look at the COD missions and quickmissions you’ll find airstarts, groundstarts and dogfights…
i’m flying full real -external view
some dogfight servers use icons
at the beginning i felt bad inside COD spit. CEM, FM, graphivs view system, new Keys to map, it’s all overwhelming… Then after some time it all changed and now i feel at home! So try it a little before judging!
It is very important that you do not use the engine before the oil and coolant temperature have reached it operation temperature. If you do, you will have an extreamly short flight
Oil min: 15’
Coolant Norm: 70’
One thing I can’t figure out, is how to actually try a Spitfire Start Up and take off mission. The training one forces a Hurricane. All the single missions begin with the engines already ticking over.
I’ve uploaded several missions to the EAF FTP. They are in the /missions_COD/WBStartupMissions folder.
They are for the Spit1/1a/11a and the Hurricane. I created them a long time ago to practice startup procedures. They begin with you in the selected a/c on the taxiway near the runway. They are very basic missions with no extra frills, just startup, taxi, takeoff, mill about and land whenever you want to.
Place the missions in your X:\Users\Username\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\missions\Single folder. Note the location - this is in the Documents folder where the 1C Softclub folder is stored, NOT where the main game is installed in the Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover folder.
Have a look in the Briefing Room ‘stickies’ room. There’s a post in there by Mikke about the addresses to use. Has to be done in a private forum to avoid the great unwashed gaining access to the ftp server.
Trying to hit anything at first can be hard with G forces modelled, because the aiming sight is moving all over the place. To help I use the default TIR setting as it has a good centre dead zone to help slow any of my head movements.
Remember to open your radiator before take off!! Just nursing your engine in combat is a real challenge, weps only for 20 or so secs as the engine starts to shake and complain, but it can help to just boost you out a problem. Diving hard can over rev the engine, so I reduce prop. In fact instead of increasing and reducing throttle to adjust my speed, I use prop pitch, cruising around 2600- 2800rpm and upping to 3000 in combat - just watch your temps. Fuel mix - keep it rich when low and then adjust higher, checking the exaust flames is also a clue, with the orange flame turning blue is meant to just be right (need to test this further) Higher up its even more important.
80 hours in and i’m very much still learning, especially when online to some very experienced 109s drivers. Getting more of us online and working together is the way to go - and more fun