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    Nice Spitfire video

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    Battle of Britain flying...sort of.

    Evocative sharing of a flight made by a Spitfire and helicopter here

    I love this area of the country because of what happened here in 1940. If you are in the area you must go here to the memorial. Beautiful, quiet, and very evocative.

    Help With Scenario Please

    in Missions and mission building

    Posted

    Have you tried putting another airfield, one of those available as a placeable object, next to the one you want capturing? Make this blue perhaps and the AAA at the red base will shoot at aircraft spawning there til such time as it is destroyed by the attacking blues. After that blue revert to spawning at the 'captured' runway. Case of making things fit....

    Try it and see if it works, at least you could have more options.

    Help With Scenario Please

    in Missions and mission building

    Posted

    I require red and blue homebases to be at the same airfield. This I have worked out.

    My problem is that I dont want blue to be able to spawn at the base until they have taken out all the red aaa. If they do try to spawn there I want them shot up striaght away.

    I have been trying various units with out much luck.

    I'm not sure I've got the correct slant on this.....

    At the moment you have an airbase that:


      [*:1msbcuet]Allows the spawning of Red and Blue aircraft at separate homebases within it's boundary
      Has Red AAA that would as a matter of course, attack spawning Blue aircraft
      [*:1msbcuet]

    Is this not your requirement?

    Am I correct in thinking that, in your scenario, in order to destroy the Red AAA the Blue will be spawning elsewhere and attack the airbase, meaning that once the Red AAA has been destroyed, Blue will be able to spawn unhindered at the 'captured' airbase? Sorry Friar, I can't see what else is required...... :-\ Am I being Sid Viscous?

    Dodgy, but funny...

    in The World According to CaptJackG

    Posted

    'Right of way'......jeez, in aviation terms that was close, perhaps negligent, surely? Cessna, Bell and local ATC?

    Reminds me of a 'near hit' I experienced a short while ago involving the Air Ambulance helicopter...

    I was attending a road traffic collision on a dual-carriageway (2 lanes going both ways) involving multiple vehicles and we had taken some time to extricate someone from a car. They needed to get to hospital quick so the helicopter was ordered on, arrived and circled whilst looking for somewhere to put down as close as possible. The police told us it was going to set down on the opposite carriageway, however that still had moving traffic. The police set about stopping the flow and put cars on nearby slip roads/ramps to stop the flow. This done, the helicopter started it's descent and was looking to land on the road about 30 yards away from us.

    Picture GKs video now and put a car in place of the Cessna....

    What the police didn't do was block a side road and lo and behold, a car drives onto the carriageway oblivious to the helicopter and drives along the descent path. The helicopter didn't see it as it was in a blind spot. As the heli was 30 yards away we looked and thought 'S@*t, Bad Thing...) and watched open mouthed as the car passed under the descending helo with about 15 feet to spare. The car drove on and the helo landed.

    I spoke to the pilot shortly afterwards and he was very nonchalant about it, saying 'We saw him...'

    Yeah, right.....

    Flying Legends 2010 Attendees

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    Yep, fully intend being there.

    However, in preparation for next years event:

    Painless, make a note of who you intend sharing a room with and stick it somewhere obvious, like the inside of your eyelid...

    Jabo, stick the money for a round behind the bar then we won't have to worry about not being there when it's bought...

    Friar, try to be more aware of childish words and their ability to send otherwise grown men into fits of laughter and give them the the urge to run outside in an uncontrolled state when the the childish definition is not recognised...nb. 'smeg' is not just a make of oven

    Gec, come better prepared and remember that £2 will NOT buy you a chair that will allow you to sit on it for longer than 2 minutes...

    Vila, be prepared to buy me lots of beer if you want further instalments of my ex, or buy my book 'How to survive living with a Banshee - Sid's story'...

    Crash, be yourself as you are the only constant...

    Knight, remember to bring some device that cancels out the effect of the beer goggles (wince, lucky escape there mate)...

    Sged, aim to be less surprised by the antics performed by the Englishman once let loose from day to day routines and allowed uncontrolled access to beer, fags etc...

    OT, please look after me more...

    Cheerzen

    A Point of View

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    My view, as an Englishman.

    There is still an ancient bye-law that decrees that, in a particular area of the English/Welsh borders, on a Sunday an Englishman is required to conduct archery practice with his longbow. If an arrow should overfly the river Wye and strike an unfortunate Welshman then that is unfortunate but, tough. The Englishman is required to maintain his skills should the need ever arise for him to be mobilised in the nation's standing army and that is the priority. This, I believe, has been the basis for the running of archery and gun clubs although the emphasis is now on pleasure and the potential for learning and developing a new skill.

    There was a time when my Dad owned a rifle, a .22" bolt action BSA. He used it for keeping down rabbits on local farms. In my teens and early twenties I wanted to keep it and follow in Dad's footsteps however it didn't happen mainly because in the 1980s I didn't couldn't get a licence to keep it at home. In the end I stored it in the armoury of the cadet building I ran but, because it was not issued by the MoD it wasn't serviced by the armourers so ended up being disposed of due to being non-standard. We also had a couple of donated Martini action breech loading .22" that went the same way.

    The point of that is to show that unless you have a very good reason to own a rifle in the UK you just cannot keep one now. The tradition of an Englishman being skilled and practised in the use of weapons has long gone unless you are in the Forces or an armed police officer.

    I am lucky in that I have been able to practice shooting as a skill for a very long time. I started in the cadets at 13 with a .22" No.8 rifle and progressed and developed using Lee Enfield .303" No.4s, 7.62mm FN (equivalent) Self Loading Rifles, Stirling sub-machine guns and finally onto the L98 A1 5.56mm cadet equivalent of the current SA80 - basically adapted to load single shot instead of burst or fully auto (since Michael Ryan shot and killed in Hungerford in the '80s no-one over here can own or fire a rifle capable of firing rounds other than single-shot - semi or fully auto private weapons are illegal although Army cadets can fire the fully auto Light Support Weapon (LSW) under strict conditions). I am confident that if shown to handle a weapon correctly and taught how to use it properly it is a confidence builder and produces skills and disciplines that are transferrable to other areas. I coach 13 - 18 year old Army cadets now and enjoy the occasional shot myself, so in effect I am carrying on the English tradition of preparation and skill building. Suits me fine.

    Earlier in this thread the British small arms industry was mentioned. The British Army is updating the cadet L98 series to the A2 standard. A point of interest is that, along with the new series of LSW and due to reliability issues, it has been heavily modified prior to introduction by German small arms manufacturers.....ah well, there's progress.    

    Insurance

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    I've used 'Swintons' as a broker for years and they have been very good, looking around and giving me the best quotes. Google them and see what you think.

    Sid

    'Shifty' Powers

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    I don't have the original source, the words were taken from an email my brother sent me.

    Memorial to Shifty Powers from a friend in the U.S.

    "We're hearing a lot today about big splashy memorial services

    and this is a guy who should have one too...................

    Shifty volunteered for the airborne in WWII and served with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Infantry. If you've seen Band of Brothers on HBO or the History Channel, you know Shifty. His character appears in all 10 episodes, and Shifty himself is interviewed in several of them.

    I met Shifty in the Philadelphia airport several years ago. I didn't know who he was at the time. I just saw an elderly gentleman having trouble reading his ticket. I offered to help, assured him that he was at the right gate, and noticed the "Screaming Eagle", the symbol of the 101st Airborne, on his hat.

    Making conversation, I asked him if he'd been in the 101st Airborne or if his son was serving. He said quietly that he had been in the 101st. I thanked him for his service, then asked him when he served, and how many jumps he made.

    Quietly and humbly, he said "Well, I guess I signed up in 1941 or so, and was in until sometime in 1945 . . . " at which point my heart skipped.

    At that point, again, very humbly, he said "I made the 5 training jumps at Toccoa, and then jumped into Normandy . . . . do you know where Normandy is?" At this point my heart stopped.

    I told him yes, I know exactly where Normandy was, and I know what

    D-Day was. At that point he said "I also made a second jump into Holland , into Arnhem ." I was standing with a genuine war hero . . . . and then I realized that it was June, just after the anniversary of D-Day.

    I asked Shifty if he was on his way back from France , and he said "Yes. And it's real sad because these days so few of the guys are left, and those that are, lots of them can't make the trip." My heart was in my throat and I didn't know what to say.

    I helped Shifty get onto the plane and then realized he was back in Coach, while I was in First Class. I sent the flight attendant back to get him and said that I wanted to switch seats. When Shifty came forward, I got up out of the seat and told him I wanted him to have it, that I'd take his in coach.

    He said "No, son, you enjoy that seat. Just knowing that there are still some who remember what we did and still care is enough to make an old man very happy." His eyes were filling up as he said it. And mine are brimming up now as I write this.

    Shifty died on June 17 after fighting cancer.

    There was no parade.

    No big event in Staples Center .

    No wall to wall back to back 24x7 news coverage.

    No weeping fans on television.

    And that's not right.

    Let's give Shifty his own Memorial Service, online, in our own quiet way. Please forward this email to everyone you know. Especially to the veterans.

    Rest in peace, Shifty.

    "A nation without heroes is nothing."

    Roberto Clemente

    No further words necessary.

    We SHALL remember them....

    For Jabo

    in Hardware Hell

    Posted

    No Sid, it's like Hexadecimal, check this post out...

    http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2672913/Re_Conf_ini_ProcessAffinityMas.html#Post2672913

    Bitmask: 00000000000000000000000000001111 = Decimal 15

    Processor 1, 2, 3, and 4 selected. The load is distributed across all processors, 1, 2, 3, and 4.

    It's funny really, as it says if you comment that line out, it should just run across all your cores by itself. I'll test it to see if it makes a difference. All I do know is that when I run the game and alt-tab out and bring up Task Manager, my 4 cores are running around 25% each.

    Point taken

    For Jabo

    in Hardware Hell

    Posted

    GK, looking through your game settings under [rts] you have 'ProcessAffinityMask = 15'. That looks like gobbledegook unless you have a processor with 16 cores....there is no way that should be set up like that as even with a quad core I'm sure the numbers don't go that high.

    Try putting ; in front of the it and setting the numbers to 2 - that will set the processing back to default as IL2 has difficulty using multiple cores unless you go through a lengthy process of allocating programmes to individual cores. What processor do you have?

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