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I don't think anyone knows. There has been speculation that it encompasses Kent and East Sussex on the English side and from the Belgian border to the Normany border on the French side. So Nord Pass De Calais and Picardy. Take note this is just speculation though. Don't want to start a hype train. But it makes sense to cover the areas that Normandy left off. Shame that they can't be joined and playable in a single mission, but I'm told that's impossible. It would mean dropping one map and loading the other in mid flight and seamlessly.

Indeed. Marianas will be great for vietnam style missions esp flying over those beautiful coastlines in the Huey. We need century series jets with napalm....

Just used to aircraft where the ASI is calibrated in knots that's all. A lazy bit of writing nothing more. Yes I should have put mph. I will try your two wheeled approach and see if it works better. I was mainly a Blenheim pilot in another sim and certainly the best way to land that was on the main gear first in an almost flat attitude and let to the tail sink on its own. Far easier to keep the sink rate under control, the blennie was not known for its excess power if you got a little slow with a high A of A.

Disappointing for sure. Both for ED and the community. Anyone consider that maybe some key people who normally squash these bugs are sick?

I fully understand the depth based transparency. Flying over the shoreline in the Huey in Normandy is pretty impressive. You see sand giving way to a rocky bottom and in some places, seaweed. Likewise, hovering near a wharfe you can see the structure below water all the way to the bottom, in VR you can see how deep the water is. I am absolutely and enthusiastically on board with that. However, other than the purely academic exercise of dropping magnetic mines into the sea, I don't see the benefit of the manpower, money and performance hit that all this deep water stuff you mention would entail. Drop mines in sea, they sink, fly away..... Dropping torpedoes from an attack aircraft with flack bursting around you from the ship, yes vastly exciting, but does it matter if the seabed is modelled accurately, other than in the very broadest sense - here be shallow water, ships will run aground and torpedoes will strike bottom at launch? I could see it if DCS became a full war simulation game, with a huge, persistent, and coordinated multiplayer campaign where 3 weeks later some submarine skipper gets sunk by one of your mines trying to kill some ships in the harbour; kind of world of warships, arma and a first person shooter combined, where everything is combined, and not just pilots buying modules. However, if they went down this route, they need to spend a deal of time getting combined arms sorted first, both performance wise and (I do not have CA, so just hearsay) the quality of the ground units. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against it. I just think there are more important things to get right first. We all have our own opinions as to what is important.

Does this mean we are going to get a fully modelled and leaky Catalina flying boat with emergency egress exercises? Cos it's the only way I can see water depth being an issue in a flight simulator.

Things have gone pretty quiet about the channel map. No ballpark time for release yet? Looking forward, not just from a WW2 perspective but also for the huey. Hoping the trees won't shimmer as much in VR, which is the only downer for Normandy.

Been practicing landings. Standard curved approach. Flaps down and prop full fine. Remembered 100kt approach, dropping to 80kts over the fence from the old days. Throttle back to drop speed to 70 at threshold, keep far end of runway just showing above the cowling. Hold it, hold it, stick coming back, a couple of feet before the wheels touch, stick coming back, allow the nose to rise above the horizon, it's going to be a greaser..... Screech. Boing. Ah crap, why am I back up here when I want to be down there? Crash, boing, oh jeeze its still flying.... Clatter, boing. Just let go of the stick imbecile... Bang.. Oh we're going off onto the grass are we... Pulls fuel cut off and sits in blissfull silence... It did not go well... on many occasions.

Fixed after latest patch....

I'm really into the jets and my beloved Huey. I have the paid for P51 but rarely use it. I thought to buy the Spit mainly as a thank you gesture (but 50% off is not to be sneezed at) for the awesome thing ED are doing with the free for all month, but I had all the jets and helis that appealed, plus all the terrains. So enter the spitfire. I had quite a few hours in the spit on another sim dealing with the south of England and France, so I was not totally unfamiliar with it. First Impressions in VR. Just sat in the cockpit on the ground. Wow, it has so much atmosphere. I think it has probably the most realistic looking panel of them all. Going through the tutorial on starting the engine was also very atmospheric, the sound of the flight surfaces hitting the stops transferred to my seat via the buttkicker made it so realistic. Unfortunately the tutorial stopped working there, so had to look up some YouTube vids to learn how to start it. Probably five years since I was on the other sim. So engine running and first taxi. No surprises there, weave along tapping the brake and using the rudder. A pig that requires being ready to stop an input before you start it. I always found taxying a spit a dreary business. Take off. Prop lever full fine, feed in the power smoothly looking for some rudder authority so I can finally let go the brake lever altogether. Whoa, what the Hell.... kept it on the runway albeit only just and took off trying desperately trying to level the wings and gain enough airspeed to trim out the rudder. This was not how I remembered it. The spit was always forgiving provided you eased the power in gently. This one was behaving as if I just banged the throttle forward. Hmm. Remembered the P51 being like that and remembered the "take off assist" being the culprit. Sure enough it had take off assist and it was on, obviously I had been fighting it for control of the rudder. Switched it off and tried again. Different creature altogether. They really need to do away with take off assist. It helps no one. However it wanted to stick its nose in the air and I'm trying to get some nose down trim into it. My fault, I hadn't checked the trim gauge and set neutral trim before take off. It is way nose high on spawn. Set neutral trim and tried again. Once again a different bird. It tracked beautifully down the runway and flew itself off with minimal stick input. Tootled around a bit setting 2750 rpm and 12 boost, watching the rad temp and all felt fine, got her trimmed up nicely and sat there picking my nose and watching the Normandy scenery go by. Realised the canopy was open and flicked the switch to close it.. Wham! The canopy closed and the spit was suddenly trying to fly sideways, crabbing left and trying its best to roll on its back with me grimly trying to get some opposite trim in. Looked at my canopy switch control binding to see if it was somehow double booked. Nope. Opened the canopy and no change. Thought it may be a temp glitch so restarted the PC. Took off again with closed canopy, trimmed her out and tried again. Opened canopy, nothing she was fine. Closed it, nothing. Just flew serenely on for a couple of minutes. Wham, once again she tried going sideways. A look over my shoulder showed rudder was over to the left. What the Hell. Must be an axis problem. Turned out it was a new helicopter collective stick I had made. As usual, DCS had mapped it to every axis and it was just off the bottom, just enough to caused some sensor jitter. You could see it coming and going in axis tune. Bottomed it fully and it stopped, unbound it from the spit and all appears fine now. Once trimmed she sure handles sweet. Tried introducing some JU88s to shoot down. Found after spending most of my time launching missiles from miles away and radar laid guns, I can't hit a barn door with the antiquated guns on the spit. Meanwhile, there I am, tongue stuck out the corner of my mouth trying to line up the shot and sitting there and unknown to me the gondola gunner was filling my starboard wing full of holes. According to track notes, 104 to be precise all told. No sound of impacts at all. I only knew I was really in trouble when flashes appeared on the engine cowling. I was suddenly looking at the outside view of the spit as it rolled over and started going down. That's when I saw the wing... By then it was time for a beer in the sunshine. Overall I am mightily impressed with the Spit. It is leaps and bounds better than the mustang in my opinion. Very realistic. I am less impressed with my gunnery skills. Oh and final thing, where is the seat height adjuster? I find I am sat too high in VR and have to crouch to see the top of the gunsight reticle. Hope any newbies might find something of interest to help them in this tale of woe. Once I have finished the household chores I will try doing circuits and bumps. I bet I will find getting back on the ground "interesting".

Normandy map. HP Reverb VR Headset. Picked up troops just fine, but upon reaching base and attempting to disembark troops the game crashed. 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Just bought the spit as a thank you gesture for your very kind decision to allow free access for a month. I have a long way to go to be anything like safe, however I digress. One thing I have noticed is the lack of sound when getting shot to pieces. I was following some JU88s with a view to spilling their coffee and the lower gunner was shooting. I was surprised to find the starboard wing full of holes. From tip to root, but no sound at all. Looking back at the track notes it said I'd been hit 104 times.....:cry:

No play at all. And the circuit board is an Arduino Leonardo.

It's a US government surplus aircraft gear lever assembly mechanism by Rockwell Collins, that I saw on eBay and had shipped to the UK; put it in a box and cut the lever itself out of acrylic sheet and two RC aircraft wheels I had lying around. The original lever was not chunky enough to match the look / feel of the Hog gear handle. Also because it is from an actual aircraft, it has the correct pull out, select up or down and push in type action. No idea of what aircraft it was from, but it had two microswitches fitted, one for up, one for down. Easy to wire up to a usb encoder and thence bind to DCS. It's vitally important in VR to get things in the right place so you can just reach out. Same with the Hog switch panels, all fall to hand when sat in the Hog cockpit.

Well its all set up and working a treat on my VR rig. The throttle I was using was a blunt instrument compared to the collective. My hovering has suddenly become much more precise. the 14 bit resolution hall sensor is fine, very smooth, no discernible steps in the operation. The grip is located very close to where you see the grip in the Huey, so no fumbling around and the travel observed and felt closely matches the Huey cockpit, so success! It does not look great, certainly not to home cockpit standard but I'm not too bothered because I fly exclusively in VR. Still using the warthog left throttle to set engine to max governed power. To give an idea of travel I will enclose pics of collective at bottom and at top, although the sensor reaches max value about an inch from the upper full travel of the lever. Only setup required was to bind it to huey collective, remove the throttle/collective bind and invert the axis. I hope I have given some idea of how to get hold of an inexpensive collective with little skill required. Probably took an hour all told from opening the box to it mounted and working. Collective at bottom of travel: Collective at top:

Your new free for all video certainly brought a tear to my eye. Bloody well done. :)

I think a big part of the problem ED are seeing now is the core engine. We all know how notoriously unreliable and convoluted the old dear has become. It is past its sell by date and is being kept alive with gaffer tape and zip ties. I bet a good proportion of dev time is spent just keeping the old girl ticking along and this for ED is unpaid work and inefficient as they have to rewrite major parts of it to give it the power to cope with features that were just pipe dreams several years ago due to lack of computing power at the customers end. As anyone who ever ran an old banger of a car, the older it gets, the more maintenance it needs and the more it costs to run, while the less time it spends actually doing its job. Perhaps ED have held on to the old engine too long and the way forward in the future is planned obsolescence and buying in a new off the peg engine, modifying it and designing modules with that in mind. I know they are working very hard to get vulkan up and running, but by the time they manage it, it may well already be obsolete. It is a very hard and windy tightrope they are walking.

So it arrived. First looked to removing the return spring. Loosened of a lock nut and undid a socket headed bolt . Removed spring and two thrust washers. Refitted bolt. No spring now. 2 minute job. Looked at friction. Basically the pivot is contained within an alloy box bolted together by socket headed screws. The pivot itself is a bolt and locknut going throughout the sides of the box, two spacers, one each side of the lever and next to the lever itself to take out radial play, two wave washers. Removed bolt, slackened off the bolts holding the frame together, inserted a washer (thrust washer from spring) between the frame and spacer, then adjusted the pivot bolt to just allow the lever to support itself without falling to the low end of travel when horizontal. 5 minute job. Looked at lever length, likely about 300mm all told, but lever is in two parts with some adjustment possible via slotted holes and bolted together.. Not long enough. Extended lever by pressing the two separate pieces into a 300mm length of 20mm wiring conduit. This is a very tight fit and the conduit has to stretch in all axes to accommodate it. No bolts or screws reguired to make a solid extension. Tightened pivot bolt a little more to ensure it supported its own weight. So with extension, lever travel is around 200 - 250mm from bottom to top, far in excess of the warthog throttle range used previously. 5 minute job using my not inconsiderable weight to assist. Tested it on rig and set sensor and travel endpoints. So far so good. There is a very small amount of lever travel at the top of the scale that extends beyond the sensor range, but go there and you have low rotor speed horn blaring anyway. Need to find a usb extender cable tomorrow, nail it to my rig and give it a try. Always found the warthog throttle good enough, but I'm betting this lever will take it to a new level of realism.

Whoa. You are barking up the wrong tree with me. I suggest you dig out my posts prior and read them before giving me a jab in the ribs. :)

Perhaps it would be an idea in the future for ED to spell out exactly what early access means at the point of sale. I would bet that there would be a negligible effect on the numbers of people signing up because we are all optimists, we naturally think it "will be alright on the night". I would bet that even if ED did the above, the same suspects would still be pointing fingers when things did not work out as imagined. It's the name of the game, everybody reacts and thinks differently to the same stimulus. Hell, when we sign up to EA, non of us actually know if we will still be alive at the time of release.

But people should not buy into early access if they can't handle the pitfalls. Early access is an unfinished product, no secrets there. The release date for early access should be regarded as a target, not a deadline. People are allowed to be disappointed, it is natural to be so if the module is late and it is fine to express that disappointment. However it is not fine to play the blame game, poking fingers at various aspects of the release and saying ED are some sort of charlatan, when the real problem lies with some people's over expectation of what an early access release is. In case some still don't get it I will spell it out. Early access means you are buying into an unfinished product that may be delayed, buggy or even completely broken. In addition, it may well break something else and on successive occasions. That's why you get a discount, just as you would get for buying a factory reject. Expect it to be a disappointing roller coaster and you won't be devastated when it all turns to manure. It will come right in the end. If you don't want the above, don't buy it. Wait for the final release. Easy.

Well I ordered one. I will take the spring out, fit a fibre washer to the lever pivot for friction and report back.

The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry... I paid my money upfront, knowing full well what I was paying for. A likely buggy carrier module with poor frame rates and deck crew walking through airframes like ghosts with heads suddenly appearing between my knees and opening their mouths... :eek: Likewise I knew it would get better in time. I was given a release date. It was missed because ED decided it was too buggy to even release as a beta. They announced the decision to delay at the same time everyone thought they would be downloading it... Shit happens. It is very disappointing for all concerned, but ill fate has no respect for disappointment. It took two people, two days; to draft an announcement not much longer than this post, according to Wags. That shows the eggshells they feel they need to walk on in this community. On a positive note, Wags said they learned from the F16 module release, not to bow under pressure and release a far below par module just to hit a circled number on a calendar. If they learned that then, they will not bow under pressure now. I am SP only as are the majority, but the MP guys are the very vocal err passionate ones. Can you imagine the pitchforks if they released to SP only. Sure the MP guys could use the carrier in SP mode, but that would not prevent the pitchforks and threats of everything from boycotting all early access, to starting a class action lawsuit. It is a bad business all round, but you have to take it on the chin. Baying for blood will not alter one damned thing. You may think as I do, that the projects should be far further along towards completion before announcing them, and even further along and at least in the testing stage before releasing them on pre order with a release date. Then again ED probably hold off as long as possible and a bit more before they need funds coming in to complete the module. In my mind's eye, I do not see ED staff lighting Havana cigars with hundred dollar bills during their lunch breaks. Not happy at the prospect, I being a single player, knowing we have a workable module we paid for that we can't have yet, but also know that ED made a decision as to the next course of action and should stick to it if they learned anything at all about bowing to public pressure. Those that bay for release now will be shouting loudest if it goes out in an unplayable state. It is possible to be both disappointed, yet understanding. No need for such polarised views. I AM DISAPPOINTED. There, I said it. I will get over it.

USB car racing handbrake. Been using the warthog right throttle for collective up to now and left for engine power lever. Anyone tried one of these handbrakes? Looks like around 30degree travel and a 14 bit rotary sensor. Will this be enough resolution? Looks fairly easy to extend and fit an alternative grip, and I suppose the spring could be easily removed and some type of friction damper installed. I suppose the throttle does not need to be in the grip for Huey since power is supplied by the fuel system governer to maintain constant rotor rpm in most cases. Essentially fly and forget. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-Handbrake-For-PC-Windows-System-Racing-Games-G25-27-29-T500-FANATECOSW-LFS/133228995190?_trkparms=aid=111001&algo=REC.SEED&ao=1&asc=20160908105057&meid=5c4d7fcacb4e4c808d3a1bf371c296eb&pid=100675&rk=3&rkt=15&mehot=none&sd=274077740808&itm=133228995190&pmt=1&noa=1&pg=2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci:29a177c5-7e07-11ea-954d-74dbd180362a%7Cparentrq:76ea098a1710a9cb8b46887fffe51628%7Ciid:1&redirect=mobile

Thank God it's not just me. Its been driving me mad setting up a troop pickup. The troops are waiting at the waypoint, but there is no named group to pickup in the radio menu. I thought I'd forgotten some vital step. The troops are just standing around a disabled Huey, looking at me fat, dumb and happy.