You know you are addicted when...
- You go to turn your head to look at the tv only to find your head isn't turning and your flipping the hatswitch on your throttle (damn!! Happened to me the other night too)
- Can't bare to pause to pause the game and ruin the momentum just to get the phone or the doorbell.
- Whirl around in the supermarket when some father yells "SAM!!" looking for his son..
- Accidentally say "Roger" when talking to someone.
- Pretend your gripping a HOTAS whilst riding a roller coster.

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Originally posted by Fighter/613:

- You go to turn your head to look at the tv only to find your head isn't turning and your flipping the hatswitch on your throttle (damn!! Happened to me the other night too)

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You are really serious? That has actually happened to you? That's like the ultimate in coolness.

Do you do that while driving too? I can see the accident report now: "Honestly, I'm certain I looked both ways before turning into the intersection."

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Klaatu Barada Nikto

When you are thinking of fields of view, LOS rate, FPS rate and conversion separation... while driving a car on the highway.

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Originally posted by TKorho:
When you are strolling in town, and spot something interesting <guess what>

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I give up.......what? lol

Jen

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Originally posted by Zero Niner:
When you return from a 2 week vacation and the first thing on your mind is "What's new with F4 and the F4 forum?"

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WHAT!!! First...what are you doing taking a vacation....away from the house? Unbelievable...unless of course you took Falcon 4.0 with you on your overpowered laptop? The only crisis in this house as to taking my attention from Falcon, is of course ESPN...depending on who's playing this can often create a real problem. Therefore...cable TV now sits adjacent to the computer monitor...point being...before one over/under reacts to a departure from Falcon 4.0, first explore all the options...hehe...enjoy

Wife??? Uh...ya...saw her last week,,,I think...

I found I that I spent too much time with various flight sims, when I discovered, that dogs relate to joggers like SAMs to F-16s...

I'm running and jogging a lot (even did a marathon) and on those long runs, your mind starts wandering. Occasionaly every jogger encounters incoming dogs and has to deal with them. It's a common fear among runners. They are smaller and faster than you and they can surely pull much more Gs.
But I found out, that most dogs aren't that hard to evade. Just get them on your 3-9 line and keep beaming them. Most of them are in pure persuit - but beware, their engines have incredible long burn times!
Maybe I should take sausages and cookies with me as counter measures and drop them when the need arises.

Other parts of running are similar to flying Falcon too. Especialy when running in a group of two or four runners. I constantly mumble things like "Two, in position." or "Go trail", etc. That gives mostly puzzled faces on the people who run with me. When I start pointing my index finger to incoming runners and shout out load "Awacs, declare!!" the atmosphere gets notably colder.
But when I call out "Attack my target!" or "CBU away!" or even "Napalm" it's too much for my fellow runners and they usually go "RTB" immediately and tell everybody never to fly.. erm, run... with me ever again.

1) Wife complains about your bulky throttle

2) You mumble "Pyongyang" frequently in work conversations...colleagues look at you funny

3) You ask your boss to include CCRP skills on your performance evaluation

4) When a colleague says "that's not even on my radar screen", you reply "What's your azimuth?"

5)Lifting weights at the gym no longer done to improve physique, now done to maintain G-tolerance in F4.

6)Seat angle in car is reclined 45 degrees to match reclined seat angle in F-16.

7) You casually say "HOTAS" to your buddies expecting them to broil with enthusiasm...olny to see blank stares...

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Originally posted by Stan Man:
You know you're an F4 addict when:

4) When a colleague says "that's not even on my radar screen", you reply "What's your azimuth?"

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I was actually driving along the interstate the other day and the clouds and colors were so close to F4 (Moonfix, that is) that the urge to plunge down low through the adjacent valley in my minivan was almost overwhelming.

I'll add one of my own -
You know Wonsan better than your own neighborhood.
Frogger

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Originally posted by Fighter/613:

- Whirl around in the supermarket when some father yells "SAM!!" looking for his son..

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Reminded me of the time I was in a shop and whirled round to check angles when someone opened the door because the 'buzzer' on the door to let the staff know they had a new customer sounded just like the 'missile launch' warning klaxon!

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Originally posted by Emacs:
Hi all,

I found I that I spent too much time with various flight sims, when I discovered, that dogs relate to joggers like SAMs to F-16s...

I'm running and jogging a lot (even did a marathon) and on those long runs, your mind starts wandering. Occasionaly every jogger encounters incoming dogs and has to deal with them. It's a common fear among runners. They are smaller and faster than you and they can surely pull much more Gs.
But I found out, that most dogs aren't that hard to evade. Just get them on your 3-9 line and keep beaming them. Most of them are in pure persuit - but beware, their engines have incredible long burn times!
Maybe I should take sausages and cookies with me as counter measures and drop them when the need arises.

Other parts of running are similar to flying Falcon too. Especialy when running in a group of two or four runners. I constantly mumble things like "Two, in position." or "Go trail", etc. That gives mostly puzzled faces on the people who run with me. When I start pointing my index finger to incoming runners and shout out load "Awacs, declare!!" the atmosphere gets notably colder.
But when I call out "Attack my target!" or "CBU away!" or even "Napalm" it's too much for my fellow runners and they usually go "RTB" immediately and tell everybody never to fly.. erm, run... with me ever again.

Emacs

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ROFLMAO!!! Man Im laughing so hard Im choking on this coffee im having!!! LOL!!!

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Originally posted by TKorho:
When you are strolling in town, and spot something interesting <guess what> - and call it to your friends: "heads up! one o'clock!".

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Actually, a friend of mine did that in the school canteen a few months ago.
The only boring thing is that he does not fly sims

Some of mine (though not necessarily just F4 related, just aviation addicted) ive done many of them myself (and am notorious for 10, 11, and 13).

1) When all you think about in the shower is how to get your minicampaign to work around the cowardice bug.

2) You try to hold formation with everything you can possibly get close to.

3) Your parents look disturbed when you call "Fox-2!" on the guy that just cut you off.

4) You pull back on the steering wheel while accelerating.

5) You pull back on the steering wheel when approaching hills, then push forward when you get to the top.

6) You try to fly your (manual transmission) car with the gearshift... while driving.

7) Every piece of music you hear brings to mind pictures of F-16's in TF flight.

8) You give directions based on bullseye coordinates.

9) You spend at least 20 minutes a day trying to edit data files or think of how to use that little bit of info you picked up somewhere in the game.

10) You have your friends quiz you on weapon loads for various missions--for any aircraft. Debate whatever they say.

11) Whenever someone mentions something even remotely resembling the name of a missile or other weapon, you rattle off said weapon's statistics, uses, history, and employment.

12) You have burned a CD with the F4 UI music on it.

13) You go nuts when you hear planes and cannot see them.

14) You try to find chaff/flare dispensers for your private aircraft or develop serious weapon-mount plans for it.

15) Get extremely angry (as in disturbing the neighbors) when defense cuts or criticism of aviation is mentioned.

As soon as you get to work you hit the HOME button in IE that directly takes you to the combatsim forums and proceed to read all the pissing contest/troll posts as if they were the morning newspaper funnies.

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Originally posted by Stan Man:
You know you're an F4 addict when:
5)Lifting weights at the gym no longer done to improve physique, now done to maintain G-tolerance in F4.

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Hahahah! I'm heading to the gym today. Just that in mind. :'D Short bulky construction helps too.

Some more:

• You go for the amusement park attractions by the rate of G they can possibly produce.
  
• When in said attraction, your heed keeps spinning to practice your SA.
  
• You constantly stay up to 3AM chatting with your virtual squadron and reading these newsgroups, even when you know you have to wake up at 8AM to get to work
  
• You plan the only free weekend in the whole summer to get half across the world to see a glimpse of an F-16. (Åbend hus)
  
• Your spouse doesn't even notice your peculiarities, anymore. Until she leaves you.
  
• You plan "boot camps" for your virtual squadron using other virtual games, shooters for it.
  

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87th Stray Dogs
http://www.87th.org/

1) You use your work ISP to check combatsim and/or delphi forums at least once an hour;

2) When driving by an airport, you visualize lead and lag pursuits of the planes on final approach.

1) You try to get closer to the cars before you to put them into firing range.

2) You see that pretty girl and all you can think of is how to do ACM with her.

3) You look for your airport card to check the bearing of a park place.

4) You watch airspeed and AOA when going upstairs.

5) You are surprised when BB is quiet at the last step while going downstairs.

The last thing you do before leaving to go on vacation is strap your Rand McNally Map book on your knee with the route you are traveling setup as waypoints.

When it takes you 30 minutes or longer to line up at the gas station for re-fueling.

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Moorthane

After one minute, the man accelerated and I did that too. He was a little nervous; apparently nobody likes to fly in formation with you at the highway. I cannot understand that.

I catched up ("Get back in formation, you damn number 2!!!"). Again side by side, I looked at him. He looked at me. I make the Thumbs Up sign to him. He frowned. And he did the Thumbs Up sign too. Poor guy.

Then I pointed to my eyes with two fingers and then to my 6 (the radio was broken, i forgot to say). He thought he had an open door or something and began to look behind. But I was telling him "Clear my six". It is obvious this wingman has the same bug as the F4 ones.

Anyway, I accelerated forward to my bombing run. Damn wingies.

TSR, Buenos Aires

That's funny, the same thing happened to me other day! The guy was obviously new to flying in formation because he kept speeding up and slowing down, moving left and right, trying to figure out how to stay with me. Our on board radios were also busted (although I could receive some local FM transmissions), but he had some sort of hand-held radio he was trying very hard to use.

Well, next thing I know, my RWR started going off and a bunch of MiGs with their red landing lights had me surrounded. I managed to eject going low and slow. I'm counting on my SEER (survival, escape, evasion, rescue) training to help me make it back to base!

T-Rex

While living in Halifax last Summer the Airshow was going on a CFB Shearwater. The Blue Angels were in town. Well on the last day before they left they decided that a flyby of the pub I worked at was in order, we are first on the list for places to get great food and beer- these lists are arranged in order of safest and secure spots too "2 here at your own risk.
anyway, working in the back of the house we hear this low rumble. The whole Kitchen stopped working and ran to the back door .
Flying in at approx 1000 ft we're 2 Blue Angels The sounds was amazing, Every single one of us out in the parking lot were screaming at the top of our lungs ....YEAH!!!!!! BABY YEAH....
gotta tell you the site left me with goose bumps for the whole night.

I guess I'll add one thing to make this legit.

::: while making a lane change I asked my wife to check my six.

The cool thing is she looked behind me and said your six is clear..

actually now that I remeber it ..... shes used that phrase in one form or another.

ie; I got your six

Thunderdog out!

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Sorta semi-related:

The sounds was amazing, Every single one of us out in the parking lot were screaming at the top of our lungs ....YEAH!!!!!! BABY YEAH....

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That reminds me of an airshow (an anniversary of a Swedish missile testing base which frequently is used by other nations' airforces as well) which rained away, litterarily.
Finally they got a Viggen airborne (he was going home to F21 in Luleå) and he did some flying around at low level (That cloud base wasn't *too* far from the treetops).
Anyway, the Viggen flew out of sight because of some buildings and suddenly I saw it flying out behind (from my perspective) a hanger, much closer this time. I bit away a short "sh*t" and put my hands to the ears. - half a second later the sound rolled over us. I mean, it was like: *ROOAAAARRRRR*

Anyway, my contribution to this thread:
-When you enter your car, set your right hand on the gear lever and the left one starts looking for the throttle.

1) on a roller coaster when going downhill you yell "UNDER-G!"
2) you are mad because the ride runners won't let you bring your Helmit w/ a IR sight on it to shoot at planes you see when you are on the top of the hill
3)The moment you heard that there is a new roller coaster that is the tallest, fastest, and steepest in the world only 2 hours away you think "Hey, that is steeper than the maximum dive angle of bomb release for the F-16"

actually, my wife says "i'm a dot !" when she leaves a place... amazing what sims can do heh ?!

- you know you re an addict when you know Korea better than the country you live in...

-... when you think that Real Life needs a patch or 2 to be better (if you look closely, the horizon has no texture in real life, imho it needs more ram !!)

Later that night you whisper...

"Falcon 41, in precontact posistion"..."contact"..."Fuel flows"..."disconect".

After a few months your wife begins to understand your way of comunicating and when you come home from your work you suddenly hear her say: "Falcon 42, close up formation"
You: "closing up"..."in posistion"
She: "Check my six"
you: "Roger"

Your boss: Why are you not working?
You: Falcon11 sending damage report, MFDS Fail"