VIMANAMAN

+1 DCS 51 is like nothing else I've ever flown / played (whatever) - truly awesome in my experience / opinion. The range, depth and subtlety of control is mind blowing - spent a lot of time doing simple circuits over the weekend, and at the end of it I was still exploring different / better ways of getting fine control.

After many weeks not flying, this thread inspired me to just do a few circuits again, and boy is it satisfying when you do an ok circuit / landing! I didn't have anything else planned this weekend so two full days of practise:) - Incidentally I usually drop flap 1 whilst downwind to land, to control speed with the gear up still. Then drop the gear and flap 2 pretty much at the same time as i turn base. Sounds like that's not the proper procedure but it seems wrong to go to 150ish mph (with a sheeet load of drag) with no flaps?? Whatever procedure you use and as a few folks here have said already .. practise, practise, practise is really important and makes a massive difference. By the end of today I was side slipping through fairly silly cross winds, albeit pranging half the time, but the other half of the time wrestling the ship down - great fun. Plenty of using differential braking just to stay straight on the roll out. I went crazy and slowly ramped up the cross wind element - cross winds are damn hard but not impossible - best circuit I've managed was 11mps perpendicular to the RWY. (but as I said I broke plenty of ponys). Bally good fun tho! Thanks all contributors for inspiring me to take to the air again and have some bloody good fun.

Just an idea... Schnell boats operated in the black sea in mid/late wwii. I understand they operated in flotillas or squadrons - it'd be fun to attack a group of maritime fast movers! Altho I think they we're quite well defended with several HMGs or canons per boat. Anyone got a spare £3K for a 3d max license? If so I'll mod a Sboat!:megalol: ...Ho Hum, in my dreams.

Hi Guys, This VTA CG sounds very cool! I haven't been paying very close attention to the forum lately for various reasons, mainly work related stuff, wont bore you... I'd really be up for joining a fighting group like this - seriously - coop / duels / whatever, it would be great fun to fight with known dudes from the forum. Set times I could commit to, it would be excellent fun. I'm TS ready I think, but untested as yet. I can't make tomorrow (5-9-12) and probably not next Wednesday either - too many people getting married at the mo - but beyond that... You could count on me as an enthusiastic wingman or bit of live bait! You'd need to walk me through TS tho. Just a thought - It would be fun to fly top cover for an hour or 2, while you guys did formation practise on an open server - If TS was up I could 'discourage' any unwelcome interference with great pleasure:) Hope to fly with you guys soon. V

That's excellent news, thanks Olgerd / Yo-Yo. Will look forward to this. TY

Holy crepes! Where the...? What the...? Another leap forward in immersion for DCS 51.

Nice one Echo, will do. PS dunno how I managed to repeat previous post - Suspect my visit to the pub had something to do with it.:music_whistling:

Hey Echo Excellent - I'd be up for a go at least - dunno how the 51 v a10 will pan out - I suspect I'll have the advantage in the 51 - but I could be wrong and depends on the day - it's all for fun anyways and one hit from the A10 is worth 20 from the 51, in theory. I have TS3 loaded, but untested - haven't a clue how to set this up just know that I have the icon active in the bottom right of screen? Altho mic tested and working. Have Steam always running, from my ROF days. I could use your help to get the two systems singing from the same song sheet. Sounds good re your own server and mission - I must get my spare PC back to work as a MP server - I'm not so tech savvi as I'd like! Anyways come back if still up for some Gunzo fun!

Hey Echo Excellent - I'd be up for a go at least - dunno how the 51 v a10 will pan out - I suspect I'll have the advantage in the 51 - but I could be wrong and depends on the day - it's all for fun anyways and one hit from the A10 is worth 20 from the 51, in theory. I have TS3 loaded, but untested - haven't a clue how to set this up just know that I have the icon active in the bottom right of screen? Altho mic tested and working. Have Steam always running, from my ROF days. I could use your help to get the two systems singing from the same song sheet. Sounds good re your own server and mission - I must get my spare PC back to work as a MP server - I'm not so tech savvi as I'd like! Anyways come back if still up for some Gunzo fun!

Hey Echo38 - I'd be up for some MP Gunzo practise mate :) A few limitations at this end tho... Only got the P51 on World and haven't sorted out Tspeak yet. But if that still works for you then we can sort out a time and a server (presumably crimson flag?) and have a laugh? I haven't done much MP. I'm GMT +1 i.e. UK BST - I'm not around tonight but tomorrow was planning to fly one way or another. Either reply or PM me if this works for you dude. No worries if not.

Hey Wolf, It was good to fly with you, albeit fairly briefly on Sunday as 'Telemachus', next time I'll just sign on as Viamanaman - but still don't know the ropes, as you'll have probably noticed, sorry about exploding a 51 on your server:doh: Anyway not done much MP and worried about fouling other more experienced players up, but working on comms so should be good to go shortly. I Must practise TO and LDG! Hope to fly with you again soon. Thanks V

Nice one Bill, just read it today. Good stuff, thanks.:thumbup:

Thanks Wolf. I've seen your server up a few times - I'll join you guys next time I see it, and say hi. I've gotta do stuff for a few hours today but might get some time later. I should warn you - I haven't practised ANY formation stuff at all, (even with the guns on safe, I'll probably be a danger to myself and others:)) I'll keep out of the way (and try and get team speak organised). Thx

Multiplayer? I know this probably ought to be in the multiplayer section, but specifically re the Pony - where are the servers to practise coop and head to head fighting? Am I not looking in the right places?

Thought it would be interesting to tangle with the AI above high mountains. It's a lot of fun when you've got to recover speed and find a valley at the same time:) Best fights are too long to show and tend to end without a kill, but have some awesome close encounters with terrain:) I was pleased with the turning at height - As Yo-Yo said if you centre the ball you sure can get a high rate of turn! - in a flatish turn I think you can V slowly out turn the AI, under the right circumstances. I've been trying to get the hang of the predictor sight - no joy - thanks Mop for highlighting it needs a fix. Believe it or not I wasn't using labels (altho I wished I was a certain times).

Nice one mop I thought it was me as well. Back to basics then.

Frustratingly it's all guess work I'm afraid... and thus not much use... I've checked all possible sources of the info you asked for and I really have wiped everything - last back up was May:music_whistling:. I usually keep all but have been trying to solve the bug I have. For what it's worth... It was a DIY 4v4 mssion using default conditions with time changed to 0800 i think, + clouds at unkown height and density - no temp changes, no wind or turb. The fuse tank was empty - started with about 50-60% fuel. Flaps='30%'. I was 'right tank heavy' as forget to switch - and it was a 15-20 mins high settings fight to this point. About 80-90% ammo expended - no external stores. Oh and I'd been 'lightly hit' by the AI several times. As you say you can read the rest from the pit. Sorry I can't give you facts - that's the best I can do. Best rgds V

:lol: Hi PeterP, Unfortunately no track!! :doh: My install of 1.2 had a small problem so wiped everything and re-installed (still got small problem! - need to research bug threads properly to comment more on that, and I have a feeling it might be my setup). Sorry :)

Thanks Wolf - I thought private meant only those with link could view it:doh: It's public now.

Sounds like this issue has been explored pretty much fully... ...but for the record it existed before 1.2. This is 1.1.2.1 from 6-7-12. I've only experienced it this once but found it pretty odd then. But equally I was aware I was on the edge of control. For what it's worth...

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Hope this is the right place for this (and that this works properly). This is player v AI at 27K ft. [ATTACH]68522[/ATTACH] This is AI v AI at 27K ft. [ATTACH]68521[/ATTACH] I'm not sure I've done this correctly so just in case and to be clear - player does not leave contrail. Awesome module TY

Nice going Budgiesmuggler! I aint no expert but that looked pretty surgical - and glad I'm not the only one breaking the wings off occasionally:music_whistling: That change has been catching me out, amongst others. x2 speed seemed to match your tenacity:D Loved the walkaway at the end :)

Just keep at it mate - if you've put holes in him once or more... then obviously you can shoot his ass down if you persevere! Nice going by the sounds.

Congrats on your AI kill DDSSTT!