Pilot logbook?

[3instein]

Does anyone know what, if anything, will be used to keep track of any pilot stats? I am not so interested in MP stats as such as I am mostly SP driven,but is there any plans for some kind of pilots logbook or similar?.

 

Even though it is mainly SP I fly, I sometimes venture over to MP and to have a pilots logbook that keeps track of my character with stats for any missions flown whether online or not,would have to be included IMO.

 

Surely there is going to be something like this eh? I mean this has to be a basic requirement nowadays with this kind of PC game,as most if not all new games have some kind of statistic collection whether as a nice pilots logbook or just a page with your total stats on.

 

Has there been any information on this been mentioned anywhere?

 

Cheers,

 

Mick.

[SCG_Neun]

I agree with you on this one...but I think it's going to more than likely come from a third party with some talent for creating something...like the old IL-2 Stab Log Book. I've plans for my own personal approach on this when I have time to do some more single player missions on COD using the Desastersoft missions and then of course whenever I can invent something using whatever IL-2 BOS brings to the table in the form of single player missions.  I think the latter is going to require some tweaking to come up with a squadron affiliation and such....But we shall see....

[Elbows]

I've always thought it'd be cool to have a small journal option...letting you "scribble (type)" some notes (kills, etc.) after each mission. 

[Voidhunger]

I think there will be only statistic of how many planes and ground targets you have destroyed. But if you want to know what type of planes, when or where, you have to write it down manualy

[Uther]

I would like a logbook.

 

I have never understood why ANY flight sim hasn't had such a simple utlity that is EXTREMELY important to real pilots.

 

Something you could keep notes in, type of plane flown, duration of flight, etc.

 

 

I think Their Finest Hour: Battle of Britain at least kept flights, aircraft type, and victories.

[SCG_Neun]

This might help give you some ideas for BOS, but it's designed for BOB currently.  Author is Recon.

 

http://airwarfare.com/sow/index.php/downloads/viewdownload/18-gaming-utils/148-luftwaffe-dynamic-pilot-career-tracker

Edited October 2, 2014 by JagdNeun

[dave9810]

I would like to see something similar to the campaign in RoF. Air kills/ground kills/ total flight time 

[Endy]

I would like to see something similar to the campaign in RoF. Air kills/ground kills/ total flight time 

 

Me too.

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

its coming.. I do know this is coming.

Edited October 2, 2014 by 71st_Mastiff

[Pteradon]

I have never understood why ANY flight sim hasn't had such a simple utlity that is EXTREMELY important to real pilots.

What about DCS A10?

If i remember it correctly, there was a logbook in it.

[Elbows]

A couple years ago I contacted Mark Styling (who does customized graphical prints of aircraft) to produce a large reproduction piece of an F-4 my father used to fly.  We actually used by father's old log-books to get the serial, BuNo, etc.  Came in rather handy.  And, yes, the print came out fantastic.

[actionjoe]

I have never understood why ANY flight sim hasn't had such a simple utlity that is EXTREMELY important to real pilots.

 

 

Wings Over Flanders Fields does it pretty well, you have details for each flight, each claim (with your description of the fight, if you decide to write it) and every event in the Squadron life.

Edited October 2, 2014 by actionjoe

[Elbows]

That would be really cool...and a bit depressing.  I can see myself with a huge stack of deceased pilots.  There was a fun competition on the RoF forum to see who could live the longest in an actual WW1 career with full realism.  I'm not sure what the record was.

[3instein]

Hope that some good soul or even the devs are working on something like this, it is sorely missing for this game.

 

Mick.

[voncrapenhauser]

There was a really old PS1 flight game had a detailed Log book, The game was crap as a sim but was a great feature so It can be done. 

[danjama]

I've always thought it was ridiculous that this never existed in IL2 and it's ridiculous that it doesn't exist now. Even simple stats or a log that you update manually would be useful.

[Y-29.Silky]

I've been brainstorming on how to create software for this. Here's a real pilot logbook from the Battle of Britain:



There can be a separate logbook for each type (Fighter, Bomber, Transport). A fighter logbook would probably look something like above since they won't be able to jot down during flight, but for bombers and transports, something like..
 

• Date - Time: 1-5-2014 (or 1942, what have you), 1700
• Aircraft: Ju-87 D-3
• Payload: 1000kg
• Mission: Ground Strike
• Target: Beketovka Supply Depot
• Pilot: Haupt. Schmidt
• Passengers: Gunner - Gefr: Färber 
• Flight(heading, grid, altitude, observations):
  - 030 at 386-8, Alt: 2000 (065 if you use ft), Obv: 2 visuals distant NE
  - 090 at 438-7, Alt: 4000 (131), Obv: Engagements to the N
•  etc, etc
• Engagements: Light AAA at Beketovka
• Air Kills: N/A
• Ground Kills: 8 Buildings
• Damage: Slight damage to fuselage, port side horizontal stabilizer missing.
• Casualties: Gefr: Färber - KIA (or whoever may be your gunner in multiplayer)

 

Probably too much detail, but this is only off the top of my head...

Edited January 5, 2015 by Silky

[II./JG27_Rich]

I was talking about this before the game came out. Buy a nice binded journal book and write what you like in it and keep it. You'll get a kick out of it when you're 90-100. Your relations will find it and say "He really has gone round the bend hasn't he"      

Edited January 6, 2015 by II./JG27_Rich

[Strider]

~S, M8's.

 

Suggestion. Go to your local flying school and purchase an actual Pilot's Log Book. Or get one online.

 

~S!

 

Strider