Hello from the new guy!
 

I love this game to death. Ive 120 hours flight time but still so green its not even funny... My greatest experience was jumping onto Hyperlobby one day and asking a few questions in chat, before i knew it Ive made a friend with a 19 year old from France who has actual flight experience.

I bugged him to get into my friends Ventrillo and with broken English he taught me the basics of boom and zoom in the P-51. We jumped into a server with 2 random strangers and fought for about a half hour. Since ive purchased 3 extra joysticks and the game for my friends to try and share this great game with them but I'm worse at teaching how to fly then actually doing it.

I have tryed applying at random squadrons I see playing in servers but no avail. Is their anyone out there that would like to teach me the vast knowledge and skill it takes for this game :) I'm in no hurry and live on the west coast USA and have steam if anyone wants to friend me.

You will have more success if you find and apply to a active local squadron in your time zone.

I've only been playing in singleplayer as of these few months any way to find these squads in North America?

Here you go Ides (lol at your enthusiasm btw, reminds me of me when I first started playing IL-2.....Hehehe :))

Plenty here:

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...5/m/3541009365

Oh thank you for the list! Also just for giggles does anyone want to share their fun stories of learning Sturmovik I know their are plenty out there and making another thread is a waste. :)

Too old he is! ;):grin:

well at least you wont be tortured for years with SOW being dangled in front of your eyes and then yanked away cruelly, im sure your friends will be alot more pat to join you in online play if they can enjoy a brand new title and not a 10 year old game, its hard to convince people to play old games with you, alot easier to get them on-board with new games

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The Real Aussie Air Force (RAAFSquad) would love to have you as a new member, and we can teach you heaps of stuff! We have a couple of US members who fly regularly, so you wouldn't be all by yourself with regard to timezones. We have regular training sessions (Thursday nights), and also have matches against other squads (Flew against RAF662 a month or so ago, and have a match against AusSquad this Sunday). We also have a persistent server running in Hyperlobby. It is called _UGN_OGN_RAAF ....

http://www.raafsquad.com/

http://www.raafsquad.com/msgbrd/

http://www.youtube.com/user/RealAussieAirForce

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Seriously though if you have enjoyed flying online, then joining a squad is the only way to go.

Wot he said!!!! :-P:-P:-P

Hope to see online soon mate

Hi mate,

Welcome to the Il2 addicted club. My best advice is 1. join a squadron 2. join a great online Il2 school (not a squadron!), and a fantastic bunch of instructors:

www.joint-ops.com

Cheers,
Insuber