AndyJWest

As far as I can tell, if you select less than 100% fuel in the loadout, the forward fuel tank is filled first, and any remaining fuel goes into the rear tank - so for instance starting with 50% fuel (262 litres) fills the front tank (232 litres) completely, with the rear 292 litre tank then holding 30 litres. I wonder if this is correct, or whether they should be filled evenly? The manual isn't entirely clear, but I think it implies that both tanks should be emptied together until almost empty, and accordingly the 50% fuel loadout results in the centre of gravity being rather far forward compared to a normal situation, possibly making the lack of up trim situation when landing worse. Any thoughts?

Nope. The Fw 190 (like the Bf 109) had no rudder or aileron trim.

Unless I'm missing something here, I think that al IvanK needs to do is move his head position up - the gunsight ring is focused at infinity, and should therefore move up too. It certainly works like that with TrackIR

Yup, same problem.

The D-9 hasn't been released yet.

The Hanriot HD.1/HD.2 has been released. The floatplane HD.2 version:

Great photo, MysticPuma!

Possibly. And the planned aircraft would be out of place on the map. And the existing map only covers the extreme southerly part of the Caucaus front anyway.

Don't know - but you have certainly posted your question in the wrong place...

Sent. :pilotfly:

Thank you Wags. It's good to see that you are listening to us.

I think I've tracked down what was causing my problems - I was using an old Saitek RumbleForce gamepad as a secondary controller, and unplugging it has cured the crash. I've had problems with it before, and I should probably bin it...

:mad:

My dxdiag file: DxDiag.txt I've reverted back to version 1.2.7 for now, as explained here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=114030 As far as I can tell, this version seems to work ok.

I hadn't run DCS for a couple of months. Updated to 12.8. As soon as I try to run a mission (or replay), I get a windows 'DCS has stopped working' dialog. :mad: Details: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: dcs.exe Application Version: 1.2.8.27915 Application Timestamp: 537df6ef Fault Module Name: pid.dll Fault Module Version: 6.1.7600.16385 Fault Module Timestamp: 4a5be03a Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 0000000000002d52 OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 2057 Additional Information 1: da3b Additional Information 2: da3b245c387cda21ca2c9e43d0181353 Additional Information 3: cecc Additional Information 4: cecccb80368f4c66d7c4c821e8d52a15 At this point, on closing the Windows dialog DCS carries on, and I get a DCS 'Cannot open debriefing file' message. Any suggestions?

Looking good. :clap:

Mosquito

My first successful landing - came in rather fast though. :ermm:

Many thanks to cichlidfan for his generosity - the Huey will have a good home. :D I'm airborne :pilotfly: The copilot doesn't seem impressed by my first landing :cry_2: I'm clearly going to need time to master this beast...

A UH-1H Huey would be nice. :thumbup:

A climbing flat spin? Difficult, as the aircraft is stalled (or at least, one wing will be). As for 'roll speed', an aircraft doesn't roll in a flat spin, it yaws. I think you may have got your terminology mixed up somewhere.

At a given speed and rate of turn, the G force is fixed. Flaps make no difference whatsoever.

BBQ, Luthier explains all that in the first post. He's in the process of finalising how rewards are selected.

Regarding the 'elliptical wing effect', it is worth remembering that the Spitfire has noticeable washout too - something like 3 degrees, from memory. Consequently, the wing root should generally stall before the tips.