Sat Night (6th Oct) may be Online 1946 night

[Zak33]

Sunday Morning, review of last night, in the cold light of day:

Input required and expected guys.

We still cant stick together if we take off from diff places, location is damnably hard. But we did improve.

Comms were pretty good, and it wasn't noisy, or heavily over chatted, so gotta congratulate everyone on that.

Dogfighting as a pair is, in my mind, bloody aweful, truly dire. We gotta try it all again.

I still miss total sitters....absolute 100% guaranteed kills, that Hat or Dak or Luke313 would always get..I miss. I think my convergance is too far out. I'm getting realy close now...under 100 metres, and in a Spit with wing canons and MG's they are going either side of my target. Its why Ihit with Yak's a lot....centreline guns. No cross over.

we MUST rely on our sense of speed and distance and NOT get confused over map positions....guys...we flew south for about 10 minutes,and then presumed we were on the east side of the map because it looked similar! Embarressed? I was.

Gerrard...sorry we lost you on that mission...dunno where you were, but you MAY have BEEN where you thought you were...but we sure weren't!

I think we need Rias to be booming and zooming more in that Tempest, cos she's good with that....but her turnfighting is less good in it, so missus, it might be Spitfire time for that kinda fighting. Soon as you start turning in a Tempest..you're toast.

Nick, don't stop climbing when you're going to a dogfight...I saw you level and then diving too early a few times. Same for Gerrard really.


Geist...excellent to see you online....it realy is a peasure to have an old hand back with us

However, lots us did get home, many times and that is to be commended

[Geist]

Still chuckling over one of my take off's though when Zak was holding position for me.
"Geist rolling - Zak where about?" *ZZZZOOOOOMMMM* "Roger"

Those desert maps are hard maps to try and track people and that winter map with almost impossible with the cloud cover.

I have to say I’ve always been bad at sticking together with others when the fights start. Not for lack of trying but I think I focus too much on one enemy and then when everyone’s dots, can’t tell who’s who. Flying as a wingman takes loads of practice to get it at a level where you’re not bounced yourself and can stick to your lead. But that would come again if we flew regularly with each other.

Have to apologies for that bombing run. I took us south to avoid the main hot spots and when we hit the second water, should have turned east rather than continue. Although when we did find the target on my approach before popping up (had 3000lbs of bombs) took a single flak hit to my right wing with no warning and no other flak.

I think we should try co-op's sometime, mixed bomber / fighter. That would get us into sticking together, multiple hight band fighter protection etc.

Lots of things to think and practice on for next time though.

[Nick Smith]

Originally Posted by Geist

I think we should try co-op's sometime, mixed bomber / fighter. That would get us into sticking together, multiple hight band fighter protection etc.

Sounds good to me

I thought we did quite well in the P-38s with you in the B25, except when we reached the target everything was blown up already

[Zak33]

yes...the P38's are good to team up with

What we REALLY need is some IL-2 missions.....all of us together in one column.

thats REAL power

[Gerrard]

It was good last night. The main problem I had was the comms going stuttering every now and again, which made it difficult for me to follow orders and stay together. Unfortunately, that's probably due to the connection and it's not going to get sorted for about 3 months.

Yeah, my navigation was pretty rubbish. Pretty certain I blew the crap out of the wrong train station! To be fair though, the terrain graphics were unusually blurry to find and follow railway lines. Not sure if that was just my end though as I was playing in windowed mode by then because of the TS problems.

Dogfighting...didn't really happen. The only time I got into a good shooting position the mission ends! ID'ing aircraft as well proved to be a bit difficult. I wasn't the only though. Pretty certain other people were turing onto me before realising we were on the same side. Need to check my 6 more often. The amount of times I got caught out and lost a wing before I knew what was going on...

Still pretty chuffed with my Top Gun move though! Didn't get a kill in the end, but didn't die either.

Oh, and pretty annoyed there's no working fuel gauge in the Spit. Not much you can do when your knackered engine stops at 100 feet...

[Zak33]

Originally Posted by Gerrard

Still pretty chuffed with my Top Gun move though! Didn't get a kill in the end, but didn't die either.

that WAS good...but pls dont rely on it unless you practice it a lot

[Gerrard]

Well, my aileron controls were knackered on the first hit, and I wasn't going to shake him using rudder and elevators only; so it was more an act of desperation than anything calculated!

[Tumble]

Need to go up again... Missed it Sat night

[Nick Smith]

I'm up for sometime this weekend

Celebratory Half Term Flight

[Zak33]

ahhhh. half term

that IS good news.

Roads will be clear next week

[Tumble]

We up for some tonight??? need to dust off me goggles

[menthel]

Am still awaiting the delivery of my 2nd copy of 1946!

[Nick Smith]

Originally Posted by Tumble

We up for some tonight??? need to dust off me goggles

I'm up for tonight, definately...

Anyone else?

[Gerrard]

I probably won't be around tonight. I think I might be sociable and have to go to the pub all day and watch the sports. If I am around, I will probably be drunk by then, and there would be a lot of noise in my room as people play 4-way Pro Evo in it.

[yamangman]

After the football Tumble?