Monty, thanks for the positive feedback. I thought after I posted my comments that the guy has created a fantastic campaign and all I've done is nitpick over troop deployments - bl**dy hell! Anyway, I daresay your briefings are more comprehensive than the real pilots got at the time, what with the need to limit information for security, keep up morale etc.
Yep, without the horizontal bar the artificial horizon acts a bit like a turn indicator. It's OK as long as I stay out of dense cloud, and I hope there are no P40 night missions up ahead!
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Yes and No - We players do get the added Historical contest notes and SITREPS, I always put these at the top before the Location Date etc. So we can follow the history and timeline effectively.
After that we step into the pilots shoes: Location/Date/Time/Weather
BRIEFING:
Includes; Objective, Arms, support flights, other traffic, potential threats, ground defences, anything else of interest/importance.
This kind of stuff is pretty standard from talking to pilots and veterans I know. The difference is that Military shorthand would often be used at that stage, but not always. I have been priviliged to read a number of WWII logbooks and briefing notes and many can also be found online. Styles vary but the USAAF, for example, were known to be really fastidious, each briefing usually included a mission title and reference number, the record keeping was thorough.
Combat Pilots always want to know about weather conditions, times, intel and support. I probably leave out more stuff even by the standards of the day, emergency freq's, divert airfields, callsigns etc, but it can get too crowded! So, hopefully artistic licence lets us strike a balance.
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