Chuffy's Flying Circus

I've been flying the P-40 for the first time together with Mike on our server this week.
After a failed first take off (overcooled the engine in the tough russian winter!) we flew towards a guard objective and soon found us surrounded by Bf-109E's and He-111's ..

We let the Heinkels go and shot down all of the 109s .. granted, those were E models, but they were four and we were two .. In any case, I had fun with the P-40, maybe because it is a little more difficult to fly. After all, you "just" have to keep an eye on RPM, manifold pressure, oil & water temp, correct?

Best Regards,
skylla

Interesting find, thanks for sharing it!

Quote from: Storebror on December 01, 2017, 05:41:13 AM
Not sure if you can really blame BoX for it, could as well be a design flaw in the X-52 software.

Maybe, but then again: No problems with that in '46. After all what do I need those Shift+XXX combinations for if I cannot lay something onto XXX? The whole idea of this is to use a lot more "keys" than there are on the keyboard

Quote from: Storebror on December 01, 2017, 05:41:13 AM
This rather looks like the "Shift KEYUP" event timing is messed up... maybe Saitek sends a "SHIFT -> L -> SHIFT KEYUP -> L KEYUP" sequence instead of "SHIFT -> L -> L KEYUP -> SHIFT KEYUP".
God knows... only Saitek and 777 could shed a light on this.

That's a good point (and btw, thanks for the detailed explanation!).
As you can also define exactly when keys should be pressed & released within the Saitek software I will try to ensure that the sequence is "SHIFT -> L -> L KEYUP -> SHIFT KEYUP" and post the results back here.

Quoteone of the nice features however, is the ability to map multiple functions onto one key

definitely!

"flawed" means:
I have set "lower flaps" on LShift+L, "toggle Cockpit light" on L.
WHen I now hit the button for "lower flaps" on my stick (mapped to Shift+L), the flaps will go down and the pit lights go on/off ..
Sometimes it's just the pit light switching and the flaps stay where they are.

QuoteI regularly have issues with all kind of "flag" keys (shift, alt, ctrl) set when I have Alt+Tabbed out of the game inbetween.

I do Alt+Tab out of the game a lot, so maybe that's the problem for me then.
Weird thing this, in '46 I never had these kind of issues ..

In any case, I went through all the control settings yesterday again and I'm now quite confident that I can set all important keys I want to map on the stick without having to access an Shift/Ctrl/Alt/Windows combinations .. we will see how that works out ...

Quote from: =CfC=Bounder on November 29, 2017, 10:24:28 AM
Those of us that have the prog managed a few sorties last night and it highlighted the amount of work we all have especially with key bindings.
Such a shame that the developers have not made the use of HOTAS software compatible (such as Saitek X52) after repeated requests over a year ago: only single key entries without the use of shift, ALT or Windows keys are sensed by the key assignment GUI making it so much harder to get key assignments working without duplication.......never mind......we will just have to work around it.

you speak from my heart there Bounder. That's exactly what I'm struggling with too and the one thing that truly annoys me in BoX atm.

Quote from: Storebror on November 29, 2017, 12:29:01 PM

Quote from: =CfC=Bounder on November 29, 2017, 10:24:28 AM
only single key entries without the use of shift, ALT or Windows keys are sensed by the key assignment GUI

IIRC Shift + Ctrl work fine, but Alt and Windows keys don't.

Sorry, I cannot confirm Mike .. any control assigned to Shift / Ctrl / Alt will work only flawed for me if at all.

Quoteempty so no one sees when we... guess it

trash their ships & AI planes?

yeah, we're definitely not gonna pay for those

It is definitely cool to fly BoX together .. if for nothing else, then at least for the eye candy. One can say what he wants, but this sim for sure does look good!
Flying in formation never was that appealing!

Best Regards
skylla

Hi there

Regarding any questions about the SAS Server, I can recommend this Board over at SAS: http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/board,237.0.html

Regarding the FAC.. We usually start grouping up on the Server on Sundays at 3 PM GMT .. normally there are 7-10 people around, sometimes even more .. TS Details can be found on the message loop on the Server

Best Regards,
skylla

Hi Mak,

Thank you for the fast answer!
I never thought it was that easy

Best Regards,
skylla

Hello everyone

I've got a question:

How can I make the frontline in IL-2 dynamic? I saw that in some missions already and always wanted to know how to do that...
It would be great if someone could tell me

Thank you!

Best Regards,
skylla

Hi Conky! Looking forward to fly with you again! 

@Fitz: The plan is for a glider-like plane with an engine in its nose (Graupner "Elektro-Fly"), which could be ~ 10 years or older (got it as a gift from the jet pilot).

F-18 has an electrical impeller engine (styrofoam planes are usually to small to carry those kind of loadouts)
A real Jet + Jet engine would be far to expensive for me at the moment 
But I actually know a guy flying with these, and let me say to you: these planes are cool beasts!

Thank you all for the warm welcome here

@Fitz: My RC planes are quite easy small styrofoam planes for average pilots, but they're very robust and I've had lot's of fun with them

My Twin Star:



My F-18:



Another (better looking) plane is under construction at the moment 

Another flying Kraut here...

I've been with the IL-2 community for some years now, currently flying with the F.A.C. as #24. You'll find me often on the SAS server, but I'd love to fly with you guys, too!
Also, I'm a mission builder and try to get into modding at the moment.

Some more information about me:
Age: 19
Currently living in a small village in Germany
My hobbies: doing Il-2 stuff (of course!), bring my RC planes up in the sky, biking, archery and in winter: skiing!

That's it for now, I hope to meet you in the air soon!
skylla