DD_Arthur

Hello guys! , @FT; motion blur can be turned off. I don't fly with it on but I do like to enable it when making videos. Also, everyone must fly (or drive) whatever takes their fancy. However, I don't think anyone can really concentrate on more than two flight sims at one time without giving up too much free time which would otherwise be spent doing more "normal" things - like talking to wifey or partner, chasing women, seeing friends, walking the dog, playing with the kids, etc. So choices have to be made.....which brings me to; @Crash; I must admit, at the moment I have neither IL2 1946 or Cliffs installed. IL2 'cause it's just a bit too painful to look atcompared with all the other more modern stuff out there and Cliffs because....well, I've still got around 700 hours in it logged through Steam as I flew it for the first three or four years after release when no one else was interested in it. If and when TF patch 5.0 is released I'll have another look, especially if they manage to produce a unified installer, but we'll see. At the moment I fly BoS and DCS - at about 11p.m. at night, perhaps two or three times a week. I do have my newish job which does indeed mean much less workload at home but since the spring this free time has been taken up with the kids. My oldest lives at home - which secretly pleases me a great deal - and I've been playing a lot of golf with him and his mates of an evening and I also seem to have spent a great deal of time in the sea with my youngest this summer. We've both got right into snorkling around the rock pools at high tide and kayaking and just...stuff. Oh yeah, and my electric helicopter collection and more...stuff. So my sim flying time is taken with those two sims at the moment. Of course thats a solitary affair at 11p.m. So I'm not really at the PC during Dogz times at the moment. A lot of this is because I'm acutely aware that my time as a "dad" - taking an active part in my childrens lives - is, sadly, drawing to a close. In the next couple of years my youngest will no doubt discover the opposite sex and it'll be "not now, Dad" Sob!!!!

All things seem to be possible - even trim on a slider - now Loft has fallen on his Balalaika and Jason is running the show. In the meantime; This week I 'ave mostly been flyin' the Pe-2 online.

Prachuap Khiri Khan?

You were dodging ping pong balls and it was flying with the RSAS?

Gotta' GTX770 from ebay. It's very exciting - it's got two fans!

6.40pm, Friday the twenty-sixth of August; the start of bank holiday weekend. 'arrows time!!

Happy birthday m8

Haven't got an old card to put in but put my card in one of my nephews pc tonight and....it's brown bread. It's three years and three months old which means warranty expired three months ago. Oh well.

No on board graphics to worry about so pretty convinced its the card.

On Sunday night my pc decided it was dead as the proverbial and I decided it was the psu. Went into Maplins this morning and picked up a new one. Back at home, just before axing my way into the packaging I read this thread, pulled the graphics card out and all but one stick of memory and turned it on. Hmmm....fans come on, hd spins up and my Asus mobo gives me one long bleep and three short ones. Not the psu then. Put the graphics card back in and still one long bleep and three little 'uns. According to my big book of Asus bleep codes that means no VGA; as in graphics card gone west!! So; nice one Jabo Psu goes back to Maplins tomorrow and its off to ebay for a new graphics card. Can't really justify splashing out as I've bought myself a very big two-wheeled toy recently so I'm thinking of a hundred squid limit and - if I'm lucky - an Nvidia 780 or a 770 with 4 gigs of memory. Seems like plenty to choose from at the moment. Considered a 960 but it dosen't seem much of a step up from my now dead 6600ti. Any thoughts?

Fookin' hells bells Tonar!! Big S. Looks wonderful.

Keith Quilter? I've just finished this; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kamikaze-Hunters-Fighting-Pacific-1945/dp/0230768199 This is a really good read. Keith Quilter features heavily in it. Did he mention his first operational flight was dive bombing the Tirpitz!!!?

It will be busy. In a slightly restrained way. No arcades, no fruit machines, a plentiful supply of shingle on our beaches and a local population two thirds of whom are over sixty-five mean it ain't exactly rockin' in the summer. Quite nice really and living two miles from the shore line means you can pick your times. On Monday night the missus and I went for a swim by moonlight. I'm less of a hazard to navigation at night!

Scorchio back today Get in, stick boy!

By the time of the D-Day landings the Russians had expelled the Germans from the whole of the Soviet Union and were racing into Poland and the Balkans. By this rate of advance it was evident they would overrun all of eastern europe by the following winter - as indeed they did. This horrified Churchill. He understood exactly what Stalin was. Churchill pressed for an immediate invasion of Germany to bring about an early surrender and thus halt the progress westward of the Soviet armies. This desire produced the Anglo-American airborne invasion of the the lower Rhine crossings at Arnhem in September. An attempt at a lightning strike across the north German plain to capture Berlin. Unfortunately it was defeated and so in October Churchill flew to Moscow in the hope that the diplomacy of realism could secure what the paratroopers had failed to win. At a meeting with Stalin in the Kremlin on 9th. October Churchill asked him directly "How would it do for you to have ninety percent predominance in Rumania, for us to have ninety percent of the say in Greece, and go fifty-fifty about Yugoslavia?" Churchill sketched out these figures on paper, adding 50-50 for Hungary and 25-75 Bulgaria. Stalin "took his blue pencil and made a large tick upon it, and passed it back to us". Stalin also agreed that after the war Britain would be the leading Mediterranean power. Notice - significantly - that there was no mention of Germany, Czechoslovakia or Poland? Churchill understood they were lost. There would be no practical way of preventing Soviet occupation in 1945 just as there was no practical way to stop the German occupation of 1939. However, Greece was saved from Soviet occupation, Yugoslavia was allowed to go its own way and the threat of Soviet influence upon the immediate post-war politics of Italy was removed. Could he have done more? Its difficult to see what else he could have done.

Now there's a thought! Yesterday evening was the first time I've been in the sea this year not wearing a wetsuit.

Eastbourne or Herne Bay? Now that's a dilemma!

Fascinating Ovy! I do know quite a lot about Romanian history so I'm quite aware that most countries of central and eastern europe exchanged one set of jack boots for another in the spring of '45. Not quite sure how you were "sold out" by the west to Stalin. Do many people in Romania think that way? The "West" in '45 was basically the US and UK. By the spring of '45 the only way to stop the Russkies from rolling over eastern europe would have been for people like my dad and his brother to have fought the Red Army. Seems like a big ask for a country exhausted by six years of defying Hitler and helping to liberate our neighbours. Unfortunately for the peoples of south-east europe they have been squeezed between the Austrians, the Turks and the Russians for the last five hundred years. Not too much the US or UK could have done about that.

It's lovely!!! Been evening swimming last couple of days. Lets hope it lasts.

5.4litres!!!! C'mon Rog; lets see it. What does it do to the gallon? ten to fifteen? For your info; if my calculations are correct we're paying around $5.40 here in the UK for a US gallon of unleaded. Whats it like in Missouri? GSXR was just irresistible after I rode it and...well...why not? Fastest bike I've ever owned before this was a 1982 GPz1100A1. Last bike I owned before this was a 1973 750 Triumph Bonneville - about eight years ago. I've got a bit of catching up to do....slowly.

Ok, it's official. I've lost my marbles.

This. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Motherboards/1244/i.html?_dcat=1244&Socket%2520Type=LGA%25201155%252FSocket%2520H2&_trksid=p2045573.m1684

A little demonstration of the physics engine and how to blow a '109 engine into the bargain! BoS on sale again; http://il2sturmovik.com/