Red Earth

In Normandy, AI Bf109 crashes on landing at Maupertus. Aircraft hits the trees presumably because it is following a programmed landing flight path and take no account of high trees at the start of the runway requiring slightly steeper approach.

Hi Ironhand, I tried hot start up and runway start and works fine. It's on a cold start only that I get no chute. Can you confirm cold start? Thanks

Thanks for confirming this Ironhand. I'm going to scratch my old input file for starters, see if this resolves the issue.

Non functioning drag chute Batumi in the SU 25T- chute does not appear to work. I tested this with keyboard as well as HOTAS and checked my input settings file to be certain. Seem to be a bug following a 2.5 update: bug noted on current stable version 2.5.4.29617

Yeah I missed this update due to f18 engrossment, it explains my predicament and confusion. Thanks for the link to your video - really helpful. Thanks for the heads up about the bugs too everyone - really appreciate all your advice!

It's been a month since I flew the Harrier but I boot up this afternoon... HUD appears to be broken in all maps. INS does not appear to be functional yet? Map no longer functions? I'm on stable version and I've tested this in NTTR and Caucasus. I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong due to an update I've missed that affects systems functionality and start up sequence?

I've been flying the 109 offline for about the past year. I won't profess to be an expert but I'm good enough mostly to defeat the AI in one to one dog fights and I can hit ground targets proficiently enough. I haven't played much online because I haven't had time for that much until very recently. I also think that for good ping, I'd be better off only playing with players also based in the UK like me - which limits the pool. However if you are UK and you'd like someone to play with or against (I fly the spitfire too). I'd welcome that - it's about time I started flying with real players in any case. AI only takes you so far.

I stand corrected. And now I'm drooling with anticipation too! :P

Needs Oar Point was only ever used for Hawker Typhoons which are obviously not a modelled aircraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Needs_Oar_Point So unless we eventually get at least AI Typhoons (not road-mapped) the airfield is useless for anyone wanting to build a realistic mission!?

Normandy map problem. 1) Tangmere ATC radio frequencies don't work (with Spitfire at least). 2) Text messages from Tangmere (such as "arrival at ..." ) read as Funtington not Tangmere. 3) With Spitfire, the "watch track" review feature still crashes out (literally) due to some memory issue.