Luiz Carlos

But,Uncleal , I would like to add that after proper training,you CAN fly it without fear, but you have to learn the tricks.Yes,using the rudder in turns is a great tip, and becames natural with time. It´s not difficult to master it to any experienced flight simmer here.In real life they throw the poor young pilots into combat with 17 hours FLIGHT time(not COMBAT time) It´s like to fly this beast without having previous experience with ANY flight simulator at all. With the little difference we don´t have to risk our lifes...

My Camel pilot died yesterday with 6 confirmed and 4 pending,DFC, in 8 missions. He falls in a combat against 6 Albs , had downed two before taking shots from three more on it´s six. Probably they cut me a cable, because I lose aileron control.It was difficult not to ending the mission to save my pilot, but I fly DiD, so I let the man find his fate. The Camel is so agile , that in normal fight conditions you are out of range of an Albatross.You can turn on a dime, it climbs very quickly, and the two Vickers helps a lot in finishing fast your opponent. I can fight one versus two Albs without too much fear,(not WITHOUT fear), usually bagging the two. The range is about 333 miles, so good that I fly with 60% of the tank in most missions. And, yes, TrackIR4 will help you a lot because upward view is not very good.

Yes, I put an Eindecker down once that plummet slowly to the ground.I was after him, just having the sweet taste of victory,waiting for the right spot of crash to fill my claim form.It ignites a flame, only seconds before impacting .It really looks like real life, indeed. Cheers to all devs efforts, here too!

I revert to normal DM, too, after reading a lot of combat reports and seeing Eddie Rickenbacker´s episode in "Dogfights" I realize that probably was much more easier to down a plane that in Hardcore. I was a Lieutenant in the Brazilian army , (doctor) and I was able to fire a MAC field machine gun once(7,62 mm french build) Well ,that does A LOT of destruction in my point of view.I imagine what it could have done in a wood and canvas full of gas airplane.

Anybody already do this stupid thing like me and had your claim confirmed?

Well I always take note of everything, but when I was filling my claim form , I was brutally interrupted by the...WIFE! So,I send the form forgotting to put the witness.When I saw what I did i think:Man what a idiot! Maybe in future patches Pol could include a way to correct claim form filling interrupted by wifes?

What a wonderful fighter.It´s impressive that OBD team could reproduce the natural behaviour of the Camel( turn left nose up, turn down nose down) It´s nimble, climbs very fast, turns in a dime, the two Vickers can do a beautiful work... I´m flying DiD , 100% realism(using warping) an so far have 7 claims in three missions (still pending) In the first days with OFF I try to fly the Camel , but I had a nasty stall when I was in the six of a Alb DIII, low over the frontlines. I gave up with the Camel, but now seems we are understanding each other... I need to care of this pilot , because until now I wasn´t able to confirm 5 kills in any of my campaigns... Í declare myself a very happy masochist pilot of the OFF community.(we are all masochists flying this HARD sim and loving it don´t you know?) I´m not saying you are a sadist ,Pol

In my first attempts with the Camel I actually broke the left wingtip into the ground in the take-off run just after have applied throttle. (and there are people that say OFF doesn´t have torque modeled) I learned then to apply right rudder, a little aileron to the right and accelerate slowly to avoid this happens again. I think the Camel was so agile because it has some degree of instability,besides the very concentrated center of gravity. The problem was that flight computers have not been invented yet and that instability caused a lot of fatal crashes too.

When I´m gaming for a while, from times to times, the screen freezes for 10-15 secs but the simulation seems to going on, because when it unfreeze, it does it in another position, like the game was doing all the calculations. I never experiences lock up or CTD, just this weird freeze. I´m using a Intel E8400 , 4Gb RAM with Geforce GTX 260 , at 1680x1050 and sliders 5-5-3-3-4-2 and I have smooth frame rates all the time, with some slowering over my airfield,but still smooth. Anybody are experiencing this image freezings?

If you was hit in the engine and forced to land in the field, can you leave the plane to avoid been hit?

I have flying early campaigns in the Nieuport 11 in 1916 and I´m starting to think something is wrong.The last one I deleted because after 12 hours of combat time I have seen nor even one enemy aircraft. I started a french campaign now in the third mission and no enemies until now, even when the mission is over the enemy airfield. Is this right?Maybe there is nothing related , but it´s happening after the 1.30 patch. I´m flying DiD ,100% realism, but using warping.

I was flying near Verdun in early 1916, in Esc 3 "Cicognes".I have done 10 missions and nothing. I supposed that Huns was flying Eindeckers in that time period,aren´t they? Did germans had no mono or biplace represented ingame at this time? Well, I have deleted the campaign, because it was sterile too, like the English one. I tryed a german campaign at same time, flying an Halberstad DII , with regional air activity setting to heavy and started to see RAF Be2c (I had shot down one) It really amazes me the WAY it´s go down. They don´t explode or lose a wing with few bursts , in a arcade way,but instead, demands a lot of lead into the fuselage and engine,starting a fire, that gradually grows up, the two seatter then slowly loosing altitude until crashing in the ground.It´s so hard to put one down sometimes, that I go down near to the ground with this one, just to see it crashing , to take notes in the map in order to do a more accurate claim form. In other sims, I will never get loose from the enemy formation, because I probably will put down 3-4 enemy A/C. Not so easy here,chap.

I´m currently in the "Cicognes" squadron (Guynemer´s) . if you guys are saying this is the way it is intended by the devs , it´s good to me.I will log some more hours until I have the chance to bag some huns or to be bagged by them.

I bought it in october, when I was in NY on a trip with my wife.I find it in Borders and really is a gem, like you said. One thing I have seen in the pictures is the windscreen of the Nieup 11 , looks a lot less restrictive to the view than we have in the game. What you think?

Sorry by the noob question, but how can I fill all the details required (height, local in the map,time of mission,WITNESS?)Do i have to take notes? I finally finish my first mission in the tripe, had sucessfully attacked an airstripe,take mg hits, survived, and after that downed two Alb DIII.But I wasn´t able to fill correctly my claims, all I could write was that I downed two Alb but don´t had any clues if I had a witness.I suspect that after all the hard work I probably will not have any credits at all.I had tryed to review the mission to fill in more acurately my claims but was impossible, the screen was obliterated by the claim form...

In campaigns,when I hit the go to field button, I keep receiving this messages "non critical error:skin from plane... is missing from path OBD/campaigns etc Will be replaced for standart skin" Usually is referring to special ace skin. Then I press "OK" about ten times and go fly. I´m using 1.28 patch in a portuguese Win XP SP3 32

Thanks,Winder. I was already looking in the workshops and found this button. That solved the problem.(not really a problem but a feature)

Ok,thanks.I suppose this happens more often in early scenarios?

C´mon , I will really need to adapt to this ww1 machines because I have been beated so hard countless times, and I´m only in QC until now. Well, I only have 1 hour of flight time tomorrow night (took eleven days to mail arrives), let´s see if I adapt or things will became worse with time. Maybe my flying skills have deteriorated a bit because I´m using a saitek rudder for the first time in years and I´m still struggling to adapt with it too... Excuses,excuses,I need them to heal my smashed ego...

Are you doing a new model?

Thanks,I´ll try this way when my copy arrives.(fingers crossing)

Nothing wrong with your attitude. Thanks for explain it for us.

If you shot down in a mission an enemy ace, it will remain dead until the end of campaign? And how this will affect the morale of his squadron? The damage you do to enemy airfields affect the strenght of the enemy patrols in the next missions?

No problems , Parky. Pol´s statement makes total sense to me,about aces dying only in their historical dates. It adds to imersion.