MikeDixonUK

Update Have two updates to add to this issue, first of all - when I try to actualy fly the error missions, the mission fails to load with the following screen: After which it loads me into what seems to be the default CFS3 quick mission generator. Second update is that this issue is resolved once RNAS-1 transfers back to France on the 16th of February 1918, as after that the missions generate as usual, so this is just an issue with the period between December the 10th 1917 and February the 15th 1918 being unplayable for an RNAS-1 Campaign.

Thanks Uncleal, although at the moment I'm wondering if it might be an error with the Campaign design as opposed to my install, as it would make sense there being what seems to be a waypoint error upon my Squadron returning to England (as there isn't realy much to do there in WW1 ), also there was an error with the DiD Campaign a while ago where the German Squadron came across an error upon transfering to a new Aerodrome, (which required a patch I think) so it's not totally unheard of. Easy way to work out if it's my install or if it's an issue with the campaign design would be for someone to make a RNAS-1 Campaign starting on the 10th of December 1917 to see if they get that error as well. If it does turn out to be just my install I'll probably just wait until the Squadron transfers back to France and see if the missions start working again as usual.

Congratulations, in advance!

That'll be where Star Wars got the idea from then I suppose, those three probably just got back from fighting the Battle of Hoth:

Very Pythonesque.

If that new picture is where I think it looks to be then it's quite apt - although it might be somewhere completely different as there aren't any obvious identifying marks for someone that hasn't been there. That said there do seem to be a lot of Golf Courses in this place. (presuming that's a Golf Course in the picture.)

It's interesting how the picture quality seems to vary quite a bit between different areas - I'd have thought that Google would use the same setup for all their Street View Cars, wouldn't have thought that Camera technology has advanced that much between when different images were taken. Maybe I'm just thinking too much into it.

Judging by Olham's Maps it's Hobart, Tasmania. Salamanca Place, it would seem. (Yes I have too much time on my hands! ) Good game by the way Olham.

I was browsing YouTube again and found a variation of 'A poor Aviator lay dying'

Just wondering, seeing as we're entering the time of the year were there are a lot of nasty looking clouds... As there are often large banks of clouds that cover the area at a certain altitude, (such at 5000ft) but which the AI seem to ignore and fly through more often than not - and in the OFF options there's an option to set the player flight maximum altitude (18,000ft, 10,000ft or 3000ft I think - presuming this makes the AI flight leader fly lower if you're not flight leader), would it be possible to make it so that the maximum flight altitude (AI as well) can be linked to the weather system - so that if there are clouds at 10,000 feet the maximum flight altitude would be 9000 feet or some such? P5 perhaps?

That's one mighty fine collection you've got there Lou! Must have one big bookcase too! The only somewhat academic titles I own are Cornelius Ryan's 'A Bridge Too Far' and Robert Shaw's 'Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering', so I surrender to your book mastery.

Thanks for the response Pol!

Sort of the point of the request, it must be said.

I've worked out what that 'strange feeling' I was on about is. In other flight sims (IL2 for example) when you move the Aircraft the camera will shift slightly to simulate your head moving due to the forces - ie if you pull up sharply your head moves down, and likewise if you push down sharply your head moves up. Wouldn't class it as being my number 1 requested feature as it's quite a minor thing realy and is probably a CFS3 issue anyway, but it's just one of those immersion things that makes it feel more like you're the Pilot in an Aircraft rather than a camera angle. Just thought I'd clear up what I was gibbering on about before.

From my uninformed point of view it sounds a bit like when SOE (not to be confused with the Special Operations Executive ) brought out the 'New Game Enhancements' (NGE) for Star Wars Galaxies - which changed a lot of the player proffessions and heavily reduced the dynamics of it all (i.e. previously there were a lot of professions, which you could share skill points in - i.e you could be a Rifleman who is also a Bounty Hunter - with a bit of a Medic) where as now it's all cookie cutter 'You are a Bounty Hunter!' or 'You are an Officer!' stuff, which made a lot of people quit the game. Personally I didn't mind that much, I don't think it was a good idea and I didn't want it - but it wasn't enough to make me quit, the worst part though is that they made it so you could be a Jedi from the second you start the game, and could wander around with a Lightsabre saying that you were Dark Lord Supercool of Awesometown VI withou being killed horribly. For me as a fanatical Imperial Stormtrooper Officer that's just not on.

Thanks for the tips, Uncleal - although I was meaning it more for other AI Formations, so you don't get enemy Scouts flying around in the clouds - or get a mission to escort some two seaters in the middle of a cloud bank, etc.

Not a WW1 or Flying song, but I like to think the chaps in the RNAS would sing Heart of Oak every now and again - being good Naval chaps and all that. Come, cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer, To add something more to this wonderful year; To honour we call you, as freemen not slaves, For who are so free as the sons of the waves? Heart of oak are our ships, heart of oak are our men, we always are ready; Steady, boys, steady! We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again. After that it all gets a bit anti-French, and seeing as we're all friends in this one they'd probably miss that part out. Of course when I say they sing it I probably mean I start singing it and force them to join in... I'll have to learn this 'We haven't got a hope in the morning' if it's based on John Peel - Being of the Cumbrian persuasion.

You seem to have pranged your Kite old boy. I think Paris is in P3 as well, I seem to remember going there in the Ford at some point during the DiD Campaign when I was on leave, although I think I flew all the way there in the magical Model T. I might have been drunk and never even left the Aerodrome - of course...

Welcome, Andy - glad to have you with us. And don't worry, your English is much better than my German.

Very hard to pick one thing to single out as the number one wanted feature. I suppose I'd join in with the wish for what happens to Wingmen in the game to be translated to the Manager. Other close contenders would be: Improved AI (Not that the current AI isn't good, but it's the never ending quest to make life harder for ourselves.) Less bloody battles (already mentioned.) Early War Aircraft. Cockpit view Propeller. Better night lighting. Enhanced Ground Battles (I like to bomb things.) Sopwith Dolphin. And if we were going for a dream list, I'd say less ridgid ground crashes (ie when you touch the ground slightly with a wing, or prang a wind sock and it's the game over screen) - a bit more like in IL2, where wings and wheels and the like can snap off and you end up rolling along the ground. And I get a strange feeling in OFF that I can't quite explain - it sometimes seems as if the world is moving around me, as opposed to me moving around the world - not sure what it is that causes it though, odd. Im sure whatever we get will be amazingly brilliant either way!

The scene you're referring to can be seen in this YouTube clip: Aces High Clip Aye it's a strong scene, the bit that always gets me is the look on Gresham's (Malcolm McDowell) face as he watches him falling on fire, and equally the look when he sees each of his Wingmen being killed one by one - first he looks appalled, then he looks angry, then he looks like he's just had enough and wants to go home. And of course at the start of the film when Dixon gets killed. My favorite WW1 Film also - not counting of course! If you can fly a Sopwith Camel - you can fly anything!

Somewhat off topic, but it's from the same War and I thought there might be some Chaps around here who know their stuff. I've been doing some passing research into my close Family History (read as: searching the numerous internet family history based websites) and am so far up to a Great Grandfather, whom we know was called Gerald Lyhnam, fought in WW1 and was from Scotland (not exactly a lot to go on, but what can you do) and with that information have found this medal card from the end of WW1 (from The National Archives), which seems to be the only evidence that someone called Gerald Lyhnam ever existed (on the internet at least): (Note the odd spelling of the surname Lyhnam, as opposed to the more common Lynam/Lynham.) The information we've been able to gather thus far is that he was in the Royal Scots (R. Scots in the Corps table) and the Machine Gun Corps (MGC in the Corps Table) as a Private, that he served in Western Europe (Theatre of War: 1) and that he first went on the 2nd of October 1915, and presumably either left the Army or the medal card was issued on the 18th of February 1919 with a Victory Medal, British War Medal and 1915 Star. Other than that we think that the two Regiment Numbers are his personal numbers from when he was serving in those Regiments, the part next to Victory in the Roll table seems to say MGC/101B16, which the nearest I've been able to guess is that he was in the 101st Machine Gun Company and / or the 16th Battalion (B16). Not sure what it says next to 15 Star in the Roll table, something like MGC/164 (164th Machine Gun Company?)- equally, not sure what it says infront of the 18/2/19 part - something like C.L. Z a.r. (CL Might mean he was sent a dated clasp for the Ribbon and ZAR might mean he was an Army Reserve.) Also there's an X in front of the R. Scots part, and another X between the Victory and British lines, which escape me. Any assistance from someone more knowledgeable than I (wouldn't be hard ) would be much appreciated.

The National Archives website has a page for finding out information from Medal Cards http://www.nationala...line/medals.asp which is what's helped me to find out what I have thus far, but it doesn't seem to go in to specific details such as what the /101B16 part etc mean or what the two "X" es mean (not that I can see anyway.) Upon closer inspection it seems that the MGC/101B16 refers to the part of the medal roll where the medals are recorded, rather than what Company / Battalion he was in, etc. I've ordered a copy of the page from the medal roll with his details on from The National Archives to see if I can find any more info from that. Thanks for the help.

Here's a very basic one from me: The Man from Aberdeen I knew a Man from Aberdeen, who joined the Corps in '17, to bravely fight for King and Queen, I knew a Man from Aberdeen. I knew a Man from Aberdeen, a braver Man there's never been, his reflexes - they were so keen, I knew a Man from Aberdeen. I knew a Man from Aberdeen, who caught a Bullet in his Spleen, and after that was never seen, Goodbye the Man from Aberdeen...