Technical Issues

[CP_Admin]

Pilots,

Please report any technical problems with the website, forum or any of our social media accounts here and we'll try to correct. Since this is a new venture, we will likely have issues with our new properties at various times. This however is not a place to complain about other members' behavior. If you have a personal issue with another member please write to the CP_Admin forum account. Play nice!

Thank you,

The Combat Pilot Team  

[wheelsup_cavu]

Nothing drastic but Member is misspelled as Memebr in the FAQ image.

Wheels

[Jason_Williams]

Oh good lord how did I miss that. Good spot Wheels. Will fix ASAP.

Jason 

[TP_Sparky]

Hi. How do I change my online name? I'm slparker17 and wish it to instead be TP_Sparky to match with my Tangmere Pilot buddies. We're eagerly awaiting a return to Pacific carrier ops so we can 'fold wings in anger'.  In IL2 1946 campaigns before I joined, they flew Pacific campaigns and one of the TP guys took off from the carrier and folded his wings in flight when he meant to raise his landing gear. On another mission, he did it again. 😆

When I went through US Navy pilot training, they first put a cheap piece of masking tape on your helmet and wrote your first initial and the first five letters of your last name in magic marker on the masking tape so someone else wouldn't grab your helmet by mistake. For me, that was "S.PARKE". I never screwed up in a way to earn a new callsign so "Sparky" it stayed.  

I've been with Tangmere Pilots for 5 years and we fly two squadrons of 12 or so each week. I'm one of the few US TP guys (we have guys from Eastern Europe as well) and TP guys told me "Sparky" means electrician in Great Britian, so I had a ready-made 1940's RAF callsign. 

I'm listening to a podcast, The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War and wished we could replicate the aborted carrier mission to relieve Wake Island, the early carrier raids, the Coral Sea and Midway battles, Cactus Air Force and a host of actions in The Slot.  I know your first module will go through Midway in June, 1942, but we hope a second module covers Henderson Field and Fighter 1. 

Thanks for all your work on our present combat flight sim and we're on-board for you in any way we can (playtesting, etc.)  I'm waiting for the opportunity to preorder and support Combat Pilot.

Thanks,

S.

Edited May 22 by slparker17

[CP_Admin]

22 hours ago, TP_Sparky said:

Hi. How do I change my online name? I'm slparker17 and wish it to instead be TP_Sparky to match with my Tangmere Pilot buddies. We're eagerly awaiting a return to Pacific carrier ops so we can 'fold wings in anger'.  In IL2 1946 campaigns before I joined, they flew Pacific campaigns and one of the TP guys took off from the carrier and folded his wings in flight when he meant to raise his landing gear. On another mission, he did it again. 😆

When I went through US Navy pilot training, they first put a cheap piece of masking tape on your helmet and wrote your first initial and the first five letters of your last name in magic marker on the masking tape so someone else wouldn't grab your helmet by mistake. For me, that was "S.PARKE". I never screwed up in a way to earn a new callsign so "Sparky" it stayed.  

I've been with Tangmere Pilots for 5 years and we fly two squadrons of 12 or so each week. I'm one of the few US TP guys (we have guys from Eastern Europe as well) and TP guys told me "Sparky" means electrician in Great Britian, so I had a ready-made 1940's RAF callsign. 

I'm listening to a podcast, The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War and wished we could replicate the aborted carrier mission to relieve Wake Island, the early carrier raids, the Coral Sea and Midway battles, Cactus Air Force and a host of actions in The Slot.  I know your first module will go through Midway in June, 1942, but we hope a second module covers Henderson Field and Fighter 1. 

Thanks for all your work on our present combat flight sim and we're on-board for you in any way we can (playtesting, etc.)  I'm waiting for the opportunity to preorder and support Combat Pilot.

Thanks,

S.

Done Sparky.

Jason

[wheelsup_cavu]

Unless it was an intentional omission there is another minor niggle that is confusing to me. You skip from a 2 star to a 4 star admiral in your Forum Ranks chart Plus the O designations for WW2 are incorrect for the 4 star and 5 star Admiral. An O-9 was a 3 star, an O-10 was a 4 star, and an O-11 was the 5 star, at least during WW2 according to the research I have done . There have also been no 5 star fleet Admirals since William Halsey but the rank does work for a WW2 setting though.

If you were to decide to alter the Ranks to address this to add the 3 star admiral rank and change the points in the process imo the most simple fix to add another rank to add the 3 star admiral and to keep the Tom rank at an even number would just be to bump him to 15,000 points. Anywhoo thanks for reading. 😎

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NATO Code	US DOD Pay Grade	WW2
O-1	O-1	O-1	Ensign
O-1	O-2	O-2	Lieutenant (junior grade)
O-2	O-3	O-3	Lieutenant
O-3	O-4	O-4	Lieutenant Commander
O-4	O-5	O-5	Commander
O-5	O-6	O-6	Captain
O-6	O-7	O-7	Rear Admiral (lower half)	One star
O-7	O-8	O-8	Rear Admiral (Upper half)	Two star
O-8	O-9	O-9	Vice Admiral	Three star
O-9	O-10	O-10	Admiral	Four star
O-10		O-11	Fleet Admiral	Five Star

https://www.military-ranks.org/navy/fleet-admiral

https://ww2-history.fandom.com/wiki/United_States_Navy_Rank_Insignia#Commissioned_Officers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_officer_rank_insignia#Commissioned_officer_ranks

 

Wheels

[wheelsup_cavu]

Navigator Badge.

In the FAQ Image it is for logging in every day for a month.

 

When I received the badge earlier this morning the text states it is for logging in for a year.

Seems the time for the badge to be issued was changed but the text for the award was missed.

 

Wheels

[Trooper117]

I've got it and they ain't having it back... it's 'rare' I tells ya, rare!    

[wheelsup_cavu]

Another minor question regarding Discussion Forum Badges @Jason_Williams. The final badge shown at the bottom of the FAQ image is for Intel Officer.

I see no way for that badge to ever be granted by community input. How does one even get a Best Answer granted let alone ten of them? 

 

Wheels

[wheelsup_cavu]

Never got an answer to my post above, which is secondary to the following question.

@Jason_Williams, @Boba Fett, @Snafu, @Mando,

@moderators - nope didn't work, so I just used all of your names.

 

Is there a way to change the Edited feature?

Edited just now by wheelsup_cavu

Instead of being instantaneous I would think that a 5 minute window after you post something should be sufficient to allow for fixing of minor mistakes to your post. 

 

Wheels

[wheelsup_cavu]

Morning Gents,

@Jason_Williams, @Boba Fett, @Mando

It may be time to consider updating the text on some of your badges. I received another one this morning where the text of the badge did not match the reason it was awarded. 😱 😱😱😱  😉

 

• Crew Chief 10th Content post - badge received Crew Chief - Conversation Starter (Started a discussion)  The Crew Chief badge vs text  just seems weird and even possibly wrong ???
• Battery Commander 50th Reaction Received - badge received Battery Commander - Reacting Well (No defining text)

 

• Armorer 1st Comment / Reply - badge received Armorer - First Post (Making your first post)
• Drill Sergeant 100th Comment / Reply - badge received  Drill Sergeant - Problem Solver (Making your 100th post)
• Naval Aviator 500th Comment / Reply - badge received  Naval Aviator (Making your 500th post)
• Fighter Ace 1000th Comment / Reply - ???
• Torpedo Ace 2000th Comment / Reply - ???
• Dive Bomb Ace 3000th Comment / Reply - ???

 

Not ones I will likely see but there is a possibility they could be awarded to some of the membership.

• Platoon Leader 10th Follower
• Flight Leader 25th Follower
• Squadron Leader 50th Follower
• Wing Commander 100th Follower
• Theater Commander 200th Follower

 

• Tailgunner One Month registered - badge received  Tail Gunner - Well Followed (30 days since joining)
• Radioman 6 months registered - badge received  Radioman - One Month Later (6 months since joining)
• Bombadier 1 year registered- ???
• Observer 1 week concurrent sign in - badge received  Observer - Dedicated (Visited daily for a week)
• Navigator 1 month concurrent sign in - badge received  Navigator - One Year In (Visited daily for a week)
• Intel Officer 10th Best Answer - At this time I see no possible way to be awarded this badge.

 

Wheels