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If you're starting out and don't want to jump right in the deep end then I'd go for flaming cliffs 3,you'll get f15, a10a, mig29, su27 su24s and su33 so a good mix of different aircraft types some easy to fly others not so much. The a-10a will give you a good intro with simplified avionics that may whet your appetite for the complexity of the a-10c.
Once you have it watch a few tutorials on YouTube, open up the editor throw a few targets around and blow some shit up.
Download the key maps and have them close by (phone or tablet).
And have fun

Already in the pipeline 
 

One quick point on the availability of staff to questions. Take into account who you're asking what eg don't ask the site owner what weapon sight would be best on a mg for eu2 or the classic "tker on eu1" then no more info. There are plenty of people around who can help everyone else so make use of that resource rather than taking it straight to the top, who while they are at the top, may not be the best placed for the particular inquiry or question.

Lobby idling takes up slots on our servers resulting in players being unable to join. Your excuse of having to use the bathroom, taking a call or making a sandwich isn't really valid if you get auto kicked and reconnect seconds later.
I will reduce the ban on the understanding that if you are caught idling again the ban will be for a longer period of time. Maybe do all those things before hopping on the server.

One quick point on the availability of staff to questions. Take into account who you're asking what eg don't ask the site owner what weapon sight would be best on a mg for eu2 or the classic "tker on eu1" then no more info. There are plenty of people around who can help everyone else so make use of that resource rather than taking it straight to the top, who while they are at the top, may not be the best placed for the particular inquiry or question.

If you're starting out and don't want to jump right in the deep end then I'd go for flaming cliffs 3,you'll get f15, a10a, mig29, su27 su24s and su33 so a good mix of different aircraft types some easy to fly others not so much. The a-10a will give you a good intro with simplified avionics that may whet your appetite for the complexity of the a-10c.
Once you have it watch a few tutorials on YouTube, open up the editor throw a few targets around and blow some shit up.
Download the key maps and have them close by (phone or tablet).
And have fun

What ban message do you receive when you join the mission?

Okay so now we're getting somewhere.
But unfortunately you're trying to undo the mess you've created by simply lying even more.
The two "accidents" regarding team killing both took place at spawn not while covering the AO.
Your helicopter was struck by lightning by me but it only had you on board. Furthermore the two times you were struck were five minutes after your brb 1 min message where you left the hummingbird in mid air. And the second time was when you were ignoring the game and letting your neice fly. Which you have done on more than one occasion.
You will see from the rules that wasting team assets is not allowed nor is it in the spirit of the game. There is no need to destroy flyable helis. You also do not do the gameplay any favours when you ram your heli into the radio tower. Waste resources multiple times to speed up an already fast respawn time. Nor are you helping anyone by intentionally crashing into buildings at spawn.
You were asked to be truthful in your ban appeal and told we would not entertain dishonest appeals.
You haven't been at all truthful in your (three, so far) variations of your story.
Be honest because every time you lie we have less and less trust in anything that you say.

okay only cause of how awesome that is I'm not going to ban you for the heinous crime of vertical video!!

Pretty much as the title suggests, a British Army Air Corps Apache attack helicopter (AH-64 Longbow), landed on the school field, the pilot was an ex-member of the cadet force at the school which goes some way to explaining why they brought the beast to our rugby field. Took some videos and pics which I'm sure some of you will be interested to see. Enjoy...
    Landing: http://youtu.be/XuhTsEQzjzs
  Take Off:
  Short Bit of Flight: Won't let me embed 3 vids so here's the link: https://youtu.be/R7M7a0CUmSY   30mm M230E1 Chain Gun:   Just another pic:   NB: I was given marshalling duty of the younger kids which explains all the little high-pitched voices

Just out of interest how would cheat engine boost your steam download speed?

Just out of interest how would cheat engine boost your steam download speed?

Just out of interest how would cheat engine boost your steam download speed?

This has been a persistent issue on our servers but seems to have increased markedly in recent weeks.
A server a a certain capacity eg on EU1 it's 60 players irrespective of whether or not they're in the game so when we see four or five lobby idlers on the server that means that four or five people are missing out on the fun. This situation needs to stop. If you want a pilot slot you will simply have to wait for it you cannot 'call it' nor can you take up space in the lobby. You will be auto kicked and if we notice you getting kicked automatically often we will step in and provide you with a temp ban. Repeat offenders will get longer and longer temp bans culminating in a permaban.
If you want a pilot slot here's what to do take a pen and piece of paper and when joining the server write down the names of the pilots. Ask nicely if the pilots could tell you when they are about to leave (don't constantly bug them for their slot). Also keep an eye on the chat and if you see one leave then hop back to the lobby and take the free space. But while you're on the server we do expect you to play. So pick a slot and play it until you see a pilot slot opening.

Edit: MarkT has made an excellent point below that if you join on ts you have a much better chance of nabbing a pilots slot!

This has been a persistent issue on our servers but seems to have increased markedly in recent weeks.
A server a a certain capacity eg on EU1 it's 60 players irrespective of whether or not they're in the game so when we see four or five lobby idlers on the server that means that four or five people are missing out on the fun. This situation needs to stop. If you want a pilot slot you will simply have to wait for it you cannot 'call it' nor can you take up space in the lobby. You will be auto kicked and if we notice you getting kicked automatically often we will step in and provide you with a temp ban. Repeat offenders will get longer and longer temp bans culminating in a permaban.
If you want a pilot slot here's what to do take a pen and piece of paper and when joining the server write down the names of the pilots. Ask nicely if the pilots could tell you when they are about to leave (don't constantly bug them for their slot). Also keep an eye on the chat and if you see one leave then hop back to the lobby and take the free space. But while you're on the server we do expect you to play. So pick a slot and play it until you see a pilot slot opening.

Edit: MarkT has made an excellent point below that if you join on ts you have a much better chance of nabbing a pilots slot!

This has been a persistent issue on our servers but seems to have increased markedly in recent weeks.
A server a a certain capacity eg on EU1 it's 60 players irrespective of whether or not they're in the game so when we see four or five lobby idlers on the server that means that four or five people are missing out on the fun. This situation needs to stop. If you want a pilot slot you will simply have to wait for it you cannot 'call it' nor can you take up space in the lobby. You will be auto kicked and if we notice you getting kicked automatically often we will step in and provide you with a temp ban. Repeat offenders will get longer and longer temp bans culminating in a permaban.
If you want a pilot slot here's what to do take a pen and piece of paper and when joining the server write down the names of the pilots. Ask nicely if the pilots could tell you when they are about to leave (don't constantly bug them for their slot). Also keep an eye on the chat and if you see one leave then hop back to the lobby and take the free space. But while you're on the server we do expect you to play. So pick a slot and play it until you see a pilot slot opening.

Edit: MarkT has made an excellent point below that if you join on ts you have a much better chance of nabbing a pilots slot!

another solution to this would be to join TS, Its not required but that way you will be notified when a pilot slot is opening.

This has been a persistent issue on our servers but seems to have increased markedly in recent weeks.
A server a a certain capacity eg on EU1 it's 60 players irrespective of whether or not they're in the game so when we see four or five lobby idlers on the server that means that four or five people are missing out on the fun. This situation needs to stop. If you want a pilot slot you will simply have to wait for it you cannot 'call it' nor can you take up space in the lobby. You will be auto kicked and if we notice you getting kicked automatically often we will step in and provide you with a temp ban. Repeat offenders will get longer and longer temp bans culminating in a permaban.
If you want a pilot slot here's what to do take a pen and piece of paper and when joining the server write down the names of the pilots. Ask nicely if the pilots could tell you when they are about to leave (don't constantly bug them for their slot). Also keep an eye on the chat and if you see one leave then hop back to the lobby and take the free space. But while you're on the server we do expect you to play. So pick a slot and play it until you see a pilot slot opening.

Edit: MarkT has made an excellent point below that if you join on ts you have a much better chance of nabbing a pilots slot!

Forgetting for a moment your disregard for the prescribed ban appeal procedure, you have pointed out some discrepancy in the spelling of your ban message. While I applaud your intentions your own message is littered with mistakes so let me take this opportunity to begin to correct you.
Hello,
You got this one right.
This is a complaint regards a ban.
*regarding not regards
The ban reason is "GET OUT AND CELEBRATE DAMMIT"
I'll let this one go but you missed the full stop
Expect the wrong spelling of "Damn it" this ban reason is hilarious.
What are you expecting? Perhaps you took exception to the ban? Except and expect might have the same letters but mean very different things, let's try and get them in the correct order.
"Dammit" is obviously a contraction, given your lack of ability to express yourself in the English language you would do well to refrain from criticising others.
Teammates where shooting in base, so i shot them down and get banned,
*where or were? Also you're mixing your tenses please just pick one and stick with it.
The next point is, that a permanently ban is a too hard punishment for trying to help.
Permanent ban or permanently ban? Come on, really?
Too hard? Funny you managed to get one.
Did you make any effort to contact the admin team before deciding that you would try to discipline players yourself?
I hope you can help me.
If my program was able to record this, i could upload a video of that.
Please post a correctly formatted ban appeal and include any evidence that can corroborate your version of events.
Happy new year.

Couple of points here to note, firstly cheesecake this ban doesn't involve you read the sticky in this section.
Secondly delta, you mad bro?
Let's get this straight you had cheat engine running in the background and battleye caught you. You went from:
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="DELTA12" data-cid="31526" data-time="1452082175">
i must say that I never used any sort of game hacks or cheats ever </blockquote>
To
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="DELTA12" data-cid="31530" data-time="1452085903">
I have cheat engine, but i don't use it much</blockquote>
To
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="DELTA12" data-cid="31561" data-time="1452121684">
I don't recall running Cheat Engine recently</blockquote>
Thirdly getting mad will not help you or anyone else so calm down. Don't lie in your ban appeal just be honest and it will get dealt with in time. I'm going to ask you to have patience and not get angry at an automated system doing exactly what it's supposed to do. Remember we are not at fault here we didn't have cheat engine running nor are we the ones being overly aggressive and lying trying to get a ban appeal expedited.
You have only yourself to blame.
As to the actual ban we will get around to dealing with it but your little outbursts don't help.
tl/dr calm down luv, uninstall cheat engine and patience

Forgetting for a moment your disregard for the prescribed ban appeal procedure, you have pointed out some discrepancy in the spelling of your ban message. While I applaud your intentions your own message is littered with mistakes so let me take this opportunity to begin to correct you.
Hello,
You got this one right.
This is a complaint regards a ban.
*regarding not regards
The ban reason is "GET OUT AND CELEBRATE DAMMIT"
I'll let this one go but you missed the full stop
Expect the wrong spelling of "Damn it" this ban reason is hilarious.
What are you expecting? Perhaps you took exception to the ban? Except and expect might have the same letters but mean very different things, let's try and get them in the correct order.
"Dammit" is obviously a contraction, given your lack of ability to express yourself in the English language you would do well to refrain from criticising others.
Teammates where shooting in base, so i shot them down and get banned,
*where or were? Also you're mixing your tenses please just pick one and stick with it.
The next point is, that a permanently ban is a too hard punishment for trying to help.
Permanent ban or permanently ban? Come on, really?
Too hard? Funny you managed to get one.
Did you make any effort to contact the admin team before deciding that you would try to discipline players yourself?
I hope you can help me.
If my program was able to record this, i could upload a video of that.
Please post a correctly formatted ban appeal and include any evidence that can corroborate your version of events.
Happy new year.

Forgetting for a moment your disregard for the prescribed ban appeal procedure, you have pointed out some discrepancy in the spelling of your ban message. While I applaud your intentions your own message is littered with mistakes so let me take this opportunity to begin to correct you.
Hello,
You got this one right.
This is a complaint regards a ban.
*regarding not regards
The ban reason is "GET OUT AND CELEBRATE DAMMIT"
I'll let this one go but you missed the full stop
Expect the wrong spelling of "Damn it" this ban reason is hilarious.
What are you expecting? Perhaps you took exception to the ban? Except and expect might have the same letters but mean very different things, let's try and get them in the correct order.
"Dammit" is obviously a contraction, given your lack of ability to express yourself in the English language you would do well to refrain from criticising others.
Teammates where shooting in base, so i shot them down and get banned,
*where or were? Also you're mixing your tenses please just pick one and stick with it.
The next point is, that a permanently ban is a too hard punishment for trying to help.
Permanent ban or permanently ban? Come on, really?
Too hard? Funny you managed to get one.
Did you make any effort to contact the admin team before deciding that you would try to discipline players yourself?
I hope you can help me.
If my program was able to record this, i could upload a video of that.
Please post a correctly formatted ban appeal and include any evidence that can corroborate your version of events.
Happy new year.

Forgetting for a moment your disregard for the prescribed ban appeal procedure, you have pointed out some discrepancy in the spelling of your ban message. While I applaud your intentions your own message is littered with mistakes so let me take this opportunity to begin to correct you.
Hello,
You got this one right.
This is a complaint regards a ban.
*regarding not regards
The ban reason is "GET OUT AND CELEBRATE DAMMIT"
I'll let this one go but you missed the full stop
Expect the wrong spelling of "Damn it" this ban reason is hilarious.
What are you expecting? Perhaps you took exception to the ban? Except and expect might have the same letters but mean very different things, let's try and get them in the correct order.
"Dammit" is obviously a contraction, given your lack of ability to express yourself in the English language you would do well to refrain from criticising others.
Teammates where shooting in base, so i shot them down and get banned,
*where or were? Also you're mixing your tenses please just pick one and stick with it.
The next point is, that a permanently ban is a too hard punishment for trying to help.
Permanent ban or permanently ban? Come on, really?
Too hard? Funny you managed to get one.
Did you make any effort to contact the admin team before deciding that you would try to discipline players yourself?
I hope you can help me.
If my program was able to record this, i could upload a video of that.
Please post a correctly formatted ban appeal and include any evidence that can corroborate your version of events.
Happy new year.

Forgetting for a moment your disregard for the prescribed ban appeal procedure, you have pointed out some discrepancy in the spelling of your ban message. While I applaud your intentions your own message is littered with mistakes so let me take this opportunity to begin to correct you.
Hello,
You got this one right.
This is a complaint regards a ban.
*regarding not regards
The ban reason is "GET OUT AND CELEBRATE DAMMIT"
I'll let this one go but you missed the full stop
Expect the wrong spelling of "Damn it" this ban reason is hilarious.
What are you expecting? Perhaps you took exception to the ban? Except and expect might have the same letters but mean very different things, let's try and get them in the correct order.
"Dammit" is obviously a contraction, given your lack of ability to express yourself in the English language you would do well to refrain from criticising others.
Teammates where shooting in base, so i shot them down and get banned,
*where or were? Also you're mixing your tenses please just pick one and stick with it.
The next point is, that a permanently ban is a too hard punishment for trying to help.
Permanent ban or permanently ban? Come on, really?
Too hard? Funny you managed to get one.
Did you make any effort to contact the admin team before deciding that you would try to discipline players yourself?
I hope you can help me.
If my program was able to record this, i could upload a video of that.
Please post a correctly formatted ban appeal and include any evidence that can corroborate your version of events.
Happy new year.

Forgetting for a moment your disregard for the prescribed ban appeal procedure, you have pointed out some discrepancy in the spelling of your ban message. While I applaud your intentions your own message is littered with mistakes so let me take this opportunity to begin to correct you.
Hello,
You got this one right.
This is a complaint regards a ban.
*regarding not regards
The ban reason is "GET OUT AND CELEBRATE DAMMIT"
I'll let this one go but you missed the full stop
Expect the wrong spelling of "Damn it" this ban reason is hilarious.
What are you expecting? Perhaps you took exception to the ban? Except and expect might have the same letters but mean very different things, let's try and get them in the correct order.
"Dammit" is obviously a contraction, given your lack of ability to express yourself in the English language you would do well to refrain from criticising others.
Teammates where shooting in base, so i shot them down and get banned,
*where or were? Also you're mixing your tenses please just pick one and stick with it.
The next point is, that a permanently ban is a too hard punishment for trying to help.
Permanent ban or permanently ban? Come on, really?
Too hard? Funny you managed to get one.
Did you make any effort to contact the admin team before deciding that you would try to discipline players yourself?
I hope you can help me.
If my program was able to record this, i could upload a video of that.
Please post a correctly formatted ban appeal and include any evidence that can corroborate your version of events.
Happy new year.