This is looking excellent and I am eagerly awaiting its release. I do have a question though regarding whether the aircraft weight will be modeled. For example, I have recently read the books by Ed Macy ("Apache" and "Hellfire") and Damien Lewis ("Apache Dawn") and noticed that the Apache was never loaded out with a full compliment of weapons mainly due to the fact that it couldn't operate in that environment (hot and high) with such a heavy load-out and that most of the time had difficulty during take-offs. Also, many of the photos I have seen of US Apache helicopters in Afghanistan also show a reduced weapons load-out, in addition to the removal of the Longbow radar, to help save weight. So I was wondering whether this will be modeled in the game or will it be like most of the other sims where you have a full compliment of rockets, missiles, and gun ammunition and fly around like you have power to spare. In addition to this, will the user be able to chose a specific weapons load (the number of missiles, rockets, round of ammo) to carry or will it be more of a general choice, similar to EECH? Also will the amount of fuel to be carried be configurable? Thanks for any info and thanks for making this sim the one I'm looking the most forward to purchasing.
Last edited by goose814; 04/18/11 04:17 AM.