Startup on all the wardbirds is shorter than an INS alignment! We can though.
Discord or In-Game perhaps, noticing the SRS doesn’t support all the D-9. Mustang and Spitfire are OK though. Don’t have the 109.
Edit: A-8 works.
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Yes, but that requires use to remember HOW to start the old warbirds.
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^^^^^^
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Confession: on HPN I just mashed Win+Home, sat there looking at a dead cockpit, wondering where my German dictionary was, and when it didn’t work got @Wes to tell me what to click. 
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magneto’s, pumps and fuel tanks and finally starter, easy peasy… (if only it were that easy)
Damn all of you btw, I’m finally reinstalling DCS 
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This is a fair point, but they are all very easy to learn any within half an hour. @Franze will be working in a mix of hot and cold starts.
If you have no experience here’s a quick-n-dirty guide for the Dora (@Mudcat yea it’s almost that simple! 
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- Fuel shutoff - full on / both (all the way up)
- Circuit breakers - turn em all on except for the nav lights, and aux tank pumps and MW50 unless you want to use it.
- Magento switch to M1+M2 (full forward)
- Verify gear switch down button depressed (green)
- Flaps button middle (yellow) depressed
- Throttle to start/idle position from cutoff
- Oxygen valve open
- Foot on the brakes
- Starter cover open
- Depress starter, spool for 20 sec
- Advance throttle a hair (starter still down)
- Pull starter handle up to dump the clutch.
- Maintain a smooth idle above the idle stop of the throttle to warm up the engine.
Steps 9-12 are bit odd because of the German’s flywheel starting system on the FW190.
Allied planes are a bit simpler, but the number of steps would be near equal as it’s starter (+ booster coil for spit) and push mixture lever to run.
I have had some prior experience in the Spit, Stang and 190 A-8 (in order of most familiar → least) but not really memorized. This weekend I learned to get those all going plus the Dora. Learning to taxi & takeoff safely will take far longer. Chuck’s guides are much better to reference as well for the warbirds.
@fearlessfrog is right - seems multiple warbirds lack the LWin + Home auto-start functionality.
Got him flying and strafing trucks like a regular Luftwaffe pilot in no time!
If you spawn in hot - make sure to re-idle your physical throttle immediately and gently push the brakes else wise you may be careening across the field and nose-over.
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the hardest part of the d-9 is finding where the fuse panel is and that you need to open it, well at least the first time you get in it. I’m sure @Chuck_Owl 's excellent guides will be of service to the most forgetful of us.
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Try the A-8 - two fuse panels with covers, and one fuse sets off explosives to destroy one of the radios!
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I knew there was a good reason that I didn’t relent and buy it
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I dunno, to me the A-8 is the Fw 190.
D-9 is like a copy paste error in Photoshop where the “constrain proportions” option was left off.
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Roflmao!
To me that would be the Ta-152.
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Spent a couple of hours on Hollo Point North refreshing myself on the P-51 and it’s bindings. Went pretty good and destroyed some trees instead of the trucks next to them
EDIT: Ok, It was an hour and a half and I did hit them just not enough to destroy anything. I guess it’s on to the F-86 on Wednesday for a refresher and then maybe the F-5E or the MiG-21? Who knows!
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Toothpick theory- trees to toothpicks works every time!
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If at first you don’t succeed, try being an arborist??!?
Actually no F-5E at the moment - I have an update from @Franze to upload later tonight that will sort that out and bring in the I-16 for our Russian aviation enthusiasts!
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As an aside to this, let me know if I missed out on an airframe that needs to be added to No Effort or if more slots are needed for a type. I tried to put more slots in for popular airframes and fewer for the less common types, but this is all flexible.
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Maybe a pair of MiG-21s? I don’t remember seeing them in there.
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Noted! There may have been a nuclear arms treaty involved in that. I don’t recall!
F5 / I16 update is running.
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what this is up and running now? damn, I must have missed that message
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I believe that Holle Point North is running a training mission. Not the event itself. If I am reading your question correctly.
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Good thing about owning only these older planes is that I don’t need now to practice 
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