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What exact problem/s are you having? Movie Maker is buggy and sometimes you have to work around it's aggro, but eventually it comes right.

You missed Peter Hawke.

Commiserations sir. But at least you made it to ace.

I'm here every day, and I think I've posted in the last couple of days. Peter Hawke is having a spot of leave though, mooching around the aerodrome and local bars in a right old funk. Over two weeks of day-to-day combat and it's been a bit much for the poor old chap. Luckily the CO, Albert Ball, is a very understanding chap so it'll all come good. :yes:

Wow, that looks the absolute nuts! :yes:

I had that once, they were 2-seaters at high altitude.

I know why it can't be done (would mean allowing CFS3 more integration into the OFF manager than is ideal), but I would dearly like to be able to fight my plane all the way down until it hits the deck, and not have the sim decide for me that it's futile. Maybe it can be done by making each plane's DM so that it can never be 100% damaged (max 99%)? A way of tricking the CFS3 code as it were, so the cut-off can't be triggered but the plane still falls out of the sky.

Some examples from my logbook. Notice that both brief type and more detailed type both got confirmations. 8/4/1917 7h54 Flanders Vert Galand Airfield Defense Flying: SE5a Hispano-Suiza. On this day claims: 1 Alb DIII OAW . While flying airfield defence our six Se5s engaged five Albatross DIII at 5000ft approx ten milles SSE of Albert. In the ensuing fight I fired approx 300 rounds at three various enemy scouts, driving one down out of control and observed to crash.. Witnessed by: David Ryan. Ken Bunyan. Justin Kilmer. Status : Confirmed . 11/4/1917 15h23 Flanders Vert Galand Balloon Busting Flying: SE5a Hispano-Suiza. On this day claims: 2 AlbDII . While returning from balloon attack mission at 10000ft engaged two enemy scout Alb DII in standard colours. Fired bursts into two, both were observed to go down out of control and crash approx 10 miles SW of Lille on our side of the lines.. Witnessed by: Oscar Mendelson. Simon Alfred. Justin Kilmer. Status : Rejected . 13/4/1917 8h6 Flanders Vert Galand Scramble Flying: SE5a Hispano-Suiza. On this day claims: 3 Alb DIII . Engaged enemy scouts directly over Vert Galand aerodrome, fired bursts into three, observed to go down out of control and crash.. Witnessed by: Oscar Mendelson. Chris Colburn. Simon Alfred. Status : Confirmed . 21/4/1917 11h10 Flanders Vert Galand Patrol Behind Friendly Front Lines Flying: SE5a Hispano-Suiza. On this day claims: 2 Alb DIII . While flying patrol engaged flights of Albatri and fired bursts into two in seperate engagements, one going down vertically out of control and observed to crash into the ground, the second going down in a slow glide and seen to crash into trees, both in the very near vicinity of Arras.. Witnessed by: Oscar Mendelson. Simon Alfred. Chris Colburn. Justin Kilmer. Status : Confirmed .

I get it too, when my plane has been shot-up. The govt has plenty more so I don't worry about it.

Fantastic news!

Just had a scramble mission, my usual tactic of staying low and flying clear didn't work this time and I copped a few rounds in the engine from an Alb. I was back on the field within three minutes of taking off. But then I had five kills come in confirmed (making six in total) and a medal too! I figure I can coast now. What are they going to do, court-martial me for cowardice?

3rd April 1917 Walmer Dearest Papa; Sammie was right, they snaffled me for the 56th. Been with these chaps for a few days now, still preparing the outfit for transfer back to the front. We're up two or three times a day, flying routine patrols and getting used to the standard of formation flying the CO expects of this unit. The CO, yes, it's Mr Albert Ball. And what a thoroughly nice chap he is too, made one feel right at home from the very first moment one met him. We've had beastly weather every day I'm afraid, but we go up in it regardless. It's nothing compared to what the poor blighters in the trenches are having to put up with of course, one can at least here get straight into a nice hot bath at the end of the day. Walmer is just down the slope at the end of the field, and us new chaps have been introduced to some jolly fine establishments, notabley a pie shop that acquires the most sublime meat (dead hun is the joke). We'll be spoiled for France I'm afraid. We're flying Se5s, very fast and very strong. The field is quite well kitted out. Don't know what it'll be like in France of course, but one hears references to tents quite a lot. So we're making the most of the luxuries here. Have you noticed how easy it is to read my writing yet? Tee hee! I wangled the type-writer from a source never to be disclosed. It's mine I tell you! I shan't be suprised if I haven't knocked out a novel by the time I get my first leave. Well, me and the chaps have to get ready for another patrol (we grandly call them patrols). It's still early right now, not had lunch yet. Please give my love to Mama, and tell her not to worry, I'm in very good hands here. I'll write again soon. Your loving son.

Bloody hell Olham, that was quite something.

Maybe somebody pimped his hubs.

I jammed my Saitek pedals today, fortunately while I was still on the ground and cycling all the controls. I had to dismantle them to fix the problem. I'm glad it didn't happen at 14,500ft when the Albatrosses steamed in. Was very immersive.

Ditto. :yes:

Vert Galand Flanders Dearest Papa. Long-range patrol over enemy lines, an hour in and just crossing the lines over the coast, I spot a lone a/c in the distance at 4 o'clock. At first I thought it was a hun 2-seater, legging it into the clouds, but after getting the binoculars onto it I spot a bunch more...hang on...heading our way (seven of us)...ALBATROSSES!!! I wave the attack and turn into them, kite a bit sluggish. Then it was twisting and turning, snap-shots here and there, doing my best to keep above them. The buggers were everywhere. Then I spotted one of my chaps getting it, so went to help him. Scared the hun off his tail, then started taking hits myself. Twisting and turning again, more hits, couldn't shake him. Nose down hard and dive, with the bugger following me all the way. I looked back, there's my wingie, god bless him, trying to shoot him off me. By now I'm taking hit after hit, all the way down, dodging some of it but no longer sure how well my plane is handling. I find out as I try to pull out at about 500ft and the kite is a bag of spuds, engine running rough, misfiring, buggered. Going in sideways and she won't respond. She seems to level better if I push the stick forward, so I do that until the ground is right there and I pull back hard. The nose comes up a bit but the kite goes in hard on the right wings and SMASH! I see flames, fire, sky, whirling around, the world gone mad. Then I'm lying on my back looking at the sky. Can't hear a thing, but the ground is soft. I'm wet. But alive, or at least I think so. Laying in a bog of some sort, covered in mud. Well, I sat up and breathed. Found the old gaspers and lit one up. The kite is about thirty feet away or so, blazing from end to end, bits of it strewn everywhere. Did I just come out of that? In one piece? I feel no pain, everything works, not even winded. How is that possible? High above I see kites still chasing each other around, tracer-trails lacing the sky between them. It all looks very wonderful and I realise I must be in some kind of shock. Then I start laughing. I had another five kills confirmed Papa and I've been awarded a gong. I'm an ace apparently, which is jolly fun. But I think I've had enough of this caper now. Not that it'll cut much mustard anywhere. I shall see about getting some leave though. Love to all. Peter.

Suh-weet!

They are, and they're superb.

Must be. But so long as your plane doesn't go in circles while rolling on the ground you can ignore it, as should the devs. :yes:

It would make more sense to make the desk image a 2560 x 1600, that way you won't get tiling on even the biggest monitor (just me being anal I guess). Low quality will still look perfectly good and won't be a particularly large file-size.

Fw190. Dr1. Spitfire (BoB model). I was around five years old when my mother built and painted the old Airfix Dogfight-Double kit, Dr1 & Brisfit, and hung them from the bedroom ceiling. 1965 that was. I was given an early start. I built my own Dr1 and painted it red with a bit of tissue on a stick when I was eight.

Wow, good work on the tracers, seeing those coming at you looks way better now. Also the reduced accuracy of the rear gunners, still getting hit but it's not the devestating hail it once was. Far more realistic.

I'm assuming you chaps mean 2-seaters on their own? I can't recall seeing any alone, but I frequently encounter them in pairs or more, in various careers in various years.