RAF_Louvert

. MAN! There are so many great screenies and videos here Gents, really amazing stuff. And Adger, nice to see some of my old skins still getting used. I like the way you're doing the "photo" treatment as well. Keep sharing, folks! .

. Olham, since I had done that video in a QC I knew there was only the three EA so I was not needing to worry about others popping into the party unexpected. Normally I would have been checking my six a lot had it been a campaign mission. Hauksbee, outstanding work Sir. Thanks for posting those pics. BB, I wish I would have had an acceptable IP so that I could have joined you folks in multiplayer when it was still around. Sid, you can set up a blip switch of sorts by programming a button on your JS to toggle between '2' (20% throttle) and '0' (100% throttle). Not quite the same as cycling the ignition on and off but it still works rather well. .

. Waco, you might want to post this over in the General Discussion Forum as that tends to be where everyone hangs out around here. Not that you haven't posted your question where it should be, if forum headings are anything to go by. BTW, there was just a discussion about W7 and OFF not but a couple weeks ago, so hopefully you will find your answers. Cheers! Lou .

. BTW, if you haven't seen it, here is a video I posted about two years ago showing some of the potential mistakes one can make when fighting in the DH-2. There may be something helpful in it. .

. Quite true Lanzfeld. Olham, diving on four healthy Walfisch in any mount is approaching suicide, much less doing it in a DH-2. You will need to be extr-EEEEEEEEEEEEE-mely cautious in your attacks if you wish to survive in the twitchy little beastie we affectionately call the "Spinning Incinerator". .

. And I've just noticed that the above posting was my 5000th here! I feel like such a veteran now. .

. I have flown many campaigns in the DH-2, both here in OFF and before that in RB3D. Despite all the plane's quirks and bad habits it still remains one of my all-time favorite WWI fighter/scouts. .

. I am quite sure that 'three on a match' predates WWI, CptRoyce. Since the Great War was fought from the trenches it was unlikely an enemy sniper would have seen matches being lit at all. I seem to recall the superstition gained footing during the Boer War. There is an old religious connotation to the idea though as well. Because the three alter candles are always lit from the same flame, it is considered bad luck to light three things of the secular world from a single fire source. .

. Wish I could help you Flyby, but it looks as if you've already tried everything I would have done in the situation. I've a hunch you are on track about a command line in the 'effects.html' file. Best of luck Sir. .

. Oh Bubala, I give to you large kiss! I cannot tell you how many ways I haved messed about trying to get the mixture lever to do exactly that. I did have to use the 'Mixture Axis' rather than the 'Mixture 1 Axis', but it all works! A very big THANK YOU! , oh wise and wonderful BB. .

. Flyby, have you copied and pasted the needed files into your 'weapons' folder? .

. Thanks for the recommendation Dej. I will watch for a fair priced copy I can lay claim to. .

. Flyby, I agree completely. It would be very exciting to see the star shells and such after dark, as well as the occasional small arms fire and lights in and along the trenches. Perhaps in OFF2, eh? .

. Could be for any number of things Olham, and your guess is as good as mine. There was a lot of fighting around Cuerne late in the fall of 1918. .

. Olham, I hope I didn't upset you too much with the last episode. Dej, I don't recall a Dallas in Germany. Although ... Dallas ... Dörzbach ... hmmm ... do I see another sequel in the offing? .

. Thanks for the kudos on my set-up and watch Tom. I hope you get your controls tweaked to your liking. BB, I would also very much like to know how you managed to map the mixture controls to a slider as you describe. In my feeble efforts I couldn't sort it out. Please enlighten us Sir. .

. RP, this has been an issue since the release of CFS3. OFF unfortunately is the inheritor of the same problem due to its shared engine. All you can do is tweak your graphics setting to minimize it as much as possible. It also helps if you hop out of the cockpit shortly after takeoff and briefly pan 360 degrees around your aircraft, then hop back in. Cheers! Lou .

. Wow! High praise John, many thanks indeed Sir, and I am very pleased to know how much you are enjoying Paul's adventures. And, since folks here are still enjoying the young Ritter's saga, here is the next installment: Paul Blum's Story Cheers! Lou .

. Yes Olham, it was literally a standing order that RFC and RNAS pilots bring back the cockpit watch should their planes go down somewhere other than their aerodromes. Imagine being forced to land in the front lines and having to concern yourself with prying the bloody watch from the dash whilest dodging MG fire from the nasties across the way. But woe unto the pilot who came home without said watch. It was damned near a court martial offense. And glad to know you like my little bit of working history, mein Freund. .

. Actually Olham, it is an original RFC Mark IV A cockpit watch, number N4752 AG. Still in fine working condition, I use it to keep track of my in-flight times. I'm all about the immersion you know. .

. Tom, it is tricky to have your mixture control in CFS3 mapped to a slide control because of how the sim interprets the inputs. I messed around with this quite a bit after I had built my set-up and here is what I have settled upon, (and you are correct about needing to split the control into bands). In your Saitek profile editor create a new profile for OFF and assign the buttons you wish to use to your battery on-off, mags on-off, start switch etc. Then, when you get to the slide control you wish to use for mixture divide it into three bands: 0-40%, 40-60%, and 60-100%. Next, assign functions as follows: CTRL+= to the 0-40% band, (mixture rich); CTRL+- to the 60-100% band, (mixture lean); and make the 40-60% band a dead zone, (i.e. no assignment). This will allow you a rudimentary mixture control by parking the slider in the middle of it's travel and then from there you "bump" either up or down to make the mixture either richer or leaner respectively, always bringing the slider back to middle after each bump. I should note that I am using a Saitek AV8R-01 stick with dual slide controls which I have customized for my "cockpit" by building a new housing to relocate the sliders to the left side of the keyboard. Also, you might have to reverse the top and bottom band assignments for your slider depending on what the default range is for it, (i.e. 0-to-100% or 100-to-0%), because you will want mixture to go richer when you bump the slider forward and leaner when you bump it back. One further caution, always make sure you return the slider to it's dead zone elsewise you will start to have odd control glitches and hang-ups because you will constantly be sending an input from whichever band assignment you left the slider in. I have been flying with my current configuration for a while now and I really like how the mixture control works as it has just enough of the "fiddling around" factor to make it feel historically proper for a WWI kite. Cheers! Lou .

. Ooooh, I know what I'll be watching later this evening. Thanks for posting this Javito. .

. Javito, there are some very good maps available in the OFF downloads section. Also, when I say 'paper' map I mean that I have the map I am using loaded up on my second computer as well. Here is a link to another thread where I briefly outlined my method: Hazebrouck Map Post .

. I plan on flying OFF2 the same way I've been flying OFF: No TAC or onscreen aids of any kind; everything set on realistic; no use of in-sim map but rather 'paper' maps only; roll of the dice to determine outcomes of crashes; survival flying for myself and my wingmen, (bring em home alive); and no warp. I can only imagine how much tougher this is going to be in OFF2, and I can't wait. .

. Robert, that little gem is actually in the OFF forums smiley choices. Look way towards the end of the full list and you will find it. .