Battle of Britain

[Pat Pattle]

Hey Rami just wanted to say a big thank you for yours and all those involved work on this add-on! Late to the party as usual I've only just managed to get cfs2 working on Windows 10.

This installed very easily and works flawlessly. Love it.

Cheers!

Clive

[Rami]

Pat,

Thanks! I also wanted to give you a heads up that I did a campaign package for the Balkans involving your avatar and namesake, and am currently working on the Battle of France. Hewman100 is my primary researcher, with contributions from UncleTgt as well.

I know you have considerable expertise on the subject...currently I am completing the last few missions for 20 May. If you would like to become involved in the project and become a beta tester, please let me know. I can make auto-installer packages available.

[Ali Cat]

It’s long, long overdue but let me second the above praise. Thank you Rami for all you’ve done. And Bob with an auto-installer? Gotta play this one – must see TV.


AC: aka Sam

[highpockets]

Rami
I cannot find your BOB three part installation in the library! ???
I am going to do a fresh install.

[Rami]

Jim,

That's because it is not under my name; it was the collective work of several people, so accordingly, it is listed under the username "CFS2 BoB Team."

If worse comes to worst, click on the "campaigns" link in my signature and download it off of my Box.net site.

[highpockets]

No wonder! I had it before but could not find it.
Thanks

[No Dice]

Rami,
Do have to update my link on the FFS, I see nothing dated 2018 ????

by Rami

Enough great campaigns to fill a hard drive **** link to download

http://thefreeflightsite.com/Missions.htm

Dave dea1u4@aol.com

[Rami]

No Dice,

It's not new...Pat Pattle dredged up an old thread. The last update was on 04/12/2017.

[highpockets]

Aha. I thought there was another update but you (Rami) just updated the existing files with a note. I have the April 2017 install in my files

[Devildog73]

Rami and guys,

When I attempt to fly the BoB campaign I keep getting an error on the screen which continually stops flight and keeps the mission from proceeding.

"Filelist.dat error on the list but not available on the remote 'scenedb/weapons/scenery/ ai' "

I have in all my years in CFS2 NEVER seen this error. Once I make it to the coast of the channel it is so frequent I cannot fly.

Guidance?

Lee

[Rami]

Lee,

I have never seen that...

...but at least the data you posted narrows it to the scenedb\weapons\scenery folder. Did you try deleting the filelist.dat file in the offending folder?

[Devildog73]

Yeppers, then looked for anything AI in the bgl files.
No Joy

Lee,

I have never seen that...

...but at least the data you posted narrows it to the scenedb\weapons\scenery folder. Did you try deleting the filelist.dat file in the offending folder?

[Devildog73]

I found it.
There was a bgl named "ai.bombs.bgl"

The first period between ai and bombs was the problem.

[Devildog73]

I know this has been discussed a long, loooonnnnnngggggg time ago, and I cannot remember the fix.....

When I load my ETO CFS2 with Rami's BoB Campaign it keeps giving me the error that the B25 Mitchell cannot be found.
It was the stock, no mod B25.

I put a panel in it, B25 sound in it, and made sure all of the names in Model folder, Aircraft.cfg, air file, and DP are the exact same name.
It still gives me the error.

The campaign starts fine unless I need the Do-17Z2, which the sim also says is missing, though I went through it with the necessary attention to detail.
I used Morton's utility to make sure all of my mission and campaign aircraft load properly.
I used Jonesoft QC Editor to make sure all aircraft are properly loaded.

Guidance?

[Rami]

Devildog73,

Is this a specific mission or missions? Is the Dornier available in free flight?

[Devildog73]

Devildog73,

Is this a specific mission or missions? Is the Dornier available in free flight?

Not the Z2, only the Do17Z is available to free flight.
I will check all the Z2 files and see if any are not EXACTLY the same.

All missions and Campaign beginning mission.

The B25 missing is at all startups.

The only other issue I have thus far is my British UIRES do not load for some reason. The bmp and jpg files are there and I can see them when I look at the folder, but they do not load in the sim.

[Devildog73]

Okay,
Got the B25_Mitchell showing up.
Now the B24_Liberator doesn't want to be seen.

Still no Dornier Do-17Z2.

Now missing ie_ensign_raf and wep_internal_tank.

What's the deal with the AH_Hawker Hurricanes only doing 200 knots in level flight at 10,000 feet at full power BEFORE being shot up?
It should do 280 knots as top speed, so even 250 knots would be acceptable......but 200 or less?

[Captain Kurt]

Why are you trying to get a b-24 to show up in a BoB campaign ?

The Do-17Z2 shows up fine in my BoB load. Try this process of elimination:

Temporarily remove the sound folder from the airplane file and substitute a folder that has a sound.cfg aliased to one of the stock planes' sound folder. If it then appears, sound is the problem. If that does not fix it, do the same with the panel folder. If that fixes it, the panel is the issue.

Moving on, check the model.cfg in the model folder to make sure the .cfg file lists the exact name of the .mdl file.

And finally, check to see if the aircraft.cfg file section [fltsim.0] line sim= has the .dp and .air file names correct.

If none of that works, you may have a corrupted file in the mix.

[Captain Kurt]

Regarding the Hurricane. Are you referring to indicated or to true airspeed?

At 10,000 feet, Hurricane I w/ 2-pitch prop specifications are:

266 MPH / 231 knots indicated airspeed
296 MPH / 257 knots true airspeed

Slightly less by 6 mph with a Rotol constant speed prop

The best I can get out of the AH Hurri is 232 MPH / 202 knots indicated, and that's really nursing her along. Plus her CG is seriously off.

IMHO, she needs an .air file make over before she will perform accurately. But as a quick patch, you can make some changes in the Aircraft.cfg file.

You can add to the forward location in the "empty_weight_CG_position" line and test until she flies level at cruise speed.

You can increase the [piston_engine] power_scalar and/or [propeller] thrust_scalar number and test until she flies at the speed matching the specification numbers above.

P.S.

The ensign is in the IE_Airfield_Buildings_Library by Ian Elliot
The wep_internal_tank is in the km_P-40e_V4 and the km_P-40e_V5 packages

[Devildog73]

Did all of the below when first encountered the problems.
Thinking about eliminating the multiple textures and having each texture in its own aircraft folder.

Why are you trying to get a b-24 to show up in a BoB campaign ?

The Do-17Z2 shows up fine in my BoB load. Try this process of elimination:

Temporarily remove the sound folder from the airplane file and substitute a folder that has a sound.cfg aliased to one of the stock planes' sound folder. If it then appears, sound is the problem. If that does not fix it, do the same with the panel folder. If that fixes it, the panel is the issue.

Moving on, check the model.cfg in the model folder to make sure the .cfg file lists the exact name of the .mdl file.

And finally, check to see if the aircraft.cfg file section [fltsim.0] line sim= has the .dp and .air file names correct.

If none of that works, you may have a corrupted file in the mix.

[Devildog73]

Thanks,
I increased the power scalar to 1.1.

I will get the missing files from the library.

Regarding the Hurricane. Are you referring to indicated or to true airspeed?

At 10,000 feet, Hurricane I w/ 2-pitch prop specifications are:

266 MPH / 231 knots indicated airspeed
296 MPH / 257 knots true airspeed

Slightly less by 6 mph with a Rotol constant speed prop

The best I can get out of the AH Hurri is 232 MPH / 202 knots indicated, and that's really nursing her along. Plus her CG is seriously off.

IMHO, she needs an .air file make over before she will perform accurately. But as a quick patch, you can make some changes in the Aircraft.cfg file.

You can add to the forward location in the "empty_weight_CG_position" line and test until she flies level at cruise speed.

You can increase the [piston_engine] power_scalar and/or [propeller] thrust_scalar number and test until she flies at the speed matching the specification numbers above.

P.S.

The ensign is in the IE_Airfield_Buildings_Library by Ian Elliot
The wep_internal_tank is in the km_P-40e_V4 and the km_P-40e_V5 packages

[Rami]

Lee,

Sorry, working again and keeping up on grad school work makes it hard to respond in a timely manner. Thanks to Captain Kurt for covering for me.

[Devildog73]

Got it all working as supposed to.

Thanks.

[rince33]

First of all a huge thank you to Rami and the CFS2 Bob team for the fantastic BOB package. I'm a huge BOB era fan and have collected virtually every sim that has anything to do with that period, from the old Lucasarts game to il2 clod, haven't tried WOTR yet.



I'm not sure if somebody has already created a fix for this in the past, couldn't find anything, so I decided to edit the Dover cliffs texture so that the cliff top matches the rest of the terrain.



Included is a fix for the "FLOATING CLIFFS" problem which I solved after much digging, sorry I meant "googling".

GET IT HERE:http://www.mediafire.com/file/x0f7jj...ff_fix.7z/file

[rince33]

I enjoy flying in virtual cockpit mode rather than in 2D, but the spitfire virtual cockpit looked very messy, with animated guages not lining up with the background panel 2D guages.



I've attempted to clean this up with this small mod. I've also added some minor detail.





So far I've only edited the Bader spitfire textures, but I could do the rest if there is any interest.

GET IT HERE:https://www.mediafire.com/file/k3c0n...nelmod.7z/filehttps://www.mediafire.com/file/k3c0n...nelmod.7z/file

Before installing remember to backup your existing textures.