Firecage

Sorry guys, I was going to try and make it tonight but im in retail and my 6pm job turned into a 9pm job but I made great money and sold some great gear to them so all is well.

I am going to jump on now so any late hight players that are around can come fly a mission or two for the fun of it.

I got the same msg today when I logged on to TS. Did you figure out what to do yet Duck?

I don't really see a way to add to address book and I am not real sure about adding an IP to my address book that I don't know who it is.

Any info on this would be great.

Very sorry I did not get to fly sunday. I guess I should expect the holidays to happen but un-expected family is one of my pet peves....

Sitting around the house in my robe and cup of coffee... watching "Apocalypse Now" and then a knock at the door. THen I get the "hope ya don't mind us dropping by but we were in the area"....

SO now im going from a nice sunday morning of flying with you guys to in-laws and 3 kids that want to go shopping for christmas. Next thing I know I am otw to the mall to go shopping with them for hours on end.

Now thats over and we are otw home and it happens.... "hey lets all go out for dinner and a movie or something". Oh God take me now im thinking...

The short endng is at around 9pm they leave and the wife isn't in a great mood either. She told me to go fly for a bit and she ran to the store and got us a bottle of wine and some cheese. We sat up and watched movies most of the night and turned off the phones and lights just in case someone tried to drop by again.

I did see the pic of the take off and thats just a great shot. I will try and AVOID un announced visits this next week and maybe I can get with some of you this week to fly a few after work.

Very cool! Was that song from Pink Floyd Live in Pompei?

No its someone Im sure you haven't heard of. Does have a bit of the Floyd twenge tho I guess....

Just some film from Friday night MP... some good action in the Dr1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZNKGtqeAi8

My new Dr1 skin.

Vasco. Is there a set number of Dr1's(or any plane) lets say that are avaiable?

THanks... looking forward to Sunday

Welcome to the online fun!!

We will be getting together this Sunday for a run of missions as well if you want to join us.

great info firecage. But its kinda like reading a book about playing tennis...and expecting to go out and kick ass...

 

how about setting up an mp session, where you can teach us "hands on"

If I am online just ask and we can go get er dun...

Hey all ... Been doing alot of Dr1 flying solo and im really seeing a few things that I wanted to share as well as ask for others to add their own info here as well. This will be kind of an on going online Plane data base perhaps.

1) The Dr1 drove me nuts for a while with the way its wants to twist into the ground or flip over and spin/tumble to your death. Very easy to have this happen when just starting on this plane as a new pilot.

2) I am finding its more the prolonged twisting that seems to cause this problem. I started flying the plane like a dirt race car and thrown it around real fast and let let up on the stick and the plane will not tend to stall.

3) I saw a show on A&E about the fight between Voss and the SE5 squad. I know for sure they had the CAD system set up to look cool but I saw the DR1 makes a few moves there and I always wanted to have a WWI game that would let me do them. Its a 180deg spin and return fire move. I have found the Dr1 to be able to do this and barely lose airspeed. Granted I can only get it to work when im really slow so it leads to dying alot if you dont do it right. it's a controlled turn and you want to the plane to stall in the spin. As soon as you see the spin let up on the stick and it will flip right around and stable to head right back at them.

4) Tail swimming seems to be an amazing way to treat this plane. I have been throwing th tail really hard to slide around and the plane wont hardly stall. it seems to work better for me than smooth turns were doing. It seems to be the prolonged use of control surfaces degrade more than I expected so I noticed they dont work as fast when used hard but very quick.

5) Always get above them before I fight.... If you get above an enemy in this plane theres not to many reasons to not go home alive. If I take my time and be methodical I can take almost any AI plane down. My rushing to kill and stupidy do me in 75% of the time.

6) Never try and dive for very long .... things fall off, the plane stops responding and you start floating like a leaf. I come down to about 500 above them and then go for the kill. Slow seems to be where this plane shines anyways.

One thing bad I see... this plane will tumble end over end in a stall. it will floatstraight down if you DONT come out of your hammer head in time. This usually leads to dying. I have not found a way out from rev rudder and forwad stick or anything not even auto level helped.

I know we all fly differently so if you see things differently I encourage you to thorw in some ideas on this plane as well. I am more than willing to look at new ideas. I also alot of you know this sim way better than I do so please speak up.

I will fly anything you can get hold of from them. What ever planes and dates im down for.

I as well im in retail and its retail hell right now at work ... ok well work is a strong word for my job but still its retail and I don't have time to convert but, I could see making a time during the week to try and fly. Wed is the only day that's not open at this point but scheduling at work this time of year is likely to change to more and more hours till the season is over.

Only thing I fly right now at all is the Dr1 so I can be comfortable with it so a change of pace might be alot of fun.

Let me know if anyone ha a time planned. I am home and ready to fly around 7-8pm cst. Even If I only hit the last fight It would be worth it for me at last to fly with you all.

Im a musician and between gig I work at a guitar center. Been playing guitar in bands for about 39 years now. Mostly Roadhouse stomp and blues stuff. I have done pretty much every style of music in those years.

WHen I had to make ends meet here and there I was in the IT world doing Server Upgrades and Support for boring and the Feds at times... but only as long as I had to... hate the feds as a boss.

If you want to hear some of the original work we do feel free to drop by and check it out

http://www2.mixposure.com/MichaelLee/music.php

I play the guitar, sings, write, produce and manage the band.

I also have one of the strangest schedules and can be online at strange hours flying when im not writing , playing or at GC during the day.

Not a problem.... I figure the allies will see him . Jump in between us I get the shot and we use Vasco as a .... err well whats the term .... hhmmm not bait, no... target...no... er oh yea! Forward scout.

Very Impressive career....

Sorry to see one go down in thismanner after such a good run.

MORE PICS FROM SUNDAYS ONLINE MISSION's

German Convoy Protecting our base. Taken as we came back for landing after a long mission sunday.

Firecage DR1 after the 2nd mission on the home airfield.

We seem to have a few more camels in the area than we were ready for.... this was during the fight when Vasco and myself were trying to stay alive and still get some kills in.

Firecage coming in for the kill on the 2 leading planes.

Firecage after the assult on the falling camel in the lower corner of the pic.... Anyone need a slightly damaged camel? Selling cheap... needs work.

Sorry but you just can't have this kinda fun in single player missions. These missions are the same ones you are flying already ALONE.... come fly with other pilots and make your claim to fame here with us.

We had many times where a human pilot came in to peel an enemy plane off one of our own. Somthing not seen in SP mode. Team killing is so much easier than those AI guys your flying with now.

Anyone that wants to fly some missions needs to come fly with us and see what the game REALLY has to offer and have other human pilots in there with you.

Get with ANY of us in this forum and we can get you up and running in a very short time and gain your ace skills in real time. SO your a great shot? Get in here and lets have some fun !!

i just recently tried fraps, and when acitvating it during flying my fps drop to about 5. as soon as i deactivate the recording again it jumps back to normal figures. any idea?

Most people in that are doing it at 1/2 size of your screen to it takes alot less memory and cycles to eat up what your game wants to use. run it at 1/2 size of screen and I think it will work better for you and looks great.

As someone said above.... its an art thing. I have many pilots worried about the shotand crashed before many times.

OK got this one installed... im out here on TS if someone wants to drop by and run a few tests.

In the event of having more than 16 players assembled for any mission, players who die during the mission will sit the next one out (in the order that they died) to allow players who have not flown to participate. e.g. 18 players assemble for the first sortie. 16 players participate and 5 die during the mission. The first two to die will sit the next mission out to allow the players who have not yet flown fly in the second mission of the session, etc. Rinse and repeat.

I think this is a great way to handel the extra pilots. I think also if someone needs a break for something RL they can hand over as well or just pass around the baton and let everyone get a chance.

This idea has good pratical merit and makes you think more about what your going to do in a fight. MVR didn't get the kills by making bad survival choices *well till that last one anyways

Im ready for Sunday's meyham.....

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I will make sure im at the fight this coming sunday. Family health issue took me away this weekend. If you have an extra put me in a dr1

Sorry I missed the action today. Had a fast family emergency with my mom.

I should be in for the next sunday run just fine.

I would like to sign up for the DR1 next sunday if we have one open. That plane drives me crazy but I AM NOT going to give up till I learn it well.

Firecage out

Spins for sure... Over pushing the plane... Lucky stupidity wasn't an option ...

I lose 80% or more to spins. 20% enemy fire when I did recover from those spins .... :yes:

Thats my theory Firecage, active pilots get the kill.

 

 

Beard

Well maybe its old RB3 Online days but I feel bad if I jump in on a kill you have going and I didnt see it. I try to get out of the way when I notice.... im old and not as quick on the uptake.

I really am trying to get more into the idea of staying alive and not a game setting on campaign missions. The weirdest things have happened to kill pilots I have ever seen.

90% of my pilot die tho to pushing to hard and not thinking ahead a bit more when im in the DF. . I really need to rethink my tactics alot.

Well I have a way that works for me. If I respawn and Im in an AI plane that I took over and can help, im probably going to jump in and help someone out. When its time to get the kill let the other guy grab the kill since he is still in original plane.

If I spawn a long way off I tend to auto pilot and not join or race back unless they call for help.

Now on other nights when we are flying for practice then by all means get a new planes and jump right back in.

I didn't think it was that big a deal really. We tried a custom plane folder for beard and it didn't work out and we went back to the orig plan. I think it was all pretty easy and not that big of a deal.

I would like ot get that part sorted out so the aces can wear the custom skins after the X amount of kills.

Keep the idea heading this way. We need to try these kinda things and get them worked out.

No biggie i nmy book at least.