Creaghorn

jeez. the last couple weeks i had pain in my groin area on the right side. i went through the games (baseball) with the help of a guy named advil. since last week the pain went to both sides and increased, and forced me walk like john wayne. so i went to my doc and he found out i sustained a inguinal hernia on both sides and surgery needed. DL for ??? that's the bad news. the good news? more time for BHAH!!!

oh cool, can't wait for it

dear mama (sept.1916), finally the flighttraining in johannisthal came to an end and i was assigned to jasta hajduk. officially it's a part of Jasta 7. I know what you think now. If god would have wanted men to fly, he would have given them wings. i can still remember your face when you saw the avion fly over our island one year ago. i also know you hate the idea i went to war. especially as a volunteer. but if i would have stayed, i would have had to fight for the austrians against the italians. you and i know that we have lot of italians on our island and in our neighbourhood. they are like brothers for me so that was no option. nontheless i didn't want to sit and do nothing. i don't want to see the serbians invade our country so i have to help the ones, who fight against them. we have discussed it long enough i suppose. what can happen better for you sons than helping their country win a war and at the same time having the great adventure of flying aeroplanes? you don't need to have fear, mama. in the air i am free like a bird, fast as an eagle. nobody can touch me and i am not in the trenches. it's vice versa. i am going to hunt down enemy aeroplanes when i find them. i still don't know practically how to do it, because i have never seen a fight in the air. but i think since i am a hunter, it won't be too dangerous and hard. i met already some of my people of the new hunting group. there are all quite polite, although if you would them hear speak, they would definitely curse too often, for your ears, when talking. you would do the cross sign every minute at least once. there are two of them from split. one fellow is also from istria. nobody of the guys has shot down an enemy yet. but we will see. can you imagine,mama? france is very beautiful. but it is so cold here. those countries here have no sun at all. if there is sun, it's still very cold. and the worse thing, their food here from the farmpeople is quite good. but no olive oil. nobody has olive oil here. i heard in southern france they might have, but i think we have to fight for a while to get there. so please send me a bottle if you can. but i won't still complain at all, mama. as long as i have seen the soldiers in the trenches have by far less luxury as we have. say hello to my little sister and give granny a kiss you loving son, daniel

dear mama (mid november 1916), how are you? everything is fine here. we are doing a good job here and i even managed to shoot an enemy down. can you imagine this? afterwards i had to write a report. i asked why do i have to do this. the german officer said, because the report is going to be sent to the headquarter and they are confirming it. or not. depends on evidence and witnesses. jesus, don' they trust my word? i suppose this burocracy seems to be typical for the germans. everything has to be reported and sent somewhere. even for the german pilots it's order to write reports, if they want to claim a shot down enemy, or going to toilet or boiling eggs. some days ago the first snow begun to fall. it's quite cold and even colder high up in the air, but we are having fun. thank you for your cookies and the two bottles olive oil you have sent me. unfortunately one is already empty. how are things on krk? give granny a kiss your son daniel dear karolina(mid november 1916) things are getting pretty tough here. some days ago i had my first kill. but on the same flight my own avion was riddled with holes by enemies, so i had to land at an open field. right now i am the only one left of the guys who had a kill. they got shot down by enemy aicraft, hit by anti aicraft units, by soldiers on the trenches. everybody is dead of them. even marko armanda. what a shame. the new guys are doing fine, but often they die, even before they get a chance to have a clou what's happening. we have to fight very often to get back to base in one piece. although beeing there for just a month and a half, i am considered as a veteran pilot. can you imagine this? but you don't need to worry. i know when to fight and when to run. especially since we received a kind of dicta of the best german aviator the germans had (he died about two weeks ago because his aircraft collided with the one of his mates). there are some basic rules one has to follow, so our new pilots are going to learn quickly. they have to if they want to survive. i'll do my best to help them. i'll write you as soon as i can. mama thinks everything is allright and please keep her this thought. adio karolina, your brother daniel

so i went to the specialist today. the good news, both sides are not completely through, enough beaten up like the bottom of bags with potatoes, but not through. he said there is no possibility for treatment. wether it's through, then surgery, or it is not. so i asked him what to do? resting? doing nothing? he told me to do the same as i did before. no rest at all. i should immediately continue with practice and playing. of course it might continue to hurt somehow, but on some day it might break through completely, or it might heal within the time, of course procedure for healing takes much much longer. i'm quite happy because it could have been worse. i told my skipper, hey, i'm back and ready.he told me, i'll start catching on saturday and after four innings we'll check how it goes. i told him, if it would hurt or something, i wouldn't admit it anyway. but of course he is right when he answered that only players with 100% should be on the field. anything else might just weaken the team. the bad news. somehow i'm on the same spot as before. so i have to forget about it and waiting to get worse or to heal. i must not make the error and pay too much attention to it, otherwise i might look too much for it, waiting for something and seeing signs where no signs are (don't know how to explain in better english, i'm, sorry). second bad news, again less time for BHAH!!!

did you probably overclock your card or something? i know from my card (nvidia gtx260) when i tried to get the max out and oc it a bit too much, it will jump back to default. have you done something with cfs-menu (forgot the right name of it in workshop settings)? i never touched it because i don't want to mess something up. i wish you good luck in the s/c-mode. and don't forget. only one life. no target worth dying for . don't mix up courage with suicide.

karolina, my dear sister (mid of oct.1916), the life here at the airfield has changed since i arrived. i thought beeing a hunter means i am hunting enemies all over the sky. but it's not that easy. the first couple days we didn't find any enemies at all. then, on one patrol we suddenly got attacked out of the sun by a whole formation of frenchman. they had shot down two of us. i managed to get back to base healthy, but that event gave me a new view on that sort of fighting. our task is to hunt two seaters but there are also enemy scouts who are hunting our two seaters or us, if they catch us unaware. it's hard enough to get to base in one piece without fighting anyway. the terrible cold in the height. the winds, the cloud turbulences, the unreliable engines. and additionally having to fight is much harder than i thought. it's not this easy adventure i thought it would be. i have seen comrades of me going down, burning all the way. one poor fellow jumped out in midair. nontheless 3 of my squad succeeded in shooting down one of them within the time. i still wasn't able to get one. i thought, here's the enemy, shoot him down. but one simply forgets they are also chasing you. and if one is chased, he wants to stay alive at all costs. yesterday a newbie arrived. after his first flight with us he disappeared. we are still waiting for any news. since i arrived 4 fellows got shot down, one got wounded and another one is in hospital because of combat stress. it seems fighting is not for everybody. but please, don't tell mama anything about my experiences. i don't want her to worry more than absolutely necessary. we are allowed now to use the new scouts the germans developed, so we are at least equipped with the latest scouts. despite flying the life here is quite confortable at the moment. we have enough to eat and our beds are warm. comparing with the poor soldiers in the trenches, the luftstreitkräfte seem to have more recources for luxury. but still we can hear the barrage sometimes, because we are not too far away. marko armanda, my wingman, is sometimes playing his mandoline in the evenings, singing old sheperd songs. that at least seems to give us the illusion of beeing at home. i developed now a (bad) habit of drinking a big swig of grappa before getting airborne. it helps staying warm and it's not bad for keeping courage either. i'm tired now and going to bed, because i have to get up very early for a dawn patrol. so i'll send you a kiss and please don't worry about me. and please, karolina, don't tell mama. tell her everything is fine. she has our older brothers to worry about more than about me. your, you loving brother daniel

@siggi yes sir. please. didn't know he has to be alive. :close_tema: @olham. nice pics there. especially the one in the aircraft. i don't know what's waiting for me in this jasta. we'll see. i wish you good luck in the jasta. are u using now siggi/creaghorn-mode?

thank you all for your words, sirs i would have answered earlier, but for some reason the forum didn't work on my rig for two days(side not found), neither of the girfriends till now. typhoon, i can totaly understand your point and i think i am also wearing the tools of ignorance. i think real sport begins there, where it stops to be healthy. and i also think that's all part of the game. and umpiring is a hell of a job. i could never do it. i always try to have good atmosphere with the blue, but it doesn't work always. as a matter of fact i got ejected twice in all the years because arguing balls and strikes. of course that must not happen. i am 31 and that's neither young nor too old for athletes. but as a catcher i can feel the soreness after a roadtrip or doubleheader quite more then when i was 20. thats the toll of the time i suppose. i was always proud of myself to have the reputation of beeing unbreakable and never getting serious injured, although catching. once i broke my ankle, but that was offseason (playing rugby to stay in shape, how stupid) but i was fit for springtraining. just lost my starting spot for couple weeks. so my streak of uninjureness (i don't count soreness and stuff like this) has finally ended. i know it's obviously a routine surgery, but i simply hate to lose precious time during season. thank you all. you're the best

very well written, olham,

thank you all for your encouraging words, i don't think either it's something severe. at least nowadays. and thank you for the explanation, hasse wind. for me only the time factor counts. and i don't want to start through 100% one day too early, but neither one day too late. :bb2:

thank you very much, i don't know for how long. depends on how bad it is and want kind of surgery is needed. it's not what is bothering me. it's more because i'll going to miss an unknown number of games and letting my team down. of course it's also part of the game to get injured, having sore arms, knees etc. sometimes bigger things leaving for offseason to get treatment. but it never was anything to put me on the DL. that'll be the first time and that's bullsh*t. but it could have been worse. thank you jammer

with him i had iron cross 2nd class and 1st class, order of hohenzollern and pour le merite. the claims number is not correct, because i claimed only what i have seen or where i was sure i have shot him down. enemies i have touched with one bullet and who disappeared and died somehow else i didn't claim, although automatically listed. so actually i have claimed 32, not 36. so sad. just two days ago my virtual brother didn't return from a sortie and a day later his death was confirmed. in my last mission i fought against two spads, shot one down and went after the next one, filling his belly with lead from very close range. too close because as he begun to spin we collided. i am glad it's only a sim (and damn, what a sim it is). two letters home to the mother at the same time would have killed her (if in real).

what a compliment, thank you, sir. i don't know where the austrian fought. i think against the italians somewhere at the adriatic sea, but i am not sure.

thank you hassewind, you'll get there. just try to stay focused and concentrated on every sortie. never get sloppy (like i got), it is indeed a completely different and new immersion without any aids. every kill and every day you survive is well earned. and you feel a lot better. i just hope in future add ons the devs are going to find a way to reduce bionic eyes to about 2 nm, so the odds would be equal. good knowledge about croatians my friend . if there would be austro-hungarian airforces, from the historic point of view i would fly for them. on the other hand all the fame and glory was on the westfront, so maybe i would stick there because i know much more about events and pilots of the western front.

welcome to the best forum in the world, jani

thank you all, i'll continue to do the "creaghorn-mode" because i think it's the closest to realism. your task is to survive and to do your job as good as you can, but not suicidal knowing it's a sim. i think the key is to really treat your pilot like a living beeing with ONE life. i think with him i experienced things, what real pilots might have experienced. there were times when i said to myself, ok. in the beginning of the next month, i'll grant him couple days leave. then i realised it's still 4 days, so do one step at a time. you still have to survive each mission on those four days. then you can talk about leave. within the time it was really tough to be concentrated on every mission all the time. it was really exhausting. occasionally i caught myself falling almost asleep, scanning the skies, but without really beeing focused. muscle memory but without really looking. it would have been easy to shoot me down. there were fellow pilots who were there from the beginning and i grew with them, seeing their progress. and within the time after many months suddenly they died. there came new pilots and i didn't pay too much attention on them because there was no feeling of beeing a band of brothers. there were missions my SA was completely gone. just a bad day probably. but i think that's how it was in real. why MvR, Mannock, Guynemer and lot of others have met their ends. suddenly doing stupid things they never did before. because beeing tired of combat, going up several times each day, for months or years. and so losing concentration and SA every now and then, and more and more often, as the time goes by. thank you all. i am looking forward for my new career with jasta hajduk creaghorn.

yes, with pedals. i do it always when landing

i have even added some text in your resurrection patch, too. i added a veterans day meeting of former foes, centuries later on a flight show, where MvR and james mccudden met and became friends for the rest of their lives.

zoom it one notch when entering the theater. world around you looks more like in real life dimensionwise (barns look like barns, not like toys, aircraft next to you look like aircraft, not like smaller scale replicas), with that view you will also take less notice of visual obstacles in front of you.

freaks with no social life, no friends, no relationships, no vitamin d, who got punched each day at school, not by bullies but by girls. would like to face them mano a mano and teach them some manners my way...

that's why i absolutely love this sim. i am no rambo or anakin skywalker. i am just a very very small part of a war machine, who alone has not the slightest effect to anything, like a single ant has no effect (like it was in real). all i can do is my job as good as i can with survival as top priority. it's great to see the battlefields from above during an offensive. the increasing nml. eaten up villages and towns, watching barrages from above. wow.

yeah, and as long as i know OvS also let MvR get shot down in a me206 in WWII. and if i remember correctly rene fonck was found in paris, beaten to death by some mob who couldn't listen anymore his stories... kurt wolff fell of a horse he was riding with his girlfriend, dying. was pretty funny to read the stories what happened to who in this resurrection universe :-)

really wonderful acting by malcolm mcdowell and the younger guy. overall good acting by everyone. not so much because the fighting scenes, although pretty good showing the horror in the faces when fighting.

aces high, one of the plots i like the most in ww1 aviation movies.