Slippa

Throttle was 100% open Tobi, it turned out to be a problem with the curves and axis settings. I tried setting it up the same way I have for the Huey and took off on my first attempt. I can ‘fly’ it ok now thanks. I can’t hover anything like as well as you of course but I can practice now and I love it. Cheers again for bringing it to us all, my favourite little chopper now .

Thar she blows Lookin lovely.

Cheers for the clip Brian, nice to see her flying . Keep up the good work all. This pictures thing is odd from here. I get different results with different devices. We need our fix of eye candy sit-reps don't we. I'm gonna go watch that again, burn some green lines into my retinas .

I spent a couple of hours last night trying to hover but couldn't get it off the ground. I'd start to lift and lose RPMs, hit the deck and wait for it to spool up again. This morning I tried messing with curves but still couldn't take off. It was more akin to mowing the lawn than flying. I Came here to look for anyone that's using a Warthog HOTAS as I don't have a fancy set up for helis. I ended up just copying the curves I have set for the Huey and (trumpet fanfare) I took off. Makes all the difference . Great little bird this is.

Aha, therein lies the problem . Suitably ashamed, for the life of me I couldn't work it out. I've found it now thanks, just installing and checking it now... and... Yep PBR Streetgang's on the water. Brilliant. Thanks for the pointer and of course, for the work.

I just spotted this and thought it should be in this thread too. I'm watching his controls indicator like a hawk . I'll have to get into training. He's pretty tidy but should be, he built it .

I've been looking for the PBR myself. I have them moored to the floating dock but I can't find the PBR individually in the ME anywhere. Any suggestions would be great. Never get outta the boat, absolutely god damned right, unless you were goin all the way .

I agree sadly, with Lucshep, the OP and Motoadve, only I have invested. I own all the WW2 bits apart from the I-16 and it's pretty gutting. I'd fly IL2 as it has every aircraft I want here but too much of that looks or feels naff compared to DCS. I'm stuck here pining for aircraft or moaning for fixes. It doesn't make a lot of sense either. Random decisions on maps or modules, all pretty baffling. I'd rather we had just one map if it meant we had the planeset for it and it made sense. Then move on to another map. As said above, there doesn't look to be any coherent plan or thread to follow so we feel we're treading water and it gets tiring.

Where we were everyone fell silent, like we were all just as overwhelmed by it. The 'fighter balbo' really is something else . I remember being at Biggin decades ago wishing we could see a sqn strength together one day. We're spoilt now, happily. I've lost count how many times I've seen and heard the Merlins and they still give me a buzz. Like qcumber we have them almost every day during the season, they're all over the place and I don't mind a bit . Nice pics btw Jeff. You'll have to get punting on the Cam as well next time. Best way to see the colleges floating along the backs. Brownie points with the missus too. Bring Gold bullion to pay for parking though. I've sat in two Spits. One when my Gran took me as a kid and they sat me in it on account of my Grandad (RAF retired) and the other, a MkIX 'Spirit of Kent', cost me a tenner. He let me mess with the stick and rudder, I closed the canopy and told him he'd never get me out of there . Bit of weird Spitfire trivia: My Great-Grandad's buried in the same churchyard as RJ Mitchell, a stonesthrow from the airfield. A lot of my mums side of the family lived all around the airfield, a lot of them trained, worked, or had their whole life there until retirement. My godfather was 14 when they were testing K5054 and lived a five minute walk away. He had spells working with Vickers and SaRoe, trained at Eastliegh and Daedelus with the FAA and when he came home from fitting Swordfish and the Arctic convoys he spent the rest of his working life back on the airfield. Most people around Hampshire have or have had a connection with the Spitfire, similar stories of working with them in some way. It's part of the culture. It's partly why they give me the buzz they do. More so after meeting a lot of veterans over the years that operated and loved them too. I've spammed and gone off on a tangent I know. Apologies. TLDR: They can't take the Spitfires Mitch, they can't take em. Duxford is magical.

I have the vwv bits installed but I can't find the PBR either. I see it moored with the floating dock but I'm still not sure if it is available as a single plottable vehicle? ETA: I didn't have it installed properly. It's there. I've almost capsized it turning, too eager for water-skiing .

That’s better, for me at least. Better test it thoroughly though .

Sensitivity isn’t.

Just logged in as I thought the same thing. I have every map bar Afghan and will check it out, save tracks etc. Problem I have is I’m having a bit of a Loach-affair with Tobi & Eightballs’ creation. Time in the Mossie vs lashing myself about dropping all kinds of coloured smoke. I’m plastered in face-paint unsure if I’m Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando or Dennis Hopper. I know, I know, it’s Hopper . I’ve already tested and tested on the Channel from different airfields, same loads. A lot more on N2 and not a lot on the others but I will . But… coloured smokes man! Imagine the Mossie with something crazy like target indicators and flares?

Ah, ok then cheers bignose .

That’d be good. Where can I get a voice attack for my neighbour? She keeps messing about moving peoples bins.

I’m already on the naughty step so I’m trying to be patient and tread lightly with this. The idea came from a good place and all too obviously must’ve made good sense on paper somewhere. We’re all after improvements and have to accept to a degree that things will change a bit along the way. At least now there’s some acknowledgment that enough of us really aren’t happy with what’s been done. Hopefully, we’re past the brick wall ‘there’s nothing wrong with it, read my data’ stuff and we can get it back on track, pardon the pun. i’d have been happier if we’d have been warned or as 4eyes says have had the option to stay with what we had. At least until someone had tried and tested the experiments properly. Hopefully, we’ll get something sensible back that we can be happy with. Not everybody’s gonna love it all but no matter what data goes into the tinkering, it’s got to be practical. Like I said, at least now it’s being looked at. Or… Give us our old Mossie back, pre-super-suspension and start work on another marque from the dream-team for future release (and sales)? Plenty of ideas and time to get it lovely . Lots of work.

If any of us simulated ourselves into the Mossie we have now we'd be in bleedin traction. I'm no engineer and I don't have a degree in aeronautics but if I get in my Mos on any map, it's just not sensible on the ground as it is.

I think I've just run into this picture thing? I can only upload 2.41mbs now apparently. Not sure how I should be upping pics on the forum really but maybe this is why the Lanc pics are gone? Might be time for that landing competition video? (any excuse eh)

Ooh ooh ooh, I've had a breakthrough! I shoulda checked my curves. They were all over the place. Maybe I might have had a beer or two and spent hours struggling with a knot I'd tied myself up in? Just maybe. hmmm. Ok, I was following tradition and getting on the sauce, perhaps I had one over the eight, determined to fly it at least as well as I can the Huey but I must've slipped my fingers over the curves and well, who knows what I was thinking . Once I sorted them I took off as soon as I tried to and orbited the airfield whooping. Yeah, I crashed it trying to roll it over but ooh I'm away now. Bit of sensible practice and I landed it tidy (ish) as well. Tobi, Eightball, it's the dogs knackers. I'm lovin it . Thanks, yet again. and cheers for the kneeboard cgjimeneza.

Yep, a surprise Birthday pressie from Mrs Slippa a few years ago now. A 100-400mmL, I almost fell over. Thankfully she got an almost new one second hand. Immaculate, all the bits, case etc. It's the old model, the new one wasn't around then. Not that I'd be looking for that kind of money, we ain't millionaires. Somewhere on the forum there was a thread with some really good pics from different people. Someone gave me the idea of trying one of those extenders so we'll see. edit: found it. Well aware of the D-Day annie show but cheers. Bit of a sore point indoors. I try to do a few if I can but I'm not great health-wise which buggers things up a fair bit. No Flying Legends these days either unless they've changed something? No doubt you'll have done those being up there? We used to do a lot more, we're old farts now in our fifties and I'm a bit knackered. We just missed a show we had good tickets for. Not cheap and couldn't do anything with our tickets. Happens too much to book anything but when all the stars come into alignment, now and then I get to enjoy something. I missed 99% of things last year and I do like to have a good sniff of the Merlins to keep me going . Was gutting though. I get little 'shows' all summer without trying so it's not like I go without but you have to do the shows properly as well as support the cause eh. I don't know how the forum sorts out pics but I could only up this one. I was up the field one day more or less with the place to myself. light aircraft coming and going when we got buzzed by the BBMF. They came belting in out of the blue, nice and low over our heads and a fella down the fence turned into a ten year old and asked me what they were, Spits or Hurricanes. I turned to him, every bit reduced to a ten year old too and told him "both" with a big grin . They can do that to ya can't they . Parky was flying P7 then. Obviously a special one being what it is. I took this with an iphone as I didn't have the camera then. You never know what'll fly in up there . I was just lucky that day.

I know it bounces as he turns here but it looks like a softer bounce to me. There’s a walk around video he does as well as another of him getting it out to his place. YouTube has more of the Mossie in New Zealand knocking about. I’m sure most are aware but for those interested, ya know.