I got visual mod v9, and the new Key in Controls to Leave plane is a great improvement !I use SAS v5.3 (412.2). All is OK. This is some feed back on "Pilot Leave and joins"; done here not to clutter Visual Mod.Here is the plan ( ! ) : I'm in a Tempest on the ground near Dover, fully armed; but I leave intent to return to it, at the very last.
Part I ( ! ):
I disable Tempest engine off, magneto off ( for good measure ), autopilot off, chucks in; it's on a taxi prog. to wait for 1800minutes !
I leave. Walk to RAF jeep and get in ( Jeep is on 1800 minutes taxi wait too... )
AUTO PILOT is on. Disarm autopilot. A Jeep pursuit follows of a landing Hudson MkIII !
I follow the Hudson till it parks and stop nearby.
Cannot leave jeep,
it's airborne, but I hear take-off music, not inflight !
I can put on the chucks ! + I stop the engine.
Since Leave don't work, I use
Control into a Friendly plane.
In Hudson, I
must disable auto pilot.
Engine is turned on by the joining. ( I have tested returning to Tempest waiting to taxi,
using Control into, not walk into, and found it is
very critical to hurry turning auto pilot off and power back to zero , ! ).
All I can say is try it with a large fuel tank straight ahead ( LOL).Part II ( ! ):
I attack an airfield across the channel with one 88mm and one 37mm to knock out.
At one end of the airfield is a Kupel wagon on taxi wait 1800m. At the other end, a Fi-156 unarmed taxi wait 1800m.
The plan is to land, steal the Fieseler, or steal Kupel to drive to the Fieseler. Ha !
( never did try that last one ). DoneIf the Hudson is damaged, crash landed, I leave, but
If the computer decides to wreck the Hudson ( crash music ), it is
game over: I cant join fieseler, much like when I bailed out; POW.
Part III ( ! ):
I fly Fieseler deeper into France ( somewhat nearby still ), and land on a road to a parked Lysander MkIII.
The trick here is not to nose down as friction takes a toll.
I nosed both planes the first time !Then I take of with the armed Lysander and destroy the Fieseler ! Return to England is planned.
This is when I got greedy ! I attacked some AA vehicles while I was returning to England. Got shot down !Part IV ( ! ):
Fly the tempest.
I never got there. Then again, there will be the
autopilot in hi-rev to deal with.
I will try walk into instead.
For those of you who wonder how to select skins: of course select them in FMB.
But you must also select and use the same skin in QBM so it is recorded/set there also.
This is the same problem as choosing your skin in FMB then having to choose it again in briefing/arming.
Since there is no briefing/arming when you join, the choice must already have been made in QBM beforehand !
If you do not select in FMB, the waiting 'plane' will be in default skin until you get in it.
Fun, fun, fun none the less !
( ..a bit of a going in and out orgy . OMG what I'm I saying ? ).