Rolling Fire, day 3, the B-52's have arrived in theater! No one told me until I saw a pair of them drop two sticks of bombs on the same airbase I was attacking, less than ten seconds before I started my run. I flew through the huge dust cloud the bombs kicked up. Of course, no ACMI or screenshot (I was rightly shocked at seeing that kind of tonnage falling from the sky), but I learned two immediate lessons:

1. Read the briefing and pay attention to the package elements (I didn't even know they were involved!).

2. Be on time, or become a friendly fire casualty, instead of inflicting them (still feel bad about that Apache I killed on day one...).

Very, very cool. Before I bought this thing, there is no way I would have thought I could feel good about what I've accomplished in a sim. But F4 has not failed to impress me on a near daily basis (I started playing it in a well patched state - 1.07 - and didn't get competent at it until 1.08, so I don't have any latent frustrations that others may still harbor... ).