DD_Arthur

Ry Cooder? Well I like him more than Eric Crapton but this sort of stuff usually sends me to sleep. Are we about to have a music thread FT? To have the voice to sing this....or the wherewithal to write poetry and set it to music..... 'and when you ran to me, your cheeks flushed with the night we walked on frosted fields of juniper and lamplight'

You can try the F16 for free today and tomorrow. Then the F/A18 for a couple of dys, etc. I'm a sucker for this sort of thing so I'm staying well away in case I blow the loo roll budget on DCS

Same here. Hi Swep!

Quick question; Who here has Flying Circus?

At last! Something I can use my MiG 19 against😎

For those who've just bought Flying Circus in the sale

"hidden extras" and "finger toy" in the same sentence sounds.....interesting

Hmmmm......not a simple question to answer. Firstly, as far as I'm aware the only game around where players gain a real benefit from lowering the games resolution in order to 'spot the dots' earlier is CLoD.The Great Battles series does not actually render a dot. It delivers a teeny, tiny plane with it's own reflection model. It's that reflection model that is the first indication of distant movement. Despite many forum claims and heated debate, in GBS there is no way in game to improve spotting distances. I and many others have tried 'em all and neither lowering resolution, nor lowering the gamma or using post-effects like SweetFX make any difference. Hardware, however might. As far as I'm aware only Fruitbat has a high res monitor and VR so I'd be very interested to hear his opinion. All VR headsets have a higher resolution than 1080 monitors. I'm using a Rift CV1 as is Friar and Crash. Sid, Fenrir and Fruitbat are using the Rift S which has a slightly higher resolution than the CV1. Up until the release of version 4.004 I think it fair to say that under certain conditions - generally having the sun behind us and the approaching aircraft being below the horizon - both Crash and myself have been able to spot distant movement further out than anyone else. Initially what we are seeing is reflected light from distant aircraft. Is this an advantage? Well.....yes frankly. 😎 However, something has changed with version 4.004 and I'll quote from Han's update notes 8. Brightness and size of very distant aircraft LODs made more uniform (it differed too much on some aircraft) and I fear our super powers are not as they were as I've not been able to spot anything dramatically far out lately. The big, top ten advantages to using VR over a monitor are (in my opinion) 1] Holy shit, I'm in a Spitfire! Ditto for points 2 to 8 9] Much better ability to judge distance - which leads to 10] Much improved gunnery accuracy. Infact, check out my little streak in Flying Circus http://stats.jasta5.org:8000/en/pilot/294/DD_Arthur/?tour=9 Other advantages? Er....... I'm using the tiny triangle in my icon mod. and I'm using the no other planes on the map mod 'cause Uncle Siddley told me to

So.....I won't have to stop wearing my wife's underwear whilst flying will I?

@JP; as a general rule of thumb, all those things in IL2 1946 that we paid lip service to - like trimming the plane properly, correct mixture settings, not over-revving the engine, not over-heating the engine, supercharger switching etc. They all really matter in this new one. Otherwise shortly after take off engines go boom and up goes the cry "twenty seconds"!

Bling!!!😎

An hour to go 'til high tide and the wind is now dropping. No Sodom and Gomorrah for Sidmouth today

Low tide this morning. Storm 'Ciara' is winding itself up for a big blow later today which will correspond with today's high tide. Could be interesting.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand another update to Vander's generator! https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/43276-il2-great-battles-easy-mission-generator/?do=findComment&comment=891558

I can reliably land my Tomcat nine outta ten although most of the time that cheeky barstool in the back seems to think we're going 'round agin'. However, can anyone consistently land the 'cat how it's meant to be landed; getting the 'E' across the bar using the angle of attack method? When I try I reliably end up in the drink

If the chip/nasal interface is becoming more difficult, have you considered other orifices? I've found I would imagine the crinkly, frozen oven variety are quite thrilling.

Grooving with W/Cmdr. Wright-Upham......