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Hi guys, back again after a while! Do you prefer getting in close with guns or standing off with missiles? Which do you find easier? As a committed il-2 series flyer, I thought I'd be a gun man, much to my surprise I find these brutes are not really honed for guns like the old warbirds. If I try that manouvering stuff in here its blackout or redout time pronto - and boy am I vulnerable then!! So I read up the manuals and trawled the web for AtoA missiles and their usage methods. Wow its as satisfying as 4x20mm on a Tempest! The trickiest thing for me is making that snap second decision whether the bogey is on my coarse or coming at me - split second delay and he gets his rocks off first and its kinda hot in that pit! But get it right and its a REAL buzz aint it?

Some good info been raised on this one guys. I guess what aircraft you're flying vis enemy is also an important factor - there's nothing better than taking out a superior bird who should've trashed you easily right? Easiuer said than done mind........... me and multi-tasking = pause key

Yeah I agree, that scenario was not beyond the realms of reality at all. Who knows what was going through the mind of a mad dictator? One thing I would say though is if Stalin's spies could count the number of nukes in the American arsenal, then it don't say much for US security! Presume we are going to see all the Soviet jets in this campign, plus the P-80 and perhaps some of the German jets wearing new markings? Unfortunately there's no Vampire yet for the RAF which is a real shame as that bird could punch above its weight, but I believe that modders are working on one.

I did that with an IAF A4 when I was flying a MiG-21 recently - unfortunately I'd used all my 23mm (not much) on another Skyhawk and killed it, and all I had left was the two air-to-airs, first one missed by a mile (think I hit the sun though , second one seemed to detonate a little behind the target for some reason? Becuase I'd used all my gun ammo, he got away - so there's a lesson there; keep a few rounds just in case. Must try that tailchopping tactic in il-2 - sounds fun - did you have to bail out after?

Swordfish - tasty, i feel like a trip to taranto with that one.

thanks guys - there's some real good tips in there, i guess if this had been a poll, guns would probably have won. still, i kinda enjoy watching that big firework snaking after that MiG, makes a change from my il-2 approach of knocking the undercart off Ju-87's and 52's and watching those lame ducks fly on as happy as larry! what i really like about this series is just how fast everything happens - everythings growlin' and bleepin' and i got that plonker screaming guns, guns, guns at me like some demented record thats got stuck whilst i'm going thru loadsa combinations except the right one! usually my tanks go instead of my missiles -still might hit an arab down below i guess!! so i find myself still punching the pause button on a regular basis so am possibly not quite ready for online yet!!!

LOL nuke air-to-air now we're really talking, fry em all!

Got the Hurrie 1 (two-blade prop) and 109E sorted alright then! Seriously this sounds like a great project that will eventually fill a big gap. Even though il-2 has been modded for ages now, many of these planes are still missing....

Brute! Have you modelled the He-177's unerving ability to suffer engine fires at the most difficult times - like in flight.............

Wrench, have you got any of the old profile publications - they had every view possible and in colour too? They have been around for years and years, and came as little booklets or volumed compilation sets. Every aerojumble in the UK always has boxes of them. Doesn't help you much though I guess - especially as no jumbles here for quite a while. I've ferreted around in my collection of the compilations and guess what - no Ju87.

I'd like to add my condolences too. It's a great loss - and at such a young age too. Like has been said - even the newbies are familiar with the Mirage Factory, so we are able to connect with the tragedy - although perhaps not at a personal level, still in a small way. Perhaps his fine work will live on to be his epitaph for many years to come?

Nice, the best French built fighter of WW11, shame it flew on both sides though!

Awesome as usual! I Know what you're saying about googling - sometimes you get pulled miles off course!

oh boy, i've always liked this big, bad bird. believe they operated very effectively off the marianas after the liberation - also okinawa i believe, and kinda spoilt the Jap night bomber ops from Japan against their former bases. can't wait to do a moonlight patrol looking for G4M2's and Sally's.

i like it - i like it a lot! seems light years apart from the good old Blenny 1F.........

hi again, okay i've now got a hugemungus list of flyable aircraft! some i hardly fly at all and i think i'm unlikely to for various reasons. what i want to do is relegate those to ai only, because its still nice to fly against them as and when the game generates them. is it just a case of deleting the cockpit folder or is there more to it than that? thanks.

brilliant tip Wrench - where would i be without this forum?

i'm almost a newbie, so i recently found this out myself; go to http://cplengineeringllc.com/SFP1/ you'll need to first join the forum and then once you're established then you can apply to download from the files section, you will need seperate access to both; forum access does NOT give you access to the files. howver its worth it for the additional WW1 planes on offer there. you've probably noticed that sopwiths are in REAL short supply here. no matter cos they've got the lot! sopwith triplane, pup, dolphin and snipe, yessss.

i think my best bet is balloon busting - even i can't miss those things. yep the camel is tasty all right, trouble is i have to really discipline myself that whilst i'm sewing holes through canvas on the plane in front, some sharp eyed fellow is up my six turning my kite into a collander too. knowing when to break off is half the battle methinks. what's your recomendation to fly on the other side? them more i fly this game the more i like it.

hi again, following advice i got the official FE expansion pack and then updated my game to latest patch - all looking good. next i start looking thru mods posted here. the fx pack looks worth getting, so i'll probably start there...... but new planes, which are worth adding to the game? i really want the ones that have got cockpits nearly as well done as the stock aircraft - or maybe even better? bearing in mind the quite strict download limits on this site, and my lack of leisure time which are really worth going for ? thanks in advance.

phew that moraine was a whopper at 37mb! is he including a petrol bowser with it.

okay - get the meat wagon ready, i mostly fly entente, what's my best aircraft; SE. 5a?

yes the modders have done an excellent job with cfs3 - MAW, PTO, ETO, OFF (i presume), yet i cannot enjoy those quite the same as il-2 and now especially all thirdwire sims. that horrible game still lurks in there somewhere. like a fishbone in an otherwise perfect fish dinner. the main reason i've kept MAW is that i like the malta battles so much. also i like flying often ignored planes like gladiator, swordfish, cr.32 etc. now of course thanks to il-2 modders we have malta and africa for il-2 as well! we are being spoilt i think!! but i must say that i have probably been more impressed with FE, plus the add-ons here, than any other flight sim for years. it really is a great, reliable, graphically strong combat flight sim purposefully designed for the 1914-18 period which is VERY playable and with good enemy ai. yes i'm still getting shot down even on normal level. (guess that means i'm sub-normal derrr).

thanks guys. stary i've just installed your fx package - awesome, transforms the game! do you think the newest scenery upgrade is worth adding, i mean will it affect fps with the fx's also installed? I'll do the bullet when my dl limit expires! i did some yesterday and was pleased with results. one query though; on a couple there didn't seem to be any engine noise? thanks.