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Don't quit your day job!

PBS won't allow it to play in Germany......

I run into that all the time on utube and US news online outlets.
 
Get Jane's Super Hornet combat sim and do it every day :mixedsmi:...and it ain't no arcade-type sh*&% either !!! :wiggle: The sim's been around longer than CFS2 and its still the best modern naval aviation sim ever done IMO.

The "C" Hornet has no auto-land ILS system, so its always a scary trap. But the Super Hornet has a neat auto ILS system well simulated in the sim, which i try not to use much anymore unless i got battle damage and can't land easily on manual. Apart from avoiding the dreaded ramp strike in night ops, another very tricky part to a successful trap is making sure your a/c's gross weight is no more than 40,000 pounds on approach. Anything over that and you can have a perfect ball all the way to the third wire and still explode on touchdown. So while you wait in the marshal stack for a go ahead to approach, you have to remember to dump fuel to minimums and sometimes even remaining ordnance to trim the plane. Gives you a lot to think about from the point of launch and right up to the point of catching the wire on return. You can have a string of successful missions in a long campaign and suddenly lose everything in one bad landing. As one pilot said in the video, the landings are more perilous than the missions. At least with the sim, "dead" doesn't mean you can't have a 'do over' campaign...LOL

If you go out with a large flight and a big strike package, all of the birds return together and you might find yourself waiting 10 to 20 minutes in the stack before you can land, even with battle damage. I had to learn to call "Mother" first on RTB before the other AI call in for return instructions. That way my flight gets priority in the landing sequence.

God, how i hate to bolter at night with a full stack. If you get a bolter, you have to go around and wait another 10 minutes or more for your turn to land again. The situation gets even more tense if you're fuel low and need to get to the standby tanker...again, at night in many cases! If you play this sim out to its fullest realism, you'll get an immersive, heart-pounding appreciation for just how dangerous the real job can be. :medals:
 
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