Uncleal:
I'll give you two points for that one.

I've only known you since OFF P3 days over at CombatAce and never had the pleasure of knowing you in OFF P2.

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Not sure why, but when Uncleal gets going I'm reminded of Lewis Black:





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Good news! Today i had my first working Lone Wolf mission in DH2!

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Good to hear, ataribaby!
Are you the daring kind, to fly the DH-2 as one of your first aircraft?
I always found, she was something for the more advanced pilots.
But then you may have flown many hours in flight sims.

The only good thing about the DH2 is the gun sights. You can have the same sight picture from the Bristol Scout, even with that crazy gun mount, and it flies circles around the DH2

Assuming you're already sitting in Virtual Cockpit, close to shooting distance. Hit ( F6 ) That's Iron Sights just like a DH2

I wanted to start early at war and get my way to Nieuports and SE5 then. Saddly in next mission i got my DH2 out of control after i stalled it badly in dogfight with Fokker E.III. Managed to get into mother ground in better position with rudder. Injured (it was near my home airfield as mission was scramble) and got hospitalzied. Some missons later stalled and spinned my DH2 after got shots into control cables in hard turn. This time i was unlucky and crashed so hard, R.I.P. Love this sim for story it produces every time i play it.

DH2 is definitly hard to fly. Its very sluggish in roll, so i learned to help with rudder and pitch. Its very easy to "overruder" and loose some height to to recover. Deadly if you are low. Have a lot of hours with various sims. Actualy simming from 80's originaly on ZX Spectrum From WW1 mostly red baron 2 where is DH2 piece of cake to fly. Most hours on F-16 in BMS Falcon, where i dont care much about flight envelope as long i dont attack more than one limiter FLCS take care of me. After i got grip on DH2 during free flight all my errors happens in heat of battle from overcontrol and stall in turn fight.

I understand. You have your most experience on strong engine aircraft.
I had flown "IL2" before OFF, mostly the Messerschmidt Bf 109 G6.
I had to learn to think different for WW1.

Especially the early aircraft are very underpowered in comparison to the later
SPAD XIII or S.E.5a or Fokker D.VIIF. An underpowered aircraft lacks some energy
for hard turning. It has an acceptable forward speed in normal level flight, but
when it comes to turning, a craft looses some of it's lift, when it is not also
fast enough for strong airflow over the wings.
To make a turnfight in the DH-2 (or the Fokker E.III), you must alsways remember
that. You must gain additional forward speed for a tight turn. So you go into a
shallow dive first, then you turn. After a half round turn, at least after a full
round turn, you must gain speed that way again.

Of course you want to regain height after that, which you can do best at the end
of the tight turn; you would still turn more gently, and climb up again - if your
enemy lets you. With a Manfred von Richthofen in your neck, it might get really
tough. Major Lanoe Hawker must have been very good with the DH-2 - the two fought
for a long while.
If you raise your nose above horizon level in a turn, your energy will last even
much shorter - a half turn may be maximum, then you must drop the nose again.

The stall of the DH-2 is tricky and hard to catch up, and pretty hopeless, when
you don't have any altitude left. If I remember right, I used to blip the engine
off, pushed the nose down almost vertically and then countered the spin with the
ailerons. (Don't blame me when it doesn't work - it's tricky).
All rotary engines produce a gyroscopic effect with their mass rotating constantly.
This must always be also calculated - as far as one can do that.

But I see you have the right attitude, and I am sure you are really willing to
learn to handle the crates. Now, you can proceed historically, like most new
OFFers seem to do - or you work your way down - from the F16 you last flew, to
the strongest WW1 craft like SPAD XIII or S.E.5a, and then further down to the
Sopwith Pup or the Albatros, until you reach the Fokker E.III or the DH-2.
Of course it's rather a way backwards through history.

Thanks for great tips! Yep i logged a lot hours on IL-2 too. Mainly german jets and soviet La-5/7. Hmm is there configurable blib switch in CFS3 or its simulated somwhow in OFF or you simulated it with cut mixture/throttle ?

You can only simulate it. Here is a link to RAF_Louvert's "invention:

http://combatace.com/topic/72429-setting-up-a-blip-switch-in-off/page__view__findpost__p__569925

If you want to change a command, you press Escape in flight, go to "Controls"
and then you need to "Add new command" first, before you can delete the old one.
Or you can leave them both available.