Waldo.Pepper

They are planning 3 pay addons "P2 project" - P2- 1,84,110,359, P3,P3bis "sturmovik over Manjuria(?)" - IL10, ki27, Ki42-II, J2m5(New map) "Project BBC-46" (June 2006 - planned relase) - Lagg3RD, Yak3p LA-7p, Mig-13, Yak-15(new map) From here: http://www.battle-fields.com/commscentr ... hp?t=10365 Quoting/Translating from here: http://forum.sukhoi.ru/showthread.php?t=38482 And then SaQSoN said on simhq.com Mentioned in article (who knows if will make the final cut): LaGG-3RD Yak-3R La-7R Bi-6 MiG-13 MiG-9 Yak-15 There will be twice as more new aircraft in this add-on. Yet, I can't tell you which ones. Plus a set of new ground vehicles and a new map or two. -------------------- _ _ __ _ _ Best regards, SaQSoN (Vladimir Kochmarsky) From here on Sim HQ: http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/boards ... 4;t=004241

Sometimes the machine is just a dud, or a Frankenputer. I think it is always best to build your own. I always buy my bits a pieces from two nice Chinese guys here in town. (Tiny plug for Crystal Computers at http://www.cclcpr.com/shop/ ) I'm sure it will all be for the best.

http://www.naked-air.com/ Some people (me included) should not be seen like this!

Does your NETGEAR router allow you to screw with MTU speed? If so try changing it DOWN to 1452. (or perhaps even less). Just a hunch.

Well I listened to the audio commentary that was posted (by BG [was it?]) , specifically about the topic of gun convergence at high distances. 1. It was stated that this will give the gunfire coming from the gun a flatter trajectory for a longer range. (I just listened to it again an he said straighter... but I think he meant flatter.) My opinion is that this is not so. In the game when I set my convergence I am setting a spot where I want all the rounds to pass through. I have heard a WW2 vet describe how he set convergence so that all six of his guns would pass through a circle about the size of a 50cent piece about 300 yards. Now if that is my goal then I would have to adjust the positioning of all my guns in both the horizontal AND the vertical plane. So (if you follow me here) If I were to set my convergence to a 1000m then to do that I would have to elevate my guns so that they were pointing more upwards that if I were to set my convergence at 100m. Because the rounds are set to converge at 1000m they will be affected by gravity through more time [longer] before they get to the point of convergence, than if my point of convergence were closer. A pilot who sets his convergence at 1000m is in effect throwing his football for the long bomb. His bullets are describing that (high lobbing) arc. Watch this clip (4 meg wmv file.) To see how much latitude the American's (at least allowed) Once again I am using rapidshare (may as well chew up their bandwidth rather than ours!) http://rapidshare.de/files/16606221/Con ... e.wmv.html Note also that the vet described setting convergence for EACH PAIR OF GUNS on the typical US six gun fighter. An option we DO NOT enjoy! 2. It was stated that setting convergence at great distance is unrealistic. I would agree with this. However, I wold also point out that I find it more realistic to do this that to fly with icons on. I feel this icons on business leads to 1000m convergence and other irregularities. If icons were turned off you would have to get close enough to visually ID the bogies FAR MORE OFTEN before you opened fire! Those pilots who do not visually ID the bogies end up dying because they wipe out there own guys and end up getting shot down themselves. Even so with my convergence set at 500m if any of you have watched me when I shoot you will notice that I like to get to UNDER a 100M. There is another consideration that often is not taken into consideration with IL2 That is round speed. If you hit anything at great distance it does FAR LESS DAMAGE that if you hit it a close range. (even with cannon rounds, as the cannon round will penetrate further into the target aircraft the closer you are when you hit it (due to the higher velocity of the round). Consider this from the IL2 Manual (FB page 12)... Aerial Gunnery Many factors work against you when you fire.First of all, your bullets don’t fly in a perfectly straight line. Your plane shakes in the air, your guns recoil and twist, Earth’s gravity pulls the bullets toward the ground, and the air slows them down. All of these things combine to create something called bullet dispersion. A bullet stream from one machine gun at 50 meters will fit into an area fifty times as small as the same bullet stream at 500 meters. This makes long-range fire extremely difficult. Keep in mind that bullets lose power over distance. Using the same example, a bullet at 50 meters can puncture light to medium armor, but at 500 meters it may even bounce off human skin.Secondly, most targets you encounter will be armored. Some plane shave armor strong enough to deflect any bullets or shells you fire;your ammunition will bounce off your target without doing any damage. However, no airplane has the same thick armor all over.Even the heaviest armored airplane has some weak spots, where just a few hits can be enough to bring it down. In my opinion.

Thanks My Father was RCAF during the war too. I can ID the centre decoration right off the top of my head as my Father also has it. It is the Volunteer Service Medal with clasp. The clasp indicates overseas service.

Norris Kicked the Six Million Dollar man and turned him into 24 Million Quarters. That site is awesome.

TrackIR is more usefull (by far) than rudders)

500 across the board here.

Now thats a nice offer. I may take you up on it. Thanks so much.

I gotta find me a lower class of guys to fly with. Maybe the Screech suckin' Newfies will take me.

Shit Sorry Kelly. How are the kids?

Me too please. Waldo.Pepper@hotmail.com I never fly with icons but I noticed that Psycho did. What difficulty settings are allowed? Thanks.

Welcome and fingers crossed. Dazza - that is a real good link you posted - thanks.

Goodone Psycho. Nice medal too!

I don't know why but I think I can tell you how to fix it. (I'm like that about a lot of stuff btw!) Look around the sound & audio devices in control panel. Click on advanced to get to the window labelled 'play control'. While playing some audio so you can heard the annoying hum make adjustments to the volume scales of everything here... and on the options-properties-recording tab as well... something here will be causing crossover interference and you can isolate it by turning down the volume and/or muting it if need be. Not sure why but I bet this 'fixes' it. Let me know.

:violent2: HA!

Awesome vid. I half expected Bill O'liely to bail out of the 110 or something.

Feast your eyes... http://www.lbodnar.dsl.pipex.com/joystick/index.html

Fukiyama. Good book too. What I meant is soon enough (maybe now already) we won't be able to believe our own eyes with any certainty.

Ooo OOO!

Indeed. I have mountains of them laying around. So I recycled them into the handles for what today are Rudder trim (fore) and Aileron trim (aft). Ahem! I intended to clip off the ends and mount some decent little wooden knobs but never bothered. The cost was 15 cents. I had to buy a game port plug for it.

I like the skin very much, and shall fly with it. I also fly in my pyjamas sometimes...and here is an explanation of why. ----- One of my all time favourite books is Carrier Pilot by Norman Hanson. Here is what the cover looks like these days. Don't judge it by its cover. It is far better than the cheesy artwork would lead you to believe. Also a passage that sums up the fatigue and some of the awfulness of wartime flying. "The passage of 30 years has blunted for me many of the details of our part in that seemingly endless battle. Of the four carriers which took the fight to the enemy that day, Illustrious was the weary one, for we had endured life in the tropics longer than most and strain and tiredness were now to be seen in the faces of the aircrews. We were becoming worn and 'twitchy'. To seek an early night's sleep just didn't seem to work. One flew round the cabin, dodging the flak, practising a landing, for the first two hours; and if sleep eventually came, only three hours or so of fitful rest remained before a shake from the duty boy brought one reluctantly to the dark, cold beginning of another day. Breakfast had always been a cheering time with plenty of wisecracking and laughter. Now it was a silent feast of too little food and too many cups of coffee and cigarettes-and a significant absence of chatter. The losses and prangs we suffered now had a telling effect. Where our pilots in earlier days had produced resilience and courage, which seemed automatic, to recover quickly from their own accidents, or crashes or death involving their friends, the losses were now hard to bear and brought dejection and fretfulness. Their natural ebullience retreated and left them thoughtful and introspective. Tiredness brought lethargy and carelessness to their flying. Some of the landing approaches and landings themselves were hideous to behold and to watch them was a nightmare few could endure for more than minutes at a time. Yet, through it all, youth and the rich instinct born of sound training could still find a crack to burst through, to express themselves in a bright flash of repartee and fun. And every day produced a fresh crop of incidents which, tragic or dangerous though some of them might be, at least sent the adrenalin pumping through, strongly and excitedly, and restored the boys, even briefly, to their old excellence and brilliance. The day's work began at 0330 when aircrews, squadron ratings and flight-deck parties were roused. Between 0430 and 0500 the ship closed up to action stations in readiness for suicide attacks, for we were now in Kamikaze territory. All guns' crews closed up. All watertight doors were secured, which meant that for most of the officers their cabins were barred to them. The ventilating fans were shut down, causing the inside of the ship to become airless and, as the day wore on, decidedly smelly! Food consisted of bully-beef sandwiches and endless tea-typical action stations rations. So we were thrown out of our cabins, usually at the last moment-and, if you were unwise enough to snatch those last few precious minutes, unwashed and unshaven. Some chaps, in a fine (Oh!-Sod-it!' spirit, shunned ablutions-even breakfast-and flew all day in their pyjamas against the Empire of the Rising Sun, Most of us went along for some sort of breakfast. Those on the early shift, so to speak, then made their way to the air operations room, some to remain there on standby, the remainder to grab their helmets and Mae Wests and go out to the flight-deck in the cold of a pre-dawn morning, to climb into their Corsairs and sit and shiver." After reading this I made a pilot skin of pyjamas. I think it rather fitting.

Fugly! Guess how much the parts were? Masking tape don't come cheap you know! I taped it together so I could open it up expecting the damn thing to give me constant trouble but it has NEVER EVER given me a lick of trouble! Go figure! I had all sorts of plans to make a better box for her but I never will now. Something this fugly deserves to live.

Man! I don't have any suggestions except to say that sure is one weird setup. On the very earliest of planes (1910ish) before the current system of a single stick was widely accepted some planes had two sticks. Right one was often for elevator, and the left was for ailerons. Just to be clear I DON'T recommend it. But your setup sure reminded me of them. My real recommendation would be to ditch the original old stick and make a button box out of it. Mine is a ugly as sin but it works too well to replace it. Besides it is so ugly it is kind of a source of pride now.