Jabo

Changed the title for you Dom. I thought that was a little detailed for a 1/48 compared with my Beaufighter/Seafire. Lovely job though m8. Jabo

Brilliant, thank you Arthur - good man. I recognise that airfield, might have been there once or twice. Jabo

One for FT I think. Chkmods is his pidgeon. Sit tight Barnaby, he'll be along..

Sounds good. Need more intel on when and where before I can make positive commitment though. Jabo

Hi Barnaby, the problem is that the il-2 game writes back to the game folder when running and this falls foul of the UAC cos windows doesn't like write backs into protected folders. Sooo, to get the game to run properly, you need to move the entire folder to an 'unprotected' location, say c:\ or if you have a second drive or partition d:\ (this is what I do, and has the advantage of not being affected if you have to wipe the system drive) Oh, and use checkmods, it's really clever and will give you a perfect install,, but move that folder first! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ditto, can be around during the day tomorrow as well.

Ditto here too - I'm using an MSFFB2 along with an X52 throttle and my button box Jabo

Welcome to the pound Barnaby! Pull up a kennel. Jabo Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Amazon are offering both disk and direct download versions Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@Arthur - Good point - The short answer is that it won't. Athough you could get in the rest of the aircraft into a container (or two), the 16m single piece wing section won't. They're working on a number of options such as a flat-bed trailer for a roll-on, roll-off cargo ship (does such a thing even exist?) or using a cargo airliner.

Try Amazon

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but according to this month's Flypast magazine, although there were plans to fly the aircraft to Virginia 'the long way round' including a stay in the UK for the airshow season next year, these have now been scrapped and the owner is now planning to crate the aircraft and take it straight to the US. So no Mossie at Legends next year I'm afraid. Jabo

So your 1/32 Heinkel will be more like a 1/24 size?

Or alternatively, why not run it before starting the game? So along with forgetting to start tir, you could forget to do this as well. Jano Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Hmmm, i'm obviously channelling someone called jano... Jabo Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'll second that - and thank you FT for the hosting job!

Odd, I thought a big part of Hissy was triggers for certain things to happen dependent on the actions of the players - Must have nodded off. Jabo

Hmm, just thinking aloud here really, but could a spawn point be made 'live' triggered by the location of the flight? In the case of long escort missions could shot down dogz start again from home base with fresh escorts to rendezvous with and bring the bombers home safely. ASR Catalina to pick up ditched crews? This idea is a stunner - well done FT Jabo

I agree Chet, this is a big step up (and the gap to CloD narrows - or widens depending on your point of view) Jabo

How about making the spawn points time dependant rather than on the location of a flight? I.e. flight 1. Arrival time at waypoint 4 is 30 mins from take off so possible to spawn there from 25 to 35 mins. Dunno really, just thinking aloud. Would the triggers be any use here? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oops, missed this, HB Ross! Jabo

It's been mentioned elsewhere that we should have a single post detailing current settings/versions etc of the game and comms software required to join in the online shenanigans. Here's an attempt to do this. Current stock game version - 4.12.2 Current modded game version - HSFX 7 Current comms version - Teamspeak 3 (32 and 64-bit versions available) - Use of Push to Talk is preferred. To patch your install of the game to the correct version, please follow the instructions below; 1. Make a copy of your current game folder (obviously you might need to install it first) and rename the copy to 'IL-2 (HSFX7)' (or whatever you like) 2. Download FT's utility dd_Chkmods.zip here. 3. Extract the zip file to a folder (in this case d:\users\nick\downloads\dd_checkmods) 4. Open the folder, find the chkmods.exe file then right-click on it and select 'Run as Administrator' (This is VERY important) 5. Assuming all goes well, you should wind up with a screen that looks a bit like this one; (If you get the following error; then send a PM to FT containing your IP address as he will need to register your access.) 6. Assuming no problem, you then need to ensure that the 'IL2 Modded is in' box points to your newly copied game folder and the 'Check Against' box reads 7.0.3 then click 1. - Verify Mods. Let that run (it may take a while) and once the first step is finished click 2. - Fix Issues. Let this run (it will almost DEFINITELY take a while if you're installing HSFX7 from scratch). Keep verifying and fixing until the verification doesn't find any problems. 7. Close CheckMods, check you can start the game and that version showing on the splash screen is V4.12.2 HSFX v7.0.3. Assuming it is, say some nice things about FT and you're done. 8. Remember 'Expert Mode' is enabled by default through JSGME so you'll be all set up to join an online co-op or dogfight map. So that's it - you're all ready. See you in the big blue! Thanks Jabo

We've not officially switched to hsfx 6 JP, but the plan is to change over on the bob night - 16th sept. your disc problems are more worrying however. What's it doing? I'll be on a bit later if you want to discuss it. Jabo Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'd start from scratch JP, install from your disk (which will be 4.07). Use FT's megapatch link to get to get to 4.10. Then patch it up to 4.11.1 & finally hsfx6. Ensure the game starts after each patch is installed and you should be good to go! There's a bob night coming up on the 16th, so we need you ready by then! Jabo Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nice one JP! I'm definitely in the wrong line of work! Jabo Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You could bring the director of the travel committee and offer the tourist trail/shopping as a sweetner Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Of course shopping could cut into the beer fund to a significant degree Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk