New Pliot seeking Advice

[Blackdog_kt]

No worries, even some of us veterans are not that good in actually flying those things despite knowing what we need to do. Helping the new guys get in the air faster gives us someone to shoot at in multiplayer too

You've got a very positive attitude and you seem to like tinkering and experimenting with things, so i'm sure you'll have a blast as further improvements keep getting added to the base software.

[CrisGer]

Thanks, that is a comfort re flying.... my first flight sim was Red Baron and I did complete all the missions ....i loved the Zepplins, which have never really made it into other flight sims much since....tho they did get it into one pay ware add on for CFS2 which i own. I also had the first MS flight sim for Atari, and landed the lear jet in Central park and of course flew under the Golden Gate Bridge...but really, i have never had the skill or knowledge that this sim here seems to allow and to encourage. I did work my way up thru the MS Flight and CFS series because I though it would be good to see how it all evolved but much of my focus was on the intricacies of coding, and the world mesh, and cataloging and studying the huge array of add ons, and helping get accurate history into things.....i never did focus on the piloting yet.....now, I am intrigued.... and love fiddling with settings, helping work out bugs and kinks, and really, from what i see and read, this sim is really doing well with the incredible challenges that a historic and accurate flight sim imposes for a full 3D World functional sim like this one. It is good to hear that the plane models are good, for that is really important and it is amazing the detail that is available in the cockpit. From what i see so far, 1C Maddox and the team has done an amazing job on this, and the wrinkles and things being worked on are just part of the development process I have seen succeed way beyond expectations if the devl and communities work together and things are done step by step.....and it works out great time and time and time again.

Now just have to learn what to push, pull and do.

I am warming up with the Battle of Britain film, and some wonderful german films I have found digging on You Tube and among german veterans sites, found a wonderful series of candid talks by a really nice Luftwaffe veteran who flew the 109 on training, and the challenges of a line pilot here:

Fritz Boost Luftwaffe Pilot Memories
http://www.youtube.com/user/readynav...11/z6AIpU3mbS4

and a great series on Spitfire training....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...4430725368338#

incidentally ..i have read that it was very hard to see out of the front of some of these aircraft when taxing ....can we stand on the seat like some of the pilots had to do?

thanks again.