Flashcards for learning airplane identification

March 17, 2019

Hi all,

I have created a set of over 300 flashcards to help me learn id airplanes in BOX and I thought I would share them with you. I have created the flashcards by playing the game on the Berloga server, recording and taking screenshots during the replay. The advantage of this method is that the screenshots are exactly what you see during the game. I can tell what an aircraft is if I see a perfect picture of it, or at least a perfect silhouette but that's not the case when you play the game. Some of the flashcards can be quite difficult to id but they have at least one distinctive feature for the specific airplane. Sometimes it's hard to say the exact type, but you can at least say if it's Allied or German.

In order to use the flashcards you need to use Anki (open source software): https://apps.ankiweb.net/index.html They have a pc client, an Android one and an IPhone one. The pc version is free, the IPhone one (called Anki) is expensive, around $30 unfortunately. The Android version is free and it's called AnkiDroid, just take care there are others that are called Anki something or other but they are not what you want. I have no affiliation whatsoever with Anki, but I find their software very useful (although it was a bit hard to use initially). Download the attachment on your pc, un-rar it and double click on the resulting apkg file after you installed Anki for pc.

I have added two screenshots so you can see how the whole thing works. First you will see the photo of the airplane with a "show answer" button and then, after clicking that button, you can rate your knowledge. Depending on that, Anki will show you the card again after a certain interval. In my case, the intervals are pretty large because this is an old card that I recognize pretty consistently. The quality of the airplane photo is a bit worse in this screenshot than in reality because of the jpeg compression.