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ORIGINAL: Slick Wilhelm

Good man, Judge. You'll probably want to spend some quality time adjusting the response curves for your joystick and rudder pedals. I found that the default curve is too sensitive for my ham-fisted flying style.

Oh, word to the wise: After you adjust your video/audio settings in the config utility, don't use that same utility for setting up your controls. There's currently a bug where if you make a profile in that utility, and then make changes to it from inside the game itself, you can corrupt the profile.

It's best to create a profile and set up your response curves and program your HOTAS buttons from inside the game. You can do this while inside the hanger, or even more handy....after you start a mission you can pause the game using "p" and then bring up the menu to fiddle with your controls with a right mouse click. That way, you can make adjustments to your profile and test them out quickly and efficiently. I recommend selecting a "free-flight" mission where all you do is fly around and enjoy the scenery and practice your take offs and landings. 

Make sure to program a "blip" switch to one of your buttons, you'll need it for all the rotary engine planes. You may also use manual fuel mixture and radiator adjustment, too. But that's optional.

I highly recommend reading this RoF newbie guide: http://riseofflight.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=2517

There's a lot of good info in there, especially the info about which planes have the ability to use manual mixture and/or radiator settings.

Good luck and I hope you have fun! [8D]

ORIGINAL: mgarnett

Hi Judge,

I don't think you will regret the purchase. I'm having a ball trying out all the planes, each one behaves really differently. It's even inspired me to buy a new pair of Saitek rudder pedals and a TrackIR (which hopefully the wife won't notice). I'm looking forward to trying these things out. I'm starting to go OK in landing, take off and dogfighting flying the two Albatross variants, but ground attack is really difficult, especially when you are trying to hit a moving convoy.

Another medium fidelity sim I've just discovered is the Strike Fighters 2 series (Thirdwire Poductions). It was on special over the Christmas period for $50 for all four theatres so I picked it up and is developed by the guy who was involved in writing European Air War. It focuses mainly on early and modern jets through Vietnam, the Cold War and the Arab/Israeli conflict.

Cheers

Mark

ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager

I am very interested in this but I refuse to pay $97 even with the 'discounted' bundles. I do not care if they are a small developer or not. $7.62 is simply too much money to pay for a single aircraft. It also does not help that the screen shots I have seen look like the graphics are IL-2 quality.