Chutedangle

I am using the CH flightstick and throttle. The setup for everything seems to be working great except the elevation. The nose always wants to drift up and it bucks around a bit which makes dogfighting a little difficult. I am running IL-2 1946 without mods and with the engine management turned off, until I can get the hang of things. Thanks...

I couldn't get either one to play.

Thank you gentlemen, your replies have been most helpful.

I have downloaded the TornadoF3. I understand that the airplane folder goes into the mod folder for airplanes. But there are two other files there along with the plane folder. TornadoIDS_destroyed.bmp TornadoIDS_destroyed.LOD Where exactly do those two go? Thanks much.

Does anyone actually own this thing? I am interested into looking deeper but there seems to be a couple of hang ups.

Wrench, I understand what you said, at least I think I do. They are there for the benefit of other types of missions. Makes sense to me. But what I am wondering is, why waste so must time and energy on something that isn't going to work because of so many other problems?

After giving this some thought, which took a lot of thought, I wonder why someone would put so much time and effort into something that provided so little pay off? If you can't create a plane that can't bomb the ground and no one can figure out the radar, what was the point? Again I am just asking, not trying to bad mouth anyone. Maybe they didn't know at the time what we know now? I guess from all that I know and have read, this is a fighter game. Anyway, thank you all who make a good game into a great game.

After reading all of this I guess I'm returning to fighters. I will leave the big bombers to the AI, he seems to be a lot smarter than I am. Thanks for all the help.

Nukes sound like a good idea. Yes I understand that flying a big fat bomber is not the same as a compact fighter. But if your going to present a plane, that at least you document how the radar bombing works? Understand that I am not bad mouthing the people who do all this modding and make an average game into something special. But you should understand that not all of us are computer expects or can focus our lives on this game. But I will take your advice as to practice. It would be most helpful though if someone has already written an explanation, since inventing the wheel twice makes no sense.

First attempt to bomb enemy runway Are there any explanations as how to use shiny new plane? Thanks...

Thanks macelena. I was hoping that was the case.

If I have a target lit up, air or ground, and I instruct my wingman to attack my target and then switch targets. Will he attack the original target or the target I switch to? Thanks...

Sign me up, Please.

I'll be lost, thats for sure. But take of yourself, your the only self you have.

Good for you! I can only imagine how your mother feels. Hoping you recover fully in a very short time.

I can't imagine playing any flight sim without 5.1 now. I always used the trackclip that came with TRI5 but got tired of wearing a hat. Got the Trackclip pro. Much better without the hat, but I don't see that it works any better. And the design of the locking clip really sucks.

I can't seem to drop my bombs correctly. I always seem to be late. What am I looking for as the correct time to pickle? Thanks...

yeah, someone should of told my boy. That moron flew the whole mission lit up like a rock concert.

OK, that's how that works. I didn't think someone could over look something like that. Thanks for the info.

So we take off from base to hit a rail bridge. Two F-117's, me and crazy Joe. My auto pilot kills the lights once I am up and running. I am sailing through the sky all black and feeling stealthy. I look over at my wingman and the fool looks like a flying christmas tree. He does the whole flight winking and blinking. There is no command to tell him to tone it down. Not to mention I can't seem to hit the ground bombing from that plane. Just another day on the job.

Wrench, You were correct sir. I grabbed an older version first. I went back and got the 2 Aug. 2012 version and it works like a charm. Thanks for your help.

Can someone help me? I downloaded the "CatPack.cat here from CA. When it didn't work I found that I should of gotten the latest from Third Wire, which I have done, and run. I added the F-117 to SF2Europe and was hoping to add the squadrons included to the list, which readme says the list must be extracted from the MissionData001.CAT file from the Flight folder. However I just get an error message. Any idea what I am doing wrong or am not doing right? Thanks as always...

I looked BAE up and there were a ton of explanations. "Battle Area Evaluation" was one. Didn't think that was right. One was a name of some corporation. Thanks for the run down.

Always had a thing for black planes.

One of the skins for the EF-2000 is called BAE evaluation. As I'm sure you already know. Can you help a brother out and explain to me just what that means? Thanks...