Another great event organised by 4ya ww2 team . I survived the whole thing , except the last 60 seconds lol. Great fights all . Pretty raw vr capture here , I also had some beer so there’s that too lol.
Mission Briefing Video test 02
so , spent a bit more time today having a tweak at the mission briefing videos and seeing what works. Adding mission specific flight plans here for a large multiplayer multi mission server isnt feasible so I’ve decided to keep the maps generic but add real images of the targets as the narrator mentions them to add some depth to the missions realism. Feel free to add comments here on on youtube of any feedback god or bad , the laptop im working on was smoking a bit due to the amount of effects at play here ( albeit subtle effects , making things look old does take a bit of effort 😉 cheers. Walsh.

Mission briefing Demo video 1
when virtual flying motivation is low ( as it is now ) I like to mess about with ideas I’ve had on the back burner for a while. This one is in the theme of a call of duty / medal of honor style briefing room in a Quonset hut – the briefing audio is by a text to speech app so it is a bit janky but very promising in my opinion – not sure if there is a demand from the community for nything like this but it was fun to do either way . cheers.
Letters from the front – 18.07.44 Convoy Escort NW Lehavre
Love this anti bomber / Shipping Convoy protection mission over on 4ya ww2 DCS multiplayer server , Slapbladder took the lead and we had a good charge at it … we returned after this mishap to finish them off , we both ended up in the drink that time too but only one bomber got through and the convoy proceeded to safety intact. Great stuff .

Combatflite – initial thoughts
Hi all , I recently trialled the dcs related software “combat flite ” , a flight planning tool ( and more ) for dcs .
Initial tests seem very promising indeed , running on an old laptop with discreet graphics only and it runs pretty well , even with mission of up to 800 units. Some of the more powerful features such as line of sight calculation from proposed radar sights take a moment or two but give very useful results . The export to kneeboard function is quite good although it takes some fettling , I have not tried its export to dcs features yet but it does appear to facilitate mission edits and export to.miz format amongst a range of other filetypes.
So short term initial tests look good , hopefully some more testing will lead to me figuring out some more useful features and some fuel calculations are coming in an upcoming updates , this will be very useful for those longer warbird raids.
Cheers all , feel free to check it out here https://www.combatflite.com/ , this post is not sponsored and I’m sharing my honest initial experience of this software , so far , so good 🙂
I havent bought it yet but may do so shortly , cheers.

Teamwork makes the dream work …
fantastic ww2 training video on offensive fighter tactics . Check it out here and be sure to subscribe to Zenos warbirds , some great content on this channel. S!
Letter from the front 2

I am hoping to do more bits like this of community input in the fashion of a diary entry as the pilots would have did during the war.
If you would like to submit an entry for conversion to this format please post over on 4ya ww2 discord page. Cheers , Walsh.
Letters from the front

Great comments well made by Eagle over on 4ya ww2 discord 👌
Video Effects practice
– here ive added vignette , film grain , desaturate and a few other things using video pro x13 to try and achieve a bit more of a period feel , still a bit too contrastey ( not a word i know 😉 but promising.
