SYNDICATE server testing
 

Guys,

The server may be up and down a bit today as we try and figure out keeping it daylight all the time, please be patient.

Server should be up, we have changed the time to constant, lemme know if there are any issues or we get a night time flight.

Tnx for the server btw, its a good one even tough i get shot down alot :D

Hey, that's my job ;)

Now to go try and see if I can join it lol

I dunno if it is me or the server, but today most of my controls dont seem to work on this server.

I think it's because they have the 2 handed controls on currently (which is buggered) and should be shut off.

I think they working on the realism settings now though :)

Thanks for the server, like the settings, flew a 1hr sortie over france saw no enemy but was good practice, I got hopelessly lost tho . My map reading clearly needs more practice

I had a hard time finding a plane to fly, I kept spawning inside hangars with closed doors. I finally found an airborne Spittie and proceed to patrol over England a bit. I had had enough of that quickly enough and decided to "take the war to the Hun". After a short jaunt across the Channel I started inspecting the airfields for action, and it didn't take long.

Being the sporting type I circled wide around the field to let the two taxing aircraft take off, but of course I ran out of patience again and decided to make a couple of passes on a 109 that had been stationary for some time (I sure hope that wasn't Elixx trying to sort his controls :))

After setting the stationary 109 on fire, I decided it might be a good idea to look around some as I was sure I had seen a 109 preparing for takeoff earlier. Then I saw a twin engine, twin tail aircraft above me (110 or a Do17 I suspect) and began to give chase, setting up to sneak up from underneath.

It was not more than a minute into the chase that my lack of situational awareness was rewarded with tracers flashing past my canopy. I jerked the stick in every possible direction I could think of as fast as I could, and sure enough there was a 109 hot on my tail.

The unfortunate 109 driver had little chance in the ensuing dogfight against a Spitfire down on the deck, but He didn't go down for a lack of trying. On the second burst, something large came off the 109, I realized it was the canopy just in time to twist away from the pilot, streaming his parachute.

I circled around and found the German hanging under his fully deployed canopy, the taste of the adrenaline from the fight still fresh in my mouth. I gave him a wing waggle and turned for England, hoping to find that twin somewhere over the Channel.

Of course I never saw him, because my game crashed and brought me back to 2011. But just for a few moments I was in 1940 fighting for my life with another man fighting for his.
Probably the most immersed I've ever been in a flight sim in the 13 years I've been doing this.

Pretty cool. Thanks for the server, I'll be there regularly.

would not mind 2 hand setup tbh, as long as it is not bugged :)

On spawning my plane twisted thru 90*, not a major problem except from then on my compass was 90* out, no wonder I got lost. However was great to be able to connect to a server.