Trotski

just uploaded, ( I think ) a re work of the MS.H basically just messed about with the skin a little, and added decals, instead of the pre fixed ones

I am working on the rest of them too, gonna struggle with the fighting cats though.....maybe experiment with some decal making ....hmmmmmmmmm.......oh dear, another thing to mess about with

Hahahahaha......and proably finding it is more effective chucking the Squadron silver at those damned Boche......the cads

Third time lucky ?

yes, what Anti-Static said, you fellers do all the work and we reap the rewards, and with out you chaps the sim would have died off ages past

Yeah buddy, just came home to find this, been looking forward to it !!!!!!! :groupwave:

Yes there is a way of disabling the unjamming of the gun, I have seen something in the data files of some ( not all ) that states allow unjam true/False.....I have so many airframes uploaded though I cannot tell you where exactly I saw it, but it is there somewhere, I am sure one of the more esteemed members of the forum can advise on this better than I

Well good luck with that mate, keep us posted how you are getting along, I cant comment on the Pfalz, as I have never used it, or not yet at least, however I think you will find that only the very first production DIII's thehad the guns mounted internally, later DIII's and the DIIIa both had them mounted externally, as it was easier to service and or remove the guns without having to remove engine and fuselage panels. As for the differences between the 2 marks of Pfalz, they were mainly an upgraded engine, and a few redesigns to the lower wing and the tailplanes, so probably not worth the trouble,for us in the sim, especially as the aircraft was very unpopular with the pilots, allegedly due to performance and handling, but more likely to be the fact that it isnt a very pretty airframe when compared to contemporary aircraft also in service at the time

Yeah I have had similar problems, dont want to diss anyone, or start a flame war, but I dont understand why Mr Capun has to be quite so precious.........if he wants to preserve his bandwith why not have a similar system to the one on this site, which limits the amount of downloads you are allowed in one day, unless you subscribe, a very fair and impartial system if you ask me. The over protectiveness of skunkworks is a little petty in my opinion........only saying, and I hope my opinion doesnt pee anyone off

How cool is that !! The ultimate boys toy lol

What is everyones worst nightmare when it comes to messin' around with plane models ? My own personal hell is weapons loads.......how complicated can it possibly be ? I know I am not and " advanced modder " I just tinker as you all know ( I have asked for assistance several times ) but getting different bombs to work on aircraft that are supposed to be able to carry them is a real swine.............here is an example, I am not happy with the bomb loads on the Bristol Fighter, the bomb rack is incorrect, as there shout be 3 bomb racks all together, four bombs under each wing and a four bomb rack under the fuselage. According to Chaz Bowyers book on the F2B the airframe is rated to carry 12 cooper bombs, and 4 Rl112 bombs 2 under the fuselage or one under each wing. do ya think I can get the sod to work ?....not a chance in Hades !! It is a struggle to even get the standard load out as per the model to work !!! The USAS bombs I have found are awkward to get to show up, some of them dont at all !!! and yes I have changed the Nation settings for the bomb racks ......and the bombs !!! So that is my personal demon, what are yours ?

Woohooo.....I will dust off my Pith helmet, and get my long shorts on !!!!!! oh and look out for Camel Spiders in the cockpit lol lol lol

Nice one mate, soooo looking forward to the Eastern front campaign........A Middle East one would be good too hint hint !!!1

I found fiddling about with burst amounts works well too, 5 round bursts seem to work well, less stoppages too !!!

Errrrrrrrrr there was never a follow up on the "Where are my bombs" bit, about the rockets........how do we get those babies to work ?

Yes that is what I thought, but maybe a little poetic licence needs to be applied here ? Anyhow your previous suggestion to me worked well, and my FB gunner is now shooting as he should be, strange how only some of us seem to have the problem, but others dont, as I said the sim does have a mind of it's own sometimes !!!

If you look at my earlier post , we had this discussion ref the FB5, I sorted the FB's gunner by changing the fire chance 100 . Before I did this my gunner was a blind moron, who was only good for blocking my view, after I upped the firechance to 100, oh yes and the ammo count to 97, that seemed to solve the problem.......there were actually 2 types of drum mag for the Lewis gun and a lot of the photos I have seen are mounted Lewis guns with the larger capacity pans (97 rounds) not sure if that was applicable earlier in the war, due to weight considerations etc but there is certainly photographic evidence to suggest it was the case. I have actually come across this problem with other types too........very odd, but then sometimes the sim does some odd things....a ghost in the machine ,maybe ?..........

good un mate !!! are you going to be doing the rest of the early Fokkers also, to go with the B1 ? ie the BII and the d series ? I know they already exist but you are a master of upgrading so just wondering

Good point ocjar, I hadnt actually realised that about the gunners......show I dont read everything that maybe I should eh !!!

yes, that is exactly what i mean about rear gunners being too accurate, if his aircraft is moving about ( and even in level flight it wouldnt be a really steady gun platform ) and taking evasive action, the poor old observer worked really hard to try and get a bead on what he was shooting at , even during WWII the massed guns of the B17's and B24's had little effect on incoming german fighters, yes of course they did get kills, but not that many !!! The drone was a 10 foot wingspan job, not moving terribly fast either, about 100 mph I would imagine, to simulate a helicopter more than a jet, so around the same sort of speeds a WWI aircraft would be moving at !! hard to hit trust me !!....with AAA artillery though it is a different matter, as the blast fro a near miss would really spoil a pilots day !! I am not trying to say that ground base MG's were ineffective, just that they were not a s accurate as prrtrayed in FE.....this buggers must have laser targeting, and imperial storm troopers shooting them hahahahahaha We were taught that the principle of AAA it is the aim of it to distract and discourage the enemy Aircraft from the target, any kills scored are a bonus, however the Germans had great success with 20 mm and 30 mm light flak, as they used it in large area deployments, but those things had a high rate of fire, explosive amunition and usually 4 barrels !!! To further illustrate my point ( and sorry I am going on a bit ) if you watch news reel of kamakaze attacks on US shipping, not the amount of AAA in the air at any one time it takes a hell of a lot of firepower even to knock down one determined enemy So to summarise, please dont anyone jump on me and say I am dissing the AAA I am just saying it is good actually.....just a little too good especially the mg's !! the actuall Archie is probably modelled quite correctly, however to get back to the original point ( 'cos I wandered off a bit, typical of me trangressin' ) the AAA artillery is a little too easy to kill, but like someone has already said, the crew of said Archibold gun would have been exposed and vunerable, so maybe ocjar was correct by saying use your imagination when it come to strafing guns Shutting up now, I can hear all the zzzzzzzzzzz's coming out of the site hahahaha

ohhh yeah...those airfield defence mg's are a little nasty to be sure, a little too accurate though in my opinion, I have done anti aircraft shoots with a machine gun ( a GPMG ) which fires a lot quicker than those old lewis and vickers did, and trust me it isnt easy to score hits , and certainly not as effective as those AI Mg's either last time I did an anti aircraft shoot we had 6 GPMG's on the firing line, with a radio controlled drone target, the standard rate of fire for AA shoots is 50 round bursts.......from 6 guns.........at 1000 - 1200 rpm.......and we were all highly trained and experienced gunners too.....errrrr we didnt hit the drone once in three passes !!! so maybe just maybe those AAA mg's at airfields need to be less accurate.....as do rear gunners in 2 seaters Far far too accurate in my opinion ( speaking as a machine gunner ) I know that rear gunners had a good kill ratio, however not that good !!! food for thought maybe guys ?

hmmmm yes that is an idea, probably soemting along the lines of what Grins is in the middle of..and I agree about the inconsistancies too !!

Hello fellow Pilots, has anyone else experienced the non firing gunner ? particularly in pushers, I flew a couple of sorties in a Gunbus today, and even though I was sat on the tail of a Fokker for what seemed like forever, my observer refused to fire, even at point blank range, I havent tries out the FE2 yet or some of the Farmans with front gunners, but certainly on the Gunbus , there would appear to be a particular lack of moral fibre from the prune blocking my view.....any suggesttions oh esteemed aviators ?

Cheers ocjar !! that did it !!!...easy when you know how eh !! thank you mate