02.06.2009, 03:10
First let me say thanks for this plane. It's been needed for a long time.
So on to my "oddity".
I was testing in the QMB seeing how it behaved, (quite well thank you). I was going after an FW200 w/ the 1800 pair. I was within 10 meters, pouring in the lead when apparently I hit the bomb(s). Now one would expect a huge explosion, which I most certainly got, and the possibility that it would take me and the plane with it. What did happen was that suddenly my screen froze. So I'm thinking "hmmm, bug?". I went to an external view and lo and behold I could fly just fine. The Condor was going down in flaming bits and I could fly the plane just fine. But everytime I went back in the cockpit, the current view, based on the planes last position, was frozen. Oh I could open and close the rads, flaps, raise and lower the gear and hook, even open the canopy (nice touch by the way), change throttle and pitch percent, but the plane refused to respond to any control input and the water outside wasn't moving by ( I was at 1000 meters so it should have). I tried again but never got the bomb load to explode and had no further re-occurrence.
However...in another test, landing and taking off the Illustrious, after a successful landing I taxied up to the catapult, got settled in, released the chocks and, due to my forgetting to trim up the elevator, I nosed over, rotated 180 degrees and sat there, nose down, arse out to sea, at the very front of the carrier. Pretty funny actually. Again though the screen froze in cockpit but not outside the cockpit.
These are the only times so far that this has happened so I'll not say that it's a bug as I haven't been able to replicate either situation. And being as these are isolated examples, not likely to occur often, I can live with it.
Has anyone else experienced anything similar?
So on to my "oddity".
I was testing in the QMB seeing how it behaved, (quite well thank you). I was going after an FW200 w/ the 1800 pair. I was within 10 meters, pouring in the lead when apparently I hit the bomb(s). Now one would expect a huge explosion, which I most certainly got, and the possibility that it would take me and the plane with it. What did happen was that suddenly my screen froze. So I'm thinking "hmmm, bug?". I went to an external view and lo and behold I could fly just fine. The Condor was going down in flaming bits and I could fly the plane just fine. But everytime I went back in the cockpit, the current view, based on the planes last position, was frozen. Oh I could open and close the rads, flaps, raise and lower the gear and hook, even open the canopy (nice touch by the way), change throttle and pitch percent, but the plane refused to respond to any control input and the water outside wasn't moving by ( I was at 1000 meters so it should have). I tried again but never got the bomb load to explode and had no further re-occurrence.
However...in another test, landing and taking off the Illustrious, after a successful landing I taxied up to the catapult, got settled in, released the chocks and, due to my forgetting to trim up the elevator, I nosed over, rotated 180 degrees and sat there, nose down, arse out to sea, at the very front of the carrier. Pretty funny actually. Again though the screen froze in cockpit but not outside the cockpit.
These are the only times so far that this has happened so I'll not say that it's a bug as I haven't been able to replicate either situation. And being as these are isolated examples, not likely to occur often, I can live with it.
Has anyone else experienced anything similar?