Flyboy
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Now THIS is something I have seen many times (though not necessarily in the logbook like this). On walk around you see something dripping and the mechanic comes by with his rag, wipes it off and says “what leak?” Or they will say it’s in the allowed number of “drips per hour.”Very nice!I’ll look into that. I’ve seen many satellites before and these sure look like they are doing a right circle rather than crossing the sky in a straight line orbit.Got it preordered!Hawg, Driver and I met at the museum here in Dayton to see their newest Su-27 exhibit. Here’s a few pics I took, including many of the planes we fly online. This would make a great JG1 gathering place if we ever wanted to do that. One of the largest air museums in the world plus Dayton is the home of the Wright brothers and there are a couple other museums worth seeing here including their bicycle shop/air museum and Carillon Historical Park
Yes it was perfect time for them to reflect the sun as they moved and that’s what I was thinking at the time.My ambition originally was to be an astronomer and was a physics major before discovering flying. I’ve seen many many satellites before and this was not like any satellite I’ve ever seen before. If you watch the video above you seem them equally orbit about a point within about 5 degrees relative angle (the angular diameter of the moon is 30 arcseconds or 0.5 degrees). Satellites travel a straight line as they orbit earth, whether in a polar orbit or something else (equatoria, stationary, etc.). I’ve never seen any in 40 years of sky watching do this. Was near New Mexico at 37,000 feet and about an hour before sunrise. Venus was nearby and partial moon higher in the sky.My friend in Japan just reported back to me that they have been seeing them over there also and are suspecting Musk's low orbit Starlink satellites but I'm not so sure. I don't see how even in low orbit they can move that way.I have since shared this with my pilot friends and most of them have seen this too but can’t explain it.As a pilot one of the frequent questions I've been asked over the years is if I’ve seen a UFO. Well, I can finally say yes after the other night flying from Phoenix to Baltimore. The lights were in the Eastern sky near Venus. There was at least three of them and they seemed to orbit each other in a circle. Their luminosity would slowly change from barely or not visible to nearly as bright as Venus. They were definitely very high in the sky, so maybe that was because of reflections from sun like a satellite. But these were not normal satellites. Satellites travel in a straight line as they orbit the earth but these were on a tight (maybe 5 degrees angular) orbit. This article pretty much describes what we saw but it says here the pilots reported them around the Big Dipper but the ones we saw were in the SE sky near Scorpius. My First Officer had seem them before and heard another crew report them to ATC and the controller said they had many reports about them but didn’t know what they were. https://www.cpr.org/2023/08/25/strange-lights-in-the-sky-reported-by-pilots-around-eastern-colorado-thursday/I'm in the process of creating a new "nearly real" training map using Kutaisi for Blue and Vaziani for Red. It will have low clouds so you can't see the ground easily and have to use instrument references for SA and do an instrument approach on return (but with 2 nm vis so can do nonprecision with F-5 and Mig-19), no labels and no ref on map. I want to put in enemy spawned AI like on your BFMACM maps and have been studying your triggers plus watching youtube vids. I also want to set up a practice "sparring" maps where one side defends and the other attacks where we can divide up into sides and do internal practice battles. Mouce and I are also thinking that having smoke pods on the Mig-21 can be useful not only for training but for helping find each other. It's better than wasting flares and is negligible weight.So I'm finally trying to get more serious about learning triggers and am stuck for the moment with adding sounds for the messages to coalition. I looked online and watched one video so far which led me to download Audacity, but where is the best place to get some of the sound files that would be appropriate for DCS? Can I use text to speech computer voice? @Klaiber where did you come up with some of your sounds like "Engaging bandit?"And they are still trying to perfect it.https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/covert-operations/how-to-catch-a-falling-spy-satellite/3841223113001Early in my career I knew pilots who did this and it was fascinating how they could catch the pictures taken from satellites on re-entry. This is how they got the pictures for the Cuban missile crisis. Back in the day when we only had wired telephones pay phone booths!
New open beta update today so maybe changes things?I would have loved to do mission editing for WW1 but I saw right away that the learning curve was going to be way too steep and even experienced editors get very frustrated. I enjoy the DCS editor even though I still have a lot to learn.
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