If I want to fly a small list of planes (no doubt the most boring ones) in a small area, and constantly pay for it I'll just drive over to the airport and fly the real thing.

Egocentric.
Or are people there, where you live, really allowed to fly a plane even without a license ? Just so ? O_o

Forza Motorsport 2013 will now include the Dacia Sandero!

Merin actually has a license if I recall from an old old thread on the old forums.

I just freaked out at some of my friends sitting for hours planning and plotting the best flying routes ... perhaps that's how people felt when they saw me playing D&D ... lol.

Oh well, sorry for the demise, I know some people will cry heavily this sudden change in turn for the series, it's always CRAP when someone %#^@^@ up the game and game franchise you have loved for years and tries to turn it into a money mart blatant money grabbing title. (eyes CCP warily)

I even tried using makeshift Jeppesson maps.

thank god i still have my IL2 sturmovikh with all expa,sions and tons of mods to play with
but yes it is sad to see such a legendary franchise getting killed all in the name of greed

I'll have to check on my old roommate to see if he's heard the news. He's done a lot of those 'fly from X to Y' things, and its because he used to fly IRL and would like to again one day (this used to be touted as one of the best trainers, other than proprietary stuff). One of his favorite add-ons is the 100% replica 747, the one you have to startup just like the RL ones.

He also considered it dead already, the moment he heard about the original team being canned.

As for myself, the last sim of that sort I had any interest in was Sierra's Helicopter Simulator (yep, they made one). It actually had a 2-player combat mode, you had to link the PCs using a Null serial cable. Even came with a 2 PC license so you could play it legally that way.

Fun note: On the American fighter campaign, the only 2 planes I have ever successfully landed were Swiss cheese with the engines shot out. I can have a flawless run and wipe out some 15 enemy fighters and I'll biff the landing like none other. Gave myself the call sign 'Lost another one Sir'.

LOL

At least you managed to reach the airstrip. I always ended up being ripped out of the sky like an untanked Machinaw getting sodomized by Catalysts.

I've found several tactics for shaking bogies that tend to work pretty well. (p.s. I don't know aviator terms so pleasecdon't hose me for mistakes)

#1. Quickly pull into a 60 d climb and cut power. Your sudden deceleration will more often than not cause the bogey to overshoot you from below effectively putting you behind him. After that it's just a matter of catching up and getting the shot. A major downside however is that sometimes the bogies manage to stay on your tail which quickly becomes literal.

#2. Reduce engine power and use your Rudder and aileron controls to perform a sweeping bowl maneuver under his gun fire which again will create enough friction to cause the bogey to pass you. This way allows you to regain speed faster than option one, however it still keeps you in the line of fire longer.

#3. Kiss the ground. I've noticed that the computer will only go so low, so if you go just a little lower they tend to break off and go after another target. I really do mean to kiss the ground as in being as little as 5 meters from death at high speed. One wrong move and you quickly become a fireball. This is the downside, you are very limited in any kind of maneuver until you pull up and get back into the fight, which sometimes take a while when all the planes are 2000 m up.

I personally love this flight sim and I like starting in all kinds of situations. My 2 favorite is Okinawa against 4 flights of zero's while I'm usually either in a P-61, P-63, or P-47. Usually 2 flights are sitting on the runway waiting to taxi and I try to dive right through AA fire to strafe the lot of the before they take off. Many times I either get a direct hit and explode or I don't pull up in time and I wipe out an entire row of planes with my fiery corpse.
My other favorite is usually any map where I put myself on defense with scramble so I have to get my plane started and in the air while already being shot at. It s fun as hell to barely be lifting off and suddenly seeing a strafe right over your featherybird-pit (yeah take that ccp).

I've found several tactics for shaking bogies that tend to work pretty well. (p.s. I don't know aviator terms so pleasecdon't hose me for mistakes)

#1. Quickly pull into a 60 d climb and cut power. Your sudden deceleration will more often than not cause the bogey to overshoot you from below effectively putting you behind him. After that it's just a matter of catching up and getting the shot. A major downside however is that sometimes the bogies manage to stay on your tail which quickly becomes literal.

#2. Reduce engine power and use your Rudder and aileron controls to perform a sweeping bowl maneuver under his gun fire which again will create enough friction to cause the bogey to pass you. This way allows you to regain speed faster than option one, however it still keeps you in the line of fire longer.

#3. Kiss the ground. I've noticed that the computer will only go so low, so if you go just a little lower they tend to break off and go after another target. I really do mean to kiss the ground as in being as little as 5 meters from death at high speed. One wrong move and you quickly become a fireball. This is the downside, you are very limited in any kind of maneuver until you pull up and get back into the fight, which sometimes take a while when all the planes are 2000 m up.

I personally love this flight sim and I like starting in all kinds of situations. My 2 favorite is Okinawa against 4 flights of zero's while I'm usually either in a P-61, P-63, or P-47. Usually 2 flights are sitting on the runway waiting to taxi and I try to dive right through AA fire to strafe the lot of the before they take off. Many times I either get a direct hit and explode or I don't pull up in time and I wipe out an entire row of planes with my fiery corpse.
My other favorite is usually any map where I put myself on defense with scramble so I have to get my plane started and in the air while already being shot at. It s fun as hell to barely be lifting off and suddenly seeing a strafe right over your featherybird-pit (yeah take that ccp).

derp

there was a combat flight simulator game also, i loved that
the plane damage was awesome, you could lose a wing, tail your pilot could be shot,parachutes malfunctioned too iirc...

it was hard to play though and too complicated to just go dogfight

Ah, IL-2. That game would have been a lot more fun if they'd at least attempted to hide the fact that the AI cheats.


Also, Mosquito > all. So what if I'm trying to dogfight in a bomber, I'm faster than your silly little fighter and I've got four 20mm cannons, four machine guns, and enough ammo to shoot down your whole squadron. Oh yeah, and they're all center-mounted so pesky little details like "convergence" are something for pilots of lesser planes to worry about.