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  1. So One Of The Dogz Went For A Flight..........

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    Evening Chaps

     

    Thought you might like to see this,  despite my long absence from the virtual skies.

     

    It's me, wearing my Dogz T-Shirt in the back of Spitfire MJ-627 (T9)  at Duxford  prior to a 20 minute flight during which I actually got to take the controls   :icon_razz: )  )

     

    Many thanks to my dad for the best birthday present ever !

     

    Cheers

     

    Dave

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  3. Flying Legends 2013

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    ~S~ Chaps

     

    Not been round the pound much this year, indeed I've not even played IL2 since I moved house last May (2012) !!!

     

    Anyhows just to say that I'm going to be at RAF Hendon on the Friday and at Duxford on the Saturday (missed last years).  I'll keep an eye out and hope to spot some of you there.

     

    Cheers

     

    Dave

  5. Duxford 2011 Accident Report

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    Hi guys

    Not been round much recently ;- moving house, jobs & country (well, England to Wales) since start of the year. Currently living out of a suitcase in South Wales while the rest of the family still in the North of England. Bah.

    Anyway I came across this earlier and haven't seen it previously ;- it's the AAIB report on the collision that happened at the end of Sunday's show between the Skyraider & Mustang.

    http://www.aaib.gov....-AZDP 02-12.pdf

    Hope you find it interesting.

    Cheers

    Dave

  6. Airsoft

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    I had the Tokyo Maryu AK-47 AEG (Automatic Electric Gun) and was very happy with it. Chrono's @ 290fps out of the box. Stick a 600 round hi-cap in and you're good to go. If you feel the need a simple spring upgrade will take you to 350fps which woudl be illegal in the UK at least.

    Otherwise a lot of people played with the TM M4A1 which has lots of upgrade options and the MP5A4 was also popular (Large stock means you can get a large battery in).

    I had a load of fun playing but unfortunately trouble with my knees stopped me :-(

    Sure your lad will love it :- it's so much better (IMHO) than paintball !

    Cheers

    Dave

  7. Project Ficon Pictures

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    <SNIP>

    My last Maths teacher (1978) was an ex-RAF V-bomber navigator. After they'd delivered "Blue Danube" they knew they didn't have enough juice to get back to the UK. He'd calculated they would have to bail over western Ukraine. Remember, if it all went to plan they would have just nuked Moscow so their reception from the locals might have been a er, warm one! To this end they really were equiped with a combined Bible and Russian phrase book and a few gold sovereigns in their survival kit. They were'nt issued with firearms though. Oh yeah, he was a shit maths teacher too. :icon_cry:

    I recall a documentary a few years ago where the pilots admitted that if they had to drop the bomb they knew full well that there would be nothing for them to come back to in the UK, so the plan was to push on to Siberia :-(

    He also said that thye were trained to fly with an eyepatch on one of their eyes so that if a nuclear flash went off and blinded them they could move the patch and fly using the other eye ! With a co-pilot as well they should have 4 chances to get to the target !

    Dave

  8. Gentlemen, Our Beloved Patriarch Has Passed On....

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    RIP Jim

    I know not what to say so I'll take some words of somebody else:

    "Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep

    He hath awakened from the dream of life

    'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep

    With phantoms an unprofitable strife,

    And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife

    Invulnerable nothings. — We decay

    Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief

    Convulse us and consume us day by day,

    And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

    The One remains, the many change and pass;

    Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;

    Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,

    Stains the white radiance of Eternity,

    Until Death tramples it to fragments. — Die,

    If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek!

    Follow where all is fled! — Rome's azure sky,

    Flowers, ruins, statues, music, words, are weak

    The glory they transfuse with fitting truth to speak."

    (Excerpt from Shelley's Adonais)

    ~S~

    Dave

  9. Salute To Bg

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    ~S~ Jim

    Can't add much more than that that's above, except to say that the Dogz are a credit to you and that I have always been delighted to see the warmth you have extended, equally, to everybody, whether on their first night online, a frequent flyer or when returning after a long layoff. I'm sure that this is what has done so much to build the atmosphere that the Dogz work within.

    It was a delight last year to meet you, Helen, and all the other Dogz last year at Duxford and I'm sure that that trip will be carrying on for many years to come,.

    Cheers mate.

    Dave

  12. Crash @ Flying Legends. :-(

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    <snip>

    , and one where he started his landing approach while two spits were on the field, having just landed. The SP had to go FT and pull up sharply to avoid crashing into 'm.

    Repeat: category "hearsay:"

    <snip>

    As I understand it the Sky raider was displaying and during a pass across the airfield failed to notice until the last minute that there were two Spitfires landing. He was obliged to pull up sharply at full throttle and subsequently took no further part in that display ;- presumably due to shock.

    Again, I was not there but it seems to be a common story from a number of witnesses.

    Cheers

    Dave

  15. Crash @ Flying Legends. :-(

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    Just read onthe UK Airshow review about a crash @ Duxford this afternoon:

    "Hate mentioning this but P-51 Mustang "Big Beautiful Doll" has crashed at Legends, after a mid-air collision with the French Skyraider. The pilot was seen parachuting out and is ok - this has been announced over the airfield. The Skyraider, missing a large chunk of it's right wing, was able to make a safe landing at Duxford. It happened after the break away at the end of the Balbo. "

    http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=35085#p352022

    :-(

    Dave

  16. Up 3.0 Problems?

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    bump

    the reticle in spit IXs is very small - is this a bug or a feature - I tried using it like a predictor sight but it didnt increase in size

    any ideas guys - this is really annoying

    Hi

    I was lookingthrough the bugs & soloutions thread and this is listed as a bug:

    Bug #16

    Very small reticle in Spitfire IXe's and MK IXc 25lbs (major)

    Cheers

    Dave

  17. Facetracknoir

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    Hi Gec

    Thanks for the heads up. I downloaded this as well as the 1.4 update and with the following settings it seems quite good (for a feebie!).

    Cheers

    Dave

    [Tracking]

    Smooth=5

    NeutralZone=10

    sensYaw=378

    sensPitch=429

    sensRoll=184

    sensX=50

    sensY=50

    sensZ=20

    invertYaw=false

    invertPitch=true

    invertRoll=true

    invertX=false

    invertY=false

    invertZ=false

    useEWMA=true

    redYaw=10

    redPitch=10

    redRoll=40

    redX=10

    redY=10

    redZ=10

    [GameProtocol]

    Selection=4

  19. Il2Fb.exe - Malaware

    in IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946

    Posted

    Not sure this is a problem with il2 largie. Do you have any problems running any other .exe files? Or is it just il2?

    In my experience avg is notorious for this sort of thing. Failing that, run the updater to check your game files are good

    Hi Jabo

    I let AVG remove what it considered the infected files and restored recent backup copies and it's all working perfectly now. JSGME is switching between 4.09, UP2.1 and 4.10 and each version is running fine.

    I've not had anything else be reported as a problem so I'm tending towareds thinking it's a genuine warning.

    Cheers

    Dave

  20. Il2Fb.exe - Malaware

    in IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946

    Posted

    HI guys

    Quick heads up. I only managed to fly 1 mission last night on the ubizoo co-op due to some unusal PC shennanigans.

    Today I launched 4.10, exited it. Used JSGME to disable 4.10 to go back to UP2.01 and subsequently I could not launch the game executable ( IL2fb.exe) as my anti virus (Grisoft AVG) deemed it to be malaware. Subsequently it also stopped me running JSGME with the same error message.

    I have now run a full scan of my machine which has found no further errors but I thought I would post this in case anybody wanted to chedk their machines as it seemed quite a co-incidence.

    Cheers

    Dave

  25. One Hell Of A Week For Me.

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    More bad news I am afraid. The cancer has now spread to the liver. I had a CAT scan at the end of August and the liver was clear. They did another CAT scan last week and I have two small tumours on the liver. I am off the study drug and will start chemo shortly.

    Good luck with the chemo JIm ;- it *does* work ;- We were delighted to get news just over two weeks ago that my aunt had been given the all clear following the treatment :-)

    Fingers crossed for you :-)

    Dave

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