Here are my five cents:
I always remember those crowded decks of aircraft carrier of mid 80´s, full of a-6´s,  f-14´s,a-7´s a few a/f-18´s back in home ports you could see some a-3 skywarriors, Skyhawks (my beloved one...my other car is a scooter...lol) ect. Man you could see a lot of different types for even the same or different purposes, but they were a sight to see,  and in dessert storm they all went to combat, ,for me, those were the times when you saw a lot of types, gorgeus planes them all, you name it, it was flying back then. Times have changed and well for us, is time to let the new generations watch and maybe in their future they will be saying the same about those new types. For military aviation early 70´s late 80´s was the time.
there are my 5 cents.
now i´ll call the nurse ..since i have the urge to take a leak............LOL

oh by the way..i´m only 32

best regards

Prowler

That looks hot. Must be an exciting download!

Heh, dont have to buy it Frontier, check my thread on this sim in the freeware section;
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=screen;action=display;num=...

Yeah, know what ya mean Sam, I dont think I'll be getting anymore myself.
Im perfectly happy with Flight Deck3, but I have to admit though that the only planes that are wirth a crap are the F-18, F-14, and the S-3. The rest aint no better than some freeware ones I have, or have had.

Jeez, the Chinook seems like cardboard from the inside. .  The Harrier's VC the canopy frame dissapears when panning.

However, the Arrcab works well, and the carrier itself is quite good, and well detailed.
But I think that overall the quality from Abacus varies so much from one product to the other, I have their Military aircraft collection on CD, and well as I said, I've seen free stuff that is as good or better(Dan Reimer's F-18).

And dude, I just got two other planes, one from Flight1(Cessna 310 Twin) & one from Captain sim ( F-104), and the quality is 100 times what Abacus's is...........BIG TIME!! Man the F-104 will knock you socks, shoes & pants off!   Take a look at awash's thread on it.

FInally they abacus has delivered the FD3 upgrade! Man it was a pain in the butt waiting for with all the mishaps in shipping. But well worth the wait! I am happy now! 



This is my pass by the tower station on my first landing in FS2004!



This is a pic of me on standby at the catapult for my 2nd carrier take off! Man I really love the new tomcat! It is so much more better then the one that came with FD3.

Well I think it is time for maverick to do his infamous flyby the tower at over 500 knots!  Hold your coffe tight guys!

Dude I think my video card has an issue with MSN Gaming Zone. I tried it once and it caused my computer to crash! When i recovered the system, it was saying something about a video card error and incompatiblity with a newly installed hardware or software.

So sadly enough I don't think this video card is going to allow me to have any fun with freinds. I am looking into replacing it with a NVidia 256mb video card. I am currently using a 256mb Radeon ATI card.

But it feels good indeed man!

gotta question there for ya Sabrehawk,

how did ya get the aircraft into the belly of the hanger?

I tried using the slew mode but all it did was manuever forward, backwards, right and left.

Is there any particular place on the carrier you have to go to get refueled! (just wondering if the station is in the belly of this carrier)