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'Guess What Kind Of Simulator This Is...'

Panther_99FS

Panther_99FS

Retired SOH Administrator
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Stiz beat me with the "expensive one" response. For the millions paid for that thing, you'd think it would have a decent VC view instead of that lack luster 2D that doesn't even fill the screen.

OBIO
 
At least the graphics appear to be better than the early 1990s look of the tank simulators used by the german army.
 
Back when I was on HALO status, we had to take a chamber ride to stay on status and part of that was to go a bit hypoxic. It's an insidious debilitation that can get you killed pretty fast.
 
That's X-plane. :salute:

The Air Force has been using it semi-officially for various purposes that don't include logging time in the aircraft like more elaborate sims.
 
Ya know, if one of us suited up like that to fly a sim, folks would think we were a little nuts. :d
 
Willy said:
Ya know, if one of us suited up like that to fly a sim, folks would think we were a little nuts. :d
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I once donned the USAF flight helmet that I own...an early 60s model that was used by a Major Young (that is all I know about the guy, I also have his flight suit, a pair of coveralls and his thigh board thingie...the clip board that straps to a pilot's thigh). I slid the visor down and flew around in the freeware Alphasim F-8E. Got done flying, went to take the helmet off...and it would not come off. The helmet, as it turns out, is possessed by some sort of demon. Once the helmet is one a person's head, the demon pulls their ears deeply into the ear cups of the internal headphones and glues them there with some kind of hell-spawned epoxy. My ears were firmly planted into those ear cups....darn near ripped my ears off getting the helmet off my head...and my loving wife stood by watching me fighting to free my cranium from the helmet-shaped torture device, and doing her best not to pee her pants from laughter. When I finally succeeded in getting the helmet off...Deb stopped laughing long enough to say "And you really thought that big fat head of yours was going to fit inside that little helmet? With those big ears of yours sticking out like that?" A man just has to love having such a supporting wife who will stand by you through thick and thin...just in case you do something stupid that will give her a good laugh.

OBIO
 
OBIO said:
I once donned the USAF flight helmet that I own...an early 60s model that was used by a Major Young (that is all I know about the guy, I also have his flight suit, a pair of coveralls and his thigh board thingie...the clip board that straps to a pilot's thigh). I slid the visor down and flew around in the freeware Alphasim F-8E. Got done flying, went to take the helmet off...and it would not come off. The helmet, as it turns out, is possessed by some sort of demon. Once the helmet is one a person's head, the demon pulls their ears deeply into the ear cups of the internal headphones and glues them there with some kind of hell-spawned epoxy. My ears were firmly planted into those ear cups....darn near ripped my ears off getting the helmet off my head...and my loving wife stood by watching me fighting to free my cranium from the helmet-shaped torture device, and doing her best not to pee her pants from laughter. When I finally succeeded in getting the helmet off...Deb stopped laughing long enough to say "And you really thought that big fat head of yours was going to fit inside that little helmet? With those big ears of yours sticking out like that?" A man just has to love having such a supporting wife who will stand by you through thick and thin...just in case you do something stupid that will give her a good laugh.

OBIO
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I love that story! I still have my helmet and flightsuits. I gave back the G-suit...drats!

If that is a hypoxia simulator they must be giving them an oxygen scarce breathing gas? I had to take an altitude chamber ride every three years to keep current on my hypoxia symptoms.
 
OBIO said:
A man just has to love having such a supporting wife who will stand by you through thick and thin...just in case you do something stupid that will give her a good laugh.

OBIO
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Doesn't get any better than that!!!:icon_lol:

Just as long as she remembers that IS a two way street. :icon_lol::monkies:
 
Willy said:
Ya know, if one of us suited up like that to fly a sim, folks would think we were a little nuts. :d
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LOL.... there are some out there that do Willy. And they are not military.... they are doing the same as we do.

jmig said:
I still have my helmet and flightsuits. I gave back the G-suit...drats!
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Darn, and I've been looking for a G-suit too. And still looking for a flight helmet also.
 
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