AC is back after too long an absence. It feels great!
I'm using the callsign "dronedriver" for that has become my primary interest, since the USAF has moved in that major direction.
(It's not hard to understand why....I was a combat crew member for 13 years... I gave combat a fair try and didn't like it much.)
My personal project now is to simulate the environment of UAV combat, with a view toward developing techniques to perfect that mode of modern air warfare.
Butmore about that as I progress.
For those of you who don't know or remember me, I am non current in the following ratings that I held during active duty, first in the US Army Air Corps and later as a charter menber of the USAF:
Pilot, Navigator, Bombardier, Radar Operator, Flight Engineer, Aerial Gunner, Weaponeer, and Missileer.("AC" is AF terminology for Aircraft Commander)
My first experience with flt sims was in 1954 thru 1956... I was an Instructor pilot in the Boeing B47 Flt sim when it took a building full of vacuum tubes to do what we nor do on a desktop.
Though not a programmer , I have contributed toward the improvement of several simulations...Chief among them B17 II where I helped give them a reallistical working Norden Bombsight.
Since, in essence, UAV operations resemble what we here have done for years, with the major differences being a real plane on the far end of our screen, (and a PAUSE BUTTON), It will be my aim to eliminate the need for the latter.
To reiterate.... More about my progress later.
