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MiGMan’s Combat Diary

  • Recon flight

  • Had an in-flight emergency when the airspeed/mach indicators went u/s! Landed successfully. On reviewing the cockpit cam I saw that the airspeed HAD come back online during final approach, but I was so fixated on the picture, relating it to past landings in order to guess the speed, that I hadn't even noticed!
  • airline_seat_recline_extraAfrica 2
  • Ethiopia  Ethiopia
  • location_cityAddis Ababa
  • flight_takeoffHAAB Bole
  • tagEmergencyLandingMiGMan’s Combat Diary
  • 2021  edited: 04-04-2021

  • A new sim experience.

  • From engine start, sorry, I meant TWO engine starts, you knew this was a new kind of flight sim experience.
    "Taxiing quickened the pulse as the Eurofighter bobbed and bounced on its suspension. Sunlight glinted through the canopy, wheel brakes on, engine spooled up and the beast was straining at the leash.
    Brakes off and the tyres rumbled... 120 knots and the dragon leapt into the air." MiGMan, 1998
  • airline_seat_recline_extraEF 2000
  • tagMiGMan’s Combat Diary
  • 1998  edited: 08-06-2021

  • MiGMan's Combat Diary: Iceland 2001

  • Here I am in Alphasim's Eurofighter taking off from Kingsford Smith airport, Sydney, Australia to try and intercept on a QANTAS passenger jet.
  • airline_seat_recline_extraEurofighter (Alphasim)
    • MiGMan’s Combat Diary

  • Sydney at night in a Vought Corsair

  • Breaking every rule in the book I fly under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, through a football stadium, and frighten the diners 60 floors up in Centrepoint Tower's revolving restaurant! Oh, and it's at night in a Vought Corsair, which Microsoft thoughtfully provided for us in every copy of Flight Sim 2004.
    And then I land at Sydney International Airport... probably in the wrong direction...
  • airline_seat_recline_extraMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2004
  • Australia  Australia
  • flight_takeoffYSSY Kingsford Smith
  • local_airportGrumman F4U Corsair
  • precision_manufacturingMicrosoft
  • tagSimulatedMiGMan’s Combat Diary
  • 2004  

  • Ridgy Didge MiG

  • Flight testing my ridgy-didge state-of-the-art hotas voice-controlled Fulcrum!
    1. Pan view working and mapped to the HOTAS. Not TrackIR but pretty good for a 20 year old sim that doesn't support mouse look.
    2. Voice control for control surfaces (flaps, gear, chute), wingman.
    3. Draw distance? Can anyone help? I doubled the draw distance in the MIG29.INI file, but every time you enter the sim it overwrites it back to 26.
    4. Low speed, high alpha
    5. and... I didn't take the situation at the threshold seriously enough...
  • airline_seat_recline_extraMiG-29 Fulcrum (Novalogic) | Voice Attack
  • Russia  Russia
  • military_techRussian Air Force
  • local_airportMikoyan Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum
  • precision_manufacturingNovalogic
  • tagFlight TestMiGMan’s Combat Diary
  • 2019  

  • MiG-29 Fulcrum: Snake Venom

  • Second attempt at this bombing mission. The bombing is very forgiving in this sim... but then we ran into the most 'Top Gun' helo pilot of all time!
    Then I shot him down. Eventually I shot him down.
    I found the explanation for the 'Top Gun' helo pilot in the documentation for the mission editor. Flight models and aircraft models are independent... and the manual warns not to assign an F-16 flight model to a chopper... which is exactly what some wag at Novalogic did here!
  • airline_seat_recline_extraMiG-29 Fulcrum (Novalogic) | Voice Attack
  • Russia  Russia
  • military_techRussian Air Force
  • local_airportMikoyan Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum
  • precision_manufacturingNovalogic
  • tagAir to AirAir to GroundMiGMan’s Combat Diary
  • 2019  

  • 1941, Dec 7 - Intercept

  • A flight of Japanese a/c overflew Haleiwa as I climbed into the P-40. It took a few minutes to catch up with them, by which time I was over the harbour and all hell was breaking loose! Smoke trails were everywhere as FLAK and cannon took their toll.
  • airline_seat_recline_extraPearl Harbor (2001)
    • MiGMan’s Combat DiaryMission

  • 1941, Dec 7 - Intercept

  • 11 kills on this mission! Woo hoo ! That has to be a personal best! Mind you - I did use over 8,000 rounds of ammunition (using unlimited ammo) and I only had a 4 % hit rate.
  • airline_seat_recline_extraPearl Harbor (2001)
    • MiGMan’s Combat DiaryMission

  • 1941, Dec 7 - Escort

  • It was a 90 mile flight to Pearl and an ideal opportunity to practise a bit of formation flying. The SBD's held a nice steady box formation at 1500 feet.
  • airline_seat_recline_extraPearl Harbor (2001)
    • MiGMan’s Combat DiaryMission

  • 1941, Dec 7 - Intercept

  • A scramble in the F-4F and my first move was to crash head on! Tried again and my wingtip was shot off on the first pass. Next time up friendly FLAK damamged my control surfaces os I limped back to land on the Enterprise, Meanwhie all hell was breaking loose and some unlucky pilot collided with me as I turned to finals. Several attempts later and I managed to stay in one piece and apparently help to drive off most of the Japanese Dive Bombers... satisfied but weary I landed on the carrier.... only just !
  • airline_seat_recline_extraPearl Harbor (2001)
    • MiGMan’s Combat DiaryMission

  • 1941, Dec 8 -Search and Destroy

  • Very heavy FLAK in this mission - each time my plane sustained grievous damage. Needless to say I didn't hit the carrier once either. Definitely a challenge!
  • airline_seat_recline_extraPearl Harbor (2001)
    • MiGMan’s Combat DiaryMission

  • MiGMan’s Combat Diary

  • Su-27 Flanker was designed by a team of Russian programmers to run on 386 and low end 486 machines. The project was taken on by SSI and revised to SVGA graphics resolution. The Russian designers didn't have access to the faster PC's, and as a result their code was very efficient and it ran very smoothly despite being state of the art! The" sim recreateds the Crimean peninsula in great detail and pits you, in the Su-27 Flanker, against the latest Russian and NATO aircraft, armour, ships and SAMs. All control surfaces move during flight and the attention to detail is extraordinary!"
  • airline_seat_recline_extraSu-27 Flanker
  • local_airportSukhoi Su-27 Flanker
  • tagMiGMan’s Combat Diary
  • 1998  

  • Douglas DC-3 flight over Sydney, Australia, 2006

  • On an unusually grey Sydney afternoon in October 2006 MiGMan was a guest of Microsoft at the launch of their new flagship product - Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
    The creme-de-la-creme of Australia's gaming journalists gathered at Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney, and embarked on a champagne flight over Sydney Harbour in a C-47, the military transport version of the Douglas DC-3.
  • Australia  Australia
  • location_citySydney
  • flight_takeoffYSSY Kingsford Smith
  • local_airportDouglas DC-3
  • precision_manufacturingMicrosoft
  • personMiGMan
  • tagIRLMiGMan’s Combat Diary
  • 2006  
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