71st_AH Rob

Now I need to have at least two missions in the list or it will not load anything. If I only leave the one mission I want to load in the mission list it just says loading for hours and from the Web GUI I can't see the mission. If I select two missions, 90% of the time it will load the mission I did not select.

rel4y, I think you have become mixed up about time periods and Luftwaffe (dis)organization by 1944. The 190A-8 was only introduced in the spring of 1944 and day fighter shortages were so severe that they were rolled out very quickly on the western front where the greatest fighter threat was. The first escorted bombing raid on Berlin did not happen until early March so Defence of the Reich day fighters could still use Me 110 and 410s to intercept bombers. In France there were only ~170 Day Fighters and of those in Normandy, only the Stab and II/JG2 were equipped with the Bf-109G-6 and they were in the process of re-equipping with the Fw-190A-8 by D-Day. The OOB in France was: Stab JG2 Bf-109G-6 was converting to Fw-190A-8 on 31 May 44 I/JG2 Fw-190A-8 II/JG2 Bf-109G-6 was converting to Fw-190A-8 on 31 May 44 III/JG2 Fw-190A-8 Stab JG26 Fw-190A-8 I/JG26 Fw-190A-8 II/JG26 Fw-190A-8 III/JG26 Bf-109G-10 as of 3 Jun 44 they had 37 on strength still 22 were operational. They were in Nancy, well out of the Normandy AO and primary task was bomber interception. The strength return for 30 June shows that they were flying the 109G-6 and were outside Paris and had 55 on hand and 36 were operational.

Outstanding! Can't wait for those

If someone makes them we will. The ones for the Caucasus wee made by the 476th.

Some this work, just not the things most of us would like to be using. And they still indicate that it is their intention to make it work. There was more compatible vehs when it was first released.

I think you have misunderstood the description in the e-shop. Maps do not come with missions, campaigns or training missions. These all come to a varying degree with aircraft modules, there are paid campaigns as well. The Assets Pack only contains AI vehs including the B-17 to use in missions or campaigns that you or someone else built or paid one that you bought. If you have the Combined Arms module as well, they promise that we will be able to drive the vehicles (not aircraft) and probably aim the Anti-aircraft guns someday.

Every day at work I use simulation to prepare young officers to make decisions under duress in conflicts that have not, and hopefully will never happen. In fact the countries are on real terrain but have fictional names like Donovia, Gorgas and Atropia. Does this make what the young Army Captains and Majors do a game? As for Falcon 4, I pre-ordered while still playing Falcon 3, I think you got it wrong. Any war would do, though I have a particular soft spot for Gulf War I and the Balkans, but it is the unsurpassed dynamic campaign engine that is the secret to its longevity.

That would be a fairly unrealistic expectation that will likely lead you to being disappointed and frustrated. The Asset Pack is specifically aimed at Normandy in 1944. We might get more from another period in the war when ED releases new WWII maps but we haven't even got the initial list of assets that were promised to populate Normandy post D-Day. A realistic list of the units that you can expect to see is in the first post in this thread posted by Nineline https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3260276&postcount=1

You need to run first mission.bat after you edit the base mission for the changes to take effect.

No requirement for any of those in Normandy in 1944. Ju-87 was withdrawn from the western front and relegated to the east where it had some chance of survival in 1940 The Do-17 was withdrawn from bombing operations in 1943 and was relegated to glider tug The He-111 remaining on the western front I the summer of 1944 after the end of the little blitz were converted to launch the Fi-103, not really conventional bombing. In short, the only Luftwaffe tactical bomber remaining on the western front in the summer of 1944 was the Ju-88.

The stirrups were originally added on the Mk I for increased G tolerance.

Yes, but it is controlled by the server owner. Most servers utilize SRS because they want to implement the most realistic environment and are unlikely I would think to allow the third radio to be used in an aircraft that only has two.

The -30 we have is a PTO version, the -25 is an ETO version

Yes, some of them could have conceivably been Mk I or Mk II when they started life in the factory. Ours might have been part of an order placed for 2190 Mk Vb that were reallocated as Mk IX during production. Nevertheless, I have seen no Mk IX still in frontline squadrons that were that old. By 1944 there was no shortage of Spitfires or pilots in the RAF like there was in 1940 -1943.

Is this the book? https://www.theworks.co.uk/p/general/the-spitfire-manual/9781848684362

The A-8 would have been the most common of the ~170 fighters in France and Belgium in the spring of '44. The Mosquito FB Mk IV will also be appropriate for our current Normandy map. The Spitfire Mk IX was also the most common Mk in service with 2 TAF at the time but the one we have would have been built Q1 of '43 and would be representative of a a/c in frontline squadron service in mid to late '43. I have not found an aircraft that old still in a frontline squadron by March '44. At the very least our Spit should be equipped with the Gyro Gunsight Mk II to be a bit more representative of a 2 TAF Spitfire.

No, they are exactly the same thing. Both allow the driver to adjust the mixture from the drivers seat. Generally on an American downdraft carburetor it is referred to as a choke and it normally adjusts the mixture by restricting airflow. On side draught carburetors like SU or Bendix like we have on a Merlin engine, it works by directly adjusting the fuel jet. This is how almost all cars worked when I was learning to drive, a few expensive ones had an automatic choke or even more exotic, had fuel injection. Thankfully none of them required advancing or retarding the spark with a little lever on the steering wheel, although it is a great feature and I would love to be able to do it. A computer now makes that decision for me so in a way we have come full circle.

The mixture control is the same as a mixture control (choke) on a car. If you have driven a car from the 70's or earlier you will remember setting the mixture outside temperature for starting etc. Once the car was warm it went to the"run" position and you didn't worry about moving it. This control has an automatic setting which is what you normally use "Auto rich", a full rich that can be used for emergencies, i.e. when the auto mixture fails or is damaged and an "Auto lean" position which is used under certain restrictions to conserve fuel when you need to fly long distances, line escorting B-17 to Berlin, something we will sadly never do in DCS. Forget Il2's abstractions and what the experts there do, it is not realistic, however in the Spitfire Mk IX and the P-47D you can see the mixture lever on the throttle quadrant marked with these positions. The mixture control did not have the ability to incrementally increase or decrease the mixture in % but only the three positions.

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Besides, it can't be much more difficult than this 439 lawn dart that I built a 1/48 scale model of when I was a kid. https://images.app.goo.gl/BDg3CAUnxGgdSs1T8 Or this one from 441 http://images.app.goo.gl/DtQqf3FdJVGLZyp47 But what I really want is more like this: http://images.app.goo.gl/ubqA9RqsjMMfaKVk7 A frontline aircraft in squadron service with 1 (F) Wing

Yay! And it wasn't me! Go 441!

That is not what happened in this case, there was no bounce.

He is, I believe, speaking about the bottom left corner of the map which is actually the Pacific ocean. Currently it is desert coloured but if you switch to map view in the editor, you can see how much of the Pacific is actually there. SD is correct, this has been requested and flatly denied previously, we are unlikely to see it unless this is the new free map including Fallon and some of the ocean.

Not in this case, I was watching and waiting, there was no prop strike, all four blades were fine.

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