Thanks for the positive response everyone.
In all fairness, Flea's checklist thread should be a sticky as well since it compliments pretty well what i've gathered here: his thread contains the real life checklists, mine tells you how to go about implementing them in the sim.
Since i now have a basic layout to work from i'll keep an eye out for often repeated questions and paste them in as time goes by. I know i said i might not have the time to edit things but truth be told, now that the initial bulk of things is up and posted it's easier to keep adding to it one piece at a time. I just hope the character limit is enough to keep expanding and revising this as time goes by
I'm not after personal gains from this (apart maybe from getting others up to speed so that we can all populate the servers and all have fun shooting each other down
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just do me two simple favors pretty please:
1) Keep the thread clean so people can benefit from it. Questions are welcome and i'll do my best to answer them, as are corrections and updates (eg, if a patch changes something by all means tell me about it here in this thread) and i'll try to incorporate them into the starting post.
Debates about whether it should be like it is, if it's optimal or not, if/when it will be fixed or whose fault it is in case it's broken are not. My aim is to help people by sticking to a very simple format of report and answer:
Person A: I have problem X
Person B: Try solution Z
If people deviate from this and it starts going downhill, i'm sorry but i'll have to report the offending posts to the moderators and ask them to prune them off the thread to maintain some readability.
Other than that, be my guest to fire away with questions, corrections and findings of your own
2)When you're flying online and people in the chat bar are coming up with such kind of questions, tell them to alt-tab out of the sim and check this thread out. It's better for you since you won't have to explain everything in chat by typing while flying and better for them so that they can get in the air faster.
Glad you guys like it, i hope it's useful to you, now go out and have some fun flying