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SOH A2A P-51D Group Flight?

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Kiwikat

Motorcycling Kat
Since the A2A P-51D is getting so much attention on here, both from users and painters, I thought it would be cool to schedule a group flight where everyone could use available repaints. It would be especially cool to get some of the A2A guys on board.

Ideally someone could come up with a historical flight plan for us to do. It would be great seeing a whole squadron of P-51's flying together on multiplayer.

Please post if you are interested. If we get enough people we will work on a schedule and flight plan.
 
count me in on this.

oh is there an possibility to have ever on in different paints ie if there are enough different ones that people like.
 
I am in. This sounds like so much fun. Maybe someone could fly a bomber and we could escort them?
 
I can give you somewhere to fly from... I'm just trying to make the ruddy AI work at Bodney. It'll take off fine, but then just announces "Going around", "Going around", "Going around"... :sleep:

Darned if I can work it out, right now, but the place will work fine for a fly-out or fly-in in multiplayer.
 
Kiwikat said:
Since the A2A P-51D is getting so much attention on here, both from users and painters, I thought it would be cool to schedule a group flight where everyone could use available repaints. It would be especially cool to get some of the A2A guys on board.

Ideally someone could come up with a historical flight plan for us to do. It would be great seeing a whole squadron of P-51's flying together on multiplayer.

Please post if you are interested. If we get enough people we will work on a schedule and flight plan.
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Back a few years ago when the original WOP P-51 came out a group of us put together the very informally named "WOP Warbirds Touring Group". A couple of us took the time each week to organize the flight plan for that week. We also developed a silly but workable system to make sure that anyone who wanted to join in, knew what paint schemes folks were going to fly in that week.

Most weeks we were averaging a half dozen or so aircraft but then a couple of times things just clicked and we had a few pretty nice sized squadrons flying for the day. On one of the Caribbean legs we had somewhere around 20 aircraft at one point in the flight but dropped down to abot 12 - 14 for a good portion of that day.

One of my favorite aspects of the group was that one of our main flyers brother owned the real P-51D "Double Trouble Two" and brought alot of valuable and interesting info on operating the P-51 into the flights from his personal experiences in that aircraft. BTW He's a current SOH member, but hangs out over in the other "dark side". :)

A couple of the guys did manage to organize very well thought out "real" WOP B-17 bomber missions with escorts. The only problem I ever saw with that is that almost everyone wanted to fly the escorts and the few that did take on the bomber rolls wouldn't last the length of the mission. I don't know how many times I ended up being the only B-17 to last the duration.

All of those original WOP Touring Group threads are still over in the various WOP forums. I had a lot of fun with those guys.

Here's a few from back then:
 
Depends on the schedule, I guess... if it works out, count me in.
 
Count me in, I need to download some paint jobs now.

Perhaps we could fly on Gamespy in the Fly-in room. This way it could be an all day event and different groups could take off at different times. We would just need to know which airport to start from. I would be interested in doing a couple shorter hops throughout the day, but not any 2-4 hr. hops.

I have time Sun-Tuesday and I am West Coast USA.
 
MudMarine said:
Me109, Fw190 or P51B/C count me in!:icon_lol:
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The 109 would be more than welcome to join as long as it is a stock paint and is the WOP II FSX version. After all, we gotta have someone to chase after. :ernae:

P.S. I've got a banner up in my sig to support the event. Feel free to wear it until we fly.
 
Cactuskid said:
Sounds like fun! I'd be willing to fly a B-17 or a Lancaster and let my "little friends" escort me... :wavey:
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I'm not really sure if we're going to allow other aircraft or not. It's kind of a toss up. Yes it would be great to have a bomber or some enemy aircraft in the lead, but if other people don't have it, gamespy could replace it with something stupid like a 737. I don't know about you but I'd rather not follow a default 737 on a WWII flight. For the sake of ease and compatibility, we may be sticking with just the WOPII P-51D.
 
Kiwikat said:
I'm not really sure if we're going to allow other aircraft or not. It's kind of a toss up. Yes it would be great to have a bomber or some enemy aircraft in the lead, but if other people don't have it, gamespy could replace it with something stupid like a 737. I don't know about you but I'd rather not follow a default 737 on a WWII flight. For the sake of ease and compatibility, we may be sticking with just the WOPII P-51D.
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Sounds like the most sensible route.

And, if you want to fly a custom repaint, then perhaps provide links/file names in a dedictated thread, just so we're all not showing up as Snooks!
 
Sounds like fun :d
Looks like ages I've been on here ..
Anyways, count me in for that :ernae:

Regards, Philippe
 
I can do a few more blue nosed repaints if needed (or any other squadron)
All from the same squadron would be cool, especially if you're recreating the WWII feel..
There should already be a lot of blue and red noses, or you could try some of the Iwo Jima paints, I've painted a lot of the 506th aircraft.
 
Kiwikat said:
I'm not really sure if we're going to allow other aircraft or not. It's kind of a toss up. Yes it would be great to have a bomber or some enemy aircraft in the lead, but if other people don't have it, gamespy could replace it with something stupid like a 737. I don't know about you but I'd rather not follow a default 737 on a WWII flight. For the sake of ease and compatibility, we may be sticking with just the WOPII P-51D.
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Why don't we find out what people have that plan on showing up? Also I would like to remind people to go on in advance and get their Voice Communication working.

I have the WOPII that came with the P40 and all the standard goodies. I downloaded about 6 paints last night.

Also, if you put this line in your FSX.CFG file ****by replaceing the original "DefaultLobby=FreeFlight"**** You will be able to log in a whole lot easier.

DefaultLobby="Adventures"
 
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