perhaps some questions will still be answered :)

- will the max startweight be calculated if you are loading your plane (espacially bombers) with fuel and bombs ?
a screenshot of the new armament screen in a next WIP update would be awesome btw ;)

- will CoD have its own "gameserver" included or will we still have to use 3.party tools like the Hyperlobby (that did a beautifull job i have to ad !!).



and just to add, wouldnt it be time to post these friday updates in the CoD forum of 1C and not here in the IL2 part anymore ;)

indeed, the "Red Band" as replacement of the "Ace of Spade" on the JG53 (all three groups) cowlings was ordered around end of July 1940. The Ace of Spade was reintroduced in 20.November 1940. Officially because of the 500. kill of the JG53, sure it helped that von Maltzahn took over the command from Crammon-Traubadel at 10.October 1940.........

the overpainting of the Swastika was only common in the III/JG53 for a time from august 1940 to fall 1940, after Hptm. Wilcke took over command. It was done to protest against the harsh words Göring had agaisnt his fighterpilots......
III/JG53 flew it's 109s without Swastikas with Red Band and (after 20.Nov) PikAs on its cowlings.

Read. The. Thread.

It seems that many people want more a weather simulation or a Sims than a flight simulator.
I for my self prefer a flight simulator, you know planes and such things ;)

Where now the horse and the rider? where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harp-string, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning?
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?

Couldn't resist :-)

@pancake
I hope you don't expect Orcs and Hobbits in CoD. ;D

Regarding visibility distance, iv been fortunate enough to have tried rl mock dogfighting and tracking/seeing, even though u are suppose to know where they are, is much more difficult than many seem to think, even at close range (1-2 km).

Maby spotting ac in CoD will be somewhat easier due to dynamic lighting?

Red Bands JG53, my bad...

Yes, apologies to Luthier, just posted off the top of my head from memory. I've done a little bit of digging about said redband and the actual reasons why JG53 ditched the pik as logo but it seems to be open to various schools of thought. Still it does appear that the entire geschwader changed over to the redband, as Frankboy says, around the beginning of August. What's a bit more difficult to find out is when it disappeared. As early as September by some accounts when the unit commander was replaced and the pik as was reinstated. To add to the confusion the yellow nose had become an official Luftwaffe BOB colour scheme by September (I understand), and was taken up by JG 53, and which may have occured when the unit moved to the Pas de Calais to perform close fighter escort for bombing attacks on London. (Could the yellow nose have been to protect themselves from their own bomber's gunners?).
The first example of the red band to have been shot down over England was on August 16th 1940, so it seems the red band was short lived. I did see a couple of shots of half of a red band over a yellow nose, one upper cowling, one lower. I would guess it died a natural death and disappeared fairly rapidly after the beginning of September. For III/JG53, I have read that there were 109's still flying without swastikas on Nov 20th 1940. Swastikas were added apparently to the actual rudder and not the tail plane on some 109's of JG53 when it was reinstated, just to add to the confusion!
Still hand up to say my initial posting was wide of the mark...

hahaha!

Really :confused: thats funny.