Sydy

Guys, Pretty stupid question. How do I assign it to the F-18 TDC? I tried the axis assign and I can not select it. :-( I just can’t assign the axis to the TDC. Any tips, Please? Tks in advance, Sydy

Thank you! It was a success here.:pilotfly: I will post some pictures for the colleagues: The kit and tools ready for the job The kit itself. I had to disassemble the slew sensor before instalation. It was good because I could get acquainted to it. Screws and disassemble of the throttle is pretty straight forward, but the most difficult part to me was to remove the old sensor. You gotta be careful and double check with a flashlight (a torch for the uk guys) :D to see the tabs that locks it into place: New sensor in its place. Now we have to choose the front plate (round or square) to fix it. I selected the square front plate so I have a joystick feeling and can find the corners easily. Front view of the sensor before the front plate installation. Square Front plate installed. Just plug the cable and close the thing. :joystick: Instructions are very good and straight forward. You just have to be careful so you do not cut any wire by mistake. Thanks a lot for the tip and Delta Sim, congratulations for an awesome kit for the community. All the best, Sydy

Tks, doing it now. I will post a followup.

Reflected, I am sure it is a ED and DCS thing, not you. Anyway, I would recommend the campaign to anyone. I vouch for the fun. Tomorrow I will post another video. It will be the mission with bomb drop. Edit: Editing the movie today, the drop was not that bad over Rouen. All the best, Sydy

Hi guys, I just received mine! I will install it tomorrow. I found the instructions very complete. Any special or last minute tip? Do I have to re-map my settings or it is ok? Did you guys back up the input confir folder? Tks for the tips, Sydy

Reflected, I just flew the test mission now. I got surprised it was a Mustang, not a spit. LOL FPS was average of 60 during the escort, but dropped to 3 for about 4 seconds during the bomb drop, got stable at 20 during the bomb fall and another drop to 2 fps for 3 seconds during the explosions then went back to 60fps. All the best, Sydy

Hi guys, Here goes my mission 8: "Dive bombing". If you want to jump into the action, go to 11:00 where most of it starts. Reflected, I will fly that test mission now. I let you know. All the best, Sydy

Hi Gerd, Nice you restarted the campaign. I flew it for the fun. To post a screenshot, you have to find a free image hosting service. Google it and find a nice one for you. Good you made it back. I also returned once smoking like hell. Safe flights and good hunting. All the best, Sydy

Well, I agree that to fight AI is kinda predictable, but it is fun anyway. Remember that not all LW pilots were aces and many were naive and inexperienced. These were killed fast. If they give me a chance, I will kill them and let their CO to write to their AI Mamas! LOL Let’s wait a bit and see if everybody can get a good streak. I agree that I lucked it out several times, but I did my share to lower LW numbers! :pilotfly: I will check it tonight. I will let you know. I will keep the movies coming out one per day until I complete the 12. What a shame my audios were crappy... lol All the best, Sydy

Hi guys, Mission 7: Tussle in the stratosphere. This is the first time I flew a dogfight at 40.000ft in a WWII airplane in DCS. All the best, Sydy

Hi guys, Here goes video 6. My voice audio came out very low again. I tweaked Shadowplay today, but the I think the others will be about the same. Still to check. ${1} All the best, Sydy

Interesting... What about the explosions on the ground? Did you try with only that? I don't know how significant is to "see" the bomb drop itself? I never saw it... Well... We gotta give it a thought. Hi Neal, For me, it did. It's a lot of money but I saw an improvement of more than 40% in frame rate, Today, getting a shot of my config to post in here, I decided to up the Shadows a bit. It was Flat Only (I thought it was higher). Btw, as promised here goes my config in DCS: And this is my PC at the moment: Intel I7-7700k OC 14% @ 4.8 for stability Asus ROG Formula IX Memory Corsair Vengeance 64GB 3600Mhz but running @3000Mhz for stability Zortak RTX 2080 CPU Cooler Kraken X62 HD SSD 960GB Sandisk Ultra II (system) HD 3T for storage M2 SSD Pro Evo 500G for DCS NZXT Case S340 Windows 10 Home 64 Hotas A-10 Warthog Crosswind pedals TM MFD Cougar (2) Monstertech Hotas support Track IR5 Gametrix Seat Asus 32in 4k monitor for DCS LG 28in secondary monitor That's my system. I think it is a good one and will last for a while running DCS. All the best, Sydy

Hi Reflected, Yep, that’s what happened to me, a slide show! LOL Maybe we could mature another solution, like some of the bombers dropping added to some ground explosions. I think that was the low point in the entire campaign, but nothing really “NO GO”. Just may be improved. Gerd, I agree. I literally was lucky. I rtb pretty much shot to hell three times, one I landed in the first field I saw and I was smoking like and Wild West locomotive. Other two, with some systems malfunction, but I made it. Lucky is part of the war. Some dogfights were epic. a lot of work for one kill. Others were epic because there were buggies like fireflies in the summer sky. In two of them I got 3 kills. Several times AI “stole” the kill. The best of it? Got it all registered. I am back at home and I will edit the videos. I loved this campaign. Edit: Gerd, understood your question. There was only one mission that I “aborted to desktop”. During the dive bombing mission, I was trying to adjust the pitch and I pressed the bomb drop button on the throttle by mistake. I got pissed off because I had trained a lot and I flunked the mission right after depart due to a stupid mistake. This was the only one I aborted (really upset for my own stupidity). Btw, I promised to publish my specs. I will do so later today. All the best, Sydy

Pretty cool!

I saw the same and registered in video. Good report!

Hi Reflected, 1- the best were the Radar at Dawn and the Scapa Flow Intercept because they marked my teenage reading. 2- The unsavory incident was the one I liked the least because during the bomb drop it was the only occasion I had stutering and low fps. 3- Nothing come to my mind at this moment, I liked the packaged you created. A LOT! 4- I liked the briefings, but I liked the single page at the kneeboard more. I’d rather preffer to add that same single page to the pdf briefing end. I like the idea to leave it open in my second screen. 5- Wednesday, once I get back from my RL mission, I will post my specs and config. I had shadows on all the time, but, as I said, the pc spec is beefy. And I have a lot of video editting to do. Some dogfights were epic and two of them with 3 kills. I got my share of shells as well and a lot of luck, but Clostermann had it as well. Congrats, Reflected! All the best, Sydy

Hi guys, I couldn't resist and flew it all today. I have to confess that the last one was quite hard and I bagged 3 109s over Rommel's car and eventually got his car in a crossroad. All I have to do now is to edit 7 more movies with all the kills registered. Here goes the results: Thank you very much for your campaign, Reflected. It is awesome and I strongly recommend to anyone that loves spits and history. I also suggest to follow your advice and read the book chapter before each mission. Later this week, I will post more videos. All the best, Sydy

Reflected, The Voices are quite nice and I love the dialogues. Pretty accurate compared to the book and very representative. Congrats to you, Coxy and all actors. LOL Mission 8 pilots were a bunch of sissies... :lol: I will fly at least two missions more today. Tks a lot! Sydy

It sure does. The diversity in the missions are pretty good! Except for the hysterical wingmen when they see a bandit. :megalol: It's a lot of fun anyway!

Hi Reflected, On mission 5, as I was hit and lost my compass and tried to use my gyro, I was "more or less" on course. I found the B-17 box flying back to England and "attached" myself to it. After that it was a matter of dead recon back to base. I do turn off the Main Tank Fuel Cock when using the drop tank, but I am "conservative". First I open the Drop Tank Fuel Cock and only then I Close the main tank fuel cock. I just flew mission 8 and the planes didn't bomb the tgt when commanded via F10 nor my flight to attack the primary. Anyway, I got some good hits and decided to strafe a bit. Got 3 gnd tgts there adding it to my 7 victories in the Air so far. I will have many videos to edit for sure. I am planning to fly missions 9 and 10 this Sunday. I will be back only Wednesday after a small RL flying demonstrations mission here. Tks a lot for your campaign. All the best, Sydy

Good morning, guys, This is the video of mission 5. Audio came out very low, but it was a good mission. Missions 6 and 7 also successful, but videos still to be edited. The campaign is very cool! All the best, Sydy

Hi guys, Yesterday I had time to produce two more videos. Both are longer but I think they are more interesting because of the voice over I added during the mission. I hope you like it. Enjoy! Mission 3: Mission 4 (the best mission and movie so far): All the best, Sydy

Hi Gerd, Thank you. I am sure missions 3 and 4 will be much better with some voice overs I did during the missions and the my new “customized” checklist on mission 4. So far I got two on mission 2, one on mision 3 and one on mission 4. So far so good. Yep, the 2080 helps a lot and the 1080 was my only bottleneck I think. Now, evetything is up and running smooth. I even added civilian traffic (low) and 20% of birds. :pilotfly: The true is that the computer is quite beefy and I hope my wife never discovers how much I invested... :music_whistling: I am editting Mission 3 video right now and it will be much longer that the two firsts. Let’s see. All the best, Sydy

Hi guys, Here goes my second mission. It is the crappiest movie I ever made, but it registers the main events on mission two. I recorded the dogfight up to my first kill, but forgot to save more segments. Happens. I already flew missions 3 and 4 and they are much better. Longer, but much better. Btw, I made a new version of my Spitfire Quick checklist, including for the CW vs. It is available on the User Files Download page here: Spitfires Quick checklists All the best, Sydy

Hi Reflected, Correct, I was in the right flank. From the book I thought I'd see the bandits from the right faster... I was right! :music_whistling: Let's say I used some "artistic freedom" for the flight. I'm a bit pissed off. I forgot to record some more on the second mission and only saved the first of two kills. Now I will fly the 3rd mission doing some voice over it. Let's see. Anyway. The Campaign is amazing! Congratulations! :thumbup: