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Let me know when you get back up and going and I'll probably make the jump into AH again for a while. I'm struggling with my joystick setup in the SAS BAT mods for IL-2. New rig doesn't like the game as much as my old one liked it. Might have to move the old stuff into a dedicated old school sim rig.

Yep and according to my grandfather it's glide slope if the engine(s) ever went out was like a brick thrown into the water...immediate slowdown and nearly vertical descent.

@Hoss how do you like that Blackhog box? I was hoping to get all three that they offered so I wouldn't have to build out my cockpit with a soldering iron and then they up and shut down a couple of years ago it seems.

@Esco If you are a member of the DCS forums take a look at the hardware section. There is usually a large amount of information in the following link for Warthog problems. There is also a big HOTAS/HOSAS/Simpit Discord as well with tons of information there as well. https://forum.dcs.world/forum/336-thrustmaster/

Been playing flight sims since 1986-87 and I had completely forgotten about Confirmed Kill, heck I had worked on the Eidos QC Testing team (unpaid internship) for it and Joint Strike Fighter which released about a year after CK went live. The article in Computer Gaming World Magazine was huge for CK and being able to have access to the TEN servers in the building in San Francisco made for some really late nights and super low ping rates. Then I got to work on what ended up being the aborted online game Desert Fighters for Dynamix/Sierra for a little bit as an unpaid QC Testing intern for them also. Then my wife and I moved back to Alabama in mid 1998 and I remember Janes WW2 Fighters, MS Combat Sim, EAW, and tons of others; because paying an hourly fee for AW or WB was super expensive for me. When I landed my first real job and I was able to pay $15 a month for Ace's High....that was huge.

Thanks for the update! I just wish I had found out about this sooner than last night!

As much as I love the Corsair....I'd have to say the plane that my grandfather flew in which was the PV-1 Ventura.

Here's a few that I have bought over the years. Fighting Seventeen: A Photographic History of VF-17 in World War II Hardcover – May 16, 2011 The Skull & Crossbones Squadron: VF-17 in World War II (Schiffer Military/Aviation History) Hardcover - February 28, 1998 The Jolly Rogers: The Story of Tom Blackburn and Navy Fighting Squadron VF-17 Corsair Aces of World War 2 (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No. 8) Paperback – November 13, 1995 Solo into the Rising Sun: The Dangerous Missions of a U.S. Navy Bomber Squadron in World War II Hardcover – June 1, 2020

Long time sim pilot from way back in the late 80's Air Warrior time frame. Spent a long time in Fighter Ace after getting tired of the whole AW vs Warbirds fest and then eventually moved over to AH with a group; then started the VF-17 squadron in AH and eventually jumped ship to play DCS full time and IL-2 before taking a long break with HOTAS setup just gathering dust till yesterday. Spent way too much money on flight sim subs and gear. I see a bunch of names from all my previous time in games and am glad to be here. Thanks to GPatricks for pointing the way to the Pacific stuff over here!

TEX!!!! I just showed up thanks to a friendly PM from a guy over at IL-2...well I just decided to get back into the game a good bit more than in the past.

Here is one that I bought a while back for some light reading. https://www.ospreypublishing.com/us/wings-of-the-rising-sun-9781472823717/