Yep him and I met years ago, flying for TUSA in those world team competitions.
A guy named GOZR had the idea, I helped set it up, and then pulled back when asked to lead TUSA and let it build into something with Pepper in charge of the team, it was great fun, but too little too late in the life of IL2 original.
They had just discovered the cheat, of seeing your position on the map, if your players moved around in the cockpits of multi-seat aircraft.
Once it was discovered that the Russians were looking at the log file on the fly.
We hosed them and purposely put aircraft out in the boonies to be fodder, and sure enough they'd show up, while our min flight moved in and destroyed the target.
It's not a flight that I did anything my PC choke that day. And for some reason this os the only link to any of it I can find atm.
https://forums.ubisoft.com/showthread.php/487900-Congrads-to-Team-USA!?highlight=tusa
After that and the proof, they quit playing, and the other teams found out about the cheat, and it just sorted of faded into obscurity.
I wish we'd of put it together a few years earlier, but the Net code and ISP were not quite ready for it at the time.
We help one of our mates make a movie that he had envisioned. I see its been uploaded in one piece, but the two originals give the credits.
There are two pilots lost to us since then. Monguse, and Gypsy. I was hoping Gypsy had a speaking part, but I can't hear him and he's not listed as a voice actor.
I only spoke once that I can recall, it's ironic because my voice is Allied, but I was flying all the Black nose scenes, and when you hear me I'm calling out the black nose for taking off. lol