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I'm not sure if this is what BuB was referring to in his AA post, but I just finished a mission in the Escadrille Americaine campaign I am flying, and the cannon fire was WAAAAAY over the top! June 21, 1916, flying out of Behonne about midday and I no sooner left the aerodrome when the most gawd aweful racket started up from the big guns. It honestly sounded as if every cannon and AA along the entire front was going off right below me, and it never stopped for the entire 45 minute flight. I am wondering if this might be a glitch in the new Super Patch. Has anyone else experienced this since installing it? I felt that the noise from the cannons before was quite realistic, but what I just went through was downright painful. I had to turn the volume down to almost nil for the last 10 minutes of the flight because it was starting to drive me a bit batty, (and I don't have that far to go I'm afraid). Any help here would be much appreciated. (Eh? What's that? Can't hear you, ears are still ringing.) Cheers! Lou

BuB, if your aerodrome is located near a busy part of the front it is likely artillery fire you are hearing and not AA. The big guns would rumble day and night when a push was on. Cheers! Lou

Taste the rainbow...LOL! Also called nine pin, Olham. Basically it's bowling, but with more drinking, (if that's even possible). Cheers! Lou

Outstanding contemporary book BuB, by an outstanding individual. I have read it myself at least twice and I would highly recommend it Sir. Cheers! Lou

Oh sure BuB, if you want to start him at the END of the War. But I agree, the SE5a is an excellent choice. Cheers! Lou

I haven't been over in this thread for a while. WOW! More great pics, some of which I am going to nab for screensavers. Well done all. Cheers! Lou

The Strutter is about as forgiving as they come. Plus you can fight and bomb with it Ace. Cheers! Lou

Oh Cripes, now we're in for it! Hide the fish and chips! Olham will be playing skittles next, just you wait and see.

MMMMMMMMM...Newcastle Brown. I like dark ales. The darker the better, all the way up to that thick, chewy extra stout they brew over in Ireland. :yes: Cheers! Lou

Yes Sir, it would be fun to have one of those fitted to an early RNAS seaplane and give a go at sub hunting. But I have so much still to learn and do with BHaH the way it is that it's not very pressing at the moment. Cheers! Lou

Rickitycrate wrote: You've always been able to taxi into the hangers Sir, at least in P3, (I even did a video about pulling your bus into the shed a while back). What's nice now is that there are actually a few things to see instead of just walls, floor and roof. Very nice. Cheers! Lou

It is also referred to as "hate". I have run across this term now and then in the personal notes and diaries of the British WW1 pilots, as in, "They were certainly throwing a lot of hate our way this morning as we crossed the mud." Cheers! Lou

SFP1Ace, you're gonna love...just love it. Cheers! Lou

Zactly right.

Steve, if you use CCleaner it will take care of all those nasty little bits and pieces for you, as well as old deleted files you no longer need or use. Here is the link for the free download: CCleaner I use it once a day and after all uninstalls. I highly recommend it. Cheers! Lou

Greetings All, I had mentioned in stump-jumper's Caudron post that I had a photo of a G4 with an experimental mount of the Davis recoiless large bore gun, and was wondering how many of you had ever run across this particular weapon in your WW1 studies. If you are not familiar with it, here is an excellent article that covers it quite well: The Davis Gun There were certainly a lot of unusual ideas concerning aerial comabt that came out of this war. Necessity really is the mother of invention. Cheers! Lou

stumpjumper, I see you now have some very good pics to work off of for the bomb racks on the G4. I did find a photo showing not only the racks but also an experimental mount of the Davis recoiless large bore gun on the front of the bus, (intended to be used for night work and balloon busting, I don't know that it ever made it into actual service). If you would like that photo I can get it scanned and posted this week, (my scanner at home recently went west). So, will this new G4 also be sharing some air space with your Henriot over in the Italian sectors? And what is the status of that Voisin? Inquiring minds want to know. Cheers! Lou

Outstanding! Thank you Steve for sharing these. I have them safely saved to my WW1 resources folder. Cheers! Lou

WM, I can certainly appreciate being busy Sir. I have also been coming up very short on available flight time as of late. Hope you will be able to get into the virtual skies more often again very soon. Cheers! Lou

Winder, you beat me to the punch Sir. I was going to offer the same answer to BuB's dilemma. I have flown the Camel a great deal in this sim, and it is by far my favorite mount. Once it's idiosyncrasies are sorted out it is unbeatable. Winston, I don't agree Sir that the Camel has been made too hard to fly by the OFF devs. I believe it has been made far too easy to fly by every other WW1 flight sim. All reports I have read, (including a couple of the crash reports written by survivors), indicate the Camel was unbelievably twitchy to fly, and could and would stall out and spin in a heartbeat if you did the wrong thing, and generally speaking going right in any hurried fashion at all is definitely the wrong thing. A fair amount of left rudder is required all the time as well as forward stick pressure to keep it flying level and true, or at least as true as the hinky little beast can be. But it is this inherent instability that makes it such a great knife fighter. I love it. Cheers! Lou

WOW! The dev team has done it yet again. Without a doubt you guys provide the best sim support of any I've ever seen. I am impressed by not only your willingness to listen to our feedback and suggestions, but also your attention to detail. For instance, I see we now have a bit of clutter in and around the hangers at the aerodromes: Very nice. It is the small things like these that make the overall landscape of this sim so immersive, and you would be hard-pressed to find vistas that pull you into the campaign better than than one such as this: Just one thing that concerns me. I fear there is either something in the water at Behonne, or the local peasantry has been far too isolated for far too long and the resulting intrafamily marriages are taking their toll on the overall intelligence. I mean, what farmers in their right minds would not only build their houses in the middle of a tillable field, but also plough up and down the hillside instead of across it!? Clearly something's amiss here. Cheers! Lou

sitting_duck, that is the main reason I don't use mission builder at all. I grab an existing mission, open it with Note Pad, and rewrite everything in the xml format just the way I want it. Then when I save it and place it in the mission folder of the game it runs as I wrote it. Cheers! Lou

OlPaint, I am pretty sure I am using the calm sea files from this pack download: jUK Sea Water Files There are a few other interesting CFS3 items on the Combat Flight Center download pages that might work well in some OFF missions. Enjoy. Cheers! Lou

This is really an outstandingly informative thread, especially for those of us infected with the history virus. :yes: Thanks all for sharing. Cheers! Lou

BuB, I have played with those settings quite a bit with no real difference that I can see. The bigger difference has been when I try some of the other water textures available. For instance, the blue, calm sea patch that I am using for the Dardanelles missions is quite nice. Cheers! Lou