Falcon BMS Saturday

[Daunt]

Hosting some BMS Flight Ops! With my fiance out of town on Saturday, I think it's the perfect day to host some BMS flight ops. I know we had some interested pilots out there, so we can finally get those that want to set up with the sim and see how it all goes.

So Saturday afternoon for US timezones, and Saturday evening for Euro. Probably 2pm eastern though I may jump on earlier.

As a first day, we'll just try and get everyone set up and get the rust off with simple dogfighting fun / missions. If you're new feel free to join, you can get Falcon 4.0 for free, and BMS (Bench Mark Sims) is a free modification to the game. www.benchmarksims.org

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
For those who want to go ahead and get their game up and running ahead of time.
If possible, please try to have your game setup before Saturday. We will be using BMS 4.32 Update 7. Note: There are more detailed instructions on their forums. (Which I linked above)

If you're not familiar, or it has been a while, you'll need updates 1-6, which can be installed all-together via an installer here: http://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?15666-Falcon-BMS-4-32-Full-Installer-(Base-plus-U1-U6) If you have bits and pieces installed, like only up to update 4, you can install the rest seperately. After you install 1-6, you will need to download update 7. Instructions can be found for that on the relevant thread here: http://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?16681-Falcon-BMS-4-32-Update-7

After that you should be good. There are also youtube videos for this sort of thing and I will help anyone else on Saturday.

If you're looking to see what Falcon BMS is like, here's a really great sample video of a wing running a mission in a Red Flag to get you inspired / excited about, in my opinion, the best military flight sim available.
[video=youtube;gsC-hOip1bg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsC-hOip1bg[/video]

And if you get the sim running, you may need some brushing up on skills, or learning how to do this or that... Krause's youtube BMS Tutorials are the best. He rambles sometimes but they're very insightful:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3E09AA94FF0EACEC

Please drop some comments below so I know what to expect, if anyone is interested and can make it, questions, etc. Thank you!

 

[ElektroVodka]

I'll try to be around, i have it set up and running with basic controls.

Tried some flying but couldn't even taxi to the runway without ramming the occasional FOD so be prepared for the worst ;-)

 

[HaJa]

Sorry,
Away at work so I cannot join :-(

 

[ElektroVodka]

I just need a nap and something to eat and i'll be streaming if nothing comes in between.....

 

[ElektroVodka]

Just had some fun flying around with Daunt....and almost hit him mid air

I do need some practice with the onboard systems, flying isn't the problem but the managing of the radar and weapon systems is.

I also need to set up some more buttons on my joystick and remember them to make things easier in flight.

My original idea was to do everything with the buttons in the 3d pit but without trackir or something similar it ain't easy.

 

[Daunt]

Very fun indeed. Just trying to shake that rust off, it is very obviously there. I was lucky enough to remember how to use the HARM 88s.

Once we get better it will be real fun to go through a campaign together.

Next time though, we'll run through a lot of the training missions so we can easily learn / remember the weapon delivery systems and iron out a few of the bugs we had present, like radar slewing haha. Just glad we got things working though after that strange connection issue.

In the mean time, practice!