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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?.

You can pull the toggle to raise the smoked glass panel (glare shield) in front of the gun sight, the animation works for this fine, but the glass fails to raise. Fantastic module though ED, I'm loving it :thumbup:

Great post Chief. :thumbup: Really good read, thank you for posting.

Good news buddy :thumbup:

On the first step in the start up checklist where you advance the throttle until the low fuel pressure light and the u/c light illuminates, the throttle is hitting a toggle switch on the throttle quadrant and pushing it forward turning those lights on. You can click on this switch after shut down and this will switch it to the off position and kill the lights and I assume turn the battery off? Anyway check your throttle quadrant and you should see the switch at the base of the lever about half way along its travel.

I had an issue this morning where I refuelled ok but on starting the engine I couldn't get the low fuel pressure light to extinguish. I was using both the fuel primer pump and the wobble pump, couldn't get the light out, and the engine obviously failed to start. Thought Id mention it here first to see if this is something that has been reported before or me missing something in the re-start checklist.

This is quite interesting. watch what happens and what he does with the stick from about 3.00 onwards. and this one on the rearward view you can see the elevators reacting to a stick forward movement to gat the tail up quick on the T/O roll. Both have stick hard right at the start of the T/O roll and ease it back to central position as the speed builds up.