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As a matter of fact, I'm still waiting for the DVD... Mark arranged a special download version for me, after showing my purchase receipt, with the date on! CUDOS to OBD for their Great custommer support! I wish a download option will be available for Phase 4 as well...

Yes I know how to do it, I just think it's too complicated to get someone targeted first to see him externally! Also the actuall external view is viewed through a weird wide-angle distorting lens, if you want to get a bit closer, that is frustrating! But as you say we have to live with these rather minnor deficiencies as OFF really is the most immersive sim I've ever played too... Thanks!

Bummer...I did that in Pat's Campaign and I didn't have to turn labels on to see who is who... I know it's not a feature addressed to the casual or average player but I would like to have it in Phase 4. I too have the tendency to bond with my virtual squadmates. CFS3 has a pretty lame set of external views, BTW. In all other sims I play you can cycle between friends and foes easily in external view. When cruising to target I usually set autopilot on, get outside and wonder around taking screenshots or just watching the planes fly...(Am I missing something 'cause I only can see someone else, externally, only if I set him targeted).

I do it all the time...(I have OFF at last and beeing a bit enthousiastic, I guess)... I used to play, before I get OFF, Campaigns with Pat Wilson's Campaign Generator for RoF. There, by clicking every individual pilot's name you could see his Dossier, (picture, stats and awards), also the aces had their actuall victories logged on in historical time frame and you could see them amassing kills as time passed. (they died, "historically" and not only, too)... ie You could kill an ace and never meet him again. I would like to see such features in Phase 4. BTW does anyone knows how I can assign individual skins to my virtual squadmates?

I reccon messy translation from Russian to English...

It means, I think, Polish, French, Chech, pilots that fought with RAF in BoB... No German Campaign? As I said above I'm pretty convinced this is rushed release, so I will wait till making my move...

Copy the textures to: CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields\campaigns\CampaignData\skins

I do have all the IL-2 series too, I was following and been waiting for this one with great antitipation, since it was named BoB and Storm of War, but I think I'll wait this time... I don't think that this will be a finished product, I doubt that my machine will run it smoothly and 50 Euros for the download option?

Thanks, will do! I have already done lots of homework and didn't have the slightest problem installing, configuring and mod adding to OFF. Just bought HiTR and going to install as soon as the confirmation e-mail arrives... BTW I found your avatar pilot...(Friedrich-Wilhelm Lübbert ) at this site: http://www.flieger-album.de/blog/index.php?action=view&offset=271&id=0#oben but you'll probably be aware of it already...

Yes, what a customer support by OBD! Mark arranged a personal download option for me, for a limited time frame and now I have Phase 3 + essentials (DM, sounds) on and working. I wasn't being able to do much flying though, due to RL obligations...just a couple of quick combats in an Albatros. I just have to familiarise myself again with the CFS3 key commands and layout...It seemed kind of weird after all this time! I want to start a Campaign ASAP but I don't have much spare time lately. A bit ironic now that I finally have OFF! Not to mention that the DVD is still missing...

That's great Massimo!

Caption for this picture from Osprey Elite Units 26, Jagdstaffel 2 'Boelcke', by GREG VANWYNGARDEN: "On 11 November 1917 Ltn d R Wilhelm Papenmeyer was posted to the 'Boelcke' Staffel from Jastaschule I, and he made his first test flights in Albatros D V 2346/17 the next day. This photograph shows Papenmeyer in a beautifully decorated OAW-built D III, which was captioned as 'The Red Eagle' in his photo album. The fuselage has been painted with a densely mottled camouflage, in common with a few other Jasta 'Boelcke' Albatros machines. Oddly enough, Papenmeyer's flight log shows no sorties in an Albatros D III, only D V and Fokker Dr I aircraft. It is possible this photo was taken at the Jastaschule (Papenmeyer album)"

Yes indeed! I stop by every day and take a glance, after almost two months in the waiting...(sigh)

Great addition, indeed! IMO the WOI Nesher/Dagger should be addapted for SF2 nonetheless... Other Argentinian planes need SF2 standard skins as well... Keep it up TerceraEscuadrilla!

Hi, guys I'm in a Falklands/Malvinas frenzy lately! Thanks eburger68 for the Great modded Campaign! Start fiddling with the skins and decals to make a more historical representation of the 800, 801 and 809 NAS during the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict. Here is my impression of the 899 NAS Sea Harriers - integrated into 800 NAS on 02.04.82 The winged fist emblem of the 899 was totally overpainted and the side two digit code numbers were painted under the cockpit and not at the usual place on the panel ahead of the forward nozzle. (originally the side code numbers had 3 digits but the first digit denoting the Sqn. origin, 1 for 800, 7 for 899 was overpainted upon intergration). To be mote accurate I should repeat the last digit of the side code inside the airbrake...but I dont know how... Could someone give me a hand on this? Also I tried to give a more historical look to the 801 NAS giving the side codes the Roundel Blue color that were originally overpainted...but the placement is still wrong...Can somebody help me placing the decal a bit above from were it's placed now, (above the panel ahead of the forward nozzle). Any help would have been apreciated. Thanks.

Yes, I couldn't agree more... Nevertheless with the lack of a proper correct template, I tried to address the nose and intake stretching as I could... Here's what I have now: 800 NAS 16 aircraft with corresponding serial and side numbers. XZ4500, has side number (30) in roundel blue, (historically correct). Including the four 899 NAS planes with correct side number placing. The last four planes (76,94,77,99) are the 809 reinforcements and thus the camo is not correct, but I left them as they were... (in the original Falklands '82 Campaign). 801 NAS 10 aircraft with corresponding serial and side numbers. the last two planes are not historical. (002,000). No 002 (ZA174) was originaly an 801 plane that was left behind due to repairs and later integrated into 801 as No 000 of the 809 NAS reinforcements. No 000 (ZA195) is purely fictional. 809 NAS OK, here is my interpretation of the 809 NAS planes that integrated into 801 and 800 NAS at the 18th and 19th of May... Featuring "corrected" nose section of the skin. Field overpaint of the vertical stabilizer's 809 emblem and ROYAL NAVY inscription. Historical numbering with correspondant serial numbers for the eight planes. 801 NAS style side numbering in a field aproximation of the rich pale blue of the roundels, (mixing roundel blue and white? thus having richer hue as well documented), for the first four, (000,002,007,009). 800 NAS style side numbering for the rest four, (76,94,77,99). Skins and decals have been submited to eburger68 for evaluation... Now if I could find the coordinates to place decals on the airbrake interior and the outriggers they would be closer to perfection... Not to forget two pilots for RN and RAF, that I've made and been using for SHAR and GR3. The RN pilot's helmet, (Mk.3C), is depicting the one worn by Dave Morgan in the 1st May raid, as seen in newsreel footage. PS BTW, any takers to reskin the SHAR cockpit to SF2 standards?

I have already installed your "Stock" version and looks great indeed! I would like to have a stormy version as the above too...

The stock one looks better IMO... Is it possible to have a rough sea effect as in the original Malvinas sea but with more 3d as in luk1978's stock sea, that would have been perfect!

Awesome skins! Very well balanced...

I would like to have some tips about harrier v landings as I'm hopeless! I watched the AI landing and they seem to follow a standard hook arrest landing patern...

Great pics! Can't wait!

What a Great mod indeed! (Falklands/Malvinas). Here are two of my own... On course Target on fire Sporting my reworked SHAR skin and new RN pilot, (WiP). PS: How crisp those F-100 pics look Henrik and what a beautifull skin!

Oh, yes you are right... How I missed it! "As with the Hermes ex-809 aircraft, after arrival on Invincible the ROYAL NAVY and 809 badge on the fin were overpainted in the nearest approximation of MSG available on the ship. 801 side codes were applied in the usual 801 location and standard RN style with the last digit inside the airbrake in a locally mixed pale blue, which appeared richer in hue than the Pale Blue of the roundels (a Roundel Blue + white mix?)" I will correct ASAP...Thanks!

Getting there... I found how to assign the side code decals for 801 NAS. I also treated the roundels, as I could best, to smoothen the disfiguration due to model stretching and corrected their coloration as well as they were, way too bright on the original skin. Two missing stencils were also added to the AIM-9 rail. (see the above pics to compare)... All planes now have historical, matching, side codes and serial numbers. As a bonus I made a RN pilot based on Falkland War time footage. Now I only have to find the coordinates to place a decal on the airbrake interior to make them almost perfect... 801 NAS on partol... Also the 4 historical 809 NAS planes integrated into 801 NAS at 18th and 19th May 1982, with correct side code numbering in rich pale blue and matching serial numbers...

Nice waters there luk1978! Do you mind sharing your terrain repaints? Here is my own new Sea Harrier loading screen: Happy New Year to you too!