The sixth video in this series is now live on YouTube. In this video I focus on Training Mission #3: Feathering / Restarting an Engine. I give three different examples of how to shutdown, feather and restart an engine with increasing complexity and difficulty.

The seventh video in this series is now live on YouTube. In this video I focus on Training Mission #4: Bombing (Good Conditions). I give five different examples of bombing, illustrating the effect of the intervalometer setting as well as the salvo switch, with some surprising results!!!

Hi Ikrananka,,,,,
I am thinking of putting this back on my computer...loved the game back when and even with dated graphics now, I still love the realism when you are piloting as enemy fighters whizz by, gunning at bandits or bombing the target with flack,,,white knuckles for sure.

On the installation video 1, what graphic card are you running..I have win 8.1 pro....with a g-force 970. I haven't seen the whole video so you might say,,,but can you please tell if you have heard if people have had success in installing an running B17.

The videos would be what I need to follow the path back home.

Hi jack72,

I have installed and played the game successfully on Windows 7 and 10 (both 64-bit) and both with AMD video cards. According to both GOG and Steam the game is compatible with Windows 8. Will you be installing from your original discs or from a GOG or Steam purchase. If the latter then I'd have a lot of confidence that it will work fine under Windows 8.1. I have no experience with original disc installs of the game so cannot comment there.

Let me know how you get on

It runs fine with my GTX970 Jack (Win 10 though).

Thanks for the continued series ikrananka.

A fine game. I used to crash all the enemy fighters and fly the short AF and Coastal missions. All u had to worry about was flak. I would love to see this game, updated graphics, treated like like WOFF.

LOL - I've been tempted to do that on a few occasions.

I have the B-17 disk, but at the price on GOG, I might as well download and see.

Thanks Ikrananka and Chucky for response.

P.S. Just went to GOG site,,total price....$2.49 - CANADIAN...
I cant even ride the bus for that amount.

Gotta love GOG Plus it's DRM free!!!

The eighth video in this series is now live on YouTube. In this video I focus on Training Mission #5: Bombing (Poor Conditions). I focus on the procedure I use for the bombing run, correcting for drift and rate error to achieve synchronisation as early in the bomb run as possible.

The ninth video in this series is now live on YouTube. In this video I focus on Training Mission #6: Gunnery. This is actually a relatively useless training mission. My main recommendation is to instead practice your gunnery by playing Quickstart Missions #2, #3 and/or one of the historical missions in the game.

The tenth video in this series is now live on YouTube. In this video I focus on Quickstart Mission #1: Limping Home. This is a challenging mission to land a badly mauled B-17. I introduce the use of trimming the plane which makes the mission so much easier.

I need to catch up a little here.Once you've finished the training what then? I see from your YT comments you're not even a flight simmer at heart. Why did you pick this game for such attention?

After the Getting Started vids I'm going to move on to a Squadron Commander Let's Play with a historical twist that I'll reveal at that time.

Yeah, I'm not a flight simmer at heart, but nevertheless the B-17 game captured me. I love WWII based games and playing wargames and so the era and historical nature of the subject were still of great interest to me. As I slowly got up to speed with the game I grew to love the many layers its game play offers, particularly in the Squadron Commander campaign. Many years ago I had also played the original Microprose B-17 game but never spent enough time with it to do anything more than crashing during taxi and take-off. So, when I saw that The Mighty Eighth was available on GOG I picked it up and was determined to finally learn how to properly play a B-17 game and bomb a target. The the more I learnt and got into the game the more I became fascinated by the subject matter. This led me to reading quite a few books on the actual B-17, The Mighty Eighth's missions and the crews, and the respect I gained from that is also a driving factor in why I want to finish this video series. If it attracts just a few people to the game and to learn more about the subject then it will have been worth it.

That said, it is such a fine game and one that holds up very well even after all of these years. It just deserves to be played

The eleventh video in this series is now live on YouTube. In this video I focus on Quickstart Mission #2: Attack of the Axis. In this mission we use the gun stations of our B-17 to defend against a vicious attack by enemy fighters including Bf 109s, FW 190s and the jet propelled Me 262s.

Sorry for the delay in getting this video published. My recording software took a flaky and I was left with a video that had lots of dropped frames and audio out of sync. Took me a while to edit it into something presentable.

Just when I reinstalled this game and was thinking of how I'm gonna re-learn it, I see this... thanks for posting them

One of my favourite sims of all time, and one that has never been replaced.
I actually have a 1-hour set of videos from my plays before that I never posted anywhere - do you mind if I share it here sometime?

I hope my videos will be useful to you getting back up to speed with the game. I think that the game is amazing considering when it was released and unfortunately has never been refreshed since. Nevertheless, I'm just glad that it still works under Windows 10 and really hasn't dated too much.

I have absolutely no objection to you posting your videos. All I would ask is that you create a new thread for them as I really want to keep this thread dedicated to my tutorial videos.

The twelfth video in this series is now live on YouTube. In this video I focus on Quickstart Mission #3: Where are the Little Friends? In this mission we use the gun stations of our B-17 to defend against a vicious attack by enemy fighters including Bf 109s, FW 190s and the jet propelled Me 262s. However, this time there are no "little friends" to help us out.

There are some very impressive fighter explosions in this video.

Again, sorry for the delay in getting this video published. I have been having further issues with dropped frames and audio out of sync in my recordings. I have concluded that it is time to do some upgrades to my 6 year old PC. I'll be doing this in stages starting with a new GTX 1070 video card. I'm switching from AMD to Nvidia in the hope that I'll be able to get reliable recordings at 1440p60 with the Nvidia GPU hardware encoding.

The thirteenth video in this series is now live on YouTube. This video is the first of six Fighter Schools aimed at teaching you the basics of each fighter aircraft in the game. In this video I cover the renowned German fighter, the Bf109.

The fourteenth video in this series is now live on YouTube. In this video I focus on Quickstart Mission #4: Opportunity for the Axis?. This mission places you in a Bf109 attacking a squadron of B-17s with no "Little Friends" helping them out. Can you succeed - I know I can't?

I need some help with this one. Can anyone beat this mission? Can you give me some tips on how to improve my fighter skills?