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Bill1949

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  1. @razo+r That got it - Many thx razo
  2. @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....
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    Hurricane

    @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)?
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    Hurricane

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

    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.
  6. 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...?
  7. Many thanks - now in progress (somewhat more technical that I'd imagined.....).
  8. OK. Thanks - but did all that, have 2.1 & Normandy+Assets still not listed..... What now...?
  9. I pre-purchased Normandy+Assets, but now it seems I need DCS World 2.1 to download it...? (Normandy isn't listed for installation in my DCS 2.0.) How do I update to 2.1 (idiot guide please). No. Cancel that. The product description says it requires version 2.0 - which I have. So when will I see it listed as an option for installation....??
  10. As an 'aside' (while we wait), in the Spit LF IX is anyone currently using 'takeoff assistance'...?
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. In case it's of any help..... 2 recordings with different outcomes - from the same replay (of 04Jan17).
  15. 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.
  16. I've found that reducing the 'Axis Fine Tune' slope for Rudder & Pitch, from the default 45° to more like 30°, has allowed me to take off far more easily. Landing is still a bit of a problem (as always), but only after I touch the tarmac - left wing dips to ground...... I'm giving right aileron & right rudder, but that doesn't seem to cure it. Anyone advise on that?
  17. Folks - just a quick update on my own progress. I've now further adjusted sensitivities of elevator, rudder, throttle, brakes. These were all giving issues. Assistance now reduced to 30, & I expect to reduce this gradually (hopefully to zero). Something that is bothering me tho' is the very significant tendency to blackout.... - even the slightest beyond a gentle turn seems to cause (or 'threaten') a blackout if I don't react quickly enough to the signs (clearly this is not happening to the the FW pilots that I'm chasing in the dogfight). Is this normal? Is it realistic?
  18. If (when you get it) you immediately set your Spit to 0 assistance as I did, hopefully you'll have less pain with it than I had (I guess my issues might also have come from control settings...? Before setting 50 assistance I fiddled with these, but it didn't help much.).
  19. Chief Instructor’s ‘Taildragger’ article is very informative – so I echo the many thanks for that. It has truly helped me to understand that there are many interactive elements that affect a TW aircraft while it’s moving with its gear still in contact with the ground. In the Spit LF IX I was having awful issues in trying to take-off (& to land, once I managed to get airborne in a VERY ugly fashion). Chief Instructor’s brilliant article will definitely help me there, but there is something else in DCS that can be very important with respect to a successful take-off (I’m speaking as a relative ‘fledgling’). I fly my A2A Spit IIB in FSX and my ED P-51D in DCS with no major issues, so I was getting quite despondent that I was failing so badly with the ED Spit LF IX (which I love dearly). Then it occurred to me that when I first got my Spit, before even attempting to fly it I had automatically set ‘Take-off assistance’ to 0….. (as I had done also for my P-51, which I fly OK). Tho’ I hope to gradually reduce the ‘Assistance’ to 0, I now have it set at 50, and this has made an immense difference – I now take-off & land comfortably. In this post (or is it a ‘thread’? I’m rubbish with forums) I haven’t seen a reference to that particular setting, so am I in the minority to have such assistance – is it like… cheating? (I can’t remember for sure, but I think the default setting was 100…? Am I correct in this? If so, then maybe many are flying with 100 Assistance.....) Just wanted to mention the 'Assistance' setting in case others had (like me) set it to 0 & promptly forgotten, causing similar dismay.
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