Envee

SPOILERS Spoilers Hardest mission i played yet. I had no ground reference and the upper atmosphere made it hard to stay level and even see. Flying into the sun was not easy either I am not a pilot but sit in a chair at home in front of a screen. Got a few hits in the bugger but shooting in their wake at that alt is not easy. Not enough damage to down him so stop chasing which also was not easy at alt and turned for home. Landed.

Why did they add stuff to a free flight only mission that looks like it is a target? The mission maker even specifically changed the color of the friendlies to make it appear as if they are the enemy. On top of that you get severely punished with a pilot points reset to zero if you do act on your impulse to shoot the red that normally represents the enemy. I mean i am not allowed to say here how stupid of a move that really is. They are almost baiting people on mission start to shoot stuff and then punishing them for it when mission ends. Did they think people would not shoot at red labeled targets even though for the last 326 hours they have shot at anything and everything that is red. I am just glad that i started in earnest, this week, to back up pilot log so i can actually reverse this bonehead move, i hope. I hope. Thanks for clarifying

Sorry, i should have said this is the Instant Action button at the top. You pick airplane on left, type of mission in middle and map on right. No means to select coalitions. No toggle for any of that. As soon as you pick the three you are loading game and will be ingame

So wanted to see a new default view where the view was not looking down by default. Copied the lua. Started game. I picked marianas ww2 and free flight - the top most selection. I just wanted to get in and see what the view was, but starting in the air. When loaded in i saw the island off in the distance with red markers on targets. Not blue. Blue to me meaning friendlies as was the case up until this game start. I load in and all targets around me are red. I see two planes in front of me. Cant really make them out. I see planes in the distance and tags say 190 A-8. So i know they are german. Did not pay attention too much to the tags of the planes in front of me which are in red. Game mode suggested no threat level so the red planes in front of me remaining "neutral" and not attacking me right away which was expected. So i pop a few roads off just for fun on one of the two in front after seeing that the new view is slightly higher up and does not look down by a few degrees anymore. Cool. Plane in front is on fire and dives away. Same with second plane after a squirt. I start to go for the 190's off in the distance. I shoot them down and quit game. Game says i was guilty of fratricide and my score has been reset. Uh...ok..so those red planes were mustangs? Why were they red? To me red means bad, kill, its the enemy. Shoot to kill, down them, eliminate them Does the free flight selection make them red?

Seven years later this is still the case. Bezos will do anything for money. Sad. I bought the version of FC2 that came with the ring bound manual and a map. It was a version of LOMAC with a separate disk for the FC2 mod.

Indeed it was not turned on. Imagine that. Fly all the way to france with no fuel pressure on. I suppose the pumps on the wobble pump at the start was enough to for the external which i was using. Thank you. Bagged two huns this time. I started on the mustang so this spit is pure joy to fly.

Same here. I moved to the Spit from the mustang and there you just select the tank and that is all you do. For my first 20 hours i was flying the mustang on very lean fuel as the switch was not even set to run. I figured that out later. I was limping all the way accross the channel and struggelign hard to even reach the height of the bombers. It would take me forever to get that high. That is when i said this cant be right as the plane was seriously having issues even getting to 20k. That is when the facepalm moment happened. You idjit, set mixture to run. From then on no more issues. But it did teach me how to fly better and deal with temps, opening the vents and closing them and RPM settings. With the spit you have to shut off main tank and then engage the drop tank. When empty i drop it and switch tanks. I am on mission 4 now of The Big Show and i had to learn how to deal with fuel since i ran out of fuel on the first mission. Learned how to use it but fuel is still an issue. Main tank fuel was down to less than %20 once landed last mission (3). Will need to start using proper climbing/engine management technique now. I am worried about fuel as i was dogfighting the last two missions and still had fly home. The limits on are that plaque in the cockpit. cruise ~2600 +4 Max Cont ~2500 +7 Max Climb ~2800 +9 Takeoff 3000 =12

I will look at engine temps more closely at high alts cos this is happening to me too. This initially happened to me when switching from drop tank, which was empty, to main tanks. The engine would just stop more or less and i would have to wait a bit, while pumping the hand pump, to get the fuel pressure back up. The engine would then start back up. The three times ive been up on the The Big Show campaign this happened to me. All three times when changing tanks and then also later on during the flight. All well above 25k. All of a sudden the fuel pressure light would come on despite the switch being set to pressurize the tank and the only thing that makes the light go off and get the engine running again is using the hand pump till the light goes off.