh-oh.noe.pbo for the file), and included a briefing.html in the folder. The briefing is basically copy/pasted off of the tutorial at flashpoint1985.com. For some reason, it doesn't show up. Any help?

hahaha, love that golf one maybe working at a golf course is rubbing off on me I got a 48 as my best score

Every time I see a game called battleship I think it's a game where you sit in a turret and shoot things, which is fun. Then it turns out to be a board game.

It's pretty hard on the PC, but it's a GREAT sim.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mr. Snrub @ Dec. 08 2002,10:45)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Is it the same helicopter that Dolph Lundgren (the best actor in the universe ) fights in 'Red Scorpion'? I remember it had some crop-dusting equipment on it (to spray the civilians with some nasty chemical), and Dolph shot it down with some crappy non-existant double-barrel machine gun in the final showdown...<span id='postcolor'> I'm sorry but I can't stop laughing at your name and avatar. *snort* If I could learn history by watching movies I'd be a happy man with a history major.

Again, if you're looking for realism, movies (especially ones from the 80's) are not the place to look. lol, that should be common sense.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Lazarus_Long @ Dec. 08 2002,05:14)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">back in the early 80's people were seriously afraid that something like that could happen.<span id='postcolor'> and 70's, and 60's, and 50's, LOL The cold war was almost funny in retrospect.

There are tons of paperbacks written by vietnam vets out there, just go to the military history section at barnes & nobles.

HAHAHAHA, that's too funny. If you want my opinion, and I'm sure you're all dying to hear it , I think the U.S. should provide at least SOME of the evidence that it has against Iraq. So far Saddam and the UN inspectors have done a pretty good job proving that he does not have any WMDs.

X-plane is an underground sim said to be one of the most realistic. http://x-plane.com/

I thought it was a great movie. Showed what America was really afraid of during the cold war. And if you're looking for realism in movies you shouldn't watch movies from the 80's.

Do they hand noggles out to all the combat servicemen or just pilots and special ops?

I'd prefer thermal imaging. You can see imporant things more clearly, like people and vehicles.

Maybe this is the wrong thread, but I've got a question about the M1 Garand. Were the clips ejectable mid-clip? Say you were shooting and you have one round left. You're ambushing an enemy so you don't want to shoot off the last round, can you push a switch or something to eject the remains of the clip?

Yes, apparently they do have snipers.

"Soft targets" are not soldiers, they're things like cars. Soldiers are known as "infantry" and probably wouldn't be engaged by a cluster bomb. Then again I'm just going on what I've picked up from constantly watching the history channel. If anyone has a good... NONBIASED... site on these weapons I'd be happy to learn about it. And I sure hope Balschoiw doesn't mind us going off on a tangent like this.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (DarkLight @ Dec. 05 2002,21:33)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Are there any pics of the sniper rifles? Â If there aren't any snipers i'm not gonna buy it...<span id='postcolor'> I haven't seen any yet. But I doubt it'd come out without snipers.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Die Alive @ Dec. 06 2002,22:51)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I came across this site and info on DU ammo. Â And there's also info on cluster bombs too. It's a ripping good laugh to read. Â I love the part on the Vietnam war. Â They make it sound as if the VC and the NVA were unarmed the whole time and were civilians. Fucking laughable -=Die Alive=-<span id='postcolor'> As a general guidline, if the website refers to "American Terrorism" it's not going to be unbiased information. lol

Born in South Carolina, currently residing in Kansas, USA. As if you didn't already know.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">So what would be evidence ?<span id='postcolor'> That's up to the people making the case to find out. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The case is very well documented. Or do you seriously think all the different reporters of serious newspapers are lying or constructing a conspiracy theory ? Jeez...<span id='postcolor'> I find it much harder to believe that a vast amount of military pilots would all willingly commit war crimes. Especially when we're comparing them to the media, hehe. But that's a different story alltogether. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">They dont really need to be pushed into this hard as they have eyes and see that bombs dropped on their shelters during war. This is homemade US.<span id='postcolor'> That was an accident and you know it. The Iraqi people, however, are probably being told that it was a purposeful attack. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I'm quite certain that they know Saddam lost the war in Kuwait and had to retreat.<span id='postcolor'> Well, I disagree. But neither of us can prove ourselves. Even if we could it's not like anybody could prove that all of Iraq believes one thing. Anyway, let's agree to disagree and drop it.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (brgnorway @ Dec. 06 2002,08:10)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><span id='postcolor'> </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Balschoiw As you seem to have missed it: http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-death.htm<span id='postcolor'> That site only produces heresay, no evidence. And if you want to talk about conspiracy theorys about bush and oil, I think there's a thread on that already. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Why would they not be able to make a good judgement call?<span id='postcolor'> Because all the information they've received is controlled by Saddam Hussein, who is lying to them. Â They don't have USA today or CNN in Iraq. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Why is it so hard for you to understand that most iraqi's wont cheer when you bomb your way into Iraq?<span id='postcolor'> It isn't, I know they won't. Â But they've been lied to, they think they won desert storm, they think they have a great leader, they believe all the anti-U.S. bull that they're being fed. Â Including the stuff about oil.

For another side of the story : http://www.angelfire.com/biz5/fsflight/dupaper/1.html I wrote the paper myself, so it isn't professional. But the sources are.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Balschoiw @ Dec. 06 2002,07:19)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><span id='postcolor'> </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">They had surendered and showed no sign of aggression towards the attacking airplanes.<span id='postcolor'> Prove it. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">So someone has to pay for that decades later ? Dont mix things up.<span id='postcolor'> *sigh* I was using it as an illustration that retreating forces are still enemy forces and open to attack. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Bush said he will not accept a retreat of Saddams forces.<span id='postcolor'> Ok, so whats the problem? The U.S. CinC said they were still at war, so they were still at war. At least the U.S. was. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I sincerly doubt that. Massacres on unarmed civilians and surrendering units are never legal.<span id='postcolor'> I haven't been shown any evidence that there were civilians on that highway. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Sure but you claim to be more civilized than Irak but you actually use the same methods. The line is very thin here.<span id='postcolor'> We were fighting a war, he gassed innocent civilians. Granted, we may have accidentally killed civilians, but he did this on purpose. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">If Saddam is taken out of power let the Iraki people decide. This is called democracy <span id='postcolor'> The Iraqi people have been lied to by Saddam for a very long time. They don't have the correct information to make a good judgement call. One of the reasons I think this is nowhere near a war crime is that there's absolutely no motive. More often than not there's a motive for a crime. Why on earth would a bunch of pilots all spontaneously and unanimously decide to commit a war crime? There's absolutely no reason.