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From: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com (Greg Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Good flight simulator for Amiga?
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.142345.16448@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 14:23:45 GMT
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In article <2218@otc.otca.oz>, elson@otc.otca.oz (Elson Markwick) writes:
> 
> Yeah, in F-18, you hit the guy with *one* round from your gun (as I said -
> locking a missile on gets boring after a while), and bugger me if he
> doesn't go
> up (down? ;^) in a ball of flame.  'Course, while you're shooting at him his
> evasive manouvers (sp?) are of the fly straight and level at a constant speed
> "Geez, I hope I don't get my arse shot out from under me" type (well maybe a 
> *bit* more than that)

I've always had to hit enemy MIG's with at least three cannon rounds
before they blow up in F-18.  One has never done it for me.  And the
MIG's have never flown "straight and level at a constant speed" when
I'm engaged with them.  They're jinking all over the place, and getting
several good cannon shots into one is definitely not easy, but it is
possible.

The only enemy planes in F-18 that fly straight and level are the
stolen F-16's.  They are very easy pickings, but shooting them down
isn't the way you're supposed to complete the mission.  You're supposed
to fly in front of them and thereby politely tell them that you're
on to them and that they should turn around and fly home.  That's
a fair challenge every time I try it.

Are you sure that you're talking about F-18?

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Research Triangle Park, NC, USA  These opinions are mine, not DG's.