I'm using your mod and really enjoying it, but on the last mission I noticed something odd. I was flying my German pilot and we were assigned a Jagdflug. I started the mission, took off and immediately turned on auto-pilot. I sometimes use auto-pilot when I don't have time to fly the mission manually. Anyway, we were assigned a cruising altitude of 89 feet. I thought we would climb but we flew at 89 feet until we reached the front at which point we began to climb. Have you ever heard of this before and is this something that should happen?

Yes SOG.
That is one of those odd, rare, and apparently random things that is not Mission Mod related. Not to say it couldn't possibly be but it has been reported by non-users of the Mod.
I have never had it but it's been reported here before.

My German mission flew along at 1750 feet for 15 minutes before I "ctrl+Q"ed it, and this has not been the first time it has happened either.

Thanks for the confirmation that it isn't mod related. I've had this happen before in the pre-2.0 version, I've just never flown that low before. It was kind of exciting zipping along just above the trees.

Well then start a Schlasta career and you will be in hog heaven.

Try to change altitude setting to 10000 feet (in Workshop) for couple of missions, then back to Realistic. That worked for me.

The interesting thing is it has only happened on German missions, never on British or French missions.

Yes, it certainly seems to happen without the mod - not sure if the mod makes it happen more. Another similar oddity, which is rather more annoying and possibly related, is the Flight sometimes becoming 'stuck' whilst circling just before the climb-out to altitude. The Flight will just fly around in circles, and will even sometimes loose altitude until they all crash. When this happens I usually assume a 'washout' and head off on my own or land back at the home field.

"I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky"

It is approaching that time of year again... I will soon not have much time for working on the mod, as the sailing season gets underway (already booked for a long-ish yacht delivery). I think the mod is working OK, but if anyone would like any changes or has any suggestions for improving it, please let me know soon, as I won't have the time again until the late autumn

B.

Interesting.
I have never seen anyone get "stuck" either. The only issue I have ever had close to that (and I don't believe your mod was being used) was when a meet-up with two-seaters was missed and it seemed like the flight circled for quite a while waiting.
Luckily I was flight leader so after a while I lead the boys in a attempt to find them over the front.

It's not a big deal, if it happens again I will just climb on my own. I was really just curious to see if it had happened to anyone else. Bletchley if I might ask, what is it that you do with sailing?

It has happened to me a couple of times with German scout and 2-seater missions, and manfas has reported the same with an RNAS mission - but it happens only rarely, so I don't worry too much about it.

I skipper the University's sailing yacht SOGriffin (University of Southampton, UK), and that keeps me really busy over the summer months. That and the occasional long-distance yacht delivery will fill most of my free time from late spring through to late autumn

That sounds so interesting, I grew up on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and I spent a large part of my life on the ocean, but I've never gotten to sail. Admit it now, I know that there are times when you pretend that you are Lord Horatio Hornblower.

Sometimes in ground attack or balloon attack missions the flight flies pretty low down.

Sailing yacht! Nice.
If lived somewhere where it was warmer more often I would sell the house and live on a boat.
And I read all the Hornblower books and another series too - written it the exact same style and story premise but by latter author.

Too bad we don't have a WOFF type game that puts you in charge of a frigate during the Napoleonic Wars. I would buy that up in a hot second.

Duke, there is one coming out that is very much like that. It is called 'Naval Action' and it looks very good.

Thanks SOG!
I will check it out.

Yeah, its fun, though I am a 'fair weather' coastal sailor rather than 'blue water' type - and Hornblower didn't have to contend with huge oil tankers and container ships bearing down on him at speed.'Sail before steam' don't apply in that case, as they are 'restricted by draught' and clipping along at up to 10 knots! In some fundamental ways, sailing is a bit like flying. The keel and sails are like wings, but turned through 90 degrees, and sailing upwind the sails generate the 'lift' that gives the boat its forward motion. And you still have the freedom to go where you want. I just got back from a rigging course where, amongst other things, we were looking at turn buckles and the tensioning of the wires of the standing rigging (still done largely by eye, and by feel), and it struck me how much those early biplane riggers must have had in common with sailing boat riggers. Many of the early aircraft designers were also keen sailors - Thomas Sopwith, for example, was a sailor and boat designer before he got into flying. I am lucky to live near the coast, and to have access to a sailing boat. Both Richard Woodman and Patrick O'Brien are good 'age of sail' authors, though I would recommend 'The Boat Who Wouldn't Float' by Canadian writer Farley Mowat to anyone contemplating the purchase of their own sailing yacht

B.

I agree I love Patrick O'Brien's work and almost anything written by Farley Mowat is worth your time.

I have all of Patrick O'Brien's works and I read them over and over again. At the moment I am reading 'Blue at the Mizzen' then I will have to start off at 'Master and Commander' again