Lack of Moral Fibre !

[Maxiku]

I was flying my old bus (SE5a) from Calais and thought I'd pop across the channel to see old Blighty again.

As I came in to land at one of those south coast airfields the ground based machine gun wallahs riddled my kite with bullets and I slammed my crate into the mud.

 

Unbelievable - Seems to me that this game even models LMF!!!

 

Well done guys! It's either a bug or a feature but I enjoyed it!

 

Tally-ho!

 

PS: For those haven't heard of "LMF" before....LMF (ie : Low Morale Fibre) was the old WW1 term for a coward.

If an enlisted soldier/airman refused to fight the enemy - his superior officers would stamp his record with LMF and he'd face trial.

[themightysrc]

"For those haven't heard of "LMF" before....LMF (ie : Low Morale Fibre)"

 

Wasn't it "lack of" rather than "low"? Either way, what a draconian system of customs/immigration!

[+Polovski]

CFS3 QC all airfields are enemy.. in OFF QC they are corrected.

[Maxiku]

Hi themightysrc, thanks for the correction..LMF does indeed stand for ""Lack Of Moral Fibre"

 

.....In my defense I was somewhat shell-shocked from being executed by my own side...How could they do it to me (the scourge of the Fokker scourge, no less!), the absolute bounders!.

 

 

Hiya Polovski - You're quite right...I was (for the first time ever) flying in CFS3 QC instead of OFF QC. It's also the first time I'd ever thought about crossing the channel...and I had an absolute blast.

 

A fantastic game and one that still (even before the Superpatch) takes my breath away when I see the attention to detail....now if you could only model a mess room;)

 

Have a nice evening all..I'm still exploring the Superpatch.

[+Polovski]

Ah yeah, going to say the boys defending Britain may well get trigger happy with boredom, but on this occasion Germany was already there ;)

[Olham]

Maxiku, remember, the guys in home defense aren't the youngest lads.

They wear glasses (and maybe even surgical stockings), and they where told

to shoot at anything coming across the Channel.

Edited August 10, 2009 by Olham

[Maxiku]

Thanks Olham, their poor eyesight might explain why they didn't start to shoot until my wheels had touched down, though wouldn't bode well for their ability to stop an actual flying hun ;)

[Check Six]

"Friendly Fire" (an oxymoron if ever there was one) as it is called now is a fact of war. I don't know if you could call it LMF, as the "Home Guard" chap was obviously willing to fight, just too jittery to check on the identity of his target.

 

I read a funny article recently where a British Chinook pilot was fired on by a bunch or US Marines. He landed yards from them and exchanged blows with a Marine shouting "When was the last time you saw a f****** Iraqi in a helicopter?"

 

"British military spokesman Group Captain Al Lockwood said: "I'm afraid it would be an RAF kind of thing to do. These guys are not known for tolerating fools gladly".

Edited August 11, 2009 by Check Six

[JimAttrill]

People have long memories. The British Army lost more men to the US Air force in Desert Storm than they did to the Iraqis.

[Hasse Wind]

Looks like Dad's Army gave you a beating, Maxiku!

[Olham]

Long time memories: a group of American Mustang pilots returned from a flight over Germany,

when they encountered a British group of Hawker Tempest (or was it Typhoons?). That craft was

still rather new then and looked a bit like a Focke Wulf from certain angles.

So, the Americans attacked them.

It is really hard to identify another craft mid-air, when you can't see the markings, isn't it?

[Maxiku]

Yep - Dad's army got me all right ...though I'm hoping that they shot me because they thought I was deserting the French front, rather than just shot me because they aim to shoot anything that moves.

 

I can understand someone not been sure of an aircraft's nationality when it's flying at an angle to you 400 yards aways and doing 120 miles an hour...Not so sure I can understand it when the same aircraft is 4 yards in front of you and doing 20 miles an hour.....I think they were just jealous of my good looks!

 

My advice to all : avoid landing an any aerodrome where the Dad's army vets are wearing spectacles that are bigger than your Aldis sight.!

[saltysplash]

Long time memories: a group of American Mustang pilots returned from a flight over Germany,

when they encountered a British group of Hawker Tempest (or was it Typhoons?). That craft was

still rather new then and looked a bit like a Focke Wulf from certain angles.

So, the Americans attacked them.

It is really hard to identify another craft mid-air, when you can't see the markings, isn't it?

 

 

It makes you wonder how a flight of swordfish from Ark Royal could mistake HMS Sheffield during the hunt for the Bismarck but they did.