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Tutorials: Mosquito FB MkVI

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  1. Hi there, I’m Stef Anthony Coburn (variously online as ‘GUITARDIS’), son of ‘Doctor Who’ co-creator and independent originator of the ‘TARDIS’ acronym (which IP I presently own, for what little good it ever did me) (James) Anthony ‘Tony’ Coburn. I mention this ‘going in’, as it were, in case you yourselves ever enjoyed DW (as children, of course), and might feel like, ‘returning the favour’.

    I’ve loved the Mosquito since watching ‘633 Squadron’, as a child (I returned home vocalising the classic theme) and many times since. I also had an uncle who flew Mossies in WWII (who I remember telling me about a note fixed in the cockpit, advising “This aeroplane is not to be dived at speeds in excess of 600 MPH”).

    Perhaps predictably, I was wondering, now that you have the Mossie in DCS, whether ‘Grim Reapers’ might be up to re-enacting the 633 Squadron raid on the rocket-fuel factory (or similar target) at the top of the Norwegian fjord (yes I know it’s fictional, albeit based on similar exploits) more or less as portrayed in the movie, with the walls of the fjord stacked with suitably contemporaneous ‘flak’/triple-A installations. Wouldn’t mind if other WWII aircraft also participated, but contend that use of any modern stuff would rather spoil the illusion.

    Love your vids. Have HOTAS and CH pedals, but suspect my ageing PC and graphics card are not up to DCS requirements, or I’d be requesting (as opposed to merely wanting) to ‘fly’ with you.

    All the best, regardless.

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    1. Thank you very much for the 633 mission request! I will get to work on this shortly, but the video will be several weeks away. Best. Cap

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      1. Thanks immensely for this thrilling response. I look forward with barely contained anticipation, to seeing what you come up with (does DCS have a suitable fjord – Norwegian or otherwise, modelled?).

        Now looking into what financial resources I can muster for the purpose of acquiring (or building) a machine capable of running DCS at sufficiently high resolution, to allow me to join in the fun.

        Not done much flight-simming since spending hours flying (mostly Spits) in MS Combat Flight-Sim 3′ (in Win XP), systematically clearing the skies, of (mainly) 109s. I flew the Mossy in CFS3 (of course), but had significantly greater success in the Spitfire (my other all time favourite). Of course, the details in CFS3 don’t even come close to the phenomenal ‘realism’ of DCS.

        I’ve tried installing CFS3 on my 64 bit Win 7 machine, but never (so far) managed to get it working.

        I’ve messed around a bit with MS FSX (mostly flying helicopter rescue missions to burning oil rigs, and the like) and also in ‘X-Plane’ (version 9, was I think, as far as I got), but lacking anything resembling combat (and also failing to get the World Scenery, working in ANY ‘X-Plane’ version, restricting me to a single location), soon tired of this.

        The only other sims, I’ve spent significant time in (going ‘down’ instead of ‘up’) are the Ubisoft ‘Silent Hunter’ subsim series; my favourites being SH3 (in U-boats) and SH4 (in U.S. ‘fleet boats’ set in the Pacific theatre. I had SH5 installed for a while, but somehow – despite having the entire interior of a Type VIIc ‘unterseebooten’ (complete with interactive crew) modelled, to wander about in, didn’t spend a great deal of time in this, before my hard drive (of the time) died, following which, I never got it reinstalled. I do still have SH4 running on an older machine, which I still occasionally step into, to spend an hour or three or five, taking down ‘Yamato’ class battlecruisers and the like (it takes around ten good torpedo hits to sink one of these, if you can avoid the fast moving Akizuki destroyers hunting you.

        You may remember, you ‘favourited’ a comment I made, a while back (via Twitter, I think) regarding a vid you made, using submarines to (attempt to) attack a carrier battle group, where you appeared to have a minimal grasp, at best, of what submarines were good at. i.e. mostly sneaking up on unsuspecting targets, and launching torpedoes – with ‘firing solutions’ either manually or automatically computed, as desired, before diving to escape the (by then) incoming destroyers and agile hard to hit ‘subchasers’.

        To better refine your own submarine tactics, were you so inclined (without needing to learn every system on the boat, to ‘earn’ your virtual ‘dolphins’), I unreservedly recommend SH4 (which you can now pick up in its fully patched version for a tenner, or thereabouts on eBay). I believe ‘multiplayer mode’ is possible, but knowing nobody else, even half-way interested, I’ve never done any of this. The level of A.I. and the open ended (unscripted past the starting point) ‘careers’ campaigns and ‘quick missions’ included however (if you can consider three to five hours ‘quick’), have mostly rendered this (personal) constraint, largely irrelevant.

        All the very best to you and yours (I especially enjoyed the vid where you and your good Lady wife, went for an aerobatic joyride in De Havilland Chipmunks. I flew a couple of times in these beautiful aircraft (as well as in two-seat ‘Sedburgh’ gliders) about five decades or so, ago, in the ‘Air Cadets’. But apart from a couple of helicopter rides (on one of which, I got to briefly take the controls) in more recent years, have never been ‘up’ in anything else (not even airliners).

        In the event, I ever manage to extract what the criminal BBC presently owes me (as the owner of my late father’s ‘Doctor Who’ IPs), comprising four decades plus, back-rent, Worldwide, on ‘TARDIS’, I now fully intend to learn to fly autogyros/gyrocopters, so as to FINALLY make it to the pilot’s seat, for real.

        I hugely enjoy ‘Grim Reapers’ vids (even the outrageously silly ones), as much, for your own dramatic delivery and comedic reactions to events no sensible person would want to go anywhere near, in grim physical reality.

        I’d love to correspond further with an obviously ‘kindred spirit’, were you in any way interested, with a view to my possibly joining GR (likely flying as ‘GUITARDIS’), as and when I can manage the (expensive) upgrades required to participate on anything like equal terms.

        Tally ho, and onward on the foe, in the meantime.

        Стеф

        (I’m now teaching myself to read and speak Russian)

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