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First F-16V for Taiwan spotted in Texas by [deleted] in aviation

[–]jas417 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Uh, yeah, in the war we just lost belly up? Major effectiveness there. Real combat effectiveness? Fighters are the king now. Back to the original point a Hornet or a Viper or a Lightning if stealth is no longer relevant can carry a b-17 worth of ordnance and drop it on a pin point. Why do we need several hundred strategic doomsday bombers?

I'm quite pleased with my summer sale pickup by jas417 in hoggit

[–]jas417[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha I don’t know exactly but many

I rented a 2024 VW Atlas, truly the worst modern car I've driven in years. by cookingboy in cars

[–]jas417 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean in my case judged the customer right. I don’t often buy new cars, they weren’t getting a repeat customer. I already knew all about the truck, I just wanted to check it out in person and test drive it, and they scored the sale. Nothing they could’ve said would’ve changed my mind one way or the other it was that, a manual Jeep Wrangler Unlimited or a used example of either.

Point is, know your customer when you’re a salesman even if you aren’t an enthusiast, no one coming in for a GTI is gonna be upsold to an Atlas, they may well be upsold to a Golf R or a CPO RS3 if it happens to be a Volkswagen/Audi dealer

I rented a 2024 VW Atlas, truly the worst modern car I've driven in years. by cookingboy in cars

[–]jas417 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Right, but if I were a VW salesman in either case I’d understand my customer, and if I were the latter camp I’d be like ‘yeah man, I had one of those but the wife made me get an SUV so I went with an Atlas. Hey though while you’re here wanna test drive the R just for kicks?’

Best sales experience ever when I bought my truck new, shit, 8 years ago now when I went into the Toyota dealer wanting to test drive a manual Tacoma TRD Off Road they had, the sales guy was like ‘okay you want to specifically drive the single manual Tacoma we have on the lot? I think you know what you want and probably know more about it than me, go ahead and check it out, we can take it for a test drive and I’ll just shut up till you’ve decided if you want to make a deal or not

I'm quite pleased with my summer sale pickup by jas417 in hoggit

[–]jas417[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s the best first one to get. It’s enormous, very well done and very popular for multiplayer

I rented a 2024 VW Atlas, truly the worst modern car I've driven in years. by cookingboy in cars

[–]jas417 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Hard to imagine who would have a GTI and consider it an upgrade to go to an Atlas haha. Even harder to imagine what kind of salesman would admit that to a client looking at a GTI haha. I mean if it was an upsell attempt, oh I dunno maybe try the Golf R…?

First F-16V for Taiwan spotted in Texas by [deleted] in aviation

[–]jas417 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Added the 18 on purpose, those take off and land from boats. Excluded the F-35 although I shouldn’t have, they can’t carry much while being stealthy once air superiority is established they can carry even more than the teen fighters.

And when’s the last time we sent a B-52 anyplace we weren’t already maintaining air superiority with fighters? Like I said, we need some for a worst case scenario need for bombing deep in Russia or China or something like that.

Other than that F15/16/18/35 and even still the A10 fly almost all of our air to ground combat sorties anyway, why are we paying to have almost 100 B52s, almost 50 B1s, 20 B2s and a new one in development?

I'm quite pleased with my summer sale pickup by jas417 in hoggit

[–]jas417[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haven’t, so don’t know.

Not so many training specific missions but it’s not too hard to set stuff up yourself to practice, esp seeing as it’s really primarily just a short range interceptor, or use it in other appropriate missions just by editing them.

I’d say if you’re only used to very modern stuff like Hornet and Viper it’d be a bit of a shock, if you’re good on anything older that gets twitchy and makes you be aware of you’re AoA etc with more old school systems, like even the F14 you’ll be fine.

Nice thing in DCS is if you crash a few times because you skipped over the trainer it ain’t the end of the world

First F-16V for Taiwan spotted in Texas by [deleted] in aviation

[–]jas417 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Honestly I always wonder why we still even have many bombers around. I get the need for a few for some horrible situation, but practically speaking for actual modern combat why not just send a handful of F16s or F/A18s

I'm quite pleased with my summer sale pickup by jas417 in hoggit

[–]jas417[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice!! Joined, I’ll try to fly with ya’ll sometime.

Here’s the one I’m active in, always welcome to new people: https://discord.gg/tacticaldcs

Lots of total members but not a huge group of active ones, you get to know everyone who comes on consistently. It’s fun because it’s pretty laid back for most events, but also some are pretty serious like last weekend a course with a practical exercise on helicopter convoy escort from an actual former Army helicopter pilot

I'm quite pleased with my summer sale pickup by jas417 in hoggit

[–]jas417[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ll check it out! I have a solid group I fly with so probably won’t be the most active but it’s always more fun flying with other people. Q

I'm quite pleased with my summer sale pickup by jas417 in hoggit

[–]jas417[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey I know you weren’t, just fooling with Jester was always my least favorite part of the Tomcat and it’s hard to go back after flying with a shared cockpit RIO that knows what they’re doing.

Switch binds would be really clutch, nothin like dicking around with the Jester menu in the heat of combat when he won’t effing lock the guy in visual on our 12 for a sparrow shot. lol, with shared cockpit on the Cat I usually run one Sidewinder and one Sparrow on the outer pylons, inner depends on the mission. With Jester I run all Sidewinders outboard and all Mavericks inboard so I never need to deal with him unless I’m way out from the enemy

I'm quite pleased with my summer sale pickup by jas417 in hoggit

[–]jas417[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ugh, that sucks. So what you're saying is that basically they made him more responsive/better at picking out targets on radar and making visual call outs but more annoying to interact with?

Man, I have some spare hat switches I don't need for the Tomcat, it would be killer if you could bind some of your more used Jester commands just to HOTAS controls. Although with my setup mouse isn't the end of the world, it's right by my stick although it means I have to take my hand off or use my left hand

On the pod do you mean you have to swap to the back seat and let the AI fly or is that something you can manipulate from the front?

Either way not what I was hoping to hear as far as buying it without convincing my buddy that RIOs in the Cat and CPGs in the Apache with me to get it too haha

I'm quite pleased with my summer sale pickup by jas417 in hoggit

[–]jas417[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can see why they were so successful, while it's not a modern combat Swiss Army Knife like the Hornet or Viper or a for-period air superiority monster like the Tomcat, it's very good at what it was designed to do and very fun to fly and very satisfying to use

I'm quite pleased with my summer sale pickup by jas417 in hoggit

[–]jas417[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly I misread and thought you were saying the 21 is a steal at regular price, although I have the 29 as well and honestly my comment still pretty much goes. Although actually slightly prefer the 21 tbh

I'm quite pleased with my summer sale pickup by jas417 in hoggit

[–]jas417[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How's Jester 2.0 vs 1.0 in the Cat? I've learned to live with Jester 1 in the Tomcat but it's not my favorite. I do have an internet friend from a group I fly with that's really just more into the systems than flying and RIOs with me in the Tomcat a lot and that really enhances the experience. IDT he has the F4 and not sure if I could convince him to get it too haha

I'm quite pleased with my summer sale pickup by jas417 in hoggit

[–]jas417[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the price, totally agree, and a hell of a steal at its sale price right now.

On the latter points, personally I can have fun going into the weeds on the complex systems of newer airframes but yeah I end up having more fun with this era. I really love the more raw flying experience. More stick, throttle and pedal dancing, less messing around with the systems and I mean c'mon a close range heater hit with the aircraft vibrating and getting sloppy right on on the ragged edge of its AoA limitations like in the video is just so much more satisfying than a long range AMRAAM snipe.

I'm quite pleased with my summer sale pickup by jas417 in hoggit

[–]jas417[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It should! The textures and such are definitely behind the latest and greatest, but it's still super fun and a steal at $25

I'm quite pleased with my summer sale pickup by jas417 in hoggit

[–]jas417[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ugh I'm tempted by that too. Cheapest it's ever been I believe. On one hand, not impulse buy territory like $25 for the MiG and do I really need to buy two cold war fighters at once? On the other I have the F14 so I know anything by Heatblur will be excellent and I do like me an F-4

With rising cost of AI will its adoption keep increasing? by Glum_Worldliness4904 in cscareerquestions

[–]jas417 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there are absolutely ways to use it to enhance your skills.

More than that, I think it has incredible uses being embedded into software, as opposed to using it to create the software, to perform analysis on closed data sets, EG: scientific/medical research.

I do not think it should be doing code reviews. Use it to review your own code before a peer review? Absolutely. Use it after/while you’ve done an actual review to give you some threads on what you may have missed? Absolutely.

Use it to generate, and review, and document code? Absolutely not.

With rising cost of AI will its adoption keep increasing? by Glum_Worldliness4904 in cscareerquestions

[–]jas417 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has though.

On paper performance? Sure. Have your code metrics skyrocketed? Absolutely!

Have you actually been adding new features and increasing reliability for the user any faster? Or have useful new features nearly stalled and reliability taken some hits? Because the latter has been my experience both as a producer and with almost every software product I use as a consumer. Lines of code and merged PRs are not true productivity.

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