nbryant

Went on my first sortie covering a flight of Sopwith 1 1/2's behind lines to make a few morning drops on an army bivouac with the Escadrille in Spad VII's. Flight departed just after 8 a.m. and within the half hour we were oversite and the Strutters were dishing out their morning wake up call. We were welcomed by a flight of four DIII's and they mixed it up with our flight of eight. I was able tp pounce on one and after making a second pass, along with two mates, I place about 40 rounds into him and that was enough for him to go into a controlled descent but unfortunately for him he could not manuever around a tree line. I immediately banked and began climbing to regain altitude and rejoin the flight and as I did I passed over a local airbase. Flak was chasing me and I fluttered left and right to lessen their targeting ability but it wasn't good enough. A shell burst close to me and made a mess of my crate, worst of all it damaged the engine. It sputtered something terrible but I pushed the throttle forward realizing the need to gain altitude. She coughed and spit but continued firing. I turned west and was able to climb to 8000 ft and make another 20 minutes. This was enough to bring me just to our side of the front and while turning to head to my field the engine had enough and died. As the airframe settled I looked around and saw a spotter nearby and began making my way to them intending to land nearby. Dead sticking it I was making my approach when I realized the area was full of tree stumps and not wanting to take any chance with them I rolled left and quickly found a field adjacent to a small town and rolled in thier easily. An eventful and exciting morning to say the least. Time on deck, approximately 0930 and I was at least 20-25 miles from home. So the game goes back to the squadron screen and I fill in my claim and return to the duty room and it is now 1230 on the same day and I am scheduled for another sortie. Damn, the squadorn is staffed and I know the new guy is always abused but let me try to catch my wits about me before sending me out again!

Personally I have a set of the Bose Companion series. A bit pricey but excellent sound quality.

Maybe they were Northwest pilots playing on their laptops!

As a newbie I must admit....... 5 campaigns started, max length achieved 2.3 hours, no kills and have been chased and waxed twice.... AI seems pretty damn good to me. Have a decent system and am able to run my sliders on all 5's. Do wish the damage models displayed in hi-vis setting. I have been running it in norm to see the damage but may run the high vis to see the difference.

Thanks...... will try that for my next pilot. Third mission was selected to lead a flight of DIII's against a railyard and while on my 4th pass lost my right upper wing.

Thanks P.

At the conclusion of each of my last two missions the flights return to the airfield having completed objectives and reaching all waypoints, yet instead of landing the flights continue on. Both instances I have continued in the flight but after 5 minutes roll out and return to the field. Post flight debrief reveals a lost aircraft yet during the mission up until I left no one was lost. Was wondering if anyone else has had this occur? Also, for two seaters is the gunner AI controlled when not player controlled?

rickity.... gonna have tp sepend time working on some. Have a number of templates for sports, avatars, etc, but those I modded from others offerings. This will be virgin turf.

Is it possible to add user generated skins in the aircraft folder? Will it show up for selection?

Polovski..... game was updated to 1.32 before I installed HiR. For the little I have done seems to be the French fighter escadrille squadron (last on the list). Will try a couple of others to see if its isolated. Oh, BTW, as a noobie here....... thanks for everything you and OBD put into this. Can't wait to get more into it and then apply some of my amatuer photoshop skills to working some more skins......

Will contact support but wanted to add a follow up. I deleted both of the unlimitedpilot files and generated a new pilot and had the same issue. Was able to get back in game and was prompted to reste my CFS settings. Did so in the workshop and was able to fly. On a side note set up a french pilot in the escadrille with the squadron set at the earliest date with the nieuport 11 and the issue would develop again. Selected a different squadron and got it started. Just an FYI.

....posted this as a reply on a sticky. Looking for any guidance. First post. Installed OFF for the first time yesterday. Flew a few quick missions to orient myself and like everyone here am thrilled with the product. Noticed the expansion was available and jumped all over it. After installing everything went well but when I tried to begin my mission the game went to the initialization screen and hung up. Hitting alt-tab after 5 minutes I found a window with the following in it: An invalid character was found in text content. Error on line 91, position 47 in file:///c:users/the%20bryant's/appdata/roaming/microsoft/cfsww1%20over%20flanders%20fields/unlimitedpilota.xml