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by Sparky
Wed Feb 22, 2023 5:35 am
Forum: Tangmere Pilots Guest Room
Topic: Potential New Recruit
Replies: 28
Views: 5174

Re: Potential New Recruit

I am in Florida. SO the Tuesday/Friday flights are all at or around 4pm my time? As much as I was hoping this group would work, I have learned it just doesn't help cohesion when I can not make the training flights. Unless there is some chance of a work around or other option, I am worried this just...
by Sparky
Sat Feb 18, 2023 5:04 pm
Forum: Tangmere Pilots Guest Room
Topic: Potential New Recruit
Replies: 28
Views: 5174

Re: Potential New Recruit

Stats are very unimportant to me. You can do nothing with them. Enjoyment is what I value. I enjoy flying with a group of like minded people who also want to have fun. In Tangmere Pilots, stats mean a lot, but not in the way you'd expect. Once Bunny destroyed three Ju-57, all ours. First, while lan...
by Sparky
Tue Jan 31, 2023 5:14 am
Forum: DCS stuff
Topic: DCS Training resources
Replies: 13
Views: 4083

Re: DCS Training resources

Good library of training videos. Thanks.
by Sparky
Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:31 pm
Forum: DCS stuff
Topic: Modules
Replies: 12
Views: 3236

Re: Modules

Silk wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 11:37 pm I thought that it would be a good idea to let each other know what DCS modules we own so that we can arrange sessions together.

Silk
What day and time? I'm updating my DCS.
by Sparky
Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:52 pm
Forum: DCS stuff
Topic: Modules
Replies: 12
Views: 3236

Re: Modules

I own but haven't played:

Most maps.
Super carrier (I think)
F-14, 16, 18, 86, 5
FC3
P-51, Mirage 2000

Some campaigns.

I'd be starting from scratch.
by Sparky
Thu Nov 24, 2022 11:43 pm
Forum: Prangster's Great Battles Mission Building Room
Topic: Para drops in WW2
Replies: 1
Views: 1584

Re: Para drops in WW2

... parameters for dropping paratroopers were six hundred feet of altitude at ninety miles per hour ...however, many troopers were dropped from 300 to 2,100 feet and at speeds as high as 150 miles per hour. As you guys know about Normandy, Gooney Bird pilots never dropped troopers as low or as slow...
by Sparky
Sun Oct 23, 2022 4:01 am
Forum: Tangmere Repair Hangar
Topic: Looking for rudder pedals
Replies: 14
Views: 1933

Re: Looking for rudder pedals

I had two sets of MFG Crosswinds (one set for France, one for the US) and loved them until one pedal's toe brake ceased functioning. Ordered new wiring and carefully replaced it. No change. SO I went back to my cheap-ish, narrow-set Thrustmaster pedals and they work fine, or at least 1,000 times bet...
by Sparky
Tue Oct 18, 2022 9:13 pm
Forum: Tangmere Repair Hangar
Topic: great battles
Replies: 11
Views: 1775

Re: great battles

So, the keybind you're after to move your view around should be "rotate camera up/down" and "rotate camera left/right" The external camera is called "external free camera at player plane" Hope this helps :rof_smile I'll try them again but I believe I tried setting those and nothing happening to my ...
by Sparky
Tue Oct 18, 2022 7:45 pm
Forum: Tangmere Repair Hangar
Topic: great battles
Replies: 11
Views: 1775

Re: great battles

I’ll have a look later but from memory external view is one of the F keys - F3 or 4 I think, then the panning keys are just set up how you want them in the “Camera” settings. I'll look in my camera settings for the selections set to the F keys you and Mouse suggested. Finding those will *hopefully*...
by Sparky
Tue Oct 18, 2022 5:20 pm
Forum: Tangmere Repair Hangar
Topic: great battles
Replies: 11
Views: 1775

Re: great battles

Berfore I reinstalled, I could shift my view outside the aircraft with one button and sweep the camera left-right and up-down with a four-way switch. No more, despite me trying all the key settings that seem possibly relevant. My VRnecksafer is spotty in working and with my neck, I need the camera c...
by Sparky
Sat Jul 09, 2022 10:56 pm
Forum: Tangmere Pilots Guest Room
Topic: Potential New Recruit
Replies: 28
Views: 5174

Re: Potential New Recruit

I take it Tuesday sessions still go ahead in the summer break and it's just Sunday ops that are on holiday? If I come along to a Tuesday before starting training, "to check my skill level" as suggested by Tom how do I arrange it? It's very informal in summer break but many of the 'usual suspects' t...
by Sparky
Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:18 pm
Forum: Tangmere Pilots Guest Room
Topic: Potential New Recruit
Replies: 28
Views: 5174

Re: Potential New Recruit

To cure the Spit groundloop on landing roll I recommend touching down with no power but then adding a bit of power that carries you through a rollout to stop. Unless I add that bit of throttle back in, after touchdown I tend to groundloop
by Sparky
Wed May 25, 2022 8:44 pm
Forum: Tangmere Repair Hangar
Topic: Flying Ops from my camper?
Replies: 5
Views: 1512

Re: Flying Ops from my camper?

Do some of you fly with wifi? I had to get a wired connection before I could use IL2 reliably.
by Sparky
Wed Apr 27, 2022 5:16 pm
Forum: No.6 Operational Training Unit
Topic: F/Sgt Bear leaves Sutton Bridge
Replies: 15
Views: 7169

Re: F/Sgt Bear leaves Sutton Bridge

Congratulations. Welcome to the monkey house!

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by Sparky
Sun Jan 09, 2022 12:49 am
Forum: No.6 Operational Training Unit
Topic: F/Sgt Doc leaves Sutton Bridge
Replies: 16
Views: 7116

Re: F/Sgt Doc leaves Sutton Bridge

Welcome, Doc! Are you a real doc? Wanna' take a look at this rash? Welcome to the monkey house! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AM-JKLVS6YAE7h91cpAGu0c_Ac2vcpIbn8_y-DzWNqtY_Obcug1qt-j6chxev_urkUTVO5a7edI1D-bZTHgLz--dgzOFlLKJ_Wvi9Lbz7qzdE7CjtSugv8l4bMNJ0y2J3S2eY8g55e3ZOUJgwGSxUqyhVAjENw=w490-h63...