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Saiteks are about the best in the under $200 range but Crosswinds are about 5 times as good for twice the price of the Saiteks

I'll have to miss this Tuesday

I did a search of the forums for controller issues and found damn little. This thread appears to be related https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/62290-i-need-help-please/?tab=comments#comment-961436 heh... or not... he had a loose wire

Heh, not exactly.... the "E" key will still stop the engines once running. You'll want to have more altitude than I did if you try this.

Confirmed. If you hit the button twice it's fuel off, engines stop. No presses of the "E" key after that have any effect, HOWEVER, if you then use the RCtrl +1 and RCtrl + 2 (default start/stop for engines one and two) they will fire up.

I like to use toms guides as a start when looking for hardware. Search "tom's guide gaming monitor" and see what they say

I don't know what to make of this but I know the creator is a well respected military analyst and podcaster. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1198050/War_Remains_Dan_Carlin_Presents_an_Immersive_Memory His podcasts are some of the best stuff I've ever heard. The Hardcore History WW1 series called Blueprint for Armageddon is about 20 hours and riveting. Oh.... and free. https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ Current series is on the rise of Japan pre-WW2 - Supernova in the East.

Over across the pond we often join a server with AI online to play. There are a few with icons (usually simplified engine management as well) and later you can up the game too others with no icons. They're interesting objective based missions with the added intrigue of the (very) occasional breather. A gaggle of Dogz would have no trouble controlling the sky and a dogfight gets everyone back in the action. Shooting star server (Normal and expert servers) and the Unprofessionals come to mind immediately, I'm sure there are others

Thanks all for the help. I have a reprieve of sorts. I only had 9 MB (of 250) space left on my SSD. I'm told its very bad to have an SSD more than about 75% full. Ordered a 500MB SATA 2.5 inch. My mobo is just a bit too old to take full advantage of an NVMe stick... by the time I can use one a 10 TB will be $20 Moved DCS bloatware (88mb?) to the storage drive. DCS seems to run OK, just takes a long time to load.

SATA is 6 mb/s. Each path in a PCI 4 slot is also 6 mb so your HD is now working on 24 mb/s if you support the NVMe format and all your stuff plays nice. Probably noticeable in something like DCS. In my case ... probably not

This board is just before the M.2 slot came about. PCI slots are faster data transfer than SATA and this type of drive cools better than an enclosed SATA drive = faster speed and longer life. Apparently there are adapters > M.2 to PCI-e .... still investigating..

So I have a Asus P8Z68-V mobo. My small (250) SSD is almost full. I have empty PCI slots that I could plug in an SSD. However, I think I can't boot from PCI slot SSD but I'm thinking I leave the O/S on the drive I have now, migrate games over to the PCI slot drive and run from there. Does this make sense? Overview Specifications Gallery Support

Set up that old 24" monitor as a second and display it there.

There's a setting under the realism tab where you select the type of mission (single, one on one, dogfight) to start with a "warmed up engine".....

You have a personality. If that "pilot" isn't there, the show still goes on no? Lets play

hmmm. I had CH pedals once. They developed an internal short that caused all kinds of strange problems ... random reboots... on a Win XP machine I think

OK so he has a list of requirements... 1. Get a group of friends and a person willing to host an event. - I think we have that covered 2. It can be as long or as short or as organized as you want ... OK, it has to be at least a little organized. - we can manage here.... 3. Set the time period and make your alter egos in the campaign. - "characters" covered... 4. Schedule a time and fly. - what are we waiting for?

1. GBS 2.CloD 3. DCS 4. 46 1. Tues 2. Thurs 3. Mon 4. Fri 5. Sun

Salute sir. Beautiful stuff.

Beautiful work

Not quite sure what to make of this. I present it without comment. The story of Lancaster LM582 and its crew on the night of the 17/18th of December 1944 https://onenightindecember.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/2-pilot-pod/

All the same stuff is available in cockpit. Go to the map, open briefing, specification tab.

Agreed but knowing how to bleed off speed, how to loose altitude without gaining speed, how to abbreviate a landing are certainly skills I would consider a prerequisite to combat flying.

Landing is all about speed control. Elevator trim is your cruise control for keeping your speed in check. A little more complicated than I could explain here but on approach you should not be doing much with the stick, full nose up trim and throttle adjustment should set you down in the right spot. If you want to learn the basics I'd be happy to spend some time on landings with you. Let me know or join me on TS.

At first you're just falling out of control from engine torque , no flight surface is doing anything ... there isn't enough air flowing . Chop power, center everything and wait till it stabilizes and you can identify the direction of spin. Then opposite rudder to stop the spin, then begin to pull out of the dive gently.