Karl Spackler

I hope you're right. I didn't really see that happening with Oculus and HTC. They only started lowering prices and bundling when sales started to wane after the big burst of launch adopters, which is when we got in. But on the PC side of things (don't really care about the portable, smartphone driven gadgets too much), no one really showed up to scoop business out from under the Vive and Rift.

90% sure the first was an F-15. That dude tumbled and disintegrated.

https://hollywoodsuite.ca/ferris-vr/

Yeah the "life-like" fidgeting the character does is a little freaky at first.

I have tried to work the UFC and MFCD OSB keys in the Warthog with my IRL hands more times than I am comfortable admitting. I did that because I had been running second monitor with the Thrustmaster MFD keys and MFCD window export so there was a lot of muscle memory to get past. When I first got Oculus Rift, I went planetside for some buggy ops with Brit and Klaiber and got such motion sickness that I had lingering nausea for three days. Didn't try it again for a few days and then when flying a Warthog on the Navada map I was doing a low pass to VID a Humvee and that got me. I powered through it and have no issues now. In May I sat my dad down to have a go at the Huey and he got motion sickness as well, so I guess it runs in the familiy? Probably could have trained it out of him if we had more time. He has a ton of off the books OH-6 time from his national guard days. They trained him to be a "pinch hitter" crew chief/observer in the Loach so that he could escape and land the aircraft in case the pilot got hit. Probably not entirely legal but it was the ramp up to Gulf 1 and it's the Guard so rules are suggestions.

Short of strapping a Rocketdyne RS-68 to your ass and striking a match...?

https://www.controller.com/listings/aircraft/for-sale/26920007/1997-wsk-pzl-mielec-wilga

This is why people think they see UFO's...

What? I got to take off on my first flight. You been cheated LOL.

Being a system check pilot would be sweet.

As a veteran, you’re in-state everywhere in the country as far as tuition rates go. Unless there a compelling reason for staying in Western PA, you really should consider other options as well, especially if you already gave an associates. U North Dakota, Purdue and Embry Riddle immediately come to mind. North Dakota has 120 airplanes and is a full up 4 year university (many airlines require a 4year degree on top of all the ratings).

1 - Take the math assessment test. If you're weak, you want to know that right away and fix that quick. If you have to take 000 level math to get in the groove, do it, no matter how stupid you feel. Trust me on this one. 2 - Go on their website and see what the required coursework is for each track you may consider. For instance: http://www.ccbc.edu/professionalpilot 3 - Apply and get accepted. 4- Get an advising appointment with a faculty adviser in your field of study. IF they assign you an advisor from anthropology or whatever, they're just going to give you the cookbook version. Find someone you can sit down and talk with about what exactly you want to do. 4- Register for classes. 5 - Get with the school's filing official (usually someone in admissions/registrar or veteran student affairs or something with a similar name. Usually this is done before the previous semester is over. Not to worry though, you'll just do it when you register for classes. Even if it's a week late the VA will give you the back pay on the BAH. 6 - get with the others that are ahead of you in the program and get as much inside gouge as you can. You've been out of the world a while, so you know what to do: develop a network of people to study with. 7 - Health insurance. Don't get the student health insurance through the school it doesn't cover shit. Another 'trust me on this one' type situations. Get over to the local VA CBOC and sign up ASAP. Question: Are you ready to start in the fall? The academic plan they have has you taking physics 1 in the third semester. I'm assuming it's algebra based and not calculus based so you should be OK if you did well on the college algebra (or higher). At this point I'd just start rambling so any questions you may have, fire away either on here or via PM.

Just to add further enticement: https://aviationcenter.psu.edu/flight-schools

A few items: 1 - Go for it! 2 - If you are eyeballing the UAV option, don't. Legit employers couldn't care less. BS fly-by-night operations might but you don't want to get near that crap anyway. 3 - Just get Microsoft Flight Simulator X. It's dirt cheap at this point and you really won't need any more than that as it will have the G1000 C-172 in it I believe. Use it to get the buttonology down. Find out what the school is flying. THE FLYING ISN'T THE HARD PART. I can't stress that enough. The hard part is the academics and even that's not all that hard. 4 - Don't stop at a two year degree. Use your entire benefit. I know you're probably under that Forever GI Bill (which I am unbelievable jealous and pissed about - we all should have gotten grandfathered into that). Finish CCBC with a killer GPA and do your 3rd and 4th year at CMU or Pitt WE ARE PENN STATE! If you play your cards right you can CFI at University Park while you finish your AS/BS. Or stay right there and go to Penn State Beaver (not as awesome - only 7 degree options available there). 4a - The reason I say that is the moment you take your foot off the gas with school the harder it is to get back into it.

The slow blade penetrates.

Yeah I like this guy's channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VETLdQzJCM

HLCF, You gotta do what you gotta do. Best of luck, fair winds & following seas! Trev

104th server .miz file is now v3, so you gotta update that to pre-cache in single player. One guy I talked to said that loading up Instant Action and staying in that for 30 seconds was his trick, but I couldn't reproduce it.

I was on my phone getting Chinese food LOL

Here’s the link to the news: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/newsletters/newsletter13042018-fa37a87b040b2c8e1e7968b2a97ff5cd.html?bx_sender_conversion_id=2486673

Yeah, many times we just update things just to get the pop up to go away. This taught me to look first to the greatest extent possible.