Beautiful screenies gents' and glad to see that my non-FM tweaks are handy too - have now managed to fix the stall values in the general aircraft object ini file by incorporating some data from the top mid wing section of a Spad 7 (a thin wing profile that is typical of lots of early and mid-war types), so that data inis that are missing stall lift table data numbers will benefit from this. Ran some tests already and stalls/spins and buffeting are now more realistic especially across the early monoplane types (particularly the Eindeckers that were often prone to some strange flat-spins previously).
Also now fixed are realistic service dates for balloons (Caquots, Drachens, Type Ae 800) and Zeppelins and British airships across theaters, and realistic operational heights (about 2600 feet for the Drachens, 4200 feet for the Type Ae, and 4900 feet for the Caquots) - this will give nice variety in FE2. I might also make some sub-folders with "low lying" variants of the Drachens and Caquots for earlier months in the war - perhaps something like 1300 feet for an early Drachen and 3300 feet for early sightings of the Caquot. This will give further variety across the theaters and fits into realistic height bands for these balloons - some of the Caquots would later in the war ascend as high as 4900 or 5000 feet. Also I've tweaked the movement of the balloons further, so that Drachens are now more "unstable" in high alt. winds as historical - this is the reason why the Germans switched eventually to the Type Ae imitation of the Caquot.
The Zepps are now found at a more realistic height of about 18,000 feet, with British airships around 15-16,000 feet, and they pop up in theaters with historically realistic service dates. For example you might be able to spot a Zepp above the Middle eastern theater from about Nov. '17 to early '18 - when the famous L.59 was making a record-breaking voyage to Africa (to support German guerilla fighters):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_104_(L_59)
Will eventually roll all these tweaks into a ver. 9.1 of the FM update pack.
In the meantime some obligatory screenies (I'm still tweaking high alt. sky colors in the environsys ini file).
This session was particularly interesting - the Taube tends to glide around even with its fuel tank holed and the observer and pilot gone - eventually it crash-landed.
Happy flying,
Von S