Moments of Permanence - In which there are miscellaneous topics.

From: elspethdixon Date: March 30th, 2011 06:50 pm (UTC) (Link)

flaps, ailerons, and rudder just for steering, as well as needing weapon controls, throttle controls,

Do you use one hand for the aileron and one for the rudder? I'm trying to think of ways to do flight controls that don't involve using your feet, and all of them just seem difficult and complicated. But totally worth it for a WWII dogfighting simulation. Does it let you do other aircraft as well, or just Spitfires? (I'm restraining Battle of Britain fangeekery here)

The US has residency requirements for running for the senate and congress, but they're much shorter than eighteen years - you have to live in the state or congressional district you represent for, IDK, at least a year, I think, but not very much longer than that. So for an American, being elected to public office someplace after only living there a handful of years isn't unusual.

It's not unheard of for politicians who want to become players in national politics to deliberately move to a state/district just so they can run for office there. Hillary Clinton did that with New York (moved there just so she could run for senator in a state her political party was influential in and where she had a solid chance of being elected) before she became Secretary of State.

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From: sami Date: March 31st, 2011 01:16 am (UTC) (Link)

Oh, moving within the country is fine - although I'm not sure that someone from the Eastern States could make it to the top of the WA hierarchy that fast - but I'm just twitchy about people from other countries. (Possibly more so America than others, but that's just because oh god do we not want American-style politics to take over our nice, comparitively civil public discourse.)

Meanwhile, re: Wings of Prey: By default you control aileron steering with the arrow keys and the rudder with Z and X. It takes getting used to but I'm starting to find it works.

As for planes - ahahaha, no, it's not just Spitfires. IIRC the tutorial has you fly Spitfires, Hurricanes, and a Blenheim bomber. The first campaign mission group is Spits and Hurricanes over Dover, I'm now flying in Russian planes over Stalingrad. The total list of aeroplanes available in "training" mode is really very extensive, with a selection of British, Russian and German planes - and possibly others, but I didn't recognise all of them.

Heh, the review I was reading has me going "... you idiot" at the reviewer. One of his complaints is about "being forced to start missions in the air" - apparently he's not noticed that that's an option at the mission entry screen. I've been starting every mission by taking off. GG reading comprehension.

Anyway, yes. Not just Spitfires.

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