quack74

I got all my two-seaters' rear gunners to fire. But I'm having a problem with the DH-4 rear gunner. He doesnt seem to fire 99.9% of the time and when he does it's just one burst maybe every 10 seconds. But will only shoot twice or three times. Aso doesnt seem to be locking on to any close enemy aircraft. I've checked all info in the DATA.ini file and all gunner info seems to be the same as other RAF two seaters that work just fine. Any ideas? Can someone post there DATA.ini file for their working gunner so I can compare? Thanks in advance.

Very cool trick. How'd you figure that one out? Wish I knew that before . That was one of those things that bugged me about the Pfalz wings. I guess I have a lot of fixing to do . Thanks again Heck.

Awsome! Thanks Heck. Good to hear from you too.

The problem with the No.202 Squad wheel discs being red and white halves is the wheels themselves don't rotate. Only the tires rotate. Can anyone fix this? For now I just changed the position of the red and white on one of the wheels to make them appear uneven. But for now they don't spin. Oh, and thanks for the compliments . Always nice to hear.

I know you wanted something in a complete PC10 paint job Bucky. I already had these in the works.

Does it drive anyone else crazy when you're in the middle of a great dogfight and poof! you lose sight of the enemy and you're not even in the clouds? If you're even close to the clouds you lose the padlock. As long as I can see the enemy ,I should be able to stay locked on. Does anyone know where to change these Padlock values? Flight folder? Or Environment Systems?

I thought it was just me. But when I too select "Closest Enemy Target" It will select any aircraft thats closest. Enemy or friendly. And if I try to select "Next Visual Enemy Target", again it will go to the next closest aircraft. Friendly or enemy. I've done a new install of this sim a couple of times, and it happens every time when I get to the Nov'08 update I think. Very anoying proplem. Needs a fix for sure. As far as the padlock, there are clouds nearby when I lose the padlock on an enemy. We (myself and the target) aren't neccessarily in the clouds when the padlock is lost. Just at cloud level or near the clouds. This is way too sensitive. It should be much harder to lose the padlock on an enemy. The enemy or myself should be IN the clouds and out of sight.

Some pics of Jasta16b D.III's I'm working on. Be done soon.

These are now in the FE download section. Anyone know of anymore please let me know. Enjoy

Just some pics of some F2b's of No.11 Squadron I've been doing. The F2b needs more skins. There will be an A flight (white wheels), B flight (red wheels), and a C flight (blue wheels). Just need to touch up some more. Not sure if I should add numbers or letters for some of the flights. Hmmm.

These are now in the FE download section. A Flight, B Flight, and C Flight. Anyone see anything that should be changed let me know here. Enjoy

File Name: Jasta16b 9-pack File Submitter: quack74 File Submitted: 27 Jan 2010 File Updated: 03 Jun 2010 File Category: Pfalz Skins Updated June, 2010 This Pfalz D.IIIa 9-pack is from Jasta 16b late 1917 to 1918. 1. Vzfw. Max Holtzem - Star emblem on fuselage and upper wing 2. Oblt. Friedrich von Roth - Blk & wht diagonal sash on fuselage 3. Uffz. Eugen Fortig - Two vertical blk stripes on fuselage 4. Vzfw. Josef Schaefer - Rear fuselage in blk & wht stripes 5. Lt.d.R. August Handl - Horizontal blk stripe on fuselage 6. Red Heart - Pilot unknown - Red heart on fuselage 7. Full Stripes - Pilot unknown - Vertical blk & wht stripes on fuselage 8. Vfw Andreas Triebswetter - Horizontal black fuselage stripes 9. Generic Jasta 16b skin Thanks to Capun1950 for permission to use the skin template. And thanks to the entire SFP1 A-Team for providing the Pfalz.DIIIa model. You can find the PfalzD3a model at http://cplengineeringllc.com/SFP1/ A password is needed. Enjoy, quack74 Click here to download this file

File Name: F2B's of No.11 Squadron File Submitter: quack74 File Submitted: 27 Jan 2010 File Category: Other Entente Aircraft Skins This F2B 3-pack is from No.11 Squadron France 1917-1918. 1. "A" Flight - white wheels and numbers 2. "B" Flight - Red wheels and letters 3. "C" Flight - Blue wheels and letters Thanks to Southside Bucky for the fine tuning Thanks to Capun1950 for permission to use the skin template. And thanks to the entire SFP1 A-Team for providing the F2b model. This skin and decals were created by quack74. Not for profit nor intent to sell. Only as a download for those who are registered at SFP1 A-Teams Skunkworks site,(http://cplengineeringllc.com/SFP1/) and have downloaded the Bristol F2B to use with First Eagles. Enjoy, quack74 Click here to download this file

Sorry I dont have the time right now to respond to your well explained descriptions. But may I say I'm honored you replied to my thread. I have read many of your posts over at theaerodrome.com for the last couple of years. I'm fairly new to WWI aviation and in the last couple of years have bought many books and started doing my own research. As you can tell from my skins, I'm trying to get them as accurate as possible. There are some mistakes I know. But like you said "sometimes a best guess is all we have to go on, at least until more information is uncovered". It's very very frustrating to say the least. Ofcourse the most colorful era for aviation is photographed in black and white . Thank you JFM for your help

I'll tell ya Bucky, it seems that the compitition has stolen FE's thunder. Where is everybody?????????? Not a good sign Third Wire better come out with something good for FE and soon! This Jasta 11 thread took me away from finishing the F2b's. I'll finish them first. They're coming out real nice.

1. Did Karl Schafer's earlyD.III have a yellow nose and a yellow band just aft of the cockpit but just ahead of the black rear fuselage? And what was the color of the wheel discs? 2. Did MvR's early D.III have standard finish on the rear horizontal stabilizers and elevators as well as on the wings? 3. Wolff's early D.III with the rear fuselage painted purple, what were the wings painted? standard or purple - brown - purple? 4. A million more questions I have to remember this is for a game, not a research book

All those things you mentioned are things I and I'm sure others have wondered about. In the above photos there is a red fuselage D.III with no markings but has the three color wings. Culd this one be used as MvR's early D.III? WarlordATF and myself have this one down as Festner's DIII. But I dont think there is a photo of Festners DIII anyway. If this DIII could be used as MvR's, then would it be safe to say it was used in this colorscheme till the middle or end of April 1917? Then after this date, when most of Jasta 11's DIII's fuselages were painted in overall red, would it be safe to say thats when MvR used the ALL red DIII? Before the arival of the DV that is. So the all red DIII (if there was one) was only used for 1 month? His first DV I didnt include with my Jasta11 DV's. Just the all red one. His first DV had a standard fuselage with red nose, red wings and struts, red wheel discs with red struts, and a complete red tail section I believe. This is the one he was shot in the melon in I'm sure. Is this wrong? As far as Lubbert's D.III, I have seen a few pics of this one. Such an odd paint job. The blue does seem to be a bit lighter you're right about that. I'll work on that and see how it looks. Ok, There were two Lubberts with Jasta 11 in early 1917. Brothers. Eddie Lubbert(?) I think flew the blue and yellow D.III early on but was killed early before June 1917(dont remember where I read the date). BUT there are a couple of photos of an Albatros D.V with what appears to be the same color scheme after E. Lubberts death. His brother maybe???? Does anyone know of this? There is a photo of MvR's DV and this other blue(?) and yellow(?) with white stripe D.V infront of hangers visiting Koghol 3 in the summer of 1917. Again Eddie Lubbert was dead by this time. I would like to do a D.V in this color scheme if it did indeed exist and belong to Jasta 11. Anyone have anything to add please do. Now Kurt Wolff's D.III. WarlordATF did include a version with just the rear fuselage and tail section in purple. I can add this color scheme. But, as MvR's D.III wasnt all red till mid to late April 1917, can I say that Wolff's D.III was painted this way until the same time before becoming (all?) purple? And were the wings painted purple-brown-purple early on with the natural varnished fuselage and purple tail? His later D.III was said to have light blue wheel discs. I have to change that. Thanks for the info Bucky. I'll work on these the next couple of days.

A hand full of these Albatros D.V skins were also done by Saltfiskur. I just had to tweak them a bit to remove the painted on Baulkencruez insignias. The Pfalz D.IIIa skins are by me. And I created a few more Albatros D.V's that appear in the original lineup photo. That photo can be found in Osprey's "Pfalz Scout aces of WWI" on page 32, And also in "Pfalz Aircraft of World War I" by Jack Harris on pages 31, bottom and 40, top. So I'll post a complete Jasta 15 line up mix of Albatros and Pfalz aircraft as soon as I hear from Saltfiskur. Havnt heard from him in a while. Hope he's still around . All the info will be in the readme file.

I'll start on'em after I post the F2b and Pfalz skins I just did. I will need some references for sure. I'll let you know.

Thanks bucky. I'll do a seperate skin for A-7288 since it is pretty famous. The skins I do are just random. I've done more Fokker Dr1's and Albatros fighters that I havnt posted yet. Even some Pfalz DIII's. But if you or anyone else has a request, by all means ask. I'll do what ever I can Maybe I'll do F2b's from No.48 Sqn with the two vertical fuselage stripes. I dont know. I had a bunch of Jasta 15 Albatros D.V's and three Pfalz D.III's from March 1918 when Berthold took over JGII. And I did a few for Bertholds jasta 18 from late 1917, still with the blue and red fuselages. But Saltfiskur posted some of them already. So I'll ask him first. I had to remove the Insignias from his skins so they can be used with the eizencruez and balkencruez markings. There is a line up photo of Jasta 15 in march 1918 with Berthold's Pfalz D.IIIa at the far right of the line up. I did all those aircraft. I think there was 13 or 14 aircraft. I would like to post them all.

Here is A flight with Numbers, B and C flight with letters. The serial numbers have been enlarged and all start with A-71** and A-72**. Please, if anyone sees anything that needs to be changed let me know. Remember there isnt much I can do with the weathering and fuselage appearance.