Pete the real feeling of the fly not, it dont exist.
But the human factor,SA, and continues dogfighting 4-6-8 hours a day,
and the beats of your heart its a very Real combat feeling.=20
You dont read about Combat Manouvers, you do them.
When you check 6 every 3 sec at the mirror of your car,
when you answer in a question of your wife or of a friend or at job with
*roger* or *cc*, then you will know what im talking about

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 07:16:31 GMT, "Pete" wrote:


"Corey C. Jordan" wrote

Against any of the top guys in Aces High, I'd give any current Top Gun
pilot a maximum of 60 seconds after the merge before he's hanging in =
his
parachute wondering what had just happened. It's not easy coming into =
an
unfamiliar environment and having to compete against the best on the
planet at
this type of simulation.

Remember, some of these guys have more than 10,000 hours of combat
sim time. That's why many real fighter jocks come in, figure they'll =
do
well
and promptly cancel their account when they:

A) Realize that the learning curve is enormously steep.
B) Realize getting fully familiar with their chosen aircraft takes =
many
hours
in it.
C) Learn the strengths and weaknesses of enemy aircraft (over 70
possible).
D) Having to gear up their Situational Awareness to survive in an
environment

where 50 to 100 aircraft are within visual range.
E) Figure out that some fat guy sitting at a desk in Idaho has a =
better
understanding of ACM than they do.

But put that same Aces High desk jock in a real fighter, and you'll have
some poor crew chief spending the afternoon cleaning puke out of the
cockpit. If the jet comes back.

Familiarity in the particular environment. Spend a few hundred (or =
thousand)
hours working a particular tool (be it jet or sim) and you might get =
pretty
good. But being good in one does not instantly translate into being good=
in
the other.

A true Top Gun, but Aces High neophyte is working off a different set of
reflexes and responses. And conversely, the Aces High ace has =
internalized
the peculiarities and limitations of the PC sim environment.

Pete