Yeah Haitches is very tight but I had fun going under those bridges down there. There are lots of side rivers down that track though so would need to mark the route with some crashes. I will see If I can map it out with a screengrab.

Winnys dover route is great, once you take off from Hawkinge there is a valley with a pathway that leads you straight to Dover. Lighthouse turns add some good action. After the route Winny showed we made our way up to Manston, landed, then returned. Lots of opportunity for some overtaking down the white cliffs straight.

I will be on about 7.30-8ish, GMT also. Will drop you an invite

Ok matey, will be on for then *Thumbs up*

Better print out those maps. Hope to see you boys online later.

I had a crack at tracing that route Haitch. I used Google maps cos my USB stick isnt recongised by my PS3 either

Ok we tried Stalingrad track in realistic. It was me (ta) subarugaz (spit vi) gilly (la7) and mcq (k4). First off the planes fly half speed in realistic as they do in arcade so it was a chore flying to mark the course. Once we had done that and managed to get lined up we started test lap.
Gaz took an early lead off the line so I shot him down before the turn onto the don. I managed to get a good turn out and started down the main straight in the lead until about half a click when mcq shot me down. I looped down into 4th place and gilly and mcq took off. For a time it was two seperate races, me vs gaz and gilly vs mcq. I managed to get in front of gaz but he must have got a lucky engine shot as I started to leak speed. Made it round half the course until my engine gave out and I hit the deck. Gilly won convincingly but the finish line turned into a wrecking zone and I think I managed third when gaz crashed on landing.
Major issue for me is respawning. When my engine died I was a good 10 clicks behind but I was spawned up in the mix. I think it defeats idea of deathrace if you retire when crash or shot so open to ideas on it. I looped down into last place when I was taken out but it can make it unfair if you prosper from engine failure

ok then my solutions

1. have 2 race refs in jets and they mark out the course
2. if you get shot down or bail out you should have a penalty such as a forced landing or something

almost not quite though as my route takes some of the smaller rivers not even on that map the rout in general is vaux-sur-sure to ettlebruke

Can't wait to get this Deathrace thing underway, That night with wookie, Gilly and McQ was excellent.

Kinda felt bad for Wookie though as i just nibbled at his plane until i noticed a drop in speed. once the First person had touched down, Chaos ensued.

Great laugh though, i'm assuming during these deathraces we will all be taking the same Plane?

i dont think we are taking the same planes i think its whatever prop plane you want

when we doing this i still havent experienced the fun of it :(

I am going to set up a race tonight at 11pm uk time if anyone wants to join. I reckon it will be winter Stalingrad race on realistic settings. Any prop plane allowed. Look in realistic dogfights at 11 for my session

aww im only online till 6pm usually

it's a date. I've caved into peer presure and bought AvP so I'll be on there earlier no doubt.

we should make this into a tourny

We had a couple of good races last night. We had a 5 man race on the Dover course. Me, gilly, winny, mckinney and fight test. We all used the same plane, spit 2, which really made things better as we were grouped together. The outbound leg hawkinge to manston went through with no gunfire but on the return leg we opened up. Some lovely kills down the White cliffs and we were still quite close on the final straight. I rembered from last time to slow and get gear down in plenty of time to land. The guys in front of me overshot landing and I thought I had it in the bag but I was shit down by mckinney just as I was about to land. Mckinney then landed and won race.
Second race was 6 man run around Stalingrad river. That was all done in 109 g6s. Some nice photos taken of the planes on start line. This race got strung out a bit but and fight test, who was in the lead, went down wrong river near the end. Turns out that some of our crash marks had disappeared. Looks like the game can only handle so many smoke stacks. The finish line turned into a scramble but scotty won comfortably in the end.

Good fun guys, thanks for playing

sounds good i spend half an hour dooing a drag test for every plane bar the obvious slow 1s such as bombers and spit ix spit II and hurri i153 and i16

yeah it was great fun haha i was just brave at the line Gilly was really close and i slipped past him bout 0.4 of a km to the bridge lollol it wont be often that happens, still finding my feet (i feel anyways) with the game, but enjoying realistic :cool::o


thanks for the game :)

Thought i'd post a few of the pics i managed to get

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...sOfPrey_11.png

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...sOfPrey_13.png

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...sOfPrey_20.png

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...sOfPrey_21.png

Wow, looks lika a lot of fun.
Looking forward to get online and into my Spit in the weekend.

Thanks for posting the pics.

we realy should make a tourny outa this like the dogfighting tornys

Great string Gents, I wil be checking these tracks out, beautiful screen shots! We definateky need to set up the B-17 ref and a tourny.

cracking pics as usual Gilly!



how you putting the on here, you uploading them to photobucket from the ps3??

Amazing pics gilly! That 109 start line shot is worth printing and framing. Love the one of me biting the dust too.
We would def need a ref if we turn these serious. Really main problem is making sure anyone who gets shot drops back in last spot.

Few more from tonights racing- cheers guys! even if we did discover a fatal (quite literally) mistake in test running blenhiems- landing at hawkinge becomes even more fun due to auto-gunners!!!

Nice landing dk!
http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...ll/landing.png

Line up at the start
http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...ill/lineup.png

Coming off the turn at the radar
http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...gill/radar.png

dk passes me on the run down the cliffside to manston (and possible the best pic ive taken??)
http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a.../dkpassing.png

Wow, those pics really are worth framing as Wookie said.

Have the Deathraces officially started now? or you guys still testing?

Nice picks.
Think I am in one of them, like a cloud of black smoke from one of my many failed landings :confused:

Hopefully I will be able to join without lag and connection errors tonight.

should call this the il2 bop grandprix

Some interesting aerial images of Dover harbour and the chain home radar which still stands today. There were four radar towers originally.

http://www.webbaviation.co.uk/gallery/v/kent/dover/

Nice pics Gilly..

Next time we do this I'd like to get everyone up high in line abreast and get some pics..

Has anyone done any formation flying on PS3 yet?

they pics are truely stunning Gilly esp that last one ......





i had landing troubles the other night and you're asking for formation flying :eek::eek: haha

ive not done any, closest ive came to it was with Gilly in 17's but it would be cool to try it out :)

Yeah, quite afew guys from the forums got together the once to do some good old Formation flying, it went pretty well too.

Also me and Trk did some prior to that event, here's the link to some of the photos http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...t=10473&page=6

There are more pics from our formation flight elsewhere on the forum, can't seem to find them though

If anyone wants a reccy at any of the courses we currently have then drop me a note and I'll happily provide a tour. I think the Stalingrad on is fairly straight forward whereas winnys Dover map does require slightly more thought.

id love a race but im never on when they are going

When are you normally on? I'm on GMT and not normally on till at least 7.30pm but if you let us know what's good for you I'm sure we can arrange something.

10am to 6pm gmt weekends and school holidays
4pm to 6pm gmt weekdays

I'm always in for a race. I'd love to spend some time rec'ing a Berlin/ Ardennes course as well.

Have ya'll tried finding a spot for a short course with multiple laps? Perhaps a figure 8 course around the Dover dock for some biplane (i153/po2) racing?

Now thats an idea. We could use the Dover harbour section of Winnys course for that. Round the castle, down and round lighthouses in I153s would be cool. I think we found a legitimate use for the 153 at last

I'll let nubz know then ;) He can ram the lighthouses to his heart's content.

Just loved the flights last night! It was cool to see 8 spits lined up before take-off, and fly down the valley and try to find my place in the wing. It wasn't that succesfull though... Crashing with dk down by the radarstation (my own fault, I took a short-cut through the radarmasts there... Sorry dk!) told me that we have to agree on a formation, and try our best to keep it. No wonder the guys of ww2 used weeks of training just to accomplish that... It would be cool to finally make it the hole way to Manston not loosing one plane. And then the deathrace with cannons blasting back! (My God... This game will kill my mind!)

The section afterwards with bombers, both in Dogfight and Strike, where supercool too. Only one thing... I got a bit confused when a couple of 109 opened up on the He-111, and a hurry opened up on my spit. But, summed up: Great fun guys!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/...153108da_b.jpg

It was bit hectic, running away from all the little baddies. It was a shame that most of the group lost the historic flavor of the match.

Yes this would be fun, but without guns.

Been thinking about guns and after watching the biatholon in the olympics I think it would be cool to run a race without guns then have a dogfight or bombing contest at the end. Would need an umpire to judge bombing acuracy I reckon.
Also gilly has a very nice trench run worked out round the Berlin rivers. Lots of bridges and building lined stretches

As we haven't had a race for a while I was thinking of suggesting one tonight or over the weekend? I'm just canvassing opinion as to whether anyone fancies it?

Sure thing dude, I am in.
Will be online from about 21.00 GMT.

And what about arranging some photoshoot ?
One flying photographer and some other dogfighting, burning, crashing, doing acrobatics etc ?

sure weekend what times?

Sorry guys. I haven't given up on BoP I'm just too damn busy trying to clear a mountain of freelance work.

See you in the skies soon.

Fire.

Well I'll be on from 7 GMT tonight and then tomorrow during day I'm around after about 1 till 5 then after 7. Sunday I'm on from anytime. I suggest I start one at around 10pm tonight. My PSN is on the realistic player list if anyone wants to join us. I suggest we do Winnys Dover circuit first off. If anyone doesn't know it the map is posted earlier in this thread, that said just join in and you'll easily pick it up!
Good idea Kav about the 'photo' flying. We still haven't done a B17 formation so wouldn't mind a few shots of that. I'd also like to try and get some dogfighting ones. Have tried over the past couple of nights but get my arse shot off in the process so agree I'd need to be 'neutral' to be able to really get some good ones.

il be on my usual times

btw are we using guns? or we scrapping the DEATH RACE and having a bop biathlon?

Hahahahahahahahaha. Holy crap! I was reading through this thread and when I came up on this little gem I just about laughed the @#%* out of me. Good one:lol::lol::lol::lol:

Any images from the hurry formationflight from friday guys ?

I've got some of the Hurri's and a couple of good ones from the B17/ M262's.
I'll get them up when I get 5. I'm pretty sure McKinney will have a good few too

Cool, cant wait.
Pitty I couldnt join the B17 / ME 262 flight.

I got some pics of the Hurrys but just havent had time to upload them.....

i was cool
 

though i didn't get any picts of me and mcq in formation. Still nice to see the 262 doing what it was designed too own bombers.... and 153s lol
(title meant to say it was cool)

That would depend on where you were looking from.. actually it looked pretty good from where I was sat, inside a very on fire B-17. There was a point where you and Mcq flew down in between me and Gilly at very high speed and it looked really old school.. It was at this point I noticed one of my wings had come off... again..

Sad to say winny I have on photo the very moment McQ flamed you and whilst it's a great photo what really suprised me was the speed and effciency that they could take a 17 down! I was watching thinking oh bollox I'm gone next. Got to admit I was fairly confident that we'd have the upper hand when it came to shooting the jetset...... How wrong I was. Still I've some nice shots from the odd minute that we were all still intact!!

Yeah... That was one cool mission! The 262's really performs as "he-111" when used as they where designed for. To form up and dive full throttle down at the B-17's, closing in rolling, while guns blasting, was one beautifull treat. And seeing the bombers ignite was just the sight to make my night. That 262 is actually fast!
I guess the clue is to use the planes as they were intented to and were disigned for, as Shadowcorp says. Pitty though that the ammo were limited...

A very nice mission guys!

I'm canvassing opinion as to whether it's worth running a race tonight at 11pm gmt. We'll do Winnys Hawkinge, Dover to Manston route ( see map earlier in the thread if you don't know it). Let me know if anyone's up for it and I'll post here if there's enough interest.

i would but 11pm is far too late for me

I'll be on earlier, was just thinking of our transatlantic bretheren!! I'll happily show you the circuit earlier if you want, same offer goes out to everyone. I'll be around from 6ish gmt today.

Race tomorrow 24th April from 10 pm GMT. All welcome.
Will run Winny's Dover circuit- see earlier in this thread for map although you can soon learn the circuit when flying.

I will be on for that gilly. Didn't get chance to get back online last night. Getting serious withdrawels from BoP!

Count me in........

shatners bassoon
 

il av some of that chaps

T-30 minutes.....

im the opposite ......... getting grief majorly :(:(:( :-x