Spitfire going the wrong direction...

[IvanK]

Originally Posted by senseispcc

If you start in flight how do you set the direction indicator, no mouse avaible in my cockpit.
If you find this funny why is it not the same in the Hurricane?

Exactly as I indicated in my post use the 4 steps. Determine current heading from the main compass, then set the DG on that heading .... then turn on to your desired heading using the DG.... thats exactly how its meant to work and exactly how it works in game.

If you dont want to use the mouse then set the appropriate keybindings to adjust the compass and DG courses.

[senseispcc]

Originally Posted by IvanK

Exactly as I indicated in my post use the 4 steps. Determine current heading from the main compass, then set the DG on that heading .... then turn on to your desired heading using the DG.... thats exactly how its meant to work and exactly how it works in game.

If you dont want to use the mouse then set the appropriate keybindings to adjust the compass and DG courses.

Give US then thousand pages of technical manual to fly this things?! NO? how strange!

[BadAim]

There's lots of stuff we are having to learn on our own and/or with other peoples help. I for one appreciate Ivan's help here. The biggest problem I'm having is to get a decent view of the compass, it must have been a total "pita" in the real Spit to update the gyro in flight.

[senseispcc]

Originally Posted by BadAim

There's lots of stuff we are having to learn on our own and/or with other peoples help. I for one appreciate Ivan's help here. The biggest problem I'm having is to get a decent view of the compass, it must have been a total "pita" in the real Spit to update the gyro in flight.

Thus the need for a complet Manual. Thanks for your help but I shall take fly training to play a game

[BadAim]

That's the whole point there matey! CloD isn't just another flying game, it's among, if not the most advanced flight simulators ever made for the general public (bugs notwithstanding). It's supposed to take some time to learn, it should right well be damn hard to get the hang of, if it's doing it's job right, you'll have to turn to mates with more experience to help out.

CloD is simulating the bleeding edge military weapons of their day, and they commonly killed their own pilots at an alarming rate, (at one point the Luftwaffe was loosing just as many pilots to accidents as to the allies!). This stuff is supposed to be hard. Enjoy it, your stepping into history.

And by the way, I agree 100% that we need a more comprehensive manual. It just may fall on us (this community) to write it.

[senseispcc]

Originally Posted by BadAim

That's the whole point there matey! CloD isn't just another flying game, it's among, if not the most advanced flight simulators ever made for the general public (bugs notwithstanding). It's supposed to take some time to learn, it should right well be damn hard to get the hang of, if it's doing it's job right, you'll have to turn to mates with more experience to help out.

CloD is simulating the bleeding edge military weapons of their day, and they commonly killed their own pilots at an alarming rate, (at one point the Luftwaffe was loosing just as many pilots to accidents as to the allies!). This stuff is supposed to be hard. Enjoy it, your stepping into history.

And by the way, I agree 100% that we need a more comprehensive manual. It just may fall on us (this community) to write it.

When do you start?

[squidgyb]

That's really not a pleasant attitude to take mate - be a little respectful, these guys are actually trying to help you - but not spoon feed you.

I'd like a decent manual as much as the next man (and for comparison I own the KA-50 manual - while I haven't seen one of the legendary Falcon 4.0 bound manuals, the KA-50 manual is a glorious piece of work, and more of a concentrated encyclopaedia entry on modern attack helicopters and the KA-50's systems) - I'm prepared to wait for either 1c/Dev team to produce an official one, for the community to make one, or to learn myself.

Without the expectation that others will do it for me.