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Same as the catapult needs a different steam pressure to launch the aircraft based on the aircraft's weight and flying speed.

Yes there was a blackout in Europe during the war, certainly there was in Belgium, my father in law who was a teenager during the war confirmed it.

I've stopped using my Cougar and am now using a T16000M, the flying is a lot smoother with it than the Cougar which is showing it's age, normally I would have assigned a rotary to the pitch and trim but I don't have that luxury now.

There is a manual on gun convergence on Avialogs: AAF 200-1 Manual for Fighter Gun Harmonisation, some of the illustrations on mkii's wiki link are taken from the manual. http://www.avialogs.com/index.php/item/56042.html

I was thinking the same thing last night too. That's the other thing, the steps on the rpm setting are quite large as well, thank goodness this is not a multi engine aircraft or you would never get the engines in sync ;)

Do you have Zero interest in the Final Countdown? :smilewink:

To get to Deauville I will have to take off from Tangmere as that is where my father was stationed during WW2.

You have seen the video of the man that stole the M60A3? How easy it got stuck when he tried to cross the meridian of the freeway.

Used to fly in these to go to work, man they are noisy and they rattle like they are falling apart, I cursed the day they swapped the Bandeirante for the skyvan on the route I used.

Here is a documentary about the bombing and firebombing of Clydebank on the nights of 13th and 14th of March 1941, not many military targets were hit there.

yeah, I'm now down to 3 deactivations left :(

Horsa for the Normandy map :thumbup:

Deauville is where I will be visiting first, had a fantastic stay at a posh hotel there, and they were having a fashion shoot at the hotel at the time :D

Birch and Bramson's Flight Briefing for Pilots were the text books we used when I was learning to fly with the Highland Aero Club. ISBN 13: 9780582988149 for volume 1, and it came in 4 volumes but not all were needed for a PPL. Vol 1 and 4 were the two that I started with.

thanks, I had just come in and hadn't got that far down in reading the forums.:thumbup:

Yeah, we remember, and it still leaves a bit of a bad taste. Well good luck to both teams, my grandson is looking forward to the Corsair (Skipper) and I'm looking forward to the F14. Now we need a statement from Cobra about how he is moving forward with his part of the company.

Well I know that RIOs are not pilots per say, but can Jester full fill the role of pilot if you want to take a trip in the back seat?

12g in a centrifuge, it was not on top that the guy blacks out but on the way back down from his 3rd run up to 12.2g This one shows the difference between straining and not straining to counter act the g force, also you can see the graph of the how the g force is applied to the subject.

Yeah would love to see that too, it's where my father was stationed during WW2. Now it has a very nice little museum, but last time I visited it the runways etc. were all gone.

Reading the rest of the page puts it in better context.

Trapper

That's a lot to catch up on! Wow, looking very good and it has the airfield where my dad spent his time during the war, Tangmere :) Glad to see the south coast of England being included in the map, even though at lower detail etc. it should bring a lot more options to game play. I've not even had a chance to fly the spitfire yet, hopefully life will get back to normal now.

I made a mistake there, the SCR 522 is the 24V version of the radio, it should be the SCR 542 which is the 12V version of the radio

Page 27: Reads Basic Informations should be Basic Information Page 28: The word Visor is not used in this instance, should be replaced with windscreen, glass, or plexiglass. Reads and behind it, two gas tanks separated by a fireproof bulkhead. Should be and behind it, two fuel tanks separated by a fireproof bulkhead. Reads The pilot flew the plane by a so-called "Spade-type" control stick (with a gimballed upper section) and rudder pedals. English pedals were "two-stage." Should read The pilot flew the plane by a so-called "Spade-type" control stick (with a gimballed upper section) and rudder pedals. British pedals were "two-stage." Page29: Reads In the Soviet Union, imported fuel was used, or in its absence, 88 octave leaded petrol 4B-70. Is the fuel quality used in Russia referred to as Octave? If not it should read Octane Page 30: Reads 410 liters had the form of a trough and lied close to the lower wing centersection Should read 410 liters had the form of a trough and lay close to the lower wing centre section Reads The main landing gears should read The main landing gear Reads Network voltage is equal to 12W 12W is a measure of power not of voltage, should read Network voltage is equal to 12V or Network voltage is 12V (better term would be Buss voltage is 12V) Reads The English gas system should read British gas system but then you would get it confused with British Gas which is a utility provider in the UK ;) I will continue tomorrow.

The Spitfire did use the SCR522, it was an American built TR1143 as part of the Lend Lease agreement between the UK and the USA, it was also fitted to a lot of other aircraft including American ones to keep a commonality between the different services ... Mainly so that the pilots could all sing from the same hymn sheet ;)