Cliff7600

For your next holydays Rent a PBY Catalina sea plane!!! (Don't try the "landing on water thing" at home kids, we're experienced stuntmen) xD

Coolest camera ever!

Good luck Lt

About the crashes, no luck involved. [Fuselage] ModelNodeName=Fuselage HasAeroCoefficients=TRUE CLa=0.0966 CD0=0.0071 CDL=0.0001 Cm0=0.0001 Cmq=-0.5129 Cmad=-0.0126 Cyb=-0.0966 Cnb=-0.0794 ... The "DamageRating=DESTROYED" entry is missing, the fuselage was not destroyable. I guess that's the reason the pilot wasn't killed.

It was a real pleasure

I love ugly plane, the Lightning looks awesome (to me). Btw, do you remember which one is called "Double Ugly"? The F-4E is really ugly too. They look like beasts, sound like thunder and move like... jet fighters! xD

When things go bad and get worse, promotion goes quicker

Position lights location OK And for the first time, the FM starts to be satisfying, YEAH!!!

Check the "AnimationID=6" entry, maybe it's another animation number. And sometime you need to add : "ReverseModelOrientation=TRUE" Anyway change the "Setting[1].Angle=" as you wish to have the right move.

This is a sick campaign!!! There must be a bug somewhere, I'm still alive! I don't understand but let's see how far this will go... 13th mission 1 Esk. 39 PML, Rechlin Larz AB – MiG-19P 11/09/62 Take off : 12.06 – Landing : --.-- Target : Bremen, CAP 4 aircrafts Once again I asked Jan to help me for this patrol, and we took off as a 4 ships patrol. We were on time over Bremen and we engaged 4 Mirage III. I turned tight and fast to chase a bandit that was winning on Marjan. I saw the French launching a missile from his port wing but with a sharp burst I took him out and Marjan escaped from the poorly maneuverable missile. Our MiG-19 are superiors in dogfight to this Mach2+ delta fighter and we were eating them. I followed Jan while he was shooting down his opponent and when I tried to engage another one I caught him up too much quickly and collided with him. Maybe he was idling… The Mig-19 must be a very strong and resistant aircraft because I wasn’t killed in this collision. I managed to open my chute and saw the Mirage’s pilot under his chute too. I was rescued but I lost another plane. My wingmen returned home safely. I must be more cautious or I will be killed soon. 14th mission 1 Esk. 39 PML, Rechlin Larz AB – MiG-19P 11/11/62 Take off : 07.38 – Landing : --.-- Target : Pünitz, Intercept 4 aircrafts Scramble alert, we took off and pushed hard to intercept an enemy raid. We did that perfectly and jumped on 4 F-100 before they saw us. Lt Chudek shot one down and after few maneuvers I had a victory too. Chudek got another one and we were told to bugger off. We headed to the east because they were many fighters in the area and I didn’t want to lose anybody today. But a lonely F-100 hunted us and as he was attacking my wingmen I went to his 6 o’clock. I try to shot him down but I ran out of ammo. I thought I could ram him but it would mean that I would destroy my plane. I tried to overtake him to drag him and let the guys shot him down. But he was a better pilot that I expected and he got me. I punched out. The three others were safe but I lost another plane. There’s only six MiG-19 left at Rechlin Larz… And one day or another I will lost my unbelievable luck and I wish I will not be in flight that day. I’m promoted to Captain rank.

You can try to add a line in the WeaponBay entries. This is the ErikGen F-101B datas for the "Genie" rocket bay : [GenieBay] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=11 StationGroupID=3 StationType=INTERNAL NumWeapons=2 AttachmentPosition001=-0.270,3.57,0.04 AttachmentPosition002= 0.270,3.57,0.04 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 LoadLimit=800 AllowedWeaponClass=AHM,RCKT SpecificStationCode=AIR-2 DiameterLimit=0.5 LengthLimit=3.0 BombBayAnimationID=9 BombBayOpenTime=1.0 BombBayCloseTime=1.0 AttachmentType=USAF ModelNodeName=Genie_Hi MovingPylon=TRUE RotatingPylon=TRUE AutomaticDoors=TRUE <------------- this line PylonMass=10 PylonDragArea=0.06 The problem will be to launch IRM weapons because they will be released without a lock on the target. It seems to me that the real F-106 had a IR sensor on the nose just before the canopy. This is efficient only for AHM, SAHM or RCKT.

12th mission 1 Esk. 39 PML, Rechlin Larz AB – MiG-19P 11/08/62 Take off : 11.06 – Landing : 12.24 Target : Gütersloh, Sweep 8 aircrafts It was a 2 ships mission but I asked Jan to come with us and Capt Wojciechowski with Marek Rayski decided to do the same, each one with a wingman. We thought that such a force would be useful when reaching the area of Gütersloh. Over the target, there was no enemy so we called for an interception course and the radar controller gave us 2, 3, 4, 5 times a new course to engage some “bandits” which were supposed to fly at 10000m. We drifted till Frankfurt Am Main and I decided that was enough, there wasn’t enough fuel left anymore to engage anybody and fly back to the base. We RTBed. Everyone landed safely but our troops had been repulsed. BTW Capt Wojciechowski is an ace since yesterday.

Status : Moving parts orientation : Aileron / Flaps / Stabilisator / Wheels Landing gears : contact with ground and steering Done

Yes, maybe the orders I give to my wingmen are not relevant to the situation. About the crash, it's a first... and I don't think that will happen again. I checked the pilot datas, it doesn't appear, shot down only 1 time. I've ejected twice plus the crash, it makes three actually. I won't complain, +10 missions is good in comparison with the mistakes I made. In fact it's the second time I crash while I was looking at the map. The first time the pilot was killed.

Maybe : (StationID #7 & #8) [WeaponsBay1] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=7 StationGroupID=3 StationType=INTERNAL NumWeapons=4 AttachmentPosition001=0.955,1.18,0.725 AttachmentPosition002=0.524,1.18,0.783 AttachmentPosition003=-0.89,1.18,0.825 AttachmentPosition004=-0.082,1.18,0.739 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 LoadLimit=800 AllowedWeaponClass=BOMB SpecificStationCode= DiameterLimit=0.5 LengthLimit=3.0 BombBayAnimationID=8 BombBayOpenTime=3.0 BombBayCloseTime=3.0 AttachmentType=USAF ModelNodeName=BRACK_L MovingPylon=TRUE RotatingPylon=FALSE AutomaticDoors=FALSE PylonMass=10 PylonDragArea=0.06 [WeaponsBay2] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=8 StationGroupID=3 StationType=INTERNAL NumWeapons=4 AttachmentPosition001=1.163,1.174,0.831 AttachmentPosition002=0.531,1.174,0.784 AttachmentPosition003=-0.076,1.174,0.74 AttachmentPosition004=-0.689,1.174,0.699 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 LoadLimit=800 AllowedWeaponClass=BOMB SpecificStationCode= DiameterLimit=0.5 LengthLimit=3.0 BombBayAnimationID=8 BombBayOpenTime=3.0 BombBayCloseTime=3.0 AttachmentType=USAF ModelNodeName=BRACK_R MovingPylon=TRUE RotatingPylon=FALSE AutomaticDoors=FALSE PylonMass=10 PylonDragArea=0.06 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Or : 8 different weapon stations with 1 bomb each [WeaponsBay1] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=7 StationGroupID=3 StationType=INTERNAL AttachmentPosition=0.955,1.18,0.725 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 LoadLimit=200 AllowedWeaponClass=BOMB SpecificStationCode= DiameterLimit=0.5 LengthLimit=3.0 BombBayAnimationID=8 BombBayOpenTime=3.0 BombBayCloseTime=3.0 AttachmentType=USAF ModelNodeName=BRACK_L MovingPylon=TRUE RotatingPylon=FALSE AutomaticDoors=FALSE PylonMass=10 PylonDragArea=0.06 [WeaponsBay2] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=8 StationGroupID=3 StationType=INTERNAL AttachmentPosition=0.524,1.18,0.783 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 LoadLimit=200 AllowedWeaponClass=BOMB SpecificStationCode= DiameterLimit=0.5 LengthLimit=3.0 BombBayAnimationID=8 BombBayOpenTime=3.0 BombBayCloseTime=3.0 AttachmentType=USAF ModelNodeName=BRACK_L MovingPylon=TRUE [WeaponsBay3] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=9 StationGroupID=3 StationType=INTERNAL AttachmentPosition=-0.89,1.18,0.825 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 LoadLimit=200 AllowedWeaponClass=BOMB SpecificStationCode= DiameterLimit=0.5 LengthLimit=3.0 BombBayAnimationID=8 BombBayOpenTime=3.0 BombBayCloseTime=3.0 AttachmentType=USAF ModelNodeName=BRACK_L MovingPylon=TRUE [WeaponsBay4] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=10 StationGroupID=3 StationType=INTERNAL AttachmentPosition=-0.082,1.18,0.739 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 LoadLimit=200 AllowedWeaponClass=BOMB SpecificStationCode= DiameterLimit=0.5 LengthLimit=3.0 BombBayAnimationID=8 BombBayOpenTime=3.0 BombBayCloseTime=3.0 AttachmentType=USAF ModelNodeName=BRACK_L MovingPylon=TRUE [WeaponsBay5] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=11 StationGroupID=3 StationType=INTERNAL AttachmentPosition=1.163,1.174,0.831 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 LoadLimit=200 AllowedWeaponClass=BOMB SpecificStationCode= DiameterLimit=0.5 LengthLimit=3.0 BombBayAnimationID=8 BombBayOpenTime=3.0 BombBayCloseTime=3.0 AttachmentType=USAF ModelNodeName=BRACK_R MovingPylon=TRUE RotatingPylon=FALSE AutomaticDoors=FALSE PylonMass=10 PylonDragArea=0.06 [WeaponsBay6] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=12 StationGroupID=3 StationType=INTERNAL AttachmentPosition=0.531,1.174,0.784 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 LoadLimit=200 AllowedWeaponClass=BOMB SpecificStationCode= DiameterLimit=0.5 LengthLimit=3.0 BombBayAnimationID=8 BombBayOpenTime=3.0 BombBayCloseTime=3.0 AttachmentType=USAF ModelNodeName=BRACK_R MovingPylon=TRUE [WeaponsBay7] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=13 StationGroupID=3 StationType=INTERNAL AttachmentPosition=-0.076,1.174,0.74 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 LoadLimit=200 AllowedWeaponClass=BOMB SpecificStationCode= DiameterLimit=0.5 LengthLimit=3.0 BombBayAnimationID=8 BombBayOpenTime=3.0 BombBayCloseTime=3.0 AttachmentType=USAF ModelNodeName=BRACK_R MovingPylon=TRUE [WeaponsBay8] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=14 StationGroupID=3 StationType=INTERNAL AttachmentPosition=-0.689,1.174,0.699 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 LoadLimit=200 AllowedWeaponClass=BOMB SpecificStationCode= DiameterLimit=0.5 LengthLimit=3.0 BombBayAnimationID=8 BombBayOpenTime=3.0 BombBayCloseTime=3.0 AttachmentType=USAF ModelNodeName=BRACK_R MovingPylon=TRUE ...

Chill out...

It does the same when you trigger the bomb release and open the bombay after. You should open the bomb bay (extend the rack) before triggering anything, it means two different keys. "O" = extend the rack, then "enter" = drop the ordnance. ???

You know that epic mission, where you get your aircraft heavily damaged and you struggle against the rudder and the stick to return to your home base, flying 100 knots and smoking black trail. You finally land safely and you read in the debrief page that you have been killed, So unfair!!! I had the opposite : I failed to win the DiD Darwin prize and the game was kind enough to tell me I was wounded and hospitalized. 9th mission 1 Esk. 39 PML, Rechlin Larz AB – MiG-19P 11/04/62 Take off : 07.01 – Landing : --.-- Target : Werneuchen, CAP 8 aircrafts It’s was a 4 ships mission before I asked Jan Grzech to lead a 2nd flight. He said ok and we soon had three more volunteers to go with us. I was looking at the map, flying at 1500m (~5000ft) and I woke up in a bed at the hospital. K….!!! What happened??? Jerzy and Bogdan, who were wounded too, told me that I crashed without warnings. The MiG was slowing going down and hit the ground like a belly landing. They thought I lost consciousness and they just couldn’t believe me when I told them I was reading the map. Lt Chudek and 2Lt Pawlikowski won a victory, one Hunter each, but Jerzy, Bogdan and 2Lt Jeka had been shot down. 10th mission 1 Esk. 39 PML, Rechlin Larz AB – MiG-19P 11/06/62 Take off : 09.50 – Landing : --.-- Target : Milowice, Intercept 4 aircrafts I was taking off but the plane bounced when I tried to rotate. I was told by the ground crew that I lost the two wheels of the main landing gears. I will have to eject… Lt Rayski took command of my flight and went to perform the intercept. I was still flying and radioed to my wingmen to join up, they answered yes but they carried on their way. I was alone, flying much higher than them. I jumped on the enemy bombers before Rayski and I had to attack them on my own. I turned to the six of the Canberras and got shot down by I don’t know who. The escort maybe. I ejected near ùsti nad Labem and felt lucky not to be injured this time. 11th mission 1 Esk. 39 PML, Rechlin Larz AB – MiG-19P 11/07/62 Take off : 10.10 – Landing : 11.05 Target : Zerbst, CAP 4 aircrafts Everything went good this time. We were informed that there were many bandits to go after and I waited a bit to choose which ones to engage. We tried to catch up some bombers on their egress and we took out four Canberras, two for Capt Wojciechowski and two for me. Very neat, the “fight” lasted 30 seconds. We engaged two Mirages that were chasing a MiG-21. The hunt was high speed and they shot down the soviet before we were able to do anything. It was harsh, the Mirage pilot was quite aggressive and I wasn’t at my best. During the dogfight I radioed Wojciechowski and Chudek to RTB to avoid them to be hunted on their egress. 2Lt Kornel Sporny stayed to cover me. A second Mirage went in the battle and it was a 2 vs 2 that nobody wins. The second Mirage escaped, but my opponent after few wild moves, head on low level, broke the fight and tried to escape too. Kornel joined up as I was Winchester and shot down the Mirage. Kornel landed safely at Rechlin Larz but I made an emergency landing at Brandenburg, fuel gauge at zero. Three take offs from Rechlin Larz / zero landing.

Contemporary to the F-111D there were already Wild Weasels aircrafts. Imo, unless you have specific weapons (HARM, Maverick AGM), forget about SEAD and focus on strikes and CAS is logical. Good luck with the Aardvark!

Sure Dave! You can have all the positive vibes from me. They're strong enough to cross the ocean. Good luck to her.

Welcome to DiD Cocas! That was the typical first mission ever with a DiD pilot. Good luck! Yes Lt. the Sabres are a big concern and the only F-105 I shot at were slow. I never saw one of them since, too fast! I have to find something to break from the fight when Bingo fuel, because if I run away safely with full AB, my wingmen get caught and shot. 6th mission 1 Esk. 39 PML, Kluczewo AB – MiG-19P 10/31/62 Take off : 15.15 – Landing : 16.50 Target : Diepholz, Sweep 4 Aircrafts We’re paying back. Flying to Diepholz was a long trip from Kluczewo. We engaged four F-100. They fought a weird way, different than we saw till then, faster and higher. We learned later that they were French F-100. It was 4 vs 4 and it took long before I shot down my opponent. 2Lt Pawlikowski didn’t win but punched out and was rescued suffering few injuries. I joined up to Capt Wojciechowski and shot down his adversary. We were low on fuel so we set a course to the east but the enemies back up hunted Lt Grzech and shot him down near Bückeburg. Jan is safe. Running out of fuel, I made an emergency landing at Finow AB while Capt Wojciechowski RTBed without problem. I got promoted to Lt grade, and our troops are in Nürnberg. 7th mission 1 Esk. 39 PML, Kluczewo AB – MiG-19P 11/01/62 Take off : 15.15 – Landing : 15.43 Target : Gross Dölln, CAP 2 aircrafts, #2 : 2Lt Maciej Surma What a failure!!! The mission was to perform a patrol near to the frontier, almost at home. We intercept two F-100 and a difficult dogfight went to a tie. Bingo fuel, we RTBed but one of the Super Sabre followed us and jumped on us while we were on approach. I was Winchester so I wasn’t able to do anything but seeing the bastard shooting down 2Lt Maciej Surma who didn’t survive. It’s our first human loss and it was right here at home. 8th mission 1 Esk. 39 PML, Kluczewo AB – MiG-19P 11/03/62 Take off : 03.23 – Landing : 04.00 Target : Sperenberg area, Intercept 8 aircrafts for a major scramble take off. We intercepted an 8 Mirage formation but they were protected by Sabres. I saw machinegun tracers all around my cockpit and had to break before get hit. Pawlikowski took out 2 sabres and Capt Wojciechowski one of them. While I was trying to catch up the Mirage without success, 2Lt Sporny won a kill against a Mirage but that wasn’t enough to break their assault. They bombed the air base and I wasn’t able to shoot at them. I didn’t see them in the dark despite of my radar. We set a course back home but 2Lt karol Surma got shot down and is wounded, Capt Wojciechowski was shot down too but is safe. I was so upset I decided to chase the last enemy fighters in the area, Maj Wiza and his #4 went with me but we were low on fuel and we went back home. Capt Krol had been killed right at the beginning of the fight. The squadron will leave Kluczewo AB and move in Germany at Rechlin Larz AB.

Even with the WOE bug, the pilot is still alive and ready for new campaigns. Well done Lt! 4th mission 1 Esk. 39 PML, Kluczewo AB – MiG-19P 10/29/62 Take off : 14.23 – Landing : 15.25 Target : Hof, Sweep 8 Aircrafts, 1st flight : 2Lt Jedrek Wisniewski, 2nd flight : Maj Marek Wiza Near Hof we engaged a 4 ships enemy bombers formation. They were B-57s. Maj Wiza shot down two of them and Lt Olszewski and 2Lt Pawlikowski one each. We were leaving the area when some enemy fighters appeared, close to friendly bombers. So we engaged them and after a low level dogfight I shot down an F-100 Super Sabre. Something went wrong during the second egress because Lt Olszewski was alone and chased by the F-100s. They shot him down over Gera before we could help him. He was rescued and is safe. 5th mission 1 Esk. 39 PML, Kluczewo AB – MiG-19P 10/30/62 Take off : 15.23 – Landing : 16.15 Target : Altes Lager, CAP 4 Aircrafts (no drop tanks, we’re trying to save them) We performed a patrol over friendly territory. Ground controllers told us to engage the formation as will so we went to the east of Altes Lager and we find two Super Sabres. In fact, I was alone, the others didn’t follow me when I broke up and dived. I was behind the US fighters and they were flying steady, they didn’t saw me yet. I got close and shot the leader down with a long burst of 30mm. The wingman broke up and Pawlikowski and I tried to take him out. He was a good pilot and we never managed to get a fire solution. Something was wrong and I decided to let my wingmen deal with the F-100 and tried to intercept the other reported enemy formation. I never was able to catch them up and we finally went home, not without problem from the lonely F-100 but we did the egress much better this time. Everybody RTBed and I was quite low on fuel. I didn’t choose the right enemies to engage, four F-105 fighter-bombers did their strike without being intercepted. But we learned that the USAF lost an Ace today and as I am the only pilot who claims a victory it seems that I am that Ace-killer. Our troops are in Bremen and Capt Wojciechowski has been rescued and he’s back to duty! That means that we didn’t lost anybody and that will strengthen up our fighting spirit!

Precisely Lt.! It's something I never managed to do with the F-104, barely did with the F-4 and began to use with the F-106. What you describe is exactly what happened. Unless I only have 2 X 30mm cannons, it's a P variant. So far I think it's quite efficient. DiD experience makes you learn, that's something cool about the idea. the pilot is Jedrek Wisniewski, 3 missions 6 kills, I'm proud of him ;) And the MiG-19 is really great to fly, my favourite from the Red side.

Yes Lt it's bad luck but now I'll be more cautious when performing a landing approach. It was such a simple mistake that costed one of the twelve planes of the squadron! Slarti you're right, it's a personal mod and it doesn't work perfect with the radio messages "Red Crown, Olds lead passing WP3 / Asp lead, Red Crown copy". When that bug is repeated I can't help starting to laugh xD The cool stuff is that I added more aircrafts I like (Canberras Mk2/Mk8, F-105F, MiG-17PFU, Lim-6R, MiG-19PM Czek, Polish and East German, specific skins...) I used the NF4 campaign. During a previous attempt I had Günther Rall on my six! 3rd mission 1 Esk. 39 PML, Kluczewo AB – MiG-19P 10/28/62 Take off : 13.23 – Landing : 14.27 Target : Wunstorf, Escort Il-28 bombers 4 Aircrafts With Capt Krol as #3 we went to Wersdorf to protect friendly flights bombing Wunstorf AB. We were on time 5 nm ahead of the strike flight. Closing to enemy fighters we dived from 5700m to the deck to gain speed and started wide turns to engage them without taking too much risks. It worked. Capt Krol shot down an F-100 Super Sabre and after a low level-foggy weather-high speed dogfight I win on another F-100. I don’t know what my opponent was trying to do but he was too low to gain speed and while he was avoiding ground obstacles I shot at him and took him out. The pilot ejected. There were big explosions from the bombs striking the ground targets and I was able to see the big yellow flames through the fog. There were also some F-102 Delta Dagger and I thought I was less in danger close to them than far because of their missiles weaponry. The F-102 is not an agile adversary and I quickly get a 6 position on one of them. The problem was I could see clearly somebody behind me and I wonder if the guy before me wasn’t just tricking me to give an opportunity shot to his wingman. I’ll never know, I shot him down and did a tight break. I went to the deck and realize I was flying over the enemy base. I decided to pass above some smoking bomb craters thinking that there won’t be any AAA right there and I was wrong! But they didn’t hit me. I called for the others to join up and turned to the east, gaining some altitude. I saw a lonely plane above me, heading to the west. I wondered if it was friendly, and when I saw it was a delta wing shape I knew that it wasn’t. I did a split-S and tried to catch him. I realized later that I forgot to turn on the radar to chase him. It took few minutes to catch him up and I saw it wasn’t an US Delta Dagger, but a Mirage. The guy was flying steady and the Mirage exploded like a bomb when I opened fire, no chance to survive… We finally got back home and I was pretty relieved to land without problem because the weather was quite bad and I saw the runway reaching only 100m high (~300ft). 2Lt Surma got his plane hit by ground fire and Capt Krol damaged an F-102 after his victory on the F-100. It’s the first time I shoot down an enemy fighter during a dogfight, to me the victory against the F-100 today means more than the others.

Hi Rob, you were talking about the A-6 roll rate ;) 2nd mission 1 Esk. 39 PML, Kluczewo AB – MiG-19P 10/27/62 Take off : 12.39 – Landing : 13.21 Target : Braunschweig, Sweep 4 Aircrafts Bad luck today. We flew to Braunschweig and we intercepted 4 Canberra bombers over the battle field, they were attacking our troops with rocket pods. Maciej Surma shot down two of them but Capt Wojciechowski collided with his one. I tried to shot down mine using the little ORO rocket pods but I finally took him out with a very sharp burst of 30mm. We RTBed and while I was on finale I suddenly lost lift. I tried to push the throttle to the max but the plane was falling, it was too late. I hit the ground and I think I broke the left gear, the plane bounced and I saw in the rear mirrors that I was on fire. I ejected and lost the plane. K….! There was no cross wind and the crew chief told me that he thought the rocket pods drag made the plane stall sooner than I expected. I should have extend the flaps sooner. We destroyed 4 enemy bombers but Capt Wojciechowski is reported MIA and I lost my plane.