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Absolutely laugh-out-loud funny. Either that bushel is ablaze or someone's hiding his light under it! Definitely genius, Lou.

Going a bit past my generic ability to help now, but assuming it has not changed from TIR 3, you'll want to assign the Smooth profile Lou suggests (with which I concur) to a game title so that TIR loads the profile when it detects the game. Again, unless it has changed, the game you want to select for BHaH is CFS 3. Section 5.8.2 of the manual shows you how to assign a profile to a title. See how that works for you and if the issue with your eye posses a problem then you'll need the curve editor... but you may well not.

HPW, have you considered whether it might be a difference in OS, or whether admin. right exist or not, that is accounting for the discrepancy in who apparently can, or cannot get the FM Mod to work in Campiagn Mode? Not saying it IS, but it's another base to cover.

Blimey! What will you be like when you start actually playing it then...

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Okay, okay. To stop Olham fretting that noone's trying hard enough , it's a Ponnier M.1 and the pilot is Abel De Neef. Taken at Koksijde airfield. Now, what is this fighter; what role was it designed for and what was interesting about its armament?

Well, as you know I don't have TIR 5, but doesn't the magnet on the stand pivot in the front-to-back plane? Might be a little stiff but it sure looks as if there's a pin from side-to-side which would allow that... indeed it would be pointless if you couldn't angle it.

The irony of this may amuse you, Olham. Whilst No. 24 Squadron were the first to use the DH2 in earnest (appears in game with them 07/02/16). The first DH2, the Prototype No. 4723 was attached to No. 5 Squadron in France on 26th July '15 for service evaluation. However, it was shot down by a German Naval Pilot on 9th August '15 and crash-landed in German lines, thus gifting the German forces with Britain's latest scout.

Based on my experience of your previous efforts I'm looking forward to this one... thanks for continuing to provide these, HPW.

I'd forgotten that, good point FB. I bought my vector expansion from RC Simulations and they were very helpful. Also, the general consensus around here (there was a thread about it) seems to be that you only need the trackclip that goes on your hat, not the pro thing that goes on your headset... which saves a little money, I think. Glad you like the sig, Rugbyfan. It's not to say that Commonwealth members didn't give service to be proud of in other areas though, of course.

Track IR has easily configurable profiles so it can be adjusted to overcome your problem. With a bit of said configuration I can 'see' behind me with a head turn of about 20 degrees, if I turn my head rapidly. That's a bit more than is practicable for me as I end up 'looking' behind my plane when I'm actually snatching a look at my X52 throttle . Point is, though that it's configurable and doesn't have to be symetrical, so you could have different movement ranges for left vs. right or up/down. I appreciate your doubts about 'taking the plunge'. I'm still using TIR 3 with the vector expansion, it's so good that I've never had cause to upgrade. My son picked it up for a few quid in a 'Cash Converters' type place. Have a look on eBay.

Ah, thanks for that, HW. I knew my extensive reading of 'Biggles' as a kid had left that snippet about permission in my brain, but I thought it was to do with incendiaries.

I'll bet he did... cos I did exactly the same

Please do... the more the merrier Richard is on holiday at the moment but I think there's another guide on its way when he's back.

You'd have to remember to get your C.O.'s affidavit that you're on a balloon bust too, in order to carry incendiaries and not risk being shot if captured. That would be another possible outcome to add to those we have already.

It's not a feature implemented in Phase 3... but has been mentioned before so who knows what may be coming along. It can be done by editing your pilot dossier. I think you just change the name of your unit if you want the same wingmen to go with you... but I confess I haven't done it so I'd await the advice of those who have... Creaghorn has, I believe and maybe, Hasse Wind?

Well, Hellshade's videos and several others here knock spots off the 'winner', certainly, but so do the second and third entries! They chose the crappest of the three as the winner

I can see both sides of the question. Once there is no one who might have known the dead, can they truly be remembered? Putting it harshly, aren't they in just the same position as the overgrown, crooked gravestones in our country churchyards, memorials to someone no one knew? However, with regard to the war dead, when there is no one left alive who might have been a contemporary of those who fell, then the danger is that those many cemetaries become more monuments to the conflict than memorials to the individual dead. Even when the myths are busted, e.g. about the First World War being pointless; about 'lions being led by donkeys'; about the 'lost generation' etc. - the scale of loss of life remains so great (and in WW2, too) and the effect on the World so pivotal that that it must all be remembered. And then, at the sharp end, war is fought by persons, by individuals, not by Powers acting as such. If we are to avoid the danger of comforatble detachment, then, for me and probably for others, especially after the passage of much time, remembrance is the more poignant and more real if there is a name, against which one might set a history, a list of deeds, descendents et cetera - if one sought to. The story of the 'Tomb of the Unknown Soldier' is very moving, but it does in actual fact reduce the remains that lie within it to the role of symbol, rather what they truly are, those of a person. To that end, I would advocate that DNA testing should indeed be carried out if the opportunity present itself - as it did in this situation re: Fromelles. If the bodies of the fallen are to be moved, e.g. from forgotten graves to a place where their sacrifice will be publicly honoured then by all means take the time to seek a name for each. And it may still bring closure, or at least a sense of that, even nigh 100 years later - that was evident from last night's programme, when one of the women featured noted that the sadness of her family's loss had passed through the generations... and alas her relative was not found. The CWGC's mission though, and that of its peers, is to honour those that fell (and continue to fall) - in perpetuity. The fact therefore that some body somewhere will always keep those young men and women at heart, even if the rest of the daily human traffic forgets, is justification enough for me.

I have uploaded to my webspace a Google Earth markup file of placemarkers for WW1 cemeteries and memorials that I've collected from various web browsings. You can download it here. Save it and double click to open it (if you have GE of course) and it should open GE and show the placemarkers. For one thing the sheer number (especially in France and Belgium) is heart-rending. For another, many have links to the various countries' war grave commissions, e.g. Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge where you can click through to pictures of the cemetery and the lists of the fallen. I sometimes, of a lunchtime or other breather, randomly click on a marker and go and pay my virtual respects... always puts the day's petty worries into perpective. It's not an exhaustive list and has some duplication, I'm afraid, for which I apologise... still a work in progress.

For those in the UK, Channel 4, 20:00 tonight 'Finding the Lost Battalions' is a documentary on the above.

A welcome to the OFF skies from me too, BigAl56. There are some as find the claim form filling a bind, and for such as these there is the option to turn it off in the Workshop. For others, such as meself and these good gentlemen who've stepped up ta offer ye advice so far, it enhances living in the character of your pilot. But the style of a man's play is his own to find, so give it a go both ways and in-between. Now, I'm normally a rare one for the drink meself, but if ye've a mind and the brass, a large Midleton if ye please. Sláinte mhaith!

I don't get much stick time these days at all but when I do I'll always favour the RNAS with the British, except for getting some SE5 action with No. 56. On the occasional German-side foray, again, I fly almost exclusively with one of the MFJs. Scenery-wise, as you might deduce, I like being at the coast, partly for the view, partly because dogfights over the sea have an extra 'je ne sais quoi', pour moi.

Had a double-take on the above, I'd swear that was a Rebel B-Wing at the bottom left, few centimetres in from the left edge!

I think Lou does the above gentlemen something of a disservice. I blame most of the rejections on their incompetent secretary, Miss Fylde. Ahem!

Me, I'm not going to make any suggestions, whether they be daft or brilliant. If any of the great ideas posted above are to be implemented I want them in THIS sim first. So, like the developers I'll play it close to my chest and if I think of something REALLY good I'll maybe drop Pol, Winder or Shredward a line... not that I'm paranoid or anything... even if everyone IS saying so. Besides, I quite like the idea of the goodies in P4 being a complete mystery... 's more like Christmas! SHH! The walls have iPhones.