I bought a copy of IL2 cliffs of Dover. Noisy early Spitfires and machine guns and fabulous graphics. I got addicted. Help . . . .it may be a while before I am back; but I will be back.
Latest posts made by TerryW
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RE: Refueling tips anyone?
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RE: Educational science ? Reading method recommendation requested?
Thanks for that. I did indeed do the community patch.
I did 6 months with BOB2. IL2 is very similar but with better graphics. I haven’t tried the campaign as yet. I am still having trouble with basic flight.
Now, I have to manage my time between the two sims now. Hard. . . .
Happy New Year.
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RE: Educational science ? Reading method recommendation requested?
Hi Red,
You are entirely correct. I totally missed the big sign saying “START AT THE BEGINING STUPID”. . . . My only excuse is months of learning and practice on 4.32 (I am a bit of an addict according to the wife). I hadn’t appreciated the massive change. It was only a point release after all. If it had been called version 5, I might have “twigged” . . .
maybe.In the training courses that I have put together, for professional software engineers, I always publish a prerequisite learning section. That goes a long way to leading the newbie into the learning experience. If I am teaching Class diagrams I don’t go “off piste” onto activity diagrams. Just a few suggestions. . . Plus, I always get the course reviewed using Fagan inspection (several people reviewing from different perspectives).
Thanks for the help. I am now going back to the start and will do things properly now. Plus, I won’t approach this as a computer game. Big mistake. It is something far more serious. . . . and better.
Merry Christmas.
Terry
PS I picked up a copy of IL2 COD. Fantastic graphics but far less immersive. I have no idea why. It just is. The in-game training for that is rediculously poor with very little explained. No manual. . . . Doesn’t compare with Falcon4. Just noticed that you are in Brussels. I lived in Reet for nearly 4 years. I wsas working for Bell Telephones in Antwerp.
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RE: Educational science ? Reading method recommendation requested?
Cool. My big mistake was I thought I could just walk through the door and start using 4.33 after a long time on 4.32. I was concentrating on my campaign. Then I started missing with agm65s - what? So, I jumped into the training to try and restore my knowledge on that one weapon type. The unstructured (unstructured learning) training material is more of a challenge than the campaign. I used to teach object-oriented and structured software development methods (Yourdon SA/SD/RT). Even guys with a good degree and years of experience wouldn’t survive one of my training courses if I designed them with a huge mix of diverse concepts in one lesson. That is almost cruel.:D
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RE: Educational science ? Reading method recommendation requested?
Starting to get there now. Still on mission 14 but managed to get tgp and wpn alignment understood and working. Not too hard in the CAVOK mission. I just read up on what cavok means. . . . I need to do some terrain following soon.
Many thanks for the help. It got me over a hurdle . . .I was really struggling.
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RE: Educational science ? Reading method recommendation requested?
Hi,
I wasn’t clever enough to start at lesson 1. . . . Maybe that is what I need to do. Maybe 4.33 is just too different to convert, weapon by weapon, and I need to start again. That is one hell of a commitment.
Does the ILS training cover TFR (terrain following radar) then? This seems to be a learning-dependency. In other words, you need to do the TFR lesson to be able to cope with Mavericks in mission 13. I’ll try mission 14 and see what happens.
Many thanks.
Terry
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Educational science ? Reading method recommendation requested?
Hi,
I am converting from BMS 4.32 to 4.33. It is a huge leap. I have jumped feet first into Mavericks (because they were easy). I have the training mission document printed out (well, the Maverick section anyway). So, I am trying to learn Maverick!
So, I am struggling with bad weather flying, the targeting pod, the mavs, and a document that doesn’t understand incremental learning I.e. starting easy and building up little by little. I am all flooded out with information. Am I missing something? Did I Need to start way back on lesson 1 and learn to fly again? I certainly haven’t used TFR in the F16 and don’t recognise half of the concepts e.g. “hand off”. “bore sight alignment”? Wow! Where am I going wrong?
Terry
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RE: AGM88 won't release - is this a bug?
3-4g ? If they get you it wasn’t enough g. If you got away it was a little to much.
I doubt the common-sense in some of my attack profiles. By that I mean if I need g after the first attack I must have done the planning wrong. So, if on a typical DEAD/SEAD mission it should be agm88s 1st (at distance and no pylon wrenching) and then move in with the cluster bombs afterwards following the smoke raised. I use ccip to get it accurate but you need to see the target and be too close for comfort (that may be a further mistake I guess).
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RE: 4.33 - missile launch noise when I hit a "q" the "1" etc
Hi Amraam, you are reading too much into my posting. With a “virgin” 4.33 load I get the flaming whoosh. To diagnose the issue, I temporarily replaced 4.33’s sounds folder with that from an old installation of 4.32. It changed the symptoms a lot. The everytime I hit Q,1 whoosh disappears. But I have subsequently heard it intermittently.
Do you know if the 4.33 RWR sounds are actually realistic? Honestly, UK telephones use those tomes for “ringing”.
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RE: 4.33 - missile launch noise when I hit a "q" the "1" etc
A few more clues. It doesn’t whoosh when listening from outside the cockpit e.g. when using the outside view.
And, it is intermittent, rather than every time, when I copy the 4.32 sound folder to data (after underscoring the original 4.33 sound folder I.e. to _sounds). I think I prefer the RWR sounds in 4.32. 4.33 sounds like UK ring-tone.