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Agreed. Brixmis, you should offer your services (and voice) to ED for this and make it official. Loved the voice overs you did on the Gazelle campaign. :thumbup: They are releasing a campaign for the Spitfire when it reaches full release right, a perfect opportunity for you I recon........

How do you know if ASW is on or off? I tried this method but don't get anything in the rift view confirming that ASW is on or off. I just tired it in game on a server to see if there was any difference but it's difficult to notice anything and I am not getting any confirmation from the rift that what I have selected has had any effect.

Sounds like a plan. Don't forget to let us know your impressions of it too :thumbup:

Yes, the external views F2 and F3 are great. First time I tried it my chin hit the floor!!! completely different from 2D external views. Also when you get your rift, now this will sound sacrilege but, take a Spitfire up to say 8000ft or so then bale out! take a look around on your way down. I wont spoil it for you but the feeling and view of it is awesome! :D Another thing is to be sitting in the Spitfire with your rift on then physically stand up, you will be wanting to climb out and walk on the wing....it's that real! The detail you see in the Spitfire cockpit is great, lots you would miss on a 2D monitor. I found along with a serial and model number, an Air Ministry stamp on the bottom of the gun sight in the Spitfire. I would have never seen stuff like this on my 32" flat screen TV with TrackIr. BTW......have you ordered it yet?....come on....get your skates on...what you waiting for?? :) EDIT I have also found I get much better fps and consequently a better experience playing in SP mode unless the server has a low number of players on there. I get between 45 and 90 fps in SP, whereas I get anything from 15 to 35 fps on a busy server so I'm assuming it's either the server speed, my internet connection, my system or the amount of folks on the server that's bottle necking it. if it's dropping to 15-20 fps I normally come off the server as it's not good and spoils the experience. Either way dburne, you should get a real good experience with your rift if you play SP exclusively.

Stand by to be blown away!! :D That first time I fired it up and jumped in the Spitfire.....wow. You can even stand up in the cockpit and look at the external model, awesome. I really got the feel of how small and compact some of those cockpits are.

Thanks for the info SiTh. :thumbup:

This may have changed, but you needed to ask the ground crew to equip them for you prior to the mission. I haven't flown the Gazelle at night for a while, but that is what I had to do to get them to work.

Good thread. Well, I pulled the trigger on a Rift a couple of days ago. I got £100 worth of vouchers from work last Christmas and didn't use them. I got a further £100 this year. All those plus another £20 in vouchers got me £220 off the £549 retail price so I couldn't resist one at around 40% off!! Unfortunately my rigs USB's don't support the rift (they are Renesas):( so I've had to get another USB 3.0 board and still waiting for it to arrive (tomorrow they say), so I'm chomping at the bit to try it out on the Spitfire. I was sitting on the fence on this for a long time, the discounted purchase finally made up my mind to take the plunge. I'll report back as to what my impressions of it are when I get it to work. I have had quite a bit of experience of the real thing. I am ex-RAF ground crew, and part of my old job was to carry out installed engine ground runs (great fun :)) both day and night, so know what it feels like sitting there with everything fired up. It will be interesting to see if I get a similar "sat in the cockpit" feeling with this!

Good find, this looks great. :thumbup: With a planned release of spring 2018 though we do have a bit of a wait, but it sure looks as if it will be worth it.

I'm currently reading "Sigh for a merlin" by Alex Henshaw, brilliant read by the way, and in it he discribes carrying out a full throttle dive in a MkV and the controls locked solid. He had to use the elevator trim to pull out! but it did recover to controlled flight no problem.

You got a Rift for Christmas then! :D Yeah, I'm also looking forward to Normandy release. It looks stunning......

:thumbup: ED's hard earned cash would be better off spent on further development of DCS WW2. I too would rather have a better in game experience any day than a T shirt. DCS WW2 is headed in a great direction, well done ED.

Just read the latest newsletter. Great to see there are big things to look forward too for DCS WWII, the Normandy map is looking fantastic, and the detail ED are putting into it including the Atlantic Wall is awesome. New damage models too :) Looking forward to the Normandy map a lot! :thumbup: The mission makers are going to have a field day with this map.....

Also I've noticed your oxygen tank isn't topped up during re-arm either. If it's 1/4 full when u land, it remains at 1/4 full after the refuel. The ground crew guys also scream out 'hey, where are you going?' when you taxi out following a re-arm re-fuel.

Not just you mate......I think they were better back then, way better. Less restrictions on the display and a LOT more variety of aircraft. Just looking at that video first 10 mins or so, the Buccaneer....gone, the F-4 Phantom....gone, the Vulcan.....grounded. They are not what they were for sure. I spent 3 years at RAF Leuchars working on VAS (Visiting Aircraft Section) - my first tour in the RAF in the late 80's, and we organised all the handling of the aircraft on air show days. It was great, I got to work on all sorts of stuff from all nations, I still have a box load of aircrew embroidered patches for different squadrons, must have a hundred of them. Defence cuts are one of the main reasons, the variety of different aircraft just isn't there anymore in the RAF alone, a mere fraction of what was in service when I was in. Also insurance companies have their say too on what they are allowed to do now. Air shows are still a fantastic day out but they are now somewhat toned down affairs. For me the BEST air shows now are the Duxford ones, BoB and Flying Ledgends....awesome. Where else can you see 20+ Spitfires doing an aerial ballet that brings a lump to the throat every single time I see it.

Great read Friedrich. :thumbup: If only H. Bath & Son Ltd knew how much that aircraft would be worth now!!! and they bought it for scrap.... :sad_2:

Same here.....great little mod :thumbup:

Great mod, thanks for sharing it. I'll give it a try.....using TrackIr here. In the long term though I hope ED will implement the pilots seat lever which will raise and lower our view that way. EDIT Just downloaded the single screen mod and took a look inside, there are several folders in there for F86, SA342, Uh-1h, and the Hawk as well as the Spitfire. I take it we wont need these for the Spitfire only? I deleted them all except the Spitfire one before installing via JSGME.

Well, after reading Chief's first post, I'm having quite a bit of success with lifting the tail on t/o now. Neutral trim set, open the throttle to 8lb boost, push the stick forward to get the nose up, then around 90 - 100mph relax the forward pressure on the stick and she just lifts off maintaining direction all the time with the rudder dance.....beautiful.

Out of interest anyone know what the speed difference is between our IX and the clipped wing version? I'm assuming the existing FM will only need tweaking? or will it be a complete re-work?

This is caused by vapour locks in the fuel line at altitude. Turn the fuel pump on and pressurise the fuel tanks.

+1 and also thanks for allowing us to have the Early Access to modules and giving us the opportunity to help out a little. It's a real pleasure :joystick:

I found this also, but I just mapped a switch on my throttle to open and close it.

Great post, thank you :thumbup:

The aircraft will happily fly inverted for a sustained period and even do an outside loop without any loss of engine power. Not sure if our Mk IX could do this, if so ignore this! otherwise could be a bug.. EDIT I think I may have found my answer..... Another old problem was solved on Mk. VC: the negative G-force cutting the engine. Every time a Spitfire chased an enemy aircraft, which went into a dive by pushing forward the stick, the Spitfire had problems with engine cutouts and consequent power and speed loss. The negative G’s pressed the floats in the carburettor to top of their housing and thereby cut off the fuel and thus starving the engine and after that overdosing the engine with fuel and cause suffocation. So far the Spitfire pilots had to make a half roll before starting the dive. This slowed down the Spitfire during combat. Therefore a Bf109 could with relative ease dive away from a Spitfire, because the Daimler-Benz engine used in the Bf109 was fitted with fuel-injection. Many attempts were done to overcome this problem. The best solution to this problem was to fit a restrictor into the fuel line ensuring that the engine never got more fuel than it could “eat”. It worked quite well, but the problem was not solved until a standard SU AVT40 float carburettor was modified by removing the floats and replacing them with a diaphragm unit. This came as an unpleasant surprise for many German pilots when they discovered that their old manoeuvre did not work any more. The engines fitted with the the new type of carburettor was designated as the Merlin 50-series. A Bendix Stromberg injector-carburettor was also tested, however, it increased the fuel consumption at high altitude without being better than the AVT 40. Later Mk. V’s used an SU injector-carburettor that - depending of the altitude - increased the top speed by 5 mph (8 km/h) and up to 15 mph (25 km/h) compared to AVT 40 carburetted Spits. So our Merlin 66 didn't suffer from this issue then?.