count me in ... just let me know when and where
Knew I could count on you!
Just- didn't saw you Online in Elite for a while, hope all is good.
@NavyNuke99: "The Professionals" started all a glorious night in DCS some months ago, well- probably over a year ago.
Point being we're all BUT professionals!
It involved a night mission with a new guy that did drop in the SimHQ DCS server (prolly Wrecking Crew or someother) and being green and listening to us talking "expert" believed we were good!
We weren't... Well I wasn't.
In random order there was:
-Me jettisoning all the payload while taxing while trying to apply/remove parking brakes.
Killing someone behind me. Could have been Tempus, but not sure.
-Me doing it again.
-Twice more.
-In a cold start, getting three people cursing the sky trying to find in the darkness the switch to turn on flood lighting.
-Me leading the new guy for half an hour of approach to the "Danger Zone" just to be swatted out of the sky by the very first SAM I didn't even see coming well before entering the FAOR. He did great though.
-Me making a disastrous landing because I forgot to lower landing gear.
-Me losing both engines for a misplaced keybinding of the Firefighting foam bottles...
-... without realizing that happened, I flew into the ground with this big grin 'cause I was SURE I could re-lihgt them in flight. (Hint: I couldn't)
And I'm sure I forgot something more.
Originally "The Professionals" were Tempusmuprhy, Petethehatchet, MaceUK and me.
Fudge tried to apply for membership but his ability of:
- killing multiple enemies without being destroyed,
- landing with correct asset and equipment employed,
- being capable of clearing doubts about game mechanics,
- knowledge about switches and SOP in weapon employment, and
- no possible mention of Blue-on-Blue
made him on obvious liability for the group.
PS: Ah I think that was also the time I realized that Tempus is in reality Tony Robinson of Baldrick fame.
I mean- that voice? Unmistakable.