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Feature: The Texas Shoot-Out: F4:AF LAN Meet
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"Fight's On!"
Enough of the background. On with
the blood.
Acquisition
AWACS
The 1v1 competition began, and with
it the smack talk of this hardcore group of simmers. The engagement
was simple: realistic settings, guns only, 15000 feet, and
at a distance of 10 miles. Essentially, it was pistols at
twenty paces in modern air combat parlance. The competitors
were given ten minutes to warm up against each other before
going into the matches that counted. Voice comms were connected
via a TeamSpeak server. Larry "Machinegun" Nissen
grinned and told me the story of how the 817th used to use
a telephone switching box for voice comms back in the Falcon
3.0 days. These men have been flying together as a team for
that long. They had used telephone operator's headsets with
twenty-foot cables and tied into it to speak to each other.
Things had come a long way. We were about to see just how
far.
"Showtime's"
Cockpit
Fight's On!
The dogfighting was quick and decisive
as Cody "Bogll" Dean and Matt "Black Angel"
Adair took an early lead in the winner's bracket. It was interesting
to see the machines and gear of choice of these online aviators.
Most of them preferred the Cougar HOTAS and the clicking noise
of the throttle travel of these well-used devices could be
heard as they tried to get "nose on" with their
adversaries. Early in the game, "Mad Dog" found
his way into the winner's bracket after defeating "Falcor"
and "Showtime" getting the best two out of three.
Meanwhile, those two vanquished pilots had gotten into a vicious
aerial fistfight, bare knuckles and knees only. One of the
pilots watching the fray on the big screen absentmindedly
asked, "Where'd he go?" after losing sight.
Someone else, delighted with his own wit, shot back, "Where'd
who go?"
Where'd he go?
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