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    Weather Forecast

    TOMORROW...INCREASING CLOUDINESS EARLY THIS EVENING FOLLOWED BY 10 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS. RISK OF A THUNDERSTORM.

    In VEF1 there were many missions where you just couldnt see Jack.... and planes were bring blown left and right from the runway oj take off..

    VEF2 so far ./. has been remarkably sunny (spose it is June 1942).. if you havent flown a mission in a thunderstorm.... i gotta tell you.. its an experience!

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    I like rain...and thunder...makes for good screenies on the replay

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    I cant map read at the best of times if I cant see 50 foot infornt of me what chance do I have? lol..

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    Need to give the weather a try in single player see what this is all about.

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    Its awesome when its a bitch of a day then you lift over the murk and the sun is shining, bring it on I say...give us VVS a chance to get home for a change

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    http://66.114.65.249/vov/singlemissi...missionid=8362

    """19 June 1942 Time: 14:20 Weather: Rain Clouds at 600 m Russian target is a depot near Primorskiy. The attack group consists of 4 I-16 t.24. Distance to target 40 km Flight altitude: 500 m We will escort them with 2 I-16 t.24 based on Lenino airfield. The enemy may attack Lenino today. This area will be patrolled by 4 I-16 t.18 from Lenino. Be warned that in 30 minutes we expect Li-2 with supplies for Lenino airfield. """

    MUHAHAHHAHA


    Everyone hops in their planes and the mission starts....and booger me if the frame rates suddenly drop to 14fps..

    cos its DARK and P*SSING down with RAIN!.

    A quick "on runway" adjustment of the graphics details and the framerates pick up again.. but bedlam on the runway as people's lower end gfx set ups pack up under the strain... BUT.. WHAT a mission!

    I hold my breath and the joystick hand is sweating as a fight hard to get in the air. It was bumpy as Heck below 2000, yet sunny with haze at above 4000..

    ...so keeping down in the soup to avoid the gaze of the snappers patrolling above.. I potter my way towards the target (Escorting, but packing a rack of rockets just in case )..

    I've got that part of the map reasonably sussed now, and following the compass bearings I head south west to the coast, and dropping my wing I can just make out the inlet to the eye of the needle, then Primorsky... so flipping out to sea and then in an arching curve, I bring myself back towards where Feodosia should be. The airbumps are continually forcing my gravity fed engine to the point of cut out, so I have to keep swinging her up, then left and right down to keep the lifeline open.

    The growl of 109s can be heard above as the factory chimneys suddenly loom into view and seconds later there's the target.. an armoured train in the sidings.

    Small flak bursts around me and one other rata has made it to the target, I drop my wing and fire off a salvo of rockets to mark the train for the other to finish off with a nicely placed brace of bombs.

    I hear that all too familar sound of an increasing engine scream on my 6; knowing what it means, I break hard to my left keeping the engine speed up as a yellow nose swoops hard and fast past my right side.

    That's the last we see of him as I set course for 180 away from the trouble and then back along the coast towards home. Cutting inland much later, with a few "Ground control > request vector for landing" commands, the home turf is in sight.

    I think I'm on my own, but the sirens are still going so there's trouble about, so I poke my nose above the soup to the dangerous world of daylight.

    I dont stay there long as I must stand out like a sore thumb, picked out nicely against the grey background.. so I meander around downstairs for a bit, always turning towards the sound of a solitary 109. I can hear his movements as he adjusts his nasty little throttle.. a lone wolf looking for lost sheep.

    Yet, this is one wise old woolly he aint gonna get.. and a few minutes later I drop to the airstrip and relax to chat with my fellow Feodosia attacker as he makes his way back.... we're the only 2 left alive

    "I'm over the heart lake and heading 90" he says. I know where he means and take off again to head towards him as that 109 is still about.

    The sound of two I16s in the cloak of weather is enough to put the predator off for another day, so he heads home and we both make it to the safety of the strip.



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    built a nasty weather flight and flew it the other day in VEF conditins to see what it was like... did suprisingly well and styed on course all the way round...

    Mission file here - good for a bit of Navigation practice - http://tumble.krisl.net/files/sev_thunder.zip

    and the track: http://tumble.krisl.net/files/badweather.zip

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