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'Cruise' is something of a misnomer here - and not Siddly's fault either I should add. The fact is it is better to generally interpret WW2 engines to have these discrete power bands: War Emergency Power - Max everything! Generally a very tight limit of time use. In the P-38J this is 3,000 RPM and 60" with a 5 minute limit Combat - a sustained high power output that even in best circumstances generates more heat than the cooling system will be able to dissipate but has been calculated to provide sufficient for typical time periods of combat. In the P-38J this is 3,000 RPM and 54" with a 15 minute limit Max Continuous - the maximal power that you can run the engines at for indefinitely - or as long as you have fuel. In the P-38J this is 2,700 RPM and 46" with no time limit Cruise - a power setting reduced from the above that combines the best compromise between fuel consumption and airspeed. In the P-38J this is around 2,200-2,400 RPM and 35" with no time limit Economy Cruise - a power setting much reduced that priorities fuel economy above all other considerations. In the P-38J this is around 1,800-2,000 RPM and 30" with no time limit The setting Sid quotes of 2,600 @ 44" is more a maximum continuous setting (As an aside you will find you can actually run the P-38 at 2,700 and 46" and not break into combat power, hence the figures I give you above). Now, as single players (non-fomating) that's fine you can cruise at that setting as long as you like. No one to follow, no-one following you. Easy! However, as a flight lead or formation pilot, if you stayed at that no bugger could catch you unless they went to Combat Power. And then, when you eventually did find some trouble, all your wingmen would be buggering off with damaged engines because those time limits are hard in GBS. What this means is, if you use your engine in Combat mode for 14 minutes catching up to your leader, even if you throttle back, you do not get any recovery on that engine. You will therefore have only 1 whole minute using it in actual combat before you suffer some engine damage and are forced to withdraw. Leaders, when cruising to or from target in flight you MUST avoid going to full cruise mode - you NEED to give your wingmen some RPM and Throttle "headroom" to make adjustments without having to resort to combat power. Wingmen, avoid going into Combat Power to catch your leaders at all costs. Use Max Continuous (2,700RPM @46") at the most.

Indeed good show over all. Our coms do need attention, setup the use of whispers... Have created to sub channels on our TS server for this Campaign: 402nd and 485th. (Would still need to set up individual whispers, and not to a channel me thinks? Hm, should be able to assign a channel-leader? Oh well, let's keep it simple) And a bit radio discipline: For this campaign, once you're out of the cockpit, one should not talk on radio, as one is not close enough to it (Not too sure whether it did occur this session, but it's an immersion killer for me to hear a dead/crashed/landed pilot on the radio, using external views to tell another pilot 'he's on your six' .... ) It is a good idea to do this as a regular on a Sunday, was funny to see everybody dragged into the Red channel Well, except for Artie who left TS. Still, I'm always gonna be a bit concerned we are leaving people out, who then have to fly a coop on their own... Now should we make this a regular or semi regular event, do we need to set a start time to go for? Not sure if that is possible, but would be good.

Engine management in GBS has been a learning process since it came out and I think we are now getting the hang of it. What has been happening for some months now is that when asked for engine settings the reply has been to use the 'Cruise' figures quoted in the Pilot's Notes found here. The figures contained in the Notes have been replicated on the crib sheet mod found in the cockpit (the one that replaces the tottie picture). An example of this would be 2,600 RPM and 44 inches on the Manifold pressure dial on the P38, these dials being found on the right of the instrument panel at the top on this aircraft. Whilst on some aircraft this may work out as what we knew as '80 - 80' in the '46 days unfortunately this no longer applies for optimum performance at cruise settings. I know these RPM and Manifold pressure figures as the 'Standard' settings. The majority of German aircraft have only the 'ata' pressure gauge that needs to be monitored...this is usually running at 1.15 for cruise but does differ. What has been happening recently is that, as the P38 is being used more intimately, these standard cruise settings aren't always used. I have noticed that when climbing out and awaiting the formation to assemble over the airfield these settings are reduced to 2,300 RPM and 30 inches to allow for a gentle steady climb and to give pilots towards the rear the opportunity to use the standard settings, or a little bit more in accordance with the crib sheet, to catch up. Fen and Painless are used to these settings and call them out when making changes so in conjunction with Fen's method of cutting the corner he mentioned above hopefully we can all pick up on this and adjust our settings for catching up. With the P38, for optimal setting, mixture can be set at 70% when on the ground and generally left there. Hope that helps.

Words, schmurds....

Thanks but never mind, I already fixed it.

Yes, that's the cause. Edit the registry: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{66F649A9-0FA2-487E-BC0D-894BD7E89D5E}_is1] "InstallLocation"="D:\\BoS\\" Where you edit that InstallLocation value to the one you've got it at now... mind them double backslashes. (Why did I not put that in the error message? Oh, yeah, too much work! :))

Hey Crasheroni.....I fixed my Realteus problem and it is working again !!! At some point I ran over the usb cable with my chair wheel and unbeknown to me I had severed all of the little eight cables inside the sheathing. I found this after I was inspecting it and it felt a little odd.... Opened up the cable and soldered them together again. All works....chuffed because they are colour coded and I got them right

Especially for JP and his German invasion colleague !!

....and what a “view” that was 😳🤣

How strange Sid... will check out the settings my end, but can't think of anything that would or even could cause this...

Well it is a campaign so yes

lovely ☺️

As a rule I orbit the field at much reduced power settings - 2700 RPM, 35-40" Manifold Pressure - in a VERY gentle left hand turn to assist with forming up; this does however rely on those joining to cut the corner properly to rejoin - and I mean properly! You chaps joining up need to put your leader at your 2 to half-past 2 o'clock, not stick your gun-sight on him and try and overhaul him! Otherwise all that happens is you end up with an extended conga line merry-go rounding home base for 20 minutes! Done effectively and with people getting off the ground in good order this can be done in a maximum of two orbits. This should allow everyone to get into a reasonable group before setting off to mission. I agree with Sid on the Whispers. Have the Squadron Leaders certainly but perhaps have the Flight Commanders too for redundancy in case the CO's buy the farm! If they both go down then the individual squadron members just have to do the best they can and/or scoot home.

Thanks all who joined in the stress test last night. Both a success and... not so much! For reasons as yet unclear none of the events last night logged - so whilst I was able to generate the next day's mission, no kills or deaths actually were recorded. I have a feeling I know what caused this but need to run another test. Noted issues 1. Need to increase the idle kick timeout - well done to all for managing to dodge this issue without ground collisions last night! 2. Radio saturation - probably best to segregate the squadrons to separate channels 3.Skins - 402nd squadron: http://www.mediafire.com/file/n8pc4a0ggyon99g/P38J25_402nd_Gen.zip/file http://www.mediafire.com/file/z15z4hnirnp7wrf/P38J25_402nd_E6_T.zip/file 485th squadron: http://www.mediafire.com/file/2am3npm7ftbszm5/P38J25_MY_LITTLE_PIG_V2.dds/file and the official skins: "Les Vin, Les Femmes, et Les Chansons" "San Dot" With a lot more coming soon: https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/56052-370th-p-38-skins/ 4. Icon mods for those who asked: http://dangerdogz.com/forums/topic/13451-gbs-icon-mod/ http://dangerdogz.com/forums/topic/13517-mod-that-removes-all-aircraft-on-maps-except-own/

Flashing a bios is not that scary any more. My Asus board can do it for me from within the Bios itself... just a few clicks, like tell it to go check the internets for it, and it tells you there is an update, or there is not. If there is, ok, go for it. For sure, you may need to re-apply your tunings to the bios, as it will probably was back to factory defaults... in the end, no sweat at all. Smooth!

Cool, but I bet Siobhan's 'chuffed'.