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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Miska on March 18, 2010, 11:03:31 PM
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Trim: after take off, reach a speed and attitude at which you would like to have hands off operation. Hit shift-x to rig the aircraft. Disengage auto-pilot. Don't touch trim for the rest of the flight. In the F2b, I generally rig for hands off at 130 MPH in a shallow dive if headed for low altitude fighter mission, or to about a 80 MPH shallow climb if headed for a high alt patrol or photo recon mission.
Icons: I set my icons to size 10. Enemy forrest green, friendly turquoise. The eye is supplemented, but you still have to work at spotting and identifying cons, especially if they are below you.
Voice Comms: I turn down the voice volume completely. It can be kind of freaky, since when someone uses voice, other sounds seem to cut out, so I sometimes think my engine has died. But a mechanical scare in the air once in a while is not entirely unrealistic :)
Missions profiles:
Fighter: When at the Furball, I stay near the edges and focus on clearing the tail of friendly pilots who extend and are pursued.
Recon: I pick a field or landmark to photograph. I climb to between 7 and 10k, overfly the target and take screenshots. I then RTB and land. Surprisingly, both my photo recons so far have been opposed by co-alt fighters. Very tense pursuits.
Front patrol: I climb to 7-10k and head for one of the ends of the front (SW or NE) and fly from one end to the other repeatedly. Again, all my front patrols have been opposed. On one flight, I encountered an enemy observer at about 8k and tried to keep him on his side of the lines. This resulted in a quite intense running fight, and eventually a dogfight. On another, I was at 16k for testing purposes and encountered a high triplane. After a 20 minute chase, we started the fight at 18k and he eventually disengaged and dived for his field.
Vlas
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Interesting approach. I'd bet that would be pretty "historical" with the amount of planes that would take the time to come up and meet you. Reading your mission profiles remind me of stories from WWI flyers in books I have read.
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16k and 18k?!?
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that IS historic :old: :O
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A couple more:
Turn off engine governor
Turn off tracers
I think we're getting somewhere.
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Cool, sounds fun. It'd be cool if others would post their ideas if they have scenarios that they fly like this. I'll ponder a bit and see if I can come up with a couple.
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Nice one, Vlas.
:cool:
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I like to try and get some people to fly together as a wing (in the same plane), and sometimes, someone else has the same idea, and we collide as a massive force and have a super-crazy 4-on-4. Of course, we fly in vic formation, though the finger four does have its advantages. Historic formations, if I remember correctly include vic, echelons, lines, swarms, and delta.
Honestly, the delta looks the coolest, especially when no one is on autopilot.
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Be sure to crank the wind sound, and your engine sound to max, and set the external engine sound way down. Also, be sure to have a stall buffet sound file that's more of a low rumble, then a horn or buzzer.
I built my own trim setup so I just set it at the marks for each plane prior to take off. It makes the low speed handling much more interesting (and historically accurate).
<S> Baumer
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Enker, I plan to put together a historical squad (No 11 RFC) to fly gunned brisfits in formation. See you up there :)
Baumer, thanks for the suggestions, I'll try them. Where do you see the trim indicators? I'd love to be able to set trim before take off. And yes, it does make landings, especially damaged landings, much more interesting.
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Miska, I don't think there are any trim indicators in the ww1 planes. I put pencil marks next to my trim wheels for reference, but not everyone has a setup like I do.
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sounds like I need to go shopping :)