Jump to content
NEW DISCORD SERVER DETAILS - SIGN UP NOW - Dogz Members Only Private Thread ×

Sid

1. DDz Quorum
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    3,541

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    139

  • Country

    United Kingdom

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Sid

    PWCG P-38 Lightning Strikes Co-op Campaign

    in IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles Series

    Posted

    It will be a shame to see Crash out of the A20 but it is something we have talked about at length.

    Last night's mission for the 410th was costly and a bit frustrating. There were a couple of game issues that are no fault of anyone's...we encountered a time of stuttering, rubber banding and lag that lasted a good 5 mins whilst lining up for the bomb run that prevented a good line up as we were constantly adjusting to compensate. This added to our main level bombing problem which was that no rail target icons were visible until too late - we were bombing from 9000ft so not usually a problem. After overflying the railway station vehicle targets then came into view off the bomb run so the decision was made to attack these from a lower height. Unfortunately, having turned and dropped down the rapid fire flak opened up on us and proceeded to cause a lot of damage. We were both severely damaged and were unable to make it back, Crash was killed whilst looking for a landing spot and I crash landed in enemy territory.

    Probably a time to rethink A20 ops as no low level mission would be successful with so few aircraft, one individual one flying on it's own ie. mine, would be too vulnerable. I would have to be medium level unless accompanied by flak distractors in order to go low, something that the mission planner can't allocate I believe.

    • Confused 1
    • Sad 2

    Flying Legends 2021

    in Flying Legends 2021

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Painless said:

    Even a compromise would be better than nothing,  for instance cancelling the Friday night room, driving up Saturday morning, spending the afternoon and evening socialising with a few beers, staying in the room Saturday night then driving home Sunday morning ?

    Good idea, I'm up for that!

    • Like 1

    Fresh meat?

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    Welcome Seagoon, hope you are able to join us for madness and mayhem Dogz style..

    As an aside, your post title made me laugh as I had a friend whose gaming tag was meant to be Fresh Meat but because he had sausage fingers, Cumberlands I believe, he mistyped and was forever known as Fresh Mest....

    Cheerzen

    • Haha 1

    Our Clod Server: Changes To The Currently Running Mission

    in IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz and Desert Wings: Tobruk

    Posted

    Given that most of the mods I run are to do with displaying hakenkreuz properly on aircraft I would not be averse to running the public server 'mods off'. In fact the most useful mods that I use the 'mods on' option for are displaying the pilot's notes and tank/aircraft icons. If the icons can be done server side then that's one less and the pilot's notes I have in a folder so are easily get atable - fly an aircraft enough and the settings become familiar anyway. 

    'Mods off' on our Public server would help to attract people I think.

    • Thanks 1

    Some advice sought - RAM Upgrade.

    in Hardware Hell

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Jabo said:

    One thing you could check is whether or not XMP is enabled in the BIOS (hint - it should be enabled). 

    With you there Jabo, enabling it a couple of years ago has allowed my 5 year old Asus X99A USB3.1 motherboard to set my RAM at it's native 3000MHz and into XMP mode.

    My motherboard also has a TPU mode that allows a standard cpu overclock from 3.2GHz to 4.2GHz. I have also been running with that set for a couple of years.

    However, I found that in order to get the XMP and TPU BIOS settings to 'take' and work I first had to enable 2 switches on the motherboard....if I didn't then I would have startup issues. Worth having a look in the motherboard manual to see if you have these switches.

    ez xmp.jpg

    X99 TPU.jpg

    Background on the TBM Avenger that crashed in Florida a week or so ago

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    In my view it doesn't matter BB. The vast majority of pilots aren't idiots but the vast majority of pilots don't have Hanna's experience or fly the aircraft he did. He was an exceptional pilot but it doesn't stop incidents happening. You can put many safeguards in place and bring in regulations following incidents but when you are creating a situation like Hanna's take off and many other similar episodes you are still putting lives and aircraft at risk. When in situations that are planned to be close to disaster, and they are close to disaster because of many reasons, but nothing untoward happens then you are lucky it went ok. It looks and sounds good but it is inherently extremely dangerous. It may not have been Hanna that caused any incident but there are those in similar situations that have. Are pilots allowed to do it now? How many compilations of videos on the net are there that showcase death and disaster due to pilot error or failures....loads, I'm sure.

    I'm not a risk averse person - I love real flying and riding a motorcycle, I've parachuted and abseiled. My mind set is formed from being in many disastrous, near disaster and life threatening situations, some personal and some observed, including clearing the aftermath of fatal high speed low level AV8B Harrier II crashes and road crashes involving famous motorcycle racers. I have cleared up enough death and destruction caused by qualified/unqualified/downright idiotic people whether it was down to their decision, someone else's or a failure of equipment and it has left it's mark. 

    Just not impressed. 

    • Thanks 1

    Background on the TBM Avenger that crashed in Florida a week or so ago

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    So no lessons learnt from numerous warbird crashes. Lack of correct procedures and totally irresponsible pilots put people in danger again. Shades of Reno again.

    Some of you will disagree for whatever reasons you have but even idiots like the pilot of the Spitfire who flew low over the journalist/cameraman for nothing but effect....irresponsible people like that get shows and aircraft banned. I love seeing the old aircraft fly but I won't idolise risk taking dickheads. Rant over.

    PWCG P-38 Lightning Strikes Co-op Campaign

    in IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles Series

    Posted

    410th BG debrief

    The three A20 pilots have a good routine...starting, taxi, take off, rendezvous with fighter escort, plan attack depending on cloud height and target type....

    On this occasion Crash, Delta and Sid set out to bomb the rail facilities at Monchen Gladbach. We climbed out and up to the P38 rendezvous at Angels 12, picked up the escort and set off on the waypoints. Looking at the target we agreed that the best approach would be from the south as it meant we could have a good run in along the railway line with ample time for sight adjustments. The decision was made to level bomb from 9000ft. Our ingress to the target was uneventful apart from the fact our P38 escort went hunting sighted contacts and left us unescorted, thankfully this didn't affect us. 410th went south to Julich and then headed north to target.

    We had a 20 degree starboard tailwind at 8 m/s on the run in so the drop was a bit choppy. Nevertheless the engine sheds and surrounding area got a good plastering with drops directly on, short and slightly left of the target. Good job 410th.

    Got a low level, medium level or high level bombing job...? Give us a call...... 

    • Like 4
    • Haha 1

    Bug With Viewing Tank Numbers?

    in Tank Crew

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Painless said:

    I could see all other tank numbers through the gunsight or on externals as gunner.

    I could not see the numbers on the side of our tank on externals when I was gunner until we finished mission and an external view automatically appears, then the number was visible.
    Parts was the same as well.

    Same here

×
×
  • Create New...