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I keep wondering what happened to @il2crashesnfails when I come across another one of his old threads. He was everywhere posting prolifically for a few years and then he just dropped off the map at some point in 2020. Everything went dark at roughly the same time too. Hopefully it was just a change in gaming style and not something else that caused him to disappear so suddenly. Wheels

It has been three sessions now and the battle field should become more active now that our two forces have met on the ground. The last ground battle just before the session ended was awesome to watch even strictly as an observer. I didn't think we were ever going to take out @DD_Petrol's tank. I saw several, what I thought were finishing, hits before he was finally immobilized. Is anyone having lag issues with our server? Other than unlocking the weapons loadouts on the tanks are there other requests? Are the missions fun? Wheels

Running il2setup.exe and setting the screen resolution fixed the problem for Kopfdorfer. Wheels

Lol, if you have such mastery with your gunnery skills that you can pick and choose where you are going to hit an enemy vehicle with your bullets and bombs so the pilot does not get killed I salute you again @Squee7e. In my case if I get bullets, bombs, or rockets on target it is practically a miracle so I have to be satisfied that I hit the target and hopefully got out of the engagement area before getting shot down or doing something else boneheaded that gets me killed. 😁 Wheels

This Saturday August 2nd is another Hangar talk and Flying event. The featured aircraft is going to be the OV-10. Events Calendar: https://planesoffame.org/events-calendar This years Central Coast AirFest is just around the corner in October. Website: https://www.centralcoastairfest.com/ Wheels

Probably should have bailed... If you haven't guessed that mushroom cloud is me after trying to force a landing when I should have gone around or even smarter bailed once I got back over land. Congrats to @Squee7e for giving my only death for the session. Wheels

Thank you for responding. I took what I quoted in my prior to mean that v5.0 had been in your private group vault at one time but it is totally understandable after all this time for it to have gone AWOL. No one seems to have v5.0 or v4.0 in their files these days so not finding it here either is not all that surprising. Wheels

After the full 352n VFG group session Friday, April 04, 2025, Bender, Mars, Sighter, & myself moved over to Benders dogfight server and flew a few races. In the last race of the evening for the four of us Sighter had an epic crash right in front of me that I was able to capture in almost all of its glory. I uploaded a full speed version with sound and a second one in Slo-Mo, quarter speed, with the sound muted. (Gaming) Sighter's Crash (Gaming) Sighter's Crash https://youtu.be/HdUiWcjnojc (Gaming) Sighter's Crash (Slo-Mo) (Gaming) Sighter's Crash (Slo-Mo) https://youtu.be/Dqogju4O4is Wheels

Doing some racing on the 352ndVfG Great Battles server last night, March 28, 2025. Wheels

Since this was so long ago here are some insights for you from the other side of the battlefield. The 352nd was Single crew in every ground vehicle. I do not think we ever knew that you were multi-crewing the tanks. I know I did not know until I read this thread. Makes total sense now why some of you were able to engage us so quickly when we spotted one another. By Single crewing the tanks we were able to cover more ground more quickly but left us vulnerable to your multi-crewed tanks. We normally had about 4 max in the air and the rest of us were on the ground. Since the battle was for taking ground we almost fully conceded the air war. I will guarantee it was just as chaotic on our side of the battlefield. Duckman was your main nemesis in those situations. He is deadly accurate with the Sherman and any of the German tank guns. I will guarantee you that Deacon was shocked that he took out so many so quickly. Normally his gunnery was and still is pretty suspect. Lol, I wish our tactics had been that well thought out !! I can not speak for the rest of the group but I did not know that external view had been enabled during any of our sessions. Wheels

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We have the HSFX History Mod Version 5.0 Hotfix 1 patch at Mission4Today in the HSFX: !nstallation Packages section but I have not been able to find a working link for the original v5.0 anywhere? Makes sense that the links are dead since the mod is so old but I would like to have all the files necessary for the mod packs so there will be a complete set at Mission4Today. Any chance that HSFX v5.0 is still in the vault or the long forgotten files of someone since I am not finding it in the publicly viewable downloads area. Wheels

I know this thread is older than dirt and the joint-ops site has been offline for close to a decade but did anyone save the training syllabus? Training Menu Basic Flight School Pilot Ground School Intermediate Pilot School Advanced Pilot School Fighter School Bomber School Joint-ops @ Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20141009113721/http://www.joint-ops.com/php2/index.php Wheels

Since we had to deactivate the Links module at Mission4Today (M4T) because it kept crashing the site here are some Useful Links that I think are still relevant. 7zip: https://www.7-zip.org/ Archive.org: Old Time Radio: https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio Gimp: https://www.gimp.org/ Irfanview: https://www.irfanview.com/ Old Radio World: https://www.oldradioworld.com/ Shorpy Historical Photo Archive: https://www.shorpy.com/Large_Format_Kodachromes There are some others but I think this is enough for one post. Wheels

This Full Mission Builder (FMB) problem has me stumped. It is happening for this individual in versions 4.12.2m and 4.13.4m. No mods installed in either version Test Runways not Appearing in FMB ??? Did anyone else ever have the same problem and how did you resolve it if you did? Wheels