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From: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com (Greg Hunt)
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Subject: Re: F16 INTERCEPTOR - Last Mission
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.175223.25954@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 17 Oct 90 17:52:23 GMT
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In article <1990Oct16.102322.2289@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>,
cabp10@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
>
>   while I'm here what is the secret mision (the one that you start
from the
> other airfields?)
> 
> Dan Dare
>

Secret mission?  I haven't seen any secret mission in F18.  Do you know
how you get into it?

The only mission I know of that starts on an airfield rather than the
carrier is the very first mission (air recon).  You can choose either
the F-16 or the F-18, and it starts you off from SFO (San Franciso
International).  You're supposed to find and identify the bogey that
the mission information directed you to, and then return to base (any
airfield will do on landing).  You're not supposed to engage the bogey
unless fired on.  Is this the mission you're thinking of?

There is also free-flight mode, which allows you to choose to fly
either plane, and to start from any of the four airfields or the
carrier.  There's no mission here, though.  You just fly around,
enjoy the scenery, try out your acrobatics, and fire your missles
into everything in sight for some fun.

Side-note:  A couple of times I've done that mission, the bogey turned
out to be a commercial 727 airliner coming in over land from the
northeast.  Looks an awful lot like the President's plane.  Hummm...

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