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I know another person who bought the F-16 after he had enough of getting shot down in the sluggish Su 25T when doing SEAD missions over and over again 😉 I've heard he will join you once he finds time to fly again and has prepared the basic controls

Last time I checked you still were 😁 Nice clip there of the two Vulcans 👍 I didn't even know there were two variants. Were both of them in service or just the Mk2?

Best watched with headphones on or good speakers

Definitely useful for the upcoming cold war campaign that's in the works right now 👍

Here are some Screenshots I made of Chris and Tom flying in formation. Sadly I didn't know the hotkeys and i had to use the windows Screenshot tool so the quality is a bit lackluster

Since you requested for us to make a comment here: I'm in but won't drive tanks. Another suggestion to the scenario: If we don't get enough people for tanking, we could make it so that a flag can also be captured by paratroopers. For balancing reasons i suggest that the C-47 would need to drop 3 times while the Ju 52 would need to drop 2 times (since it is way slower than the 47) But this really depends on how many people are willing to drive tanks

I think it would make sense to limit the loadouts of the fighters to encourage playing bombers. It would be nice if only bombers had bombs and the fighters are purely air to air. I haven't looked at it but if the 51Ds have 150 octane it also would be more fair to remove it as well because the G-14 is not on par otherwise Just my two cents here

That would be really fun! I prefer the era of primitive heat seeker and semi active radar guided missiles. A mission with less long range SAM sites and more close range AAA would be very cool where the targets are moving convoys and tank columns

Thanks for keeping those that couldn't participate up to date. Looking forward to our Monday session 🫡

@delta7 I can totally understand your frustration with the matter. Flight sim game devs seem to have forgotten how to write proper code without breaking the game. I am still completely convinced that this bug that's causing the crashes has something to do with one of the previous patches. I'm sure they introduced a bug into one of the events that mission makers can use to trigger an action. The combat box admins also couldn't get their generated missions fixed despite rolling back to a version that was completely stable last year. Unless the devs pull their 💩 together and investigate their code base with the whole team I don't see how IL-2 can survive long term. But maybe it's a devilish plan to ruin the old game so everyone has to buy their new games (Korea and somewhere in the future Pacific). Just kidding, I fear it's sheer incompetence on their end... Once Combat Pilot runs stable and hopefully steadily receives updates, I'm the first to abandon ship and switch over. The current situation is a slap in the face of every WW2 aviation enthusiast to be honest. War Thunder clearly shows that there's interest in WW2 aviation games, but people expect a bit of stability and quality of life features in their games, combined with affordable pricing (looking at you too, DCS). So everyone and their friends stick with that one 🥲 Sorry for the venting. Apparently I'm a bit too frustrated about the current situation, that we have to endure right now, which truly is the dark age of flight sims..

Appreciate the recommendation 👍

As a computer scientist this is very interesting topic - thanks for the link 🫡

I was sitting on the veranda and suddenly heard something approaching the village. I could get only one shot with my phone camera but I wanted to share it nonetheless. I had never seen one before in real life.

The server seems to be quite popular - good advertisement for the squadron 😁

As a German this is a must pick 😁 I will buy it during the summer sale probably

I also had some stuttering but I guess it's simply time to upgrade when the current generation of AMD CPUs gets cheaper. @wingflyr thanks for guiding us through the mission. It went from being a bit frustrating at first to being absolutely awesome once we figured out who should perform which task but that's how it should be in coop scenarios 😁

Well that makes sense then. Thanks for the reply o7

@delta7 i have a suggestion for the next mission: in the last mission we had this giant furball situation in the beginning of the mission but after that it was very calm If you think it would fit the mission setting could we please have a couple of enemy sorties fly around behind their lines to spice things up a bit? Doesn't have to be a lot. Just small sorties that try to defend rear objectives after they lost air superiority in the initial battle. This would keep everyone on their toes and emphasize sticking together more. I really liked when we attacked the bunkers together and watched each other's six during the attack runs but it wasn't really necessary since there were no enemy fighters left.

Should i prepare a plane for that mission you selected? I feel like from what Fenrir said that the F-5 experience might be a bit underwhelming if the mission is tailored towards 4th gen fighters but i couldn't get much information about the mission details from the link you provided in the DCS server topic. It only says which features are supported by the scripts but nothing about the timeframe. I could prepare the F-15 or Su-27 from Flaming Cliffs

Sorry for double posting but this is a bit of a different approach so i want to keep it separately from the previous message. You guys may or may not know that the IL-2 group is flying on wing walkers coop server regularly and there the admin and mission creator provides the community with a broad selection of scenario missions that are intended to be completed within 2-3 hours. Maybe we could all create a few missions like that and play them on Mondays. That would result in a bit more variety for us. There are of course limitations to what can be achieved with the different interests in plane / eras. Since i already started such a mission i'd like to beta test it next Monday if that's okay for everyone. I still need to know how many tasks are required so that we are able to actually 'win' a scenario in a certain time. I will aim for the 2-3 hour mark and if we finish early I'll add new stuff to do for the next time until we are 'saturated' with enough tasks for a single session. What do you think?

For me personally it is playing the same two training missions over and over again with everyone doing their own thing. Don't get me wrong. These missions offer a variety of targets and they are really good for trying out new weapons or airframes but I'd rather see us trying something together. Maybe we could even join a multiplayer server and hone our dogfighting skills. The only issue i see is that i only have a small selection of airframes at hand so we'd need to discuss whether or not we find a timeframe in which we all can fly together. @Friar if it's only the two of us (or anyone who's interested) we could have a 'pair programming'-style mission making session where we test and modify what we've got so far like we did with your helicopter scenario set in Afghanistan.

You could create a fictional Russo-Georgian war set in late 1992 where a coalition of European countries intervenes and tries to protect the sovereignty of Georgia. The Russians try to secure the former soviet weapon stockpile and easy land access in order to prepare an invasion into the western oriented Azerbaijan and help out their Armenian ally that is suffering from the border clashes with Azerbaijany forces. The situation for the Georgian forces is critical and time is of the essence. The European task force was able to land a small number of forces near Batumi and establish the required airfield facilities to maintain a small air presence but available airframes are limited. Together with the remaining Georgian airforce assets, that have been carefully preserved during the initial air attacks from the Russians, the coalition needs to strike advancing Russian troops and force them into tactical withdrawal. This will allow coalition forces to deploy further airframes at the much bigger Senaki-Kolkhi airbase further north. If the coalition is successful in securing the Georgian lowlands the US is willing to send one of their aircraft carriers into the black sea. Until air superiority in the south is not secured this move is deemed to risky though. The success of the whole operation depends on these early days. God knows what the Russians will attempt next so act quick and decisively to establish the beachhead as planned. Maybe sth like this. Russians will use mainly MiG 23, MiG 29, very small numbers of elite Su 27 and lots of Su 25 for air attacks. Their helicopter forces also need to be deployed in big numbers. A lot of Mi 24 and a few Ka 50/Mi 28 as support for the Mi 24s

@Friar i think after all the effort that went into it, this campaign deserves to be finished. For me it became a superb experience once i found my place and knew where i could help to achieve our goals. Since you want to modify it anyways would you mind setting it up in a way that roughly resembles the state in which we last left it? It would be nice if Aleppo AB is free for the taking, Harim and.. 'the other town' under control and our forward auxiliary airfield in Hatay maybe fully stocked with weapons (unlimited) and a limited amount of various airframes available (so we still have to be careful but don't need to start the next session with ferrying all the planes over again). I think by that it wouldn't really feel like a restart and we could more our less simply continue our campaign. I have no idea how much work that would be for you though. This is a hobby after all so please don't feel obligated to invest too much time and burning yourself out 🙏 Also is it possible to make the A10A available? That would be great since i only have a limited set of airframes at hand and that would give me a proper platform for using mavericks + a bit of diversity. But please only bother with it if it's just a small change and can be done in mere minutes. I can totally live with only having the F-5 and AJS 37 available.

@Friar are there any news about the campaign? Could you make it work again? If not, please let me know if i can help in some way.

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