Wittmann

Well,  just got my internet back.  I watched the 2 airdrops of red fire retardant from planes Sat afternoon,  about 7-800 yards from my back deck.  Was very impressive, stopped the fire in it's tracks in my area.   got told to evacuate,  unfortunately some real tools on city planning allowed developers to put a bunch of houses on a hill above me, they had to come down my road.  I watched a truck take an hour to go from 1 side of my house to the next.   They arrested the degenerate fuck that started the fire,   yup,   arson guys  not global warming like all the idiots are claiming.  Still in an evacuation zone,  but I never left after I saw the drop stop the fire.   If I drive out,   they wont let you drive back in.   

Joy to Key  is the program. I Open it prior to game.  Fire up Track IR, then click on the open JTK   so it selects it when I want to cal my Track IR. I pause Track IR then start IL2   I set up a profile,  assign various keystrokes  to various in game functions. Then I assign that key to a different joystik, throttle, rudder   etc.  I  rally like it for tanks  to aim the gun for long range.  I have 2 hats on a throttle that  do mouse movement.  The first does 40 % of my mouse speed, the second does 10% of speed, making very fine tune possible.  Now I have a new WW orion 2 throttle   to set up  for tanks  but will do the same type of emulation

Stick to IL2 ?
 
 

Stick to IL2 ?
 
 

Stick to IL2 ?
 
 

I'm very skeptical,  and said so on the forum  .  The reason why there have not been  a bunch,  with the exception of Mig Alley sims,  I think is because the interest for that is not high.   WW2  or WW1  has always been the draw and ww2 just draws more.  They had a ton of areas that could have still been done,  Italian Series 5 fighters were always a wanted addition.  More armor for TC,  More later war eastern front planes.   I think others have talked about the pacific,  and while that may draw well with americans,  I don't think it is that great for europe or alot of the rest of the world.  Maybe they will continue to model AC and armor for WW2,    I think  new planes and armor may actually outsell a korea model. 

I'm very skeptical,  and said so on the forum  .  The reason why there have not been  a bunch,  with the exception of Mig Alley sims,  I think is because the interest for that is not high.   WW2  or WW1  has always been the draw and ww2 just draws more.  They had a ton of areas that could have still been done,  Italian Series 5 fighters were always a wanted addition.  More armor for TC,  More later war eastern front planes.   I think others have talked about the pacific,  and while that may draw well with americans,  I don't think it is that great for europe or alot of the rest of the world.  Maybe they will continue to model AC and armor for WW2,    I think  new planes and armor may actually outsell a korea model. 

Well,  I wanted to get  some Virpil  pedals  but they always seem to be out of stock.   Seems to have gotten worse over the last couple of years.
Anyways,   I got a set  Turtle Beach Velocity 1  Rudder Pedals.    I had only recently heard of Turtle Beach because a coworker bought a Jstik  from them.  It seems they   kind of occupy  the Xbox  system,  or did.  These rudder pedals  are very nice.  Well built  and heavy.  I was using CH pedals.   They came with smaller type footbeds,  and some different springs.  I like the stock large beds.  They are adjustable for width,  I like the factory set width but that is an option for those wanting a change.  I am very happy with these and was actually expecting something  more like CH  flimsy  etc,  I was pleasantly surprised.  

I see that Win Wing is making a set of Rudders  now.  I do not see them stocked yet.   They look like a  virtual copy of the Virpil pedals,   slight cosmetic differences.   I think these Turtle Beach Velocity 1 pedals  are a hidden gem  and I'm glad I came across them.

Here is a pic of the short pedals,  I  believe they bolt on where you see  the bolt,  not sure of any adjustment

Good Question.   I have them set at the narrowest setting.  They say that =  13.77"  350 mm    Outside to outside of footbed  widest point is 15",  they adjust out  a further 100mm  or 4"  19 total.   Stock on the CH,  I have 12 1/4  outside to outside on foot beds.  So the TB narrowest  is about 3 " wider  and goes 4 more.  Adjustment  is  6 different places.  There are 2 spring loaded plates on the bottom.  Press and move out or in
The last pic   the left footbeds on both,   the center of them are lined up on the left.  As you can see,  much wider,    that is the widest they go.  At the narrowest setting they are  @ 3" wider

I was surprised at the build actually.  They used some plastic as cosmetic  covers.  The main frame is aluminum and steel.  Each pedal is supported by 2 tubular rails and what look like linear bearings.  The spring for me  is  right from factory  but they  come with different springs  and like everything else if that wasn't right you could always get something different online  tension wise.  The sensors are hall effect,  and there is no center detent  which I like.  They return to center just fine with the springs.  After not being able to get Virpil pedals,  then looking at these they may actually  be a better   constructed  style,  imo,   they don't rotate around a center/spring   but each foot slides up 2 rails  and spins the sensor in the center.   Both feet have an individual spring so you  could  actually adjust these   in some offset/tension manner if you wanted
Pic is right foot

Well,  I wanted to get  some Virpil  pedals  but they always seem to be out of stock.   Seems to have gotten worse over the last couple of years.
Anyways,   I got a set  Turtle Beach Velocity 1  Rudder Pedals.    I had only recently heard of Turtle Beach because a coworker bought a Jstik  from them.  It seems they   kind of occupy  the Xbox  system,  or did.  These rudder pedals  are very nice.  Well built  and heavy.  I was using CH pedals.   They came with smaller type footbeds,  and some different springs.  I like the stock large beds.  They are adjustable for width,  I like the factory set width but that is an option for those wanting a change.  I am very happy with these and was actually expecting something  more like CH  flimsy  etc,  I was pleasantly surprised.  

Well,  I wanted to get  some Virpil  pedals  but they always seem to be out of stock.   Seems to have gotten worse over the last couple of years.
Anyways,   I got a set  Turtle Beach Velocity 1  Rudder Pedals.    I had only recently heard of Turtle Beach because a coworker bought a Jstik  from them.  It seems they   kind of occupy  the Xbox  system,  or did.  These rudder pedals  are very nice.  Well built  and heavy.  I was using CH pedals.   They came with smaller type footbeds,  and some different springs.  I like the stock large beds.  They are adjustable for width,  I like the factory set width but that is an option for those wanting a change.  I am very happy with these and was actually expecting something  more like CH  flimsy  etc,  I was pleasantly surprised.  

Well,  I wanted to get  some Virpil  pedals  but they always seem to be out of stock.   Seems to have gotten worse over the last couple of years.
Anyways,   I got a set  Turtle Beach Velocity 1  Rudder Pedals.    I had only recently heard of Turtle Beach because a coworker bought a Jstik  from them.  It seems they   kind of occupy  the Xbox  system,  or did.  These rudder pedals  are very nice.  Well built  and heavy.  I was using CH pedals.   They came with smaller type footbeds,  and some different springs.  I like the stock large beds.  They are adjustable for width,  I like the factory set width but that is an option for those wanting a change.  I am very happy with these and was actually expecting something  more like CH  flimsy  etc,  I was pleasantly surprised.  

Good.   Another.  Pilot on. PST.       

Good.   Another.  Pilot on. PST.       

Any JG1  or   members of this board   in this area ?   Here for bus until Thu

Very interesting. Monstertech.   I looked,  we have alot of that alum rail. Stuff at my work. If. I can source that clamp. I can make that in a day.   It's on backorder on their page

Very interesting. Monstertech.   I looked,  we have alot of that alum rail. Stuff at my work. If. I can source that clamp. I can make that in a day.   It's on backorder on their page

Good, another Pilot on the west coast

Good, another Pilot on the west coast

Good, another Pilot on the west coast

What is your Timezone? PST West Coast United States. Do you have a joystick or HOTAS? Yes  I have the Thrustmaster Warthog and use Rudder Pedals as well. Do you have TeamSpeak and Discord installed, as well as a working microphone? Yes. Do you have VR, TrackIR, or a FreeTrack system for view control? Track IR What sims are you currently flying? IL2 Great Battles How did you hear about JG1?  IL2 Forums Squadron Recruitment Is there anything else that you'd like us to know? Recently joined the IL2 flight sim community.  I flew and enjoyed CFS 1 & 2 years ago and wanted to get back into flight simming once again.  I am not apart of any organized squadron but I do use the pilot tag of JG5_Brunner to fly virtually.  Thank you for this opportunity.

So I have built. An Amd x5600 system.   Still waiting to buy a vid card. Now has an nvidia 760. Functional but only limited to tanks on il2. It has pci 4.  3 or so m2 slots. I put in the gigabit aouros. M2 drive. Pci4. And if I update my flying computer.  Then I boot this one up. And update it. It will have the update downloaded and installed before my 7700k intel w pci3 m2 drive does. Even though. I start comp up after I have already started updating my older one.   Same ram in both but the pci4 m2. Is way faster