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My brother-in-law is a cop in Edmonton. He's trying to get in to the K-9 unit.

Any new stick is going to have a ton of new stuff to deal with. Just map your basic controls and add on as you feel comfortable. I've had mine for 3 years and am still adding the odd thing here and there.

Is this what you're looking for? [HotKey move] JoystickDevice0 AXE_Y=elevator JoystickDevice0 AXE_X=aileron AXE_RX JoystickDevice0=trimaileron AXE_RY JoystickDevice0=-trimelevator AXE_RZ JoystickDevice1=rudder AXE_U JoystickDevice0=-flaps AXE_X JoystickDevice1=brakes MouseAXE_Z=pitch AXE_Z JoystickDevice0=-power

You could cut a "U" shape from an old credit card and slip it under the spring for more tension but I suspect the play is internal and it won't help. I've never noticed it as a problem. I did find putting some non-petroleum lip balm (beeswax) on the shaft inside the spring helped the "stickiness" of the stick. Lubing the cone didn't really do anything. Pedals have holes for screws. I have mine wedged against the wall with a large book as a spacer but they do move in a panic maneuver, normal operations are just with the toes but sometimes you push pretty hard. One day I'll put a couple of screws in to hold em.

I know that one Christmas Eve soldiers in the trenches heard each other singing and ended up sharing treats before the officers put a stop to it so it isn't impossible. The Red Baron was a fighter pilot that killed without remorse. He himself said it was about sneaking upon people and murdering them before they knew what happened. I doubt he would have taken the chance of landing.

Pilots are taught to "step on the ball" to fly straight. You want to set up your pedals so that when the ball in the slip/skid tube is to the right side, pushing on the right pedal brings it to the center. I don't load a profile for the pedals either. I just set it up in the game controls. Set up your FOV so you can see the ball when flying in normal view, I move my player back in the cockpit with the trackIR position, and using the rudder will quickly become second nature.

Just check that your desktop settings for text size is set to default or 100%. Right click on desktop, screen resolution, "make text and other items larger or smaller" When I exit to desktop in game the resolution is the same as the game and some icons aren't visible, I though I could work around that by changing the above setting. Didn't take effect till reboot (by then I forgot I did it) and all kinds of strange things happened to Freetrack display, some of it looked like that. Took a while to figure out.

Get Track IR if you can afford it. Freetrack works as well but in addition to tweaking settings you have to get a suitable webcam and build the tracking part on your head. I'm using it with few complaints and once all the parts were gathered it took a few hours to build. Cost $40. http://www.dangerdogz.com/forums/index.php/topic,42.45.html

I just did the same thing. I just let it install IL2 in the default. The Ubisoft folder in Program Files has almost nothing in it. 8 files The Ubisoft folder in Program Files(x86) has the game installed, maybe that's what they meant? I found some things (custom mouse button assignments) didn't work unless I "run program as administrator". I've been screwing around with any user permission settings I can find to run every thing as admin.

Sid got his revenge on me too that mission. In 14 or 15 we had an aborted start but before that the Axis were slow to get in and I was at Messina as Sid was taking off in a FW and I caught him sleeping on climbout. In the last mission I had a Stuka take out my engine but I was peppering away (with the gunsight behind the stationary prop) with the last of my airspeed. I turned away and was in a nice engine out glide to ditch and Sid comes zooming in to take me apart.

I was reading a book about WW1 flying aces. A (disproportionately) large number were from Carleton Place(population 10,000) . This is a small town near Ottawa Ontario. No idea why that is. Born: 23 December, 1893 in Carleton Place, Ontario Died: 9 March, 1944 in Stouffville, Ontario Confirmed Victories:10 Arthur Roy Brown was one of four aces that came from Carleton Place, during WWI. http://www.billybishop.net/brown.html

Good choice. I have a P5B and 2.66. I'm thinking of upgrading to the 3.0 quad core. 4g ram minimum, Corsair makes matched pairs At least 700w

For decent performance you want to have a portion of your HD clear. 10% maybe?

That reminds me. Before I built this system my old one was doing all kinds of funny things. Slow loading, random reboots. Stress testing at the shop and it responded perfectly. Brig it home and hook it up .... same problems. Turns out my CH rudder pedals had an internal short that was causing everything. Maybe unplug some things and see.........

I had some funky things going on for a while too. Turns out a trojan was hiding in a file and changed my AV program to permissive(lowest setting) from the highest setting. Strangely enough, Win Defender caught it after a week. The file was a Game Booster install file BTW.

While not an expert in such matters it seems to me they feel they're an imposition to you or they would have asked. The hardest thing for my parents was the loss of their independence ....... "oh don't worry, I don't want to be a bother". Mom ..... there's no HEAT in the house. They were simply embarrassed that someone had to do things for them. I suggest stopping by just to say hello where they mention things while just chatting ....

No need to worry, by the time it's actually released it will run as an app in your i-phone.

I think the original AirHogs were air powered but mostly batteries now. http://www.airhogs.com/ There must be 100 different ones. Planes, ornithopters, heli's, gyros, zero-G cars..... wow. Saw this one a few days back for the first time. http://www.buyswitchblade.com/ Short duration no doubt but I'm impressed by their innovation.

The Pedestal campaign is being run in 4.08 modded and 2 more weeks left to completion. I'm not doing anything until it's over.

Really odd that I couldn't find a single reference in Google. Beep codes http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

In keeping with the theme of the thread Leslie Neilson is Canadian.

For years I've been watching those Air Hogs commercials on TV. They look pretty cool and so cheap. A guy at work has a RC Piper Cub replica, wingspan 7 ft. It cost him more than a real Cub would have. I figured I would just go the ultralight route.

Not sure what that means.

Not being an expert by any sense I would try to add some weight directly under the rotor shaft. Farther down the better, like tape some coins to the belly(no idea how much weight the thing could lift). It seems to me that would make it less responsive to the controls if it's too twitchy for you to get used to at first. Even the slightest gust of wind would be like a 50 mph wind to a small craft like that .... indoors maybe? And shouldn't a helicopter balance right at the rotor shaft?

Great tale Trout. Thanks