There is still no reason to skip Chucks lovely manual.
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For me I find the hardest part about flying the Mossie to be turning with grace. My first struggle point is maintaining altitude in the turn because the pilot seat is offset to the left of the roll axis. When I turn right my viewpoint goes up so I tend to lose altitude, and when I turn left my viewpoint goes down so I tend to gain altitude.
Second part is the rudder coordination. It’s so weird compared to all the other warbirds. I apply either too little or too much. It seems like it needs a bootfull of rudder to get things started then the slip settles into some goldilocks range that I can never find throughout the rest of the turn.
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I guess it’s too early in the morning for you when we fly the Mossie tonight?
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@clutch find some reference in front of your nose (a smudge on the windscreen or the gunsight). Use that as the reference on the horizon for the turns, not the top of the dash. It will be in exactly the same spot whether left or right.
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Yeah, having the turn coordinator underneath the glare shield hides it from the left seat pilot. It might be easier to see from a centered posit, but still no way to get a centered view in VR!
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I just move my head from the starting position up and left so my point of view is nearly out the top left of the canopy, then center my quest 3 and i am fairly bang on with the gunsight
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Centering the Gunsight.
I use Cockpit View Lt, Rt, Up and Dn.(Rt Shift + Rt Ctrl + Num Pad 4, 6, 8,2.) I assigned this to my DMS +Shft. I first center my view. I then get it about right and hit center a couple of times till I am satisfied. When I am ready to fly normal then I hit RtShift 5. Now Im back in the pilot seat.
Im not 100% what its called… Maybe Cockpit view Shift left, etc… I know the default key are Rt Shift + Rt Ctrl + Num Pad 4, 6, 8,2 and 5 to center.
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Using FFB I notice the Mossie gets wobbly when you stand her on a wing. If I go over 90deg, then its at the risk of crashing.
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Yeah, most of the times you guys fly it’s around 3~4am my time. One of these days I’ll pull an all-nighter for it 
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Excellent RAF documentary of Operation Jericho. Incredible film footage.
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It would be amazing if we could set different weather across the map
Can you time it? Like snow the first half hour, then medium overcast or broken after?
Nope, unfortunately not
Mosquitos bring me a lot of memories. Our famous author Václav Šorel was a scriptwriter of the cartoon series Operation Jericho based on this real event in the popular child Czechoslovak winter special magazine ABC in 1998.
Thanks for sharing your flight @Derbysieger today.
The whole series is available here
Daildeca - Databáze ilustrátorů dětských časopisů
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not sure if I just found a bug on the mossie … managed to get to just over 20000ft and realised that i had’nt turned on the Oxygen … but no hypoxia this may be a known thing …
also in a full power dive from 20000ft controls get sluggish and wings fall off 
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That’s actually weird. The one time I took the Mossie up above 10,000ft I started getting hypoxic and had to scramble to turn the O2 knob on.
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A great YT channel for Mossie lovers.
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Kermit Weeks chatting with Steve Hinton about how their respective Mossie’s fly. They have different conversations than most people do. They not like us.
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Simply by dumb luck I showed up when they were first putting that Mosquito back together. When I first saw it the neither of the engines had been mounted yet.
At the beginning of this video Kermit misidentifies the P-39 “Little Sir Echo/Small Fry” as a P-63.
Wheels
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The Mossie in Kermits video above is stunning. Amazing that there is still enough money and love out there to keep these machines flying.
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