Chuffy's Flying Circus

Thanks Conky - I think I've got it sorted:

I had loaded the game from the "IL2" program application, rather than the "Launcher".    With "Launcher" it has gone away and found the new version and is currently downloading the 3.1 GB at a miniscule number of kbs/sec.  Yawn!

I guess it wasn't a conspiracy after all.    But I'm going to look over my shoulder anyway Woof; contrary to your sage advice.

Well I decided to have another look at BOS, managed to find it on my PC, loaded it and the home screen  tells me I need to update my (original) version.

Stuffed if I can find a download site - doesn't appear to be on the BOS website or forum. 

Is it so bad they keep it hidden away somewhere?

Or (more likely) is it a conspiracy against the BlueDog?   

Well it hasn't changed my life a whole lot but I rather like it.   Thought about reverting to Win 7 for about a fempto-second before deciding to stick with 10.

So....... plugged in the CH Fighterstick, CH Prothrottle, Saitek rudder pedals, TrackIR5, then loaded IL2.   Got the main screen and moved my mouse to select QMB.   "Oi, where's me bluddy little arrow?" I fume "Bluddy Microsoft poofters have stolen it!"

Can't select exit (because there's no little arrow) so had to fernangle my way out of IL2 some other way.

Restarted computer, went to the forums and found that if the display size is anything other than 100%, the bluddy Microsoft poofters will steal your little arrow.

Yes, I did have my display size up at 125% so my age-weakened eyes could read stuff on the screen.

Reset the display size to 100%, loaded IL2 and behold, there it was, my little arrow.   "Ha!" I cry "I've made those bluddy MS poofters give me back my little arrow.   That's a win for the BlueDog!

And yes, all the gear worked OK without further incident. 

Thanks for thinking of me, Conky.

Haven't flown any sim for some time - but I think my sensitivity setting of 90 is good for me.

You 80, me 90.   Simply means I'm a more sensitive guy.

Of course Woof''s sensitivity level would be (at least) 100%.

SCAM ALERT

Beware of an email looking very much like a Microsoft message.   Clicking on the win10 install.zip file will either put spyware on your computer or put in place some sort of encryption for which you will need to BUY a key to unlock.

The scammy email can be identified by dodgy characters (no, not Bounder or Woof) in the text (eg umlaut over vowels).

Microsoft doesn't provide the free Win 10 version via email. It will come directly to your PC.   Mine has arrived and showed up as a message in the toolbar at the bottom right of my screen.

QuoteMy Austin 7 was famed for the upside down footprints on the ceiling

So, is it fair to say that if we were to measure those footprints we would have a good idea of Matron's shoe size?

I'm just saying......................

So......

any ideas on what to do with the cab?

With the holidays upon us I would like to share a personal experience with my family & friends about drinking and driving.

Some of us have been known to have brushes with the authorities from time to time on the way home after a "social session" out with friends.

Well, three days ago I was out for an evening with friends and had several cocktails, followed by some rather nice red wine.  Feeling jolly I still had the sense to know that I may be over the limit. That's when I did something that I've never done before .. I took a cab home!

Sure enough on the way home there was a police road block, but since it was a cab they  waved it past. I arrived home safely without incident.   This was a real relief and surprise because I had never driven a cab before.

I don't even know where I got it and now that it's in my garage I don't know what to do with it!!

I'm still shaking after Woof's story.

Back to settings.

ATM I'm using 40 pitch, 40 roll, no centre or edge dead zones (in-game slider settings).   In CH Control Manager I've reduced X and Y axes sensitivities to 90.   Far from ideal, but usable. 

GASP!

QuoteI'd love to help but I fly with default control responses; never having flown a WW2 kite of any kind, I'm not at all sure how they should react to control inputs. So far I find the fm's manageable, what are your concerns about them?

Thanks Conky.   Like you I have no experience with WW2 aircraft - I'm just trying to get a setting that gives reasonable longitudinal handling qualities.   By that I mean something that doesn't overreact to small inputs but is not so sluggish that causes out-of -phase conditions. 

So far I've not been able to nail an in-game sensitivity setting that suits.  The default "0" setting is sort of OK until you try a tracking task like keeping the pipper on the target whilst both aircraft are manoeuvring - that's where the 'over-sensitiveness' shows up and the tracking task is quite difficult.   Go to the other extreme of "100" sensitivity and the aircraft reacts much more slowly.  You will move through your intended path unless you anticipate and apply opposite control well before you would (normally) do so.  This results in out-of- phase conditions.   Try this out on the approach to land by putting the aircraft into a decent undershoot or overshoot and assess the timing and magnitude of the control inputs you need to get back onto the correct glideslope.

All very basic stuff really, and there's got to be a setting in between the two that suits - probably more towards the 0 than the 100.

I haven't tried playing with the other two "dead zone" settings yet.   Perhaps that might help.

Just a matter of trial and error from here on, I expect.

On another issue, have you got the tailwheel lock to work?   Does it show up as a message on screen (like trim settings etc do}?

Cheers,

BD (Oz)     

Woof, my friend, you went to an awful lot of trouble to give me those figures; however I'm looking for control settings for the Stalingrad sim.   I do appreciate your effort, though.

Any CH users out there?

I haven't been able to find pitch and roll settings that give a realistic response to controls.   So far have only tried shaping response curves using the ingame facility but without getting satisfactory results.

Might have to try shaping within the CH Manager map; but that's a bummer because I have to go in and out of game every time I change a test setting