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  1. Your In-Game Name: US103_Tobin [if applicable] Your Squadron affilation (with squadron website if possible): 3PG Your timezone: Eastern US Week A1 (Saturday, 5 March 2022): Yes (X ), No ( ), Uncertain ( ) Week A2 (Saturday, 12 March 2022): Yes ( X), No ( ), Uncertain ( ) Week A3 (Saturday, 19 March 2022): Yes (X ), No ( ), Uncertain ( ) Week A4 (Saturday, 26 March 2022): Yes (X ), No ( ), Uncertain ( )
  2. A bunch of guys in 3PG play WOFF for the single-player immersion experience. If you get on the 3PG Discord there's a channel for it viewable by the public. A lot of discussion going on there all of the time.
  3. @Yogi From the Game Setup and Setings FAQ on the IL2 forum, found here: https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/2074-game-setup-and-settings-faq/#faq13 13) Game crashes to desktop all the time, what's wrong?Find the catalog where the game is installed, enter the folder properties and remove the tick from Read Only field.
  4. Can't see 3 wires on the lower connector (just hard to see, maybe). Did you turn a potentiometer into a rheostat?
  5. Worked on a pair of those for Hotlead, and it had the exact same problem. However, he never knew that part because he never used the toe brakes. I did fix the broken connections, but it was difficult because the conductors were some alloy, probably made of or at least containing steel, allowing them to be very fine and yet mechanically strong. Ironically that's their downfall because that mechanical strength causes repeated flexing mainly at the connection, where it snaps off. BTW, those wires are not unjacketed. They have a thin layer of clear insulation on them that must be stripped off to make connections. In any case, that metal resists soldering pretty fiercely and it's difficult or nearly impossible to get a molecular bond between the solder and the conductor. In my case, the wires broke at those white connectors on the circuit board. The wires are crimped in the back of the pins in the plastic housings. Those pins can be carefully removed from the connector. I think I re-opened the one that was originally used, brass I think (not an easy task), then re-crimped the newly stripped wire back on, making a good mechanical and electrical connection. I did hit it with some solder at the connection just to make sure it didn't come loose, since the crimp wasn't as good as the original. After that I reinserted the pins back in the connector, and secured the wires in a way that tried to minimize movement at the connections. It was all a waste of time though, since the REAL problem with his pedals was that it was electronically dead (that little circuit board shown in your picture). I tried to find a replacement by attempting to procure an old set of the same kind of pedals to cannabalize from, but it turned out those pedals were pretty rare and I ended up sending them back to HL as a failed attempt on my part. At some point he got a set of MFG Crosswinds. I've used them for years without any trouble. Once you see the construction of those expensive brands, the quality is obvious. Do yourself a favor and upgrade. COVID-19 relief stimulus payment is on it's way to you
  6. Cool to see a chat macro ability, although more than 2 canned message choices would be nice. Always missed the feature from RB3D.
  7. What a pleasant surprise and exciting narrative. Nice work! S!
  8. I don't get it, if you go to the extreme of either end, i.e. fully black or fully white, the chart indicates that you'll have no gloss and no reflectivity either way. Can that be true?
  9. the "shanty Irish" were the poor, who were presumed to live in shanties, or roughly-built cabins. The "lace curtain Irish" were those who were well off. Who knew?
  10. Amazing the difference between areas. The thing is if you're in an area like Vonrd's, you can relocate to an area like ours and be WAY ahead. The reverse is impossible. So if wages allow in those expensive areas, eventually you're better off, just when you need to be. @Klaiber, you really do absolutely live in that lanai and pool area. The entire lanai and pool deck will be screen enclosed....they all are here. No insects or debris falling into the pool!
  11. Thought I could attach our latest (and hopefully final) floor plan. This has to be approved by the county and the HOA. This takes up to 3 months
  12. At one time I was hoping for a separate office area (i.e. "man cave"?) but honestly the extra cost for a plan like that was just too much for us both in terms of money and in terms of space on our lot. So we're going with a standard 3 bedroom 2 bath, nothing extra, of somewhat over 1,700 sq ft. (living space) that also includes the important stuff (lanai and pool!) and forget the extra room. I'll use one of the guest bedrooms for that instead, and what we'll end up with is the "master suite" and one of the guest bedrooms will open onto the pool / lanai area, and hope we don't have need for more than that. I don't know what most of you guys are used to, but for that here is $350,000.00 if you don't go over budget, and honestly that's more than $100,000.00 more than we got for our old place which had a full finished basement besides. That's just the way it is, and you can't do much about it, and I get that it's far worse in other parts of the country. I'll be very happy if we can actually get through it all without any tremendous economic road blocks that could take place within the next year. A year is a long time to keep one's fingers crossed!! S!
  13. As far as being "moved", welI, we're down here, we have Florida driver's licenses, car license plate, and we're voting as Florida residents!! However, our "residence" is my sister's address, and we travel back-and-forth between there in Sarasota and Englewood to spend most of our time taking care of our 91/92 year-old parents (my in-laws). Teresa cooks and I do the dishes and try to keep things clean and organized Mom-in-law just got back from a month's worth of hospital/rehab facility stay. As far as our own permanent home, we have a lot in a great residential area already bought (Rotonda West) and we've contracted with a builder, but the market is so active down here they all take a year or more to get it done. It takes approximately 3 months just to get all the permits and approvals in Charlotte county, alone! Then of course you have the actual building. We have found out that things like appliances and furniture take 6 months or more to be delivered! My motorcycle, tools and stuff are in storage still in Michigan, for a monthly fee ($$) In the mean time I am forgetting how to fly and using a laptop and phone. We are really liking this area, what with the beaches and the great places to eat and drink. I'm a big reviewer online who would have thunk it. We know all the good places! We are dodging virus' too, so far successfully. Also, as of today, Oct 21, it is still 88-90 degrees every day!!! No end in sight! Crazy, man! I don't mind it a bit. Obviously I still look in on you guys now and then, and hope you are doing well and are staying healthy. S!!
  14. Good fix, it does sound like your problem was caused by factors different than the old garden-variety Windows Update thing. With regard to keeping track of the files, you keep them all in the same folder as the config file, and you'll see them all together when you list files by file type (extension). If you follow the naming convention I described above, you can tell exactly how the controllers are configured in each file just by the name of the file. Of course the fewer controllers you have, the easier it works. I used it quite easily with 3 separate controllers, but it probably wouldn't be nearly as valuable with 4 or more. In the end, just being able to edit the file as described is the most useful thing, being faster and more error-free than the game interface, if you have any familiarity with simple text editing and file explorer locations. S!
  15. There was a thread on this somewhere a long time ago; Me, Emerlist DavJack and possibly others were involved as I recall. There is no simple easy fix (re: software) that worked for everybody all of the time. However, you could edit your controls file as needed each time it changes, and the fastest way was to figure out which controls had changed to what in terms of ID numbers, and then adjust them using a text editor such as Notepad. In other words if originally your joystick was "joy1", your throttle was "joy2" and your pedals were "joy3", and then it changed such that your joystick was "joy2" and your throttle was "joy3" and your pedals were now "joy1", what you would do first would be to rename your original controls file to "J1T2P3.txt" to indicate the configuration of your controllers that does not now work anymore. THEN, you would edit that file in Notepad, changing only the numbers in the controller ID's to what is now needed: in this example case, you would change all 1's to 2's, all 2's to 3's, and all 3's to 1's. This is not as difficult as it may sound since you can just place your cursor after the first ID number, hit backspace once, enter the now correct number, hit enter, your cursor moves down to the next line in the correct place, do the same thing over and over again until you go through all of the entries. This is faster than doing it in the game where you have to re-enter every controller by moving it or pushing a button in every single field of every section that has anything to do with a controller, and odds are you always forget something. Working from top to bottom in the text editor makes it so you don't forget anything, and it's all in one place. When you've corrected all of the ID numbers, you then "save as" that file so that it has the correct file name required by the game (the file name that your original file had). Can't remember it exactly right now since I don't have my gaming machine at this time. Notepad will try to append a ".txt" on the end, so that you end up with something like "controls.cfg.txt". So after the file is saved, then rename it to get rid of the extra ".txt" on the end. It will ask you if you're sure and say it might render the file useless, but just say yes, since that file with the extra .txt on the end will not be recognized by the game and so be useless. In any case, you now have a working current file, and also another file that, if Windows happens to change the ID's back to that configuration, all you have to do is rename that particular file with the correct required game controller name, and then rename the other, now inoperable file indicating it's configuration (such as "J2T3P1.txt). Eventually, if this happens enough times, and you create new configs each time as required, you have enough files that it covers all possible changes that can occur, and you'll never need to actually edit the file again, only rename an existing one that you created previously. So for a while it's either a semi-quick fix to edit, or a really quick fix to rename an already existing file. The idea is that it beats manually changing all the controls mapping within the game each time they change over and over forever. Another note is that Windows doesn't normally change the controller ID's unless it's a larger update such as a "feature update", so the need for this is usually pretty infrequent. But I stand to be corrected on that. Good luck!
  16. Seems like being wheels up in a tank might not be that great of an idea.
  17. All my best wishes to you both, old friend!!! May all the times ahead be great ones! It makes me very happy to know you're doing so well. S!!
  18. I told 'em you were the best in WWII I've ever seen. Don't see anything here that contradicts that! Sweet moves and awesome shooting. S!
  19. Well now, that would never have happened. The question is, what did you all do with your TrackIR's?
  20. I'm happy to be the first to congratulate our own Hotlead on completing all of the requirements for his college degree. This being an extremely unusual year, he will more than likely be deprived of the standard graduation ceremony that normally would take place at any American university. Regardless of this, he has his family who are undoubtedly and deservedly very proud of him. I want to add my own congratulations for a person who I am sure will be able to overcome any challenges ahead. S! and Well Done, Hotlead!!
  21. When you said you were in it I was expecting to see a 109 or 190 come down like an eagle and blow those Thunderbolts out of the sky....
  22. As stated elsewhere I'm up for it, but I'm pretty sure filling a server is a fantasy. All that's needed is the server and simple mission(s), and especially an advertised time and place. Doesn't have to be JG1 either, J5 obviously has some great resources too.
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