guyran

With the 'retro mood' each game is count. Your young age is also count. Most of us here are from the 'oldies club'.

The Aces over ... series and 1942 were also my favorites, in the old days.

Who is old enough to remember this flight sim?

I have Toyota Landcruiser 120 (4x4) with longer wheel base than the Wrengler. I have no special problems off roading with it. Have fun Dave and good luck. guyran

Thanks, Ordway. Is it good for the IAI Saar too? guyran

Acceptable with one condition, Dave. That you keep on your logo (I support Israel) for at least one more week, since we already paid for it. guyran

Dave, I had the same problem in My Arab Six Days War. The solution is within Paul's RJAF HUNTER F.6 / F.73 collection Look there for independent Hunter's cockpit. No SF2:Europe is needed.

Dave, From what I've seen so far in this topic, your 1948 War of independence campaign, is so big and comprehensive, beyond a simple campaign, with at least three new flyable planes, you deserve to call it: SF2I Exp2 – War of independence Do you think TK will grant the permission to use the Expansion2 designation? Guyran

I'm looking forward for this one.

This is not a problem, since you can always separate them into primary and secondary gun, with different keystroke for each.

View File Historic mission: First jets kill over Israel Historic mission: First jets kill over Israel After IDF attacks on terrorists bases (Fedayoon) in the Gaza strip on August 1955, the EAF start penetrating the aerial borders of Israel. On September 1, 1955, a formations of four Vampires has crossed the border into Israel, northern to the Gaza Strip. Captain Aharon Yoeli in a Meteor FR-9 (no. 36) and Captain Yoash Tzidon his wingman, from the 117 first jet squadron, were inside the cockpit, on the runway of Hatzor AB, in an intercept standby. As soon as the aerial control unit has identified the invasion, the two Meteors were scrambled. They were vectored into an intercept course with the approaching EAF Vampires. During the airfight that follows, over the Mediterranean Sea coast, near Ashkelon, two Vampires were killed by Aharon Yoeli in Meteor 36. The EAF command soon announced that, two Vampires on a training mission had mid air collision. This was the first jet kill ever, by the Israeli Air Force, and the first air kill since the 1948 war of Independence. Flyable aircraft: IAF Meteor F-8 EAF Vampire FB52 To install: Unrar into a separate folder. Drop everything into the similar folder on the SF2I Exp1 mod directory, overwriting files if asked to. Enjoy Guyran Submitter guyran Submitted 05/29/2010 Category User Made Missions

Thanks, wrench

Meteor F-8 vs Vampire FB52 dogfight.

Can the 'limited nations' command be used, to prevent Egyptian airplanes to operate above Syrian terrain and vice versa? Another goal is to prevent IAF/IDF planes, during the Suez-Crisis, to get targets in Syria or Jordan.

From Kadesh op

No problem Dave, you can always do an update later, after first release. Anyway, we must keep in mind that the 1948 WOI was not one continues campaign, like the Suez-Crisis, 6DW, YKW or even Lebanon. Actually it was a series of short term operations, with remissions in between. BTW Sorry for my non-fluent English, but what the hell (oops...) is the 'KISS method'?

We can overcome this problem by splinting the war (WOI), into few sub-campaigns as actually did happen (the remissions). Each sub-camp can have its own oob and it's own nature of air activity. So, instead of one boring long war with similar sorties, we can get few campaigns, different in nature. If you think this idea is too complicated to implement, we can do 2 sub-camps alone using your date (sept 1948) to separate between them. guyran

Historically it is wrong to start the campaign on September 1948, at the middle of the WOI. The IAF was founded on 31 may 1948, and this is a better starting point. In the history of the Israeli WOI, a significant period is called "the battle of the ten days". During this period, on 9-18 of July 1948, until the second remission, the IAF had fly 164 sorties, and drop 58 tons of bombs (fifth of them by the 3 B-17 bombers). The Egyptians have lost one spitfire, and the Syrians have lost one Harvard at this period, while the IAF have lost two S-199 attacking targets at Egypt. It is true that there were very few air clashes at this time, but there was a very intensive strike and cas activity by both sides.

In order to take the AI out of the equation, I've reduced the furball into one vs one dual. One P-51D Mustang me, against one Ace SpitfireIXc. Seems to me that the P-51 is not so helpless against the superior Spit. Here is the 1x1 mission. P-51D Mustang vs spit (1x1 Ace).rar

Thanks Slartibartfast, I'm appreciate your ideas about Israel.

As an Israeli, it gives me a great satisfaction to realize, to what depth did the CA community has learned about the history of my country, and about the Arab-Israeli conflict through merely a flight simulator. As for the moment, many CA members know this history better than the majority of my fellow countrymen. Thank you Thirdwire, TK, and the CA community.

This is one of the reasons for the trimmed wings in the Israeli variant SpitfireIXe. BTW Try to lure the pack up to 20,000 feet. I think this can give some merit to the P-51 AI over the spits.

The main problem with TK's AI for the Mustang is that, instead of applying energy air fight tactics, as 'normal' P-51 pilot would do, the AI pilot play into the advantage of the spit, starting a slow turning fight. No wonder than that the P-51 is like 'meat on the table' in this sim, unlike RL I believe. I myself couldn't survive my first unbalanced mission like Gr.Viper and Stary did and RTB. In the second balanced missions, when I've changed the AI only, but not my dogfight tactics, I could survive the mission to tell the story. You can learn a lot on the AI problem in SF2, if you do try the first mission.