VIMANAMAN

Cheers TurboHog, yeah AI enemy. And thanks for the tips, I'll try your suggestions tonight. I was aware of the wingspan / range thing, but hadn't made the time to look up the necessary info & keys. It's time for me to read the book on the fixed / predictor sights properly, and stop wasting lead.

Holy cow, this sim is awesome! This is very similar to last vid, but I'm having a hoot. Still working on the shooting straight thing. Now practising at 20K, and over land and finding things a bit harder. But starting to understand whats going on and when to do what. Some of the time anyway, and if I'm not already full of holes that is. Truly awesome work ED/TFC! PS thanks Leafer.

Test Thanks Peter P. Testing. Testing.

I got lucky if anyones interested. Sorry it's not HD. Gotta work on shooting straight.

Help pls - how to post a vid Can anyone advise how to attach, either a youtube vid or better still the Fraps vid, MS media itself (higher res)? Incidentally - I was developing these notes in the briefing part of the mission, as I progressed... they're helping me a lot anyways. ...And they made me smile as I was being flamed most of the time - 'Head on 1v1 - 10,000ft, 300IAS, 5nm speration. learnings - 1. Learn to fly 'without taking your eyes off him' (LOOK around, move your head!). 2. Get him on the lift line... (think: lead / trail). Be agressive, pull hard! (beware high E stalls and G lock). BUT don't hurry, some spacing is good. 3. Reverse! BUT NOT too early! Nose down for max roll rate. 4. High revs when he takes you vertical. Slow = big inputs / stall turn >125IAS. 5. ONLY SHOOT HITS, (ACCURATE, SHORT snaps are OK). 6. Lower revs in a dive to build E. 7. If low & EA performs high attack turn hard into him horizontally - He's gotta turn away or go swimming. 8. If he gets behind you scissor like crazy! It works! 9. And / or move out of his plane of motion. (or into another plane completely, like an F15) 10. Lastly & perhaps most importantly, try not to bump into the nearby planet. Good luck! you'll need it. Have the bus fare home with you.' Anyways how to post a vid advice would be much appreciated. Gotta retire now tho so thanks in advance - V

Got the bleeder! I've not tried to attach a You tube link before... But in theory here's a vid of my finest fight to date? I got lucky a couple of times following the merge & my shooting sucks! WIP. 1v1 against AI - 10000ft, 300IAS, head to head start 5nm out, the only 'cheats' are the weight adjustment, and I ditched the 'head movement due to G', as I couldn't see where I was shooting! Can't work out how to upload to Youtube a higher res version!? Hope this works! Well chuffed as I was begining to think this wasn't possible. V

Persevere Kuky! I just flamed my first AI bandit - it's taken a week of pretty full on practise and I've only done it once. I've helped him dump some fuel a few times - but just blew his wing off an hour ago. Stick at it. You know you've gotta increase his weight equiv to a full ammo load right? If I can find fraps and work out how to do the thing with the stuff I'll upload it. V

Thanks cichlidfan I didn't realise that - makes sense now you say it as the options overlap considerably - Will add more votes where applicable. BIG THANKS TO ED FOR THIS AWESOME SERIES!

What do I think about the DCS P-51D? If it's as good as it looks, I'd buy it! And it looks uber cool, so knowing ED models it will be! Learning to tame a powerful prop driven drag tail is always big fun! Having said that, it will be frustrating and ultimately a bit boring, not having an immersive enemy / environment to mix it up with. So I voted for modern jets and helo's - which ED have done so far in a truly outstanding way - nothing comes close in my experience!! ...BUT if ED did a parallel WW2 era scenario like a western European map, to the same level of detail as DCS - Jeese I'd buy shares! PS It could be me but there's something wrong with the percentage total, quick count = 166%? PPS First post please be gentle :) V