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@razo+r That got it - Many thx razo

@HotTom What am I missing? I have rockets. My mapped button is operating the button on the throttle in cockpit. All switches on the bomb panel are set to On. ...but the rockets don't fire....

@Krupi Yes! Hurricanes & BoB map. How can we have such a fantastic WW2 flight sim and yet not have BoB...? Didn't BoB matter...? @Eagle Dynamics - are you listening (please)?

@FlyBy2507 Don't worry - 'she's got this' - and she needs to be at this party, with the Spit.

So if you can't really have: - Beauty without the Beast - Laurel Without Hardy - Angels without wings - Cinema without popcorn - Love without kisses .....how can we really have The Spit without the Hurricane.....? Anyone support this? C'mon folks, back me up here. Please ED - I REALLY want the Hurricane - to go with my Spit.

Excuse my ignorance please... :| ... but my current DCS folder is over 88GB (on a 120GB SSD that also has IL2 on it.... :( - so only 16GB free space - & I think the SSD needs about 30% free space to run properly). I have DCS Open Beta with Normandy + Assets, Caucausus - & I only really fly the P51 & the Spit LF IX. I'm getting VERY long load times (& VERY (silly) long DCS CLOSE times after I click to exit), and occasional stuttering & mini-freezes during flight. What can I do (including safe deletion of non-required stuff...?) safely to reduce the size of the DCS folder & improve the situation? (Yes, I know that a larger SSD will do that, but at a cost that I don't need right now...) Anything I can safely dispose of...?

Yes - I've had exactly this this a number of times recently.

Stick & Throttle: 65835 Essex, UK

As an 'aside' (while we wait), in the Spit LF IX is anyone currently using 'takeoff assistance'...?

Absolutely amazing!! Thank you.

I absolutely agree there sir! I have very little experience of 'having control' IRL, but (from my couple of 'fun' lessons in a Cherokee, amounting to just 1.5 hrs, see link) I do remember the feel of the rudder pedals during taxiing - & it would definitely be nice to get that in sim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIo8BsabwnI On finals, my instructor was happy enough to not re-take control until about 20ft above the runway.

Thanks for coming back bongo - yeah I really do need to be more aware of wind direction,eh? Have to confess that I haven't been giving enough attention to that (still learning), but I will be now. Having said that, I just re-watched a successful circuit that I did about a week ago (well - there is a rather 'iffy' point during takeoff, but I was happy with the landing) and I'm not seeing a wind-sock anywhere..... is it just a case of 'feel' for it? See: I'm sure I must have plenty of things wrong here, but it illustrates the landing - which I find I'm in more control of now that I've reduced the slope of my Pitch, in Controls. I reduced the slope because my stick is about 5 inches from the pivot to the centre of my hand, whereas in a Spit this distance must be about 3 time more I guess (for the elevator anyway), allowing greater hand movement & therefore finer adjustment of the elevator. I feel that this reduced slope compensates for the much shorter stick.

Folks - I was hoping to provide a link to a circuit in my Spit now that I've made some control setting changes and I'm much improved in my takeoff. I had a really nice Startup, Taxi, Takeoff, Circuit, Land, Taxi & Park - but it's a fish that got away due to the replay failing. Just to show this (and not wishing to go off-topic here), I've pasted a link in https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=3012573#post3012573. This shows 2 different outcomes from the same replay.

In case it's of any help..... 2 recordings with different outcomes - from the same replay (of 04Jan17).

So, for anyone who might find it of interest, I've now uploaded a circuit in my Mk IX. Take-off was OK, & I survived the landing (which wasn't helped by Ivanovich still sitting on the runway as I landed. In my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWMq2jilJrsZnG0J2PftkYA See 6 min vid: DCS - ED Spit LF IX circuit after adjusting control settings In an attempt to highlight the more significant activities during my circuit, this is annotated (tho' the annotations apparently won't show on a phone). Not perfect by any means, but a reasonable flight since adjusting my controls (before these changes, I was mostly failing to get airborne - & when I did take-off it was embarrassingly ugly). In case it helps anyone, my main changes to control settings are attached. If you try these settings, let me know how you got on.