DD_Arthur

Spitfire IX through the clouds

This is some wild freakin' ride!

The convention in these things is to accord the rank you held when your service comes to an end FT. He almost certainly would have been a P/O during the BoB - it's the lowest rank of RAF commissioned officer. Wing Commander Elkington of 1 Squadron would almost certainly have been a P/O during the BoB too.

Stuka loopy with Sid and AP tonight.

I'd delete everything except the single, stock coop that comes with the game and install the above, yes.

Yep, the update to version 3.005 has done something to the .msnbin file. None of the coops in the vault nor anything I've got or anyone else has got will now work. However, that nice man TX_Tips is on the case and has already updated his coop missions to the latest version. TipsCoOPs Pack Five 35.zip TipsCoOPs Pack Four 35.zip TipsCoOPs Pack One 35.zip TipsCoOPs Pack Three 35.zip TipsCoOPs Pack Two 35.zip

I've met Geoffrey Wellum a few times in recent years. One of my closest friends retired to Mullion a few years ago and Geoffrey enjoyed the pub and the local chippy too. The Times has it slightly incorrect in that he didn't live in Mullion, he lived in Predannack - a few hundred yards away. He moved there as he had fond memories of flying from the airfield there in the war. Although I knew who he was I never asked him about his RAF service but he did have lots of interesting memories of Walthamstow (a place I knew well as a kid) before the war and before it became the sh#thole it is today. May he rest in well deserved peace.

Update your game now to fly FW190 A8/F8!

I think that is a good idea as it gives plenty of time and a tangible target date.

Sorry Mick, not trying to rain on your idea it's just this bit "BOX would remain every other Tuesday". I thought the agreed plan is that BOX will - in the not too distant future now - become the regular Tuesday night fixture.

I was under the impression we would eventually be moving up to BoX being every Tuesday as we gradually transition away from '46.

Looks like DCS really are going to release a Flaming Cliffs 4.

Blimey! Is Painless drinking beer? I see no sign of a discreet Bacardi and coke

I can't give you any photos either.☹️ Between the ages of nine and twelve I built dozens - all Airfix WW2 RAF types - and had them hanging from the ceiling of my bedroom where I used to wish they could really fly. Of course forty years later they really do fly - on the screen of my PC. As to the models I built; one day I came home from school to find my eldest brother home on leave equipped with Thunderflashes (naughty boy!). He and my other brothers had strung the washing line from my bedroom window and by using bent coat hangers and filling the fuselages with black powder were "re-enacting the battle of britain". The bastards had my prized collection running down the clothes line in flames!

Thats what I'm getting too.

I got rid of the purple haze by getting rid of SweetFX/Reshade. Game performance for me is a bit of a mess. Even low settings - which make the game look very average - is a lumpy, bumpy, choppy ride ending in a lock up at the moment.

Nice. Isn't that what the astronauts were given - instead of a company car - they got a company T38?

Everything you ever wanted to know about gyro gunsights....and then some... https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/168-developer-diary/?page=5&tab=comments#comment-634848

Ahhh....I'll have a go with the repair option. I did the meta-shaders thing - which worked well - a month back.

I don't know whether I've got fish or fowl FT

I don't understand whats going on. So I'm running the most up to date version? After checking the DCS forums it would appear I am as when I load my game the loading bar at the bottom gets to 'Terrain Preload 100. Stage 3' - and the screen goes all Jimi Hendrix experience for half a minute and then I'm ready to fly. I fly for up to almost two minutes sometimes and then the game throws a massive wobbly and locks up.

Mine says "Installed version 2.5.2.18736.400 is up to date". I think the key phrase in the opening post is "Those of you not running the open beta". You and I are already running the open beta so are up to date FT......er...I think

Great stuff. I-16's for everyone next time