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[badderger]

While building static campaigns in FMB the Mission Manager constantly changes player aircraft to plane other than intended aircraft.EXAMPLE: Suppose I want to run a campaign featuring the ME-262 as the player aircraft. The MM(...Mission Manager...) will constantly change the player aircraft to , say, a JU-88 bomber or a Bf-109G-6 for example. If I design a 20 mission campaign, I might get the Me-262 only 5 0f 20 missions.
   Fixes I've tried---change rank--I've tried the starting rank at the highest rank to the lowest rank and every rank in between--same results...or, change StartTime. The MM will still put player in an airbase spawned or in-flight spawned aircraft that is not set to spawn for several minutes even(...or, even 1 minute...). The aircraft will flounder unstarted at 500 m for example and crash to earth while I try to start the bird before it hits the ground.
   Only solution I have found to date>>>say if I want to run a campaign featuring the Yak fighter. The only way I can keep the player in a Yak every mission is to spawn ONLY Yaks on the red side and NOTHING BUT Yaks.

QUESTION: Does anyone know a way to run multiple types of aircrafts in a static campaign without the Mission Manager changing player aircrafts...thanks in advance

[SAS~Poltava]

This is an old problem with IL-2. You assign a certain aircraft & flight as being the players, but when you try the mission in a campaign you suddenly start in another one. VERY annoying. 

In my experience the best way around this is to make sure that ONLY the flight you want to fly as player is given a historical unit designation. ALL the other ones should be given a generic unit designation (the ones that end "... <none>"). So for instance if you are doing a Yak campaign make sure that ONLY the Yak unit you want to fly have a historical unit designation (say "1st Guards IAP VVS"). All the other red units MUST be given the unit designation "Red Army - <none>".

Try that! 

[vpmedia]

Your player must be in 1/1 flight and have the highest rank iirc.

[SAS~Poltava]

Yes, but only if you have that combination (flight 1/1 plus highest rank) will it work fully.

[badderger]

Thank you gentlemen for this advice. Poltava your experience and awesome static campaigns has paid off again.  And thanks vp_media. This changes everything. Look for my "LOB_Yak_Fighter_1941" to be released at an M4T near you...soon!

[SAS~Poltava]

Just glad to help!