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Salute, I thought that some of you may want to download the two dog fight maps I have produced in case you either wanted to play with them on your own, or host them on your own server. Features Summer Version 1. Town Skirmish: There are 3 towns on the map, each with a red and blue start at either end of the town with a flag located roughly in the middle to act as an area of interest to focus the action, if you wish. AI Status: NO AI 2. Battlefield: Start on open ground and head towards the enemy spawn point. Once you have spawned in you will have 8 enemy tanks set off to face you. AI Status: AI Tanks Included 3. Target Range: Spawn in (no sides you can pick any tank from both sides) and blast away at targets arranged at 500m, 1000m, 1500m, 2000m, 2500m and 3000m. It is also set to unlimited ammo. AI Status: No AI 4. Tiger Hunt: Spawn in at the Allied Town Skirmish point at Prokhorovka. You will notice a German truck near by. If you choose to damage it, that will be the trigger for up to 3 Tiger Tanks to be spawned in around the town. Each of the 3 tanks has a 60% chance of being spawned so you may get 1,2 or 3 targets. You will receive a notification on the screen as each is spawned in. The notifications will appear on the top, middle and bottom of the screen. So you may get a notification at the top and middle, top and bottom or just middle etc. depending on how many thanks get spawned in. Once you have killed them they do not re-spawn. To re-set you will have to re-start the server. I am working on adding random positions but for now if you work out where the tanks are hiding (they do not move) I will edit the map and release a new version. Winter Version 1. Town Skirmish: As the summer map but in snow and fog AI Status: No AI How to Use the Maps on your own Machine. Save the files down into your game folder for example C:\Program Files (x86)\1C Game Studios\IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles\data\Multiplayer\Dogfight The attached zip file has the files in another folder. You be best to extract the files to a downloads folder and then copy them to the above location. Start up you game, go to Multiplayer Select Dogfight Select Create Server Scroll down the screen to the "Mission Rotation" list. You should now see the two maps "DangerDogz Tank Crew Dogfight Summer" and "DangerDogz Tank Crew Dogfight Winter". Click on the the map you want and select "Add to Rotation" You should now see it appear in the box on the right. Click "Continue" at the bottom of the screen. Your server should now start up. Have fun. Any problems or questions please let me know. Regards Friar TankCrew DogFight Maps.zip

I misclicked while choosing my skin and took one with M, then realized it stood for Mick as a subconscious tribute to our missing flight leader. I then proceeded to make a fool of myself while taxiing, trying to not lose Friar and landing. It's a good thing it wasn't my usual plane, nobody has to know! Edit: and screwed up engine start too, luckily they restarted. The inexcusable part is that I was completely sober. On a more serious note, I think I understand why people couldn't restart engines after a botched startup. When you press the engine start key after a failed start, it initiates a shutdown procedure, the little HUD messages tell you which switches your pilot is flipping and he's basically doing the startup in reverse order, turning magnetos, and pumps and whatnot off. I think this shutdown procedure needs to be left alone until it's completed, before the engine is started up again. I suspect people pressed the engine start key before the shutdown procedure was completed and thus the engine on procedure started before the engine off procedure finished, confusing the game and screwing up the order in which the systems are turned on. Not sure if this was already known, but just something I noticed yesterday. If your engine doesn't start, wait until you get no more messages, press the engine start key once, and wait for everything to be turned off. Then adjust the mixture or what ever you screwed up the first time, press engine on again, and it should work. Don't forget to select the engine that's the problem, as in my case the right engine was running well as I adjusted the mixture before it spooled up. I think if you have one engine running and the other off, pressing the start engine key would turn off the good one and start the one that's off (haven't tested this, maybe I will today just to be sure).

Cold started an A-10C took off, flew about a bit and went BRRRRRRRT

Thanks Chris, same problem as last time it appears but without an update to blame for the issue. Ahhhhhhhh !!! 😤