I think I have isolated the culprit for not being able to fly the Ba65 as pilot. I had it installed in ModAct and all went well. I could fly as pilot and finish a whole mission.
But then when doing a bit of updating in ModAct I imported the Platinum Effects mod, latest version, the Ba65 was no longer flyable and the mission crashed upon loading. remove Plat Ef and all went well again. Ba65 is flyable. I tried disabling the Platinum Effects in DBW and when disabled, the Ba65 is flyable in DBW as well ...
So it seems to me that the Platinum Effects Mod has some kind of (obscure) conflict with the Ba65 and Ro37 and He46 as well ... I wouldn't know how that could be, but it is what I experienced in both ModAct and DBW 1.6.
Maybe this can help someone see what the conflict is in specific terms? I'd hate to give up Platinum Effects since it is the ultimate in effects mods ...
I tried the Bredas for another couple of hours. My results are:
- The confict with the P-61 is absolute.
- No definitive results about the platinum effect. I don't believe that the platinum effect is a problem by itself...the problem is that the bredas are an extraordinary 'heavy' installation!
I had to unistall loads of extra planes and when I am saying loads, I mean LOADs, basically everything non-stock (non 4.101, even all the extras that UP3.0 provides, that means e.g. all zeros!) from the soviet and japanese list and many from other countries too, that is more that 40 entries (at least, I cannot say exactly because i was keep changing the air.ini trying to find the conflict plane!). Everything from Ki-43-IIIs to IARs (these fantastic additions from Frankiek that nobody seems to care about!) to anything that had a G-R engine or a derivative of it was targeted as a possible conflict plane...nothing. The result was one and only: When I was keep reducing planes, there was one point that suddendly the bredas became trouble-free. I think here there is the relation with the platinum effects, and I 've seen that even without the small FX effects it was a bit better.