Doc3908 Posted September 20, 2021 Posted September 20, 2021 Trying out the Mossie against the usual Axis opponents - the Anton, the Dora, and the Kurfurst (AI set to "veteran" in all engagements). The Anton is easy, the Dora is almost as easy. I flew six rounds against the 109, won three and lost three. Overall, I'm surprised the Mosquito did as good as it did - wasn't expecting much going in. I really have to work on my aerial gunnery in the Mossie. Then I will try my luck online, though I expect that a competently flown 109 (and even 190D9) will take me apart...
NO.20.W.M_Thomson Posted September 20, 2021 Posted September 20, 2021 I haven't flown the mossie yet but from watching some videos on it when turning on your gun sights it puts you to the center of the sights, not sure why your off to the side of it.
razo+r Posted September 20, 2021 Posted September 20, 2021 36 minutes ago, NO.20.W.M_Thomson said: I haven't flown the mossie yet but from watching some videos on it when turning on your gun sights it puts you to the center of the sights, not sure why your off to the side of it. You can set your prefered behaviour in special settings 1
Art-J Posted September 20, 2021 Posted September 20, 2021 33 minutes ago, NO.20.W.M_Thomson said: I haven't flown the mossie yet but from watching some videos on it when turning on your gun sights it puts you to the center of the sights, not sure why your off to the side of it. ^ The camera position can move to the gunsight or not, depending on setting chosen by player in Mossie special options (similar implementation to camera-vs-gunsight in 109 K-4 module). I suppose Doc, being VR player, decided not to use this option. i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10.
dokken1212 Posted September 20, 2021 Posted September 20, 2021 Great video - thank you :-). I am no engineer or mechanic/technician - but just had a thought that the gunbs may have a split second delay as they are pneumatic? I remember in the training of the Mossie it stated that guns required something like a 200 psi or something. Ot it may be a bug lol. Not sure and was just a random thought Computer Specs: AMD Ryzen 9 3900x Thermaltake 360 AIO Water Cooler 32GB Corsair Vengeance 3600Mhz RGB RAM GeForce RTX 2080 Super [ NVIDIA] 512GB Adata M2 NVME (boot drive) 1TB Adata M2 NVME 1TB WD Blue SSD Corsair RM850x Power Supply Phanteks Enthoo Evolve Case Samsung 43" 4K Smart TV (used as monitor) TRACK IR 5 + Wireless DelanClip Head Tracker Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS :pilotfly::pilotfly::pilotfly::pilotfly::pilotfly::pilotfly::pilotfly:
Krupi Posted September 20, 2021 Posted September 20, 2021 (edited) I know it doesn't necessarily mean anything as the application could be entirely different but the Spitfire also uses a Pneumatic system and doesn't suffer from this issue. Actually scrub that... The Mossie manual states it uses a Electro-Pneumatic system? Edited September 20, 2021 by Krupi Windows 10 Pro | ASUS RANGER VIII | i5 6600K @ 4.6GHz| MSI RTX 2060 SUPER | 32GB RAM | Corsair H100i | Corsair Carbide 540 | HP Reverb G2 | MFG crosswind Pedals | Custom Spitfire Cockpit Project IX Cockpit
NO.20.W.M_Thomson Posted September 20, 2021 Posted September 20, 2021 11 hours ago, razo+r said: You can set your prefered behaviour in special settings 11 hours ago, Art-J said: ^ The camera position can move to the gunsight or not, depending on setting chosen by player in Mossie special options (similar implementation to camera-vs-gunsight in 109 K-4 module). I suppose Doc, being VR player, decided not to use this option. Thanks guy's I thought it was automatically set for the gun sight, Wouldn't have figured it out you need to set that up in options.
Doc3908 Posted September 20, 2021 Author Posted September 20, 2021 13 hours ago, Art-J said: ^ The camera position can move to the gunsight or not, depending on setting chosen by player in Mossie special options (similar implementation to camera-vs-gunsight in 109 K-4 module). I suppose Doc, being VR player, decided not to use this option. Actually I tried a couple of these options: The default is "Move in front of player when the sight is activated". The other one I tried is "Permanently keep in front of the player". In VR, I couldn't tell the difference - in both cases the sight was off to the side. What I do is move my head left and then reset the VR view. This puts the sights more or less in front of me (at least I don't have to lean too far).
Doc3908 Posted September 21, 2021 Author Posted September 21, 2021 Just a quick update: Flew against a human-piloted Bf-109K4 today (big "Thank you!" to SlickDevil!!). As expected, the 109 dominated the fight in every way possible (my woeful flying notwithstanding). He had at least 4-5 opportunities to take me out (though, to his credit, he resisted). A short video of the engagement is below. 1
Mogster Posted September 21, 2021 Posted September 21, 2021 The RAF AFDU didn’t view the Mosquito as a good day fighter. They spent quite a long time flying 43 era Mosquitoes (Merlin 23) against RAF and captured Luftwaffe types concluding that the Mosquito wasn’t a capable offensive day fighter. They did rate the Mosquitoes capacity for defensive evasion though it’s speed and ability to corkscrew made it difficult to hit. Interestingly apparently the AFDU converted a Mosquito into a single seater, lightening it by 1500lbs and finding it’s rate of climb and manoeuvrability improved. In this condition they judged it able to defeat all but the highest performing day fighters, Spit and 109, but able to defeat 190 and Typhoon class heavy fighters by out climbing them. This probably encouraged DH to proceed with the Hornet.
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