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With a brand new USS Enterprise i had to get myself a Phantom , figured lets have a look at this one , shock horror .. i no its the German Air Force but it still has carrier gear .. ya think i could get it to hook up 'trap' negatory on that ... hi res textures hahahahahaha you gotta be kidding .

FSX territory... once in a blue moon I break out the FSX freeware carriers and do this stuff.
Night traps in 15 kt crosswind gusts...
Ian you probably have picked the toughest aircraft for the task, not meant for this, really.

Interesting how the chatter has quietened down: nowadays F-18s are essentially hands-off devices around carrier cat shot and recovery.

Plugged away at it and got it hooked , thought .. time to load my FS9 and install the Cloud9 Phantom .. had the FS9 running for 20 minutes .. still required proper setting up , arrr do that my F4 install the packages , one livery package .. sure there was two but installed the SP1/SP2 and crashed me FS9 ..... the things we do

Cloud9... one of those amazing addons but one that makes fundamental changes to the sim.

I tried one of their later sceneries, then uninstalled it.
Big mistake, it uses an addon manager and it took my beloved Phantom with it.
Because the installer had been updated (and I didn't have it) I got locked in a loop of frustration.

Eventually I killed the F-4.
Still miss it, though.

I wont touch the SP1/SP2 .. uninstalled now twice , gotta get my Phantom running .... come hell or bloody high water and I can't swim !

Well finally ... now making some headway ... I did see a scheme , US Navy from the USS Midway - but as you can see this FS9 model blows many of the current FSX paywares ten fold .
I cant understand why Cloud9 did not progress on this model for FSX which back in 2006 they said they would , it would still be a dang hot potatoe !


Look at the detail , simply jaw dropping ... now to get the idiotic code 'Password' to work past the eight minute trial , least i still have my invoice !

Charl wrote:

QUOTE (Charl @ Oct 7 2012,2:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Cloud9... one of those amazing addons but one that makes fundamental changes to the sim.

I tried one of their later sceneries, then uninstalled it.
Big mistake, it uses an addon manager and it took my beloved Phantom with it.
Because the installer had been updated (and I didn't have it) I got locked in a loop of frustration.


Still miss it, though.

Yip i had that update running .. fiddling around then FS9 crashed again ...... OK next plan , transfer it across to FSX .. works but currently have a swat screened Phantom , hells try a landing and see if the Spook hooks .

Ian, check my pm. Its a panel cfg problem...... i know that sounds odd, but try it.

Cheers Matey .. Marty, honestly never thought i'd get in this Spooky position but a Phantom .... and my new Aircraft Carrier .. still a lotta work to glue the both together .. I'll HU with screens coming on board CVN-65 .

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Oct 7 2012,8:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Cheers Matey .. Marty, honestly never thought i'd get in this Spooky position but a Phantom .... and my new Aircraft Carrier .. still a lotta work to glue the both together .. I'll HU with screens coming on board CVN-65 .

Look forward to it ..... did that little fix work or not . Its the only way i can get some of those non fsx aircraft to work. Adam put me on to it ages ago.

No joy with the Phantom stretch screen problem , searched the SOH data base for answers , but nothing really worked and most recently patch's ,as well Charl gave it away after so many attempts .. fancy is its a 'Slugger' and this is the best BUT Cloud9 reneged on the deal ... over the years it happens with many companies - fact was this one was so near perfect and complete , not a worry if its free , but this was payware and with a great return promise , guess they lost out !

I'll still have a plug and muck around with it , shrug shoulders appears A2A will get a very supportive MD SPOOK base of followers.

Phantom being one of my favourite AC of all time, I am looking forward to A2As one.

Takes half the landmass of Greenland to turn but she's sure awesome.

J7G wrote:

QUOTE (J7G @ Oct 13 2012,3:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Phantom being one of my favourite AC of all time, I am looking forward to A2As one.

Takes half the landmass of Greenland to turn but she's sure awesome.

With out a dou't for the A2A , .. Spooky get the list going , and to think people don't want Accusimed JETS!

But buy compare to today's warbirds YIP .. you may forget the F4 was doing its own 1965-73 , do not engage a F-4 was the commie cry , there 17 best driver took a shot and got munched as many with many 21's or Whoevers .. fact is the Phantom blu the bad guys like they did not even no what hit em ....

Today .. Yip so totally different .. But the PHANTOM .. big YES SIR !

I've never actually owned anything Accusim so I'm quite looking forward to it.

Ah, the VN War. If either side had been better trained in ACM the other would have been wiped out...the Vietnamese didn't know proper tactics while the Americans didn't get taught the whole "hey, best not to get slow with the MiG17" lesson until much later. Interesting times though.

J7G wrote:

QUOTE (J7G @ Oct 13 2012,5:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ah, the VN War. If either side had been better trained in ACM the other would have been wiped out...the Vietnamese didn't know proper tactics while the Americans didn't get taught the whole "hey, best not to get slow with the MiG17" lesson until much later. Interesting times though.

Come Vietnam , .. or WWI -WWII -Korean , then the laters , It dose not matter , if you read the lessons from history , today we can test this further in MP and other setup in dogfight , Tactics .. be a good test , seems i always get shunted aside .. My Kill rate is very limited

Haha! Once I move into my new place in six weeks or so and set up/fix the PC, we'll have to get some MP MiG v F4 action going then

J7G wrote:

QUOTE (J7G @ Oct 14 2012,2:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Haha! Once I move into my new place in six weeks or so and set up/fix the PC, we'll have to get some MP MiG v F4 action going then

What this space .. Phantom Heaven