What a HOOT!!!

[Knarley-Bob]

Get on single player, one on one. Get your self into a Mustang with rocket pods, and go hunting transports (planes)....IF you can hit them, they come apart REALLY nice?.

Yup, it's a little different, but hey, it's a game.......

KB

Edited April 20, 2020 by Knarley-Bob

[Feathered_IV]

Nice!  If I can suggest one too, try a Sopwith Camel against an Ace AI Me-262. It’s rather fun.  

[Knarley-Bob]

1 minute ago, Feathered_IV said:

Nice!  If I can suggest one too, try a Sopwith Camel against an Ace AI Me-262. It’s rather fun.  

Why not? I bought these sims to have fun with. "Some times guys just want to have fu-un".....yeah I know, that was bad?

[Velxra]

Yes aiming does tend to be the tricky part. lol

[BornToBattle]

3 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

Nice!  If I can suggest one too, try a Sopwith Camel against an Ace AI Me-262. It’s rather fun.  

OMG...if I only had a nickel every time I took up a WW2 bird and pitted it against a WWI machine I’d have about 35 cents now as I finally gave up what with the huge discrepancies in speed and those cloth and wood crates turning on a dime. I originally thought it would be another Marianas Turkey Shoot - wrong! I couldn’t even imagine trying to gain air superiority with the speed of a ‘262.

 

Just totally frustrating, but nonetheless a light hearted look at some “what if” scenarios we can create with these sims during these crazy pandemic times.

[Feathered_IV]

7 minutes ago, BornToBattle said:

OMG...if I only had a nickel every time I took up a WW2 bird and pitted it against a WWI machine I’d have about 35 cents now as I finally gave up what with the huge discrepancies in speed and those cloth and wood crates turning on a dime. I originally thought it would be another Marianas Turkey Shoot - wrong! I couldn’t even imagine trying to gain air superiority with the speed of a ‘262.

 

Just totally frustrating, but nonetheless a light hearted look at some “what if” scenarios we can create with these sims during these crazy pandemic times.

 

Naw, I mean flying the Camel yourself against an AI 262.  The shoe is on the other foot then.  The 262 comes off worse every time.  ?

Edited April 20, 2020 by Feathered_IV

[Knarley-Bob]

40 minutes ago, Feathered_IV said:

 

Naw, I mean flying the Camel yourself against an AI 262.  The shoe is on the other foot then.  The 262 comes off worse every time.  ?

When I learn how to fly a Camel I'm going to give it a try. That Camel keeps kicken' my butt. Spin , spin, spin, SPLAT!! I'm an Ace for the wrong side ....?

[jollyjack]

3 hours ago, Knarley-Bob said:

When I learn how to fly a Camel I'm going to give it a try. That Camel keeps kicken' my butt. Spin , spin, spin, SPLAT!! I'm an Ace for the wrong side ....?

 

As gamer i appreciate the possibilities of what can be set regarding PC keyboard commands for individual plane control, but what pisses me off each time is the hit and miss and remembering the important ones. Different each time, and for VR players (not me) it must be rather impossible. Isn't there a keyboard in braille for the blind BTW? I'll stick to the easy mode with automated radiator, mixture, slats etc. Find more fun in getting to know how work with the Editor than playing a mission.

[BornToBattle]

9 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

 

Naw, I mean flying the Camel yourself against an AI 262.  The shoe is on the other foot then.  The 262 comes off worse every time.  ?

Okay, got it. Oddly enough I’ve never tried putting the shoe on the other foot as I deemed it from the start as an exercise in futility. Ironically we both  now have confirmed the opposite to be true. Gonna take that shoe off and put it on the other foot for a hoot today and break all sim “rules” for a realistic and historical battle! Why? Because we can!

[BornToBattle]

5 hours ago, jollyjack said:

 

As gamer i appreciate the possibilities of what can be set regarding PC keyboard commands for individual plane control, but what pisses me off each time is the hit and miss and remembering the important ones. Different each time, and for VR players (not me) it must be rather impossible. Isn't there a keyboard in braille for the blind BTW? I'll stick to the easy mode with automated radiator, mixture, slats etc. Find more fun in getting to know how work with the Editor than playing a mission.

You are correct as I now fly VR exclusively except for taking screen shots. Yeah, in VR everything is done by feel (at least for me it is) and its a good thing some keys are grouped physically on the keyboard layout or it would be a mess. This is where the VR gloves and clickable cockpit controls would be the icing on the cake for VR. But anyways...
 

Thing is, between the stick, yoke and throttle quadrant luckily most of the commands used most often have room for being delegated to such tasks by way of buttons, etc. - but again, of course not all of them. Things such as nav lights and “lesser commands” get relegated to the keyboard but others like inlet and outlet engine cowl flaps, radiator/oil cooling open/close get mapped to the throttle quadrant. 

To avoid hair pulling along the way I made up some reference sheets as to what everything in relationship to hardware is mapped to. I just refresh my memory with it before taking a stead up. At times certain updates will play with your mapped settings as well so this sorta bulletproof you also incase that happens.

 

[Feathered_IV]

9 hours ago, Knarley-Bob said:

When I learn how to fly a Camel I'm going to give it a try. That Camel keeps kicken' my butt. Spin , spin, spin, SPLAT!! I'm an Ace for the wrong side ....?

 

I found the thing that helped me the most with the Camel was a little training exercise in QMB.  Set up a solo flight with a bit of cloudy weather.  Fly straight and level and take a look behind you.  Choose a specific bit of a cloud at your six and do as tight and controlled a turn as you can, to line your sights up on that cloud.  Count one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand... as you go, until you have lined up and put ten bullets into the cloud.  Do it over and over again and see how low you can get your count to.  When you are getting good at it, try it from the other direction.  After a while you will be a bloody terror and all the 262's will be running away from you.