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  1. http://forum.combatace.com/topic/45080-locking-frame-rates/page__p__322611__hl__set%20framerate__fromsearch__1&?do=findComment&comment=322611 Try there mate. Hope it helps. Homeboy provides a good answer there.
  2. crepitis, You certainly can assign your joystick buttons to replace keystrokes. I have a Saitek X-52, and there is software that maps the joystick buttons and coerces them to emulate key strokes. If you have just "plug and play" CH joystick (ie you have no software for it), you can still do this. I might be a bit rusty at how to describe it, but I'm sure others can help if I can't help you adequately. First of all, enlist a "Joe Bloggs" pilot, one that you don't care if he is accidentally killed. Then go to quick combat, and get him sitting in an aircraft on the field, waiting to start up his engine. Press "Escape". A drop-down menu will appear on the upper right of the simulation window. Go to "Controls" and click on that. Another drop-down menu appears. There you have the Commands and the keys assigned to them. PLEASE remember to write things down before you adjust them, so that you can return to the default if things go pear-shaped. Now, I assume that your guns work, so we won't have to assign the command for that. Let's try to assign a joystick button to make you jump into "Virtual Cockpit". Scroll down that list on the drop-down menu until you reach "Virtual Cockpit". Move across to look at the keyboard funcion that emulates this command. You'll find there isn't one! Ok...assign it to some UNUSED keyboard stroke (I use "V"). Move your cursor across there and type in "V". Now you must save this file. Press "Save as.." and a menu drops down. It will have "Mine" as the default. You MUST save it as this filename "Mine.xxx" without the quotation marks, and I'm sorry, but I can't remember the file extension (and I'm at work, so I can't look it up...I'm doing this all from memory). OK, so now, theoretically, hitting "V" in game will cause you to jump into the Virtual Cockpit. Now you have to teach the button on your joystick that you wish to assign this command to how to emulate a keyboard "V". I'm unsure how to do this using a CH Joystick. You might have to move the cursor across to the command and press your selected button. Unfortunately I don't own or use a CH stick. I hope this helps guide you on the right track. Check these threads out for a start. (Try doing a search for "Joystick Profile"). http://forum.combatace.com/topic/46079-x52-pro-profile/page__p__331026__hl__joystick%20profile__fromsearch__1&?do=findComment&comment=331026 http://forum.combatace.com/topic/41943-joystick-profile/page__p__295652__hl__keyboard%20mapping__fromsearch__1&?do=findComment&comment=295652 In the first thread you can see my software for the X-52 joystick mapping. If you don't have a similar set-up for the CH stick, you may just have to re-assign those key commands to a button (ie when it asks you which key you wish to use, press your joystick button instead). Have a good think about which keystrokes are used for COMBAT. Other key presses are complex key strokes, but not used in COMBAT (such as mixture cut-off, a vital command used to STOP once youve landed...like I said, it's vital). That used three keys, and should be assigned a single button IF you can afford one. The X-52 has about 18 buttons that you can use, and I have another 18 on my programmable keyboard, but the commands to be used in COMBAT, when you can't afford to take your eyes off your enemy, and therefore need to have those commands programmed into a button you can FEEL FOR. Have a look at what commands people here think are most needed on the joystick in those couple of threads. Hopefully someone with a CH Joystick can help you further. One more thing...a very, very useful guide to print out that lists all the key commands from our (sadly MIA) friend here, Homeboy (he "went West" and we haven't heard from him in a while. Hope he's doing well, and they are looking after him). http://snomhf.exofire.net/data/OFFcommandkeys.jpg Print that out and keep it handy until you can either remember them, or have them assigned to a joystick key. Good Luck, mate. Hope that all helped.
  3. Grounded!

    The hard-working editor of our Society Journal drove for nine hours each way to get there and back, spent two nights in a hotel...all for naught. High winds grounded all the WW1 warbirds at the Vintage Aviator WW1 air show last weekend. He did get up close and personal to the new D.Va, and was mightily impressed.
  4. Grounded!

    I'm actually quite pleased they're "over here", and plan to hop "across the ditch" (fly across the tasman Sea to New Zealand) to visit them - maybe next year - sigh!
  5. Grounded!

    Well, it wasn't taken from that episode, though that one was funny. If I recall correctly, all that Stewie had to do to enlist as a fighter pilot was to state he had a extraordinarily ugly wife, and MAY in fact have homosexual tendancies.
  6. OT JibJab...gotta love it!

    Weird Al Yankovich is seriously funny! (Is that an oxymoron?). I think his best work is "Bob". The song title is a palindrome, and the entire song lyrics are comprised of palindromes. Exceedingly clever. The film clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsgeTNnYywg is based on a Bob Dylan clip. Everything about this is funny.
  7. Pedals

    I've got a Saitek X-52, qnd haven't had any trouble with it at all. Love it in fact. (No force feedback of course, but the number of buttons to program makes up for it I believe). I also use the Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals. Now, I HAVE had trouble with the rudder pedals. When I unboxed them, connected them, and fired them up, they worked perfectly, and have had all the time. The problem I have with mine is they do not "adjust". The rotating wheel in the centre of the pedals to adjust the sensitivity wouldn't budge. I thought I was doing something wrong, but they worked, and the tension was OK to me. I saw a video review on YouTube and the reviewer just moved the wheel with his fingers. I was down on my knees gripping it with all my might, and it wouldn't budge. Ok, so I could have returned it (I'm sure), but it just didn't seem worth it, as I had got used to it now. Don't get me wrong, I recommend these pedals, as they worked great out of the box, it's just mine don't adjust. Rickitycrate...want to enlighten us on your button function programme for your X-52? Burningbeard...what function did you have programmed to your pinky switch that you overused it that much you wore it out?
  8. Welcome to OFF and CombatAce Forum. It took 6 days to get here to Australia. Can I suggest you download the superpatch and the latest minipatch and reading all the stickies to get you off to a running start.
  9. Check this out for a skin. Richthofen Squadron, but not WW1. Love the Dr.1 on the tail.
  10. They shall not grow old, as we who are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning... WE WILL REMEMBER THEM! LEST WE FORGET
  11. Check this out. Unbelievable control. Precise. Steve
  12. Happy Birthday, Jarheads!

    Semper Fi, Marines! Happy birthday.
  13. OT - Amazing flying skills

    Indeed it did. There are, of course, a few factors that need considering...As a model, you might have noticed it did not have a "fuselage" as such, simply a flat cardboard cut-out. At the beginning of the display, you saw the "pilot" testing the control surfaces. The entire wing operates as a control surface, it does not have "ailerons" as such. Due to the incredible lightweight of the "aircraft", and the amazing power of model aircraft engines (even at this scale), this could not of course be replicated by a manned aircraft. There was no atmospheric conditions to contend with, being an indoor event. But still...amazing.
  14. This was posted on "The Aerodrome" forum, and I think some of you guys might be interested. From the front page of the Wairarapa Times-Age in NZ yesterday. Isn't she something! There appears to be a typo though, suddesting she has an 80HP Mercedes engine. Way to go "The Vintage Aviator"!
  15. TrackIR question

    vonguber, Did you read Homeboy's guide to setting up TrackIR in the stickies at the top of the "General Help" page? Invaluable information. Steve
  16. Oops!

    At least he "punched out" successfully. Spare a thought for this poor bugger, accidentally SEMI-EJECTED, and then having to hang half in and half out of the cockpit for a carrier landing. What a nightmare.
  17. TAC troubles

    To edit the SIZE of your TAC (after you have it fixed back to a circle of course)... Edit the ViewUI.xml file found here... C:\Documents and Settings\Your User Name\Application Data\Microsoft\CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\ Look near the bottom and you'll see the following text... <TacticalDisplay BGIMage="tactical_display.dds" BGPos="0 0" BGSize="512 512" BGScale="0.15" BackColor="0x1f0000FF" Mode="0"/> <TacticalDisplayMetric BGIMage="tactical_display.dds" BGPos="0 0" BGSize="512 512" BGScale="0.15" Default is 1.2. Alter the figures to suit you. Sandbagger has altered his to 0.15 on a 24 inch monitor, and so have I. You can also mess about with the colors of certain parameters there (I changed the color of the "selected target" from a yellow to a green). A word of caution...PLEASE save a copy of the file as it was and remember where it was before you mess about with these things. Also check WHICH ViewUI.xml file you mess with, as there are several (do a search and mess with one, check out the result, if nothing has changed, return it to default, then move to the next file).
  18. The Call Out

    Well, it was not exactly an Ace calling out an Ace, but.... Report by Major R S Dallas. Flew over La Brayelle aerodrome and fired on hangars on South side of aerodrome to attract attention. Dropped a parcel with the following message inside: "If you won't come up here and fight, herewith one pair of boots for work on the ground. pilot's for the use of." Then flew into the mist till a party of men had collected to examine the parcel, when two bombs were dropped, one burst being observed near target. Opened fire with both guns firing about 100 rounds when troops scattered. General panic ensued. In the field. 3/5/18. P.C.O Ridell, Capt for Major, Commanding No 40 Squadron, R.A.F. ...it certainly WAS an Ace "picking a fight." (and a Squadron Commander "to boot"). Aussie humour. Must have caused much mirth in the mess.
  19. MORE ACTUAL EXCHANGES BETWEEN PILOTS AND CONTROL TOWERS Tower: "EASTERN 702, CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF, CONTACT DEPARTURE ON FREQUENCY 124.7" Eastern 702:"TOWER, EASTERN 702 SWITCHING TO DEPARTURE. BY THE WAY, AFTER WE LIFTED OFF WE SAW SOME KIND OF DEAD ANIMAL ON THE FAR END OF THE RUNWAY." Tower: "CONTINENTAL 635, CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF BEHIND EASTERN 702, CONTACT DEPARTURE ON FREQUENCY 124.7. DID YOU COPY THAT REPORT FROM EASTERN 702?" Continental 635: "CONTINENTAL 635, CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF, ROGER; AND YES, WE COPIED EASTERN... WE'VE ALREADY NOTIFIED OUR CATERERS." One day the pilot of a Cherokee 180 was told by the tower to hold short of the active runway while a DC-8 landed... The DC-8 landed, rolled out, turned around, and taxied back past the Cherokee. Some quick-witted comedian in the DC-8 crew got on the radio and said, "WHAT A CUTE LITTLE PLANE. DID YOU MAKE IT ALL BY YOURSELF?" The Cherokee pilot, not about to let the insult go by, came back with a real zinger: "I MADE IT OUT OF DC-8 PARTS. ANOTHER LANDING LIKE YOURS AND I'LL HAVE ENOUGH PARTS FOR ANOTHER ONE." The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short‐tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206. 26 Speedbird 206: " FRANKFURT, SPEEDBIRD 206! CLEAR OF ACTIVE RUNWAY." Ground: "SPEEDBIRD 206. TAXI TO GATE ALPHA ONE-SEVEN." The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop. Ground: "SPEEDBIRD, DO YOU NOT KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING?" Speedbird 206: "STAND BY, GROUND, I'M LOOKING UP OUR GATE LOCATION NOW." Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "SPEEDBIRD 206, HAVE YOU NOT BEEN TO FRANKFURT BEFORE?" Speedbird 206 (coolly): "YES, TWICE IN 1944, BUT IT WAS DARK, -- AND I DIDN'T LAND..." While taxiing at London Airport, the crew of a US Air flight departing for Ft. Lauderdale made a wrong turn and came nose to nose with a United 727. An irate female ground controller lashed out at the US Air crew, screaming: "US AIR 2771, WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU GOING? I TOLD YOU TO TURN RIGHT ONTO CHARLIE TAXIWAY! YOU TURNED RIGHT ON DELTA! STOP RIGHT THERE. I KNOW IT'S DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN C AND D, BUT GET IT RIGHT!" Continuing her rage to the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting hysterically: "GOD! NOW YOU'VE SCREWED EVERYTHING UP! IT'LL TAKE FOREVER TO SORT THIS OUT! YOU STAY RIGHT THERE AND DON'T MOVE TILL I TELL YOU TO! YOU CAN EXPECT PROGRESSIVE TAXI INSTRUCTIONS IN ABOUT HALF AN HOUR, AND I WANT YOU TO GO EXACTLY WHERE I TELL YOU, WHEN I TELL YOU, AND HOW I TELL YOU! YOU GOT THAT, US AIR 2771?" "YES, MA'AM," the humbled crew responded. Naturally, the ground control communications frequency fell terribly silent after the verbal bashing of US Air 2771. Nobody wanted to chance engaging the irate ground controller in her current state of mind. Tension in every cockpit out around Gatwick was definitely running high. Just then an unknown pilot broke the silence and keyed his microphone, asking: "WASN'T I MARRIED TO YOU ONCE?" .
  20. OT What Job do you do?

    I left school at 15 to join the Army (WANTED to go to Vietnam...boy, what an idiot!). Anyway, myself and the Australian Army had a fight, so we broke up 8 months later (honourable discharge). I worked for QANTAS as a Radio Trades Apprentice. Got retrenched when I became a fully-fledged tradesman. Joined the Department of Defence (NAVY) working as a radio tradesman, then as a Technical Officer of various grades in such diverse positions as Test Equipment and Instrument Calibration, Superintendant of Aircraft Maintenance and Repair, Torpedo Maintenance Establishment, Inspector of Naval Ordnance, and Trials and Assessing Unit as a weapons assessor (Anti-Submarine Warfare torpedo weapons practices [Mk 44, Mk46, and Mk48 torpedos] - that was REALLY interesting work, and well paid too! - and later on, Naval Gunnery). I "retired" in 2000 to concentrate on my research (Australians who served in the RNAS in WW1) and went to France, Belgium and England to study and visit museums and research centres. Umm...It's REALLY expensive, and as I didn't pull out all of my superannuation, I ran out of bucks quickly. Tail between my legs, I got back to Sydney and moved in with my brother, and started looking for something interesting in the way of a job. I selected Security Officer. Worked in several smallish Security firms, eventually became Site Supervisor at a few places, and then concentrated on Surveillance, getting a job working the cameras for the surveillance team at Star City Casino. I left there and am now Shift Supervisor at a (quite large) building complex that comprises the old GPO building in Sydney (has 4 bars, 7 restaurants, 6 boutique shops), an office tower (24 floors) that houses the headquarters of the Macquarie Bank and Australian Securities and Investments Commission, and a five star hotel (32 floors) - The Westin, and a seven floor car park, and all the security concerns for all these premises and tenants, and all the building infrastructure that is required to run them (airconditioning, electrical supply, telephone, computer systems, door control access, access passes etc etc etc etc...the list is endless). Sounds complex, and it is, but I get a LOT of time working at night to trawl the internet, and hound great sites like this and The Aerodrome to try to keep me awake (caffeine helps!)
  21. Dev's: sound info request.

    Well, at my age, "experimenting" with breaking wind is dangerous. Oh. Wait. I MUST be getting old, that's not BREAKING wind, it's TWEAKING wind! Tiny font, old eyes! Carry on!
  22. Pearl Harbor Pics

    If you go to the Australian Society of WW1 Aero Historians website (www.ww1aero.org.au) you will see a copy of our latest newsletter. If you click on that, you will see a story about Richard Betteridge, an Air Mechanic with No 1 Sqn AFC and No 3 Sqn AFC. He was a keen photographer and took photos whereever he went, and recorded details of all the photographs. When it wasn't in use, his precious folding camera and album were hidden in a secret compartment at the bottom of his wooden trunk. It was found only last year by his sisters and his son. This meticulously detailed record of the Squadrons he served in, and the places they served, was generously donated to our Society by his son. Now THAT is a recent discovery from an even earlier time. Extraordinary to think these priceless items could have just been lost. Have a peek at the newsletter (and website too!) if you're curious. I'm planning on signing the album out of our library when we have our AGM in November. Hope no one else has it booked.
  23. I booked myself a week at O'Reilly's Rainforest Guesthouse in the Lamington Ranges just south of Brisbane Australia. The reason was to go on one of their rare treks out to the extremely remote gravesite of Reginald Haslem (Rex) Boyden. Rex was the pilot of the famous Stinson that crashed there in 1937. I have been researching Australians who flew for the RNAS in the Great War for some time along with Andrew Smith, and Rex Haslem was one such man. The aircraft was lost in a bad storm and there was no radio on board. Noone really knew if the aircraft flew around the ranges, and headed to its destination, or attempted to turn back, so the search area was massive. Bernard O'Reilly decided he would go looking and some 10 days later found the wreckage. Amazingly, there were two passengers that survived the crash. There was an epic rescue mission, and teams of men hacked their way through the bush to reach the wreckage, and another team started hacking a path from the nearest navigable road towards the crash site. I wanted to pay my respects at Rex's grave (he was killed in the crash, and buried on site), and so booked a holiday there. When I arrived at Coolangatta airport, I saw a brochure to book passenger flights in a Tiger Moth. I visited them, and asked whether a flight over the crash site could be arranged. They agreed, and we took off, flew overhead, and I paid my respects. On the return flight, the pilot asked me if I wanted him to "stunt" the aircraft. Boy, that was easy to answer. We looped, rolled, wingovers...the whole nine yards. This "straight and level" flying is for the birds! Eventually, I was unable to make it out to the crash site. I might return and attempt it at some other time. Anyway, here is a pic of me and the Tiger Moth. (I think it was built in 1935 - unsure though).
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