Actually, it's JoyToKey. I tested it out last summer and it stuck. Never used it before, but I guess I got old & lazy. It's nice for searching, but unlike people are suggesting on that thread, it's not good in dogfight. Even though it is quick, plane is still out of control when you use it. I use other means to know where my opponent is.

Discussed in length here: http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=321.0

About setting that up: setup your mouselook button in FH2 Aircraft controls to mouse button 0. Configure your joystick's POV hat in JoyToKey to handle mouse movement and add a 'click left mouse button' on each direction you have. And that's it. I also suggest adding the 'Cockpit' and 'Chase Rear' views in Aircraft controls to your POV hat.

Edit: I think we better end this off-topic about flying and get back to videos!

Hey again. This one is a much, much longer than the last one. It's an old recording from September 2010, with me flying the Me 109 in El Alamein. Lot's of death involved, viewer discretion is advised.

Total playtime is around 21 minutes, which has been compressed to little under 13 minutes. I think I should learn how to cut videos... I just like the continuation of the playing showing on video. I watch that and I keep pressing Caps Lock to check my score, then cursing that it doesn't work. After a second that light bulb flickers to life... 'Oh, right..' :p

Recorded on HSLAN, with some weekend players around

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egC-NWp8T_s

P.S. My self criticism is enormous and I still think that after 8hrs of editing everything it looks bad, has text on screen that offends someone, text in wrong place, too long, in-game chat that should be removed (how?!) etc etc... but what the hell, here's the fourth and final version!

I didn't notice anyone else using the No1 or 1928... Maybe I was the only one using SL kit :p

Good to know that it isn't client side problem!

I got loads of frapsed material, I'm now just starting to see if I can produce something out of them. I've been thinking of fixing up some tutorial videos of flying, tanking and inf. Advanced stuff, not like "hit X for sights."

Here's a shameless frag video, showing the thing that keeps me alive on battlefield: constant awareness of things happening around me. It ultimately will fail when facing people who have knowledge that I am still there, as seen in the end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsORdDcWWHg

by the way, will the wespe be 1 manned or 2 manned?

I really hope 1 manned. Remember how nice it was back in '42 when someone decided to take that Wespe you had in perfect shooting position to the planes/other tanks/other side of the map? I like to think average FH2 player is lot better than that, but we do get random griefers every now and then...

Had some good time in Rumble, I think I played... Lüttich and Falaise Pocket with a nice disconnect between them.

Morten was, once again, the main killing field of the round and we sure gave those Coke sipping Amerikaner a good bashing. Love the map, the infantry action with occasional fast tanking. One of the few maps where tanks need the infantry. I'm pretty sure I'm confusing some parts of the round to a previous round on HSLAN earlier today, but let's not worry too much of that. Was great fun, thanks to all who joined.

Falaise Pocket, another of my favorites. After reconnecting I found myself among the people who speak English but have no idea of tea time. Barbaric, I know. PIAT was the only way to go, with the oh so wonderful Browning HP. When I spawned the round was well on it's way and the fighting pretty much went between Church and St. Lamber South. Occasionally we captured the Battery and kept the pressure off Lambert. Again, very much fun.

After another disconnect, I gave up. I can go on for hours but the disconnects just end the fun and joining up again with a trip to desktop is... I'm just too lazy

I was on an earlier FH Game Night, maybe a week or 2 ago. I didn't know of these before, but will be joining up every time I can!

A few things from BF'42 vet.. 

All I can say is that when you find a pilot superior to your skills, fly against him until you learn how to down him. All pilots have a weakness. Sometimes even the best miss the sight of enemy, don't bother with their rear (some Stuka there, bwahah..) or are just too concentrated on the task at hand.

I can't say anything for the JoyToKey software, I have never needed it since I started flying on BF '42. I have a.. how would i describe it.. a sixth sense and years of experience about what the pilot in my sights or on my six is going to do. Also, the view behind you is the most useful and will often tell what enemy is pulling out of his sleeve next. I rarely go down (unless on field rearming or repairing.. or that stupid tree/pole there) and it's pretty much because of this awareness I keep on enemy. There are hints of what's going on all the time. I keep track of the map, the kills (who killed what with what) and I link these all the time. Of course I drop most of this when target emerges.

The map tells you SO much even if nobody spots for enemy planes or other targets properly. Someone dies to a 109 strafe and disappears from the map.. I see you. Someone (in current FH2) spots a Spit without binocs, making himself blink yellow on the map (this could be a bug, but I rarely see the actual target  ).. I see you. There's a huge load of kills for Hurricane and only one flag where fighting is going on.. I see you. The information is there.

When someone gets on your tail without you noticing it, you still have a chance. More than often (happens to all) the guy on your tail shoots just a bit too soon and you can see tracers go by. Time for a half barrel roll with a dive against enemy. Or fake split-S followed by real split-S. A thousand choices and almost all of them can and will save you. Just don't pull straight up or keep going around :p A good pilot will shoot you if you go straight up or take some distance and boom 'n zoom you while you turn and burn.. You will soon learn to keep correct height for these manoeuvres.

Only thing that really makes me sad is that DICE left out the gravity on BF2.. BF'42 is just SO much more fun when going against good pilot and that's why flying is fun. In FH2 I sometimes get dissed by other players when I don't use 109 to strafe something for kills, but entertain the 2-3 enemy planes with it. Bleh..

Anyway, keep your head cool, lead your targets more when you think it's enough and check your six every chance you get. Also, offline training is excellent for manoeuvres and all pilots love Il-2 Sturmovik: 1946