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Sorry Dave, am editing it. Gimme 10 mins

Hello chaps Should anyone be interested I will be running a dogfight mission for a couple of hours and chatting through the setup I have for level bombing in the A20 and He111. The idea is to introduce the practice and go through key mappings and actions that will hopefully allow someone to successfully hit targets from height. We tried this during the Old Gits session run on UK time mornings and had some great fun... The mission will be running on my dogfight server twice, on Monday 30th Nov 2000hrs GMT and Wednesday 2nd December 2000 GMT (my apologies to Clod flyers). You don't need to be at both, one is fine, but hey you might enjoy it and want to do two!! In order to help the sessions it would be good if those joining would do some checks on their game first: 1. Ensure that when joining a mission in flight your aircraft remains flying level without pilot input - the idea is to be able to go through the bombsight whilst the aircraft is flying without having touched throttle or controls. Go into a 'Quick Mission', select the A20 flying at 3000m and start. We tried this in the Old Gits session and it works ok for the purposes of what we want to do. 2. Ensure that you have key mappings for bomb sight, bomb doors and level autopilot - see attached piccies. No other key mappings are needed because the bombardier actions in this position are all mouse-clickable within the bomb sight screen. 3. Download the two attached .docs 'Correction diagram' and 'Bomb correction for wind' as these will be referred to during the session. Pretty much all of the bombardier actions are simple however there could be a need during a mission to enter a gauge value due to wind direction and speed and this requires a bit of thought. For example, a recent campaign mission briefing had wind at ground level at 0m/s but up to 12000ft it varied up to 11m/s. This will affect your aiming point when level bombing. The attached .docs are intended as a guide and will be explained during the sessions. Please note that following some testing during the last 2 missions, should anyone now wish to try level bombing during Tom's 'Lightning Strikes' P38 campaign as a member of the 410th Bomb Group flying out of Eindhoven then Tom has kindly agreed to allow 4 A20 slots for 'breathers' during any one mission. If you want to do this then please let Tom know well beforehand so he can do the necessary admin. To aid in identification it would also be good to download the A20 'Night Intruder' and 'Lead Bombardier' skins from this thread ...and some others if you like them Cheerzen Bomb correction for wind.doc Correction diagram.doc

What are the advantages of dual booting?

410th nicely lined up

I have to tell you this story Delta... On one of the cruises I shared with my late wife Janie we were cruising around the UK....there were 3 thousand US and Canadian passengers and a few hundred UK...not that that mattered. One morning we went for breakfast and, as was the practice, we ended up on a random table seating 8 with 6 Scots. All couples so the conversation was easy. The subject of porridge came up and obviously I got scowled at because I like mine with milk, honey....anything to give it some flavour apart from water and salt. Not to say I haven't tried it with water and salt but I have no need of repentance and don't need to torture myself by eating it as such. When the waitress came and took the breakfast order Janie and I had milk and honey.....and so did one other Scots couple...!! The looks they got from the other 2 couples were memorable...I think they were thrown overboard on the leg between Glasgow and Belfast.....

Now that I understand.....

And I'll bet you have porridge with water and salt.... :)

Wow....

Don't forget, Crash's pooter is future proofed....

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Really, really good fun....!! I wouldn't want to see anything changed but, following feedback from others, will go with what you alter in order to make it more enjoyable for all. So: Keep: Settings as they were Remove: Nothing My comments from last night's 'after battle' chat: 1. Any icon over a tank will destroy any stealth or camouflage and any advantage created by the driver. 2. I think it is difficult to bomb a tank or strafe it and cause sufficient damage to destroy it. Air attacks on tanks last night generally broke tracks which resulted in the driver having to conduct repairs by switching the engine off and waiting a few minutes leaving him vulnerable to tank shots and air attack. I think bigger bombs may give a pilot more chance of damage or destruction of a tank but it is still reliant on hitting a tank or dropping closer. Cheerzen

It was good to have you there Arthur!!

Lake District...one of my favourite places on the planet

Fantastic model FT. Well done

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Nice to see it out again. I hadn't seen the aircrew before

All works. Is it me or does the scenery look better after an update? Flew around Cornwall yesterday for an hour or so taking in the coastline and enjoyed it very much

This morning's Old Gits' session was a good one for a lot of reasons and there were lots of learning points, particularly in tank fighting. We used the map from last night's Dogz session and most of the battle was close to, or within, wooded areas. What we found was that if the opposing tank was in open ground then it's icon was clearly visible provided the other tank had an unobstructed view of it. However, if one or both tanks were in amongst the trees then either tank's icon MAY be visible fully, partially or completely obscured by the trees. Even moving a tank MAY not cause the icon to appear in view again. This meant that close skirmishes happened without icons being seen by one or both of the tanks and a tank commander was reliant on his Mark 1 eyeball in identifying type, position, muzzle flash and fall of shot. This was also the case when skirmishing around buildings. Because of the above I am happy to have icons on but would not have F2 external view on.

A note from the 410th Bomb Group. The mission to bomb ground targets near to Rotterdam using A20s worked and resulted in a number of targets destroyed by Major Sid Viscous. There was only one technical issue and that was that no AI aircraft took off and joined me for the mission. The waypoints to the target from Eindhoven were nicely spaced and allowed for a reasonably steady climb to 14,200ft through the waypoints. Careful monitoring of engine temps was necessary to avoid overheating in the climb but it was perfectly doable as the rendezvous waypoint for the escorting P51s was a long way in to the target and, as hoped, I met them at the rendezvous as scheduled. The last legs were also spaced adequately for a high level bomb run if required however yesterday a low level run was carried out. As with previous low level attacks with P38s by the 402nd and 485th the flak can be just as lethal to an A20 and so in order to maintain airframes it is highly likely that I will be looking to carry out A20 missions from heights above 10,000ft. I picked up a fuel leak over the target but made it back well into Allied territory before having to carry out a successful dead stick belly landing 20km from base due to the fuel running out. Thanks for letting me try it out Tom, your work is always appreciated, and I would be more than happy to fly A20s in the campaign. On that point, I believe that there is the possibility of other flyers joining the 410th and Tom has no problem with me advertising this. If anyone should fancy a dab at high level bombing then you will be welcome in the 410th although as Tom said last night, transfers between units would need to be monitored in order to maintain viable P38 units. Cheerzen

No stress FT.... I did uninstall....before the reinstall. Plodding away getting it back. Can't rush it

Sod it. Reinstalling, haven't got much else on today....

Has anyone found the reason for the game's failure to start? I believe it follows the latest Windows update to 20H2. On clicking the .exe I get the small blue turning circle for maybe 5 seconds and that's it. I have done a lot of searches and found things like, amongst other things, the game services App and the Community folder may be the culprit. However, there doesn't seem to be a fix other than reinstalling or maybe using the microsoft powershell utitity. I have two mods and there are activated via JSGME so it isn't my Community folder. Open to suggestions.

In reality the X52 hotas system works fine with GBS, my setup is entirely Saitek/Logitech hardware with X52Pro, rudder pedals and 3 quadrants with Saitek/generic drivers. No Logitech software.