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Thanks for letting me join again
Hi all, its been more than a few years since ive been on. I switched over to an iMac in 2013 and had trouble getting connected with CFS3 since. I thought Id try it again and seem to have succeeded. I flew with a group of guys who had training sites and would fly on a set nite a week, Warbirds it was. does anyone have their contact info? Thanks for any help. Gordyjb
Hi all, its been more than a few years since ive been on. I switched over to an iMac in 2013 and had trouble getting connected with CFS3 since. I thought Id try it again and seem to have succeeded. I flew with a group of guys who had training sites and would fly on a set nite a week, Warbirds it was. does anyone have their contact info? Thanks for any help. Gordyjb
SgtT
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Hello
After a long absence from flight sims I decided to come back and give it a try again. Man I have really missed it. I was gifted a PC that has Win10 on it and it has been a little bit of a challenge to get my games up and running again but I think I'm getting there.
Just a quick hello from an old flight simmer.
Rob
After a long absence from flight sims I decided to come back and give it a try again. Man I have really missed it. I was gifted a PC that has Win10 on it and it has been a little bit of a challenge to get my games up and running again but I think I'm getting there.
Just a quick hello from an old flight simmer.
Rob
Back from a long vacation.
Hello Again,
I used to be pretty active on the old forum (when it was brown instead of blue) from around 2000 through 2008ish. Life got in the way... Well, due to some change in circumstances I am back and hopefully I will get my new PC running CFS3 or my circa 2005 home build is gonna be up and running again.
Hello Again,
I used to be pretty active on the old forum (when it was brown instead of blue) from around 2000 through 2008ish. Life got in the way... Well, due to some change in circumstances I am back and hopefully I will get my new PC running CFS3 or my circa 2005 home build is gonna be up and running again.
Hello
I discovered CFS 2 and then CFS 1 in my teenage years and they always had a place in my heart as they are the first flight sims I played. When I found the games CDs in 2018-2019 I was "it's been so long, why not play them again". Nostalgia kicks in but the games wouldn't load, I guess it's a DRM thing or something like that. But when I found out SOH and all the things you could add to the game I was so impressed that I managed to install CFS 2 on my laptop anyway and now I am mostly collecting planes. Thank you SOH for restarting my love for this game.
I discovered CFS 2 and then CFS 1 in my teenage years and they always had a place in my heart as they are the first flight sims I played. When I found the games CDs in 2018-2019 I was "it's been so long, why not play them again". Nostalgia kicks in but the games wouldn't load, I guess it's a DRM thing or something like that. But when I found out SOH and all the things you could add to the game I was so impressed that I managed to install CFS 2 on my laptop anyway and now I am mostly collecting planes. Thank you SOH for restarting my love for this game.
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Burning Beard
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Hi guys, I am returning after a long hiatus, and I am sure I will enjoy the interaction.
Mike
Mike
I'm a very old member in reality. Almost from the first days of SOH. If you remember Groundcrew and Reg's Hanger that's I was a member. I've been away from Sim creation for a long time.
However, after seeing my favourite airfield looking very bad I had to do something.
Greg Law (Seacondor)
However, after seeing my favourite airfield looking very bad I had to do something.
Greg Law (Seacondor)
I think we all know what that is like. It's been months since I did any serious flying.
RingTingTing
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Greetings from South Africa
Thank you for letting me join.
I come from an era where you had to feed computers punch-cards and then go for lunch while it solved a simple math problem.
Purchased a German copy of CFS1 which I found in a bargain bin while I was over there for work. That was it . . . I was hooked . . .
got all of them in succession. CFS1, CFS2, CFS3, FS2000, FS2002, FS2004, FSX ( I'm too poor to own a computer capable of running the latest Flightsim )
Spent some time many years ago on CFS2. Got Gmax , built a plane etc , then ended up Fiddling around with FSX, since it was easier to mod and
tools and information was more readily available. Got busy with work and family and only recently decided to dust off the old CFS2 disks (somehow it stayed my favourite )
After playing for a while, I thought I would embark on a mission : Make the AI planes flyable, re-write all the stock missions with bomber escorts so that I can play them as a bomber pilot
and build a CFS2 Bomber Pilot campaign.
That is more or less where that idea ground to a halt.
Bomber missions must have been all about navigation ( How would you find your target if you could not navigate ? ) , there must also have been some missions where pilots had to manage
their fuel very precisely, otherwise they wouldn't make it home. My missions would have none of this warping bull , you would have to fly them every mile and land your plane to be successful.
So , the initial to-do list was :
1. Get AI planes flying
2. Go through the entire Campaign and find all bomber escort missions
3. Re-write those missions from a bomber perspective
4. Build a Bomber campaign from those missions.
I got as far as point.1
After that I decided that we will need ADF in the cockpit and on the airfields for navigation. So I installed Visual Studio and started to figure out how to do C-gauge programming. Built a nice set of gauges
Autopilot, ADF radio & Compass , a few fuel selectors, a Fuel gauge, a Re-fuel/Dump gauge, a 4-engine Thrust Control for the B-24 since I could not find a proper one anywhere , some ordinance
handling stuff for selecting and dropping rockets, bombs, torpedoes etc. . Then decided that proper Bomb scopes would be nice, so embarked on a venture to write a bomb scope that works on first
principals , calculating the drop point with Newton's laws of motion. Got it working pretty well for level bombing from 5000ft and up, still struggling with the one for dive bombers ( the Fish-eye effect
of the SIM view is something I can't get a handle on , so shelfed that for the time being)
Then I thought that I would need a tool to place NDB's all over the place . . . .long story short , I am now in the process of writing an Airfield Creating tool ( Something in the lines of Martin Wright's MkAFD , but
with a graphic interface, and creating runways from scratch instead of placing stock runways. It connects to the Sim through FSUIPC , and places runways, NDB's, Infrastructure and creates the Facilities data
and futures a comprehensive airbases.dat editing function. Almost done with it, just have to figure out the Structure of the GSL file , cause I want the option of making the placed infrastructure part of the Global Scenery.
With this I can literally have a 3-runway airfield with a background clearing and infrastructure and NDB , updated facilities data and airbases.dat files inside the game in under 5 min.
As you can see, I get sidetracked easily, and end up fiddling more with mods than actually flying.
I will be hanging out in the CFS2 section, and will be asking for advice and info from the veterans around here.
Cheers
RingTingTing
Thank you for letting me join.
I come from an era where you had to feed computers punch-cards and then go for lunch while it solved a simple math problem.
Purchased a German copy of CFS1 which I found in a bargain bin while I was over there for work. That was it . . . I was hooked . . .
got all of them in succession. CFS1, CFS2, CFS3, FS2000, FS2002, FS2004, FSX ( I'm too poor to own a computer capable of running the latest Flightsim )
Spent some time many years ago on CFS2. Got Gmax , built a plane etc , then ended up Fiddling around with FSX, since it was easier to mod and
tools and information was more readily available. Got busy with work and family and only recently decided to dust off the old CFS2 disks (somehow it stayed my favourite )
After playing for a while, I thought I would embark on a mission : Make the AI planes flyable, re-write all the stock missions with bomber escorts so that I can play them as a bomber pilot
and build a CFS2 Bomber Pilot campaign.
That is more or less where that idea ground to a halt.
Bomber missions must have been all about navigation ( How would you find your target if you could not navigate ? ) , there must also have been some missions where pilots had to manage
their fuel very precisely, otherwise they wouldn't make it home. My missions would have none of this warping bull , you would have to fly them every mile and land your plane to be successful.
So , the initial to-do list was :
1. Get AI planes flying
2. Go through the entire Campaign and find all bomber escort missions
3. Re-write those missions from a bomber perspective
4. Build a Bomber campaign from those missions.
I got as far as point.1
After that I decided that we will need ADF in the cockpit and on the airfields for navigation. So I installed Visual Studio and started to figure out how to do C-gauge programming. Built a nice set of gauges
Autopilot, ADF radio & Compass , a few fuel selectors, a Fuel gauge, a Re-fuel/Dump gauge, a 4-engine Thrust Control for the B-24 since I could not find a proper one anywhere , some ordinance
handling stuff for selecting and dropping rockets, bombs, torpedoes etc. . Then decided that proper Bomb scopes would be nice, so embarked on a venture to write a bomb scope that works on first
principals , calculating the drop point with Newton's laws of motion. Got it working pretty well for level bombing from 5000ft and up, still struggling with the one for dive bombers ( the Fish-eye effect
of the SIM view is something I can't get a handle on , so shelfed that for the time being)
Then I thought that I would need a tool to place NDB's all over the place . . . .long story short , I am now in the process of writing an Airfield Creating tool ( Something in the lines of Martin Wright's MkAFD , but
with a graphic interface, and creating runways from scratch instead of placing stock runways. It connects to the Sim through FSUIPC , and places runways, NDB's, Infrastructure and creates the Facilities data
and futures a comprehensive airbases.dat editing function. Almost done with it, just have to figure out the Structure of the GSL file , cause I want the option of making the placed infrastructure part of the Global Scenery.
With this I can literally have a 3-runway airfield with a background clearing and infrastructure and NDB , updated facilities data and airbases.dat files inside the game in under 5 min.
As you can see, I get sidetracked easily, and end up fiddling more with mods than actually flying.
I will be hanging out in the CFS2 section, and will be asking for advice and info from the veterans around here.
Cheers
RingTingTing