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So you thought you were going to be a “knight of the air,” jousting high in the clean blue sky, far above the mud and squalor of the war on the ground. Instead you find yourself in a fighter-bomber, scraping over hostile territory at 200 feet with the terrain rising to meet you. You’re flying down the muzzles of antiaircraft guns to attack the enemy. If cannon fire doesn’t get you, the blast and debris from your own low-level bombing and strafing can bring you down.
MISSIONS.......... THE MISSION OF THE TACTICAL AIR FORCE CONSISTS OF THREE PHASES OF OPERATIONS IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER OF PRIORITY: FIRST PRIORITY....TO GAIN THE NECESSARY DEGREE OF AIR SUPERIORITY. THIS WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY ATTACKS AGAINST AIRCRAFT IN THE AIR AND ON THE GROUND, AND AGAINST THOSE ENEMY INSTALLATIONS THAT HE REQUIRES FOR THE APPLICATION OF AIR POWER. SECOND PRIORITY... TO PREVENT THE MOVEMENT OF HOS- TILE TROOPS AND SUPPLIES INTO THE THEATER OF OPERATIONS OR WITHIN THE THEATER.
Previous versions of Microsoft® Combat Flight Simulator focused mainly on the deadly aerial ballet of dogfighting. This time around, it’s you versus the entire ground army: their guns, hardware, and planes. The tactical air war is messy, personal, and very dangerous. To fight this war, you can choose from 18 aircraft (with variants, you get a total of 34 planes).
Getting into the war is easy--follow the steps below to ready your gear and flying skills for battle. 1. Install Combat Flight Simulator 3. 2. Start Combat Flight Simulator 3. 3. Calibrate your joystick. 4. Select or adjust hardware and software settings. 5. Learn how to fly and fight with the handbooks, movies, and missions provided with CFS3. Air Force Historical Research Agency Photo These steps are discussed on the pages that follow. Read on. PILOT BRIEFING IN FRANCE, 1944.
Compact or full installation? Before you can gun down planes and save your troops from the enemy’s advance, you need to get squared away with the latest tools, namely, Combat Flight Simulator 3. How big is your pack? Do you want to carry around your entire kit or go light and have just the essentials? You can choose from these installation options: If your computer has automatic install Compact Install: Installs the minimum number of files needed, but yields slower performance. 1.
Double-click the Combat Flight Simulator 3 icon on the desktop and you’re good to go. Or, click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Games, point to Combat Flight Simulator 3, and then click Combat Flight Simulator 3. CALIBRATING YOUR JOYSTICK You can fly with either a joystick or your keyboard, and you can adjust their settings. If you try flying with a joystick that isn’t calibrated, you may find yourself chewing grass at 200 m.p.h. instead of bearing down on a train like you wanted.
LEARNING TO FLY AND FIGHT Sure, you can just jump into a plane and take off after the enemy--but you’re probably not going to return home. Before you set out, read the handbook, watch the movies, and fly the training missions. Follow this program and you might make it back alive. Adjust your Display Options and Sound Options from the Options tab (on the upper-right corner of the Main screen) to best match the hardware in your computer.
Now that you’ve learned how to fly and fight, it’s time to experience the war through four different game modes: Quick Combat, Missions, Campaign, and Multiplayer. QUICK COMBAT Can’t wait to obliterate the enemy? The Quick Combat game mode puts you right where you want to be immediately, whether it’s intercepting a bomber or strafing ground targets.
Escort teams you with bombers on their way to a target so you can protect them from enemy fighters and flak by any means you know. Ground Attack is where your attention is going to be most of the time. You must be able to destroy tanks, trucks, guns, ships, and anything else before they’re brought to bear on your troops. When it comes to bombing, you have to use your own reckoning--experience is the best teacher. What you learn here will be especially useful when you fly missions in the Campaign mode.
Assigning pilot attributes You can choose where the battle takes place. Change the location based on where you would prefer to fight and practice. In CFS3, you can adjust your vision, g-tolerance, and health. Pilot As a pilot in CFS3, you’re more than some name sewn onto a fancy flight jacket. You have attributes associated with human qualities, such as vision and how many Gs you can pull.
Viewing your dossier The government loves paperwork and tracks how many medals you’ve won, your ratio of kills to the number of times you’ve died, the number of enemies you’ve killed, and so on. To see this information, click your name on the Pilot tab, and then click the Stats tab. The bombing, gunnery, and rocketry ratings reflect how accurate you are with your country’s ordnance.
CAMPAIGN The Campaign game mode, selected from the Campaign tab on the Main screen, allows you to fly consecutive missions and earn medals and promotions if you perform well. The options associated with flying a campaign are documented in online Help. Historical missions are scenarios that occurred in history and are based on accounts of actual pilots and official records. What If missions are missions that might have been if events had played out differently in the war.
Push the enemy back far enough and you might earn a medal. Here’s the lowdown on the awards and how you can earn them from the three air powers--U.S. Army Air Force (USAFF), British Air Force (RAF), and German Air Force (GAF): MULTIPLAYER You and your buddies can fight the war over the Internet or a local area network (LAN). Consult online Help for more information about how to set up a multiplayer game. Award 1--First air kill or fourth ground kill.
When you’re flying, you must use your plane’s instruments and watch for enemy aircraft. Instruments are vital to completing any mission. Your onboard instruments display crucial information like altitude and air speed. As you become more experienced with dropping bombs and strafing, you’ll learn which altitudes and speeds are best for each type of attack. For information about an instrument, move your mouse cursor over the instrument to view rollover Help.
Read. Watch. Do. You can learn how to fight effectively in this theater through three resources: handbooks, training movies, and training missions. The handbooks provide you with all of the information you need to know. The training movies show you a few key maneuvers you need to learn. The training missions let you practice these skills. Access the handbooks through the Options tab, the movies through online Help, and the training missions through the Missions tab. Know your aircraft.
Combat Flight Simulator 3 has three main information sources to help you fight better: handbooks, online Help, and the Combat Flight Simulator Web site. HANDBOOKS The Combat Flight Simulator 3 compact disc includes three in-depth handbooks in PDF format: Machines of War, Understanding the Tactical Air War, and Flight School. These handbooks cover the planes and weapons, the war, and flight instruction. To look at any of these handbooks, click the Options tab, and then click Handbooks.
Flight School handbook This handbook illustrates the basics of flying as well as air combat maneuvers, and it has instructions for accessing the training material in CFS3. The handbook begins with the basics of flying aircraft. You may want to read through this section, even if you’re familiar with flying in general, because flying aircraft in this theater and situation requires you to remember details like the importance of using trim when flying at low altitudes.
Go to the CFS3 Insider Web site for all kinds of information about the game including: - The latest news and information about Combat Flight Simulator 3 - Campaign information and historical details - Air combat techniques that will help you fly and fight better - News, hints, tips, and tricks to enhance your success in single- and multiplayer arenas - Information and materials on the history of the game, including interviews with pilots who fought this campaign and lived to tell the tale - Additional infor
