Olham

Not bad - I always liked the British tradition of having a "Speaker's Corner". And a police, that is not immediately there to carry the guys away.

...they'd throw 5-course menues at us?

Thank you, Widowmaker, and cheers!

File Name: Albatros D.V Skin for Jastas 12, 16, 17 or 32 File Submitter: Olham File Submitted: 05 November 2011 File Category: Aircraft Skins ThisAlbatros D.V would have flown in 1917. It's black tail marking would fit with the Jastas 12, 16, 17 or 32. I have left off my personal black and white "M" marking, so that you can add your own emblem, sign or letter here. The skin is based on the original Albatros D.V skin file from OBD, and I would like to thank all OBD skinners for their inspiring great works. Thanks also to elephant, who helped me with many details and photos. Extract the file to your desktop. Then change "Jasta X" to the desired Jasta number; like "Jasta 12". You can also change "MySkin" into your own name. Then put the file into the skins folder in your sim: CFSWW1 Over Flanders fields > campaigns > CampaignData > skins Enjoy! Click here to download this file

Still far away from the comforts of the Liberator's turnable gun turrets, eyh? Why install a seat, when the guy can sit on his ammo box? We're not in this war for any cosey comfort, soldier!

Alright, the skin is uploaded now and should be approved soon.

Thank you all! elephant, I hate inverted shemes - too symmetric. I never use them. But maybe I could make the mauve a bit paler. The design was indeed inspired by Hartmann's Bf 109 - it is simple enough to make it believeable for WW1 too. Shiloh, the "rainbow things" are flare cartridges, attached outside of the cockpit. I don't know how they were coloured, but I thought it would make sense to give tham each the colour the flare shows when fired off. They had white, green, red (and maybe even yellow). Widow, thank you! I have even added a little weathering for you now!

Yep, vents, Shiloh. The SPAD had lots of them, also on the upper and underside - see here: http://www.mincbergr...page=spad-vii-2 It doesn't have the comfortable view as the albatros, but the SPAD is a powerful plane. You should give it a try some day. The SPAD XIII with it's twin guns, it's engine-powerful speed and climb, and the stable dive of a rugged airframe make it possible for the pilot to always dominate the situation, or to leave it.

Thanks, Shiloh. The black tail and white spinner are the typical Jasta markings. But, where the heck do you read a NUMBER on the nose of that SPAD ???

Don't forget to disable the break finction (for CFS3's WW2 planes) - otherwise it may not work, as you hoped.

Funny - I have made another new pilot for Jasta 32, cause they are one of the few units flying the Albatros D.V with the early "hunchback" - and now I realised, that he is only flying 16 days later. So I guess I will delete this second feller, and work my way through these 16 days with the first Jasta 32 pilot. Somehow, the early D.V has a special touch with that headrest - even though it wasn't like much by the pilots, and usually got removed in the field. We had a wonderful fight against 3 SPD VII from Guynemer's "Storcks", and I must say, I was glad that we outnumbered them 5:3, otherwise we might have lost a pilot. Those French pilots performed a wonderful fight, and had they used more energy fighting tactics - they would have got away. The SPADs were all over the place, and we could only kill two, because we worked tightly together.

Good success, lanny, and welcome to the skies over Flanders fields! Now, if you would send me a PM with your hometown and country/state - I'd like to add you to our OFF Forum Pilots maps in the "Sticky Threads" above.

A clear mess - ah - miss, I meant.

I found this interesting picture in the photo archive of Greg van Wyngarden at the "Wingnut Wings" website. Greg has made many pics of his great collection available there - if you haven't seen them, you should visit their site and have a look - lots of great stuff. Here is the link: http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/photogallery?categoryid=1 This photo shows quite well, how the Albatros fighters got transported and re-assembled at arrival. The wings, and the tailplane-halfs were saved in crate packings. The crew here seems to be working on the undercarriage. The wheels are still lying in the background right. I guess the transports were done by railway, whenever possible; but I have also seen an Albatros fuselage being pulled by a truck. They had lifted and fixed the tail end on to the truck, and the craft was rolling on it's own wheels. But that wouldn't do the wheels much good on longer distances.

Ah, yes , here is real weathering on that metal hood, and oily stains under the fuselage. Didn't know that about the additional pics - thank you, elephant!

It looks quite well constructed and almost simple to assemble. IKEA could learn from that.

Hey, I thought I had seen them all??!!?? Did Greg add new ones lately? Thank you, elephant - the proof that transport via road was also possible and done.

Weathering? Where do you see weathering??? That is the Wingnuts stamp!

Widow, I don't have kids, but I'm pretty sure that this counts for grown-ups as for kids: when he knows he did something wrong or even something bad, then he knows why your fuses melted down - and he knows he deserved it. On the other hand: if you later realise you did him wrong - it would be real strength if you would be able to ask him for excuse. The judgement for fair treatment is in us all - kids and parents.

This is very strange - I am running "Over Flanders fields" on a system with Windows 7 (32bit) and an ATI HD4870, and I have never had any issues with it. - Did you upgrade CFS3 to v3.1 ? - How much memory do you have installed? - Which graphic card do you use? - Did you follow the exact installation guide from OBD's website, to make sure about the install order and the patches?

If you have OFF still installed, and it doesn't work properly, you should try the easiest way first. That means: Go to "Workshops" and try "Reset/Install OFF" (top right corner). If that doesn't work as expected, you should also "Reset CFS3". You will lose any old pilots doing that, but it might save you a new install.

Meanwhile I have tried Lothar's new mod a little bit, and I must say, it is very nice. It adds the "between the missions"-parts of the pilot's life, which was so funny in old sims like "Wings of Honour". Only here it is interactive - it will be different for each pilot - according to the character you chose to play (there are more than a dozen choices for that). You can go to the mess or to the Adjutant's office, to the CO, or to your quarter. When you talk to a person, you have again choices, in which direction the talk goes, and what the outcome will be for you (you may gain more respect or a better reputation, or the opposite - lots of possible ways again surely). I have only just touched it, but I guess, that Lothar's "OFFbase" will compile the experiences with you, and will shape a persona, a character from these inter- actions and talks. You may not always like what you get, but that's like real life then, isn't it? Lothar wasn't sure, if it would perhaps mix up existing pilots you already have. Well, in my case, that did not happen. Only that one pilot was used by OFFbase, and the others remained as they were, and intact (I use Win 7 - 32bit). If you miss life at your homefield between the sorties; or you don't really know your own pilots too well - then try OFFbase - it could be what you were missing.

Meanwhile I have tried Lothar's new mod a little bit, and I must say, it is very nice. It adds the "between the missions"-parts of the pilot's life, which was so funny in old sims like "Wings of Honour". Only here it is interactive - it will be different for each pilot - according to the character you chose to play (there are more than a dozen choices for that). You can go to the mess or to the Adjutant's office, to the CO, or to your quarter. When you talk to a person, you have again choices, in which direction the talk goes, and what the outcome will be for you (you may gain more respect or a better reputation, or the opposite - lots of possible ways again surely). I have only just touched it, but I guess, that Lothar's "OFFbase" will compile the experiences with you, and will shape a persona, a character from these inter- actions and talks. You may not always like what you get, but that's like real life then, isn't it? Lothar wasn't sure, if it would perhaps mix up existing pilots you already have. Well, in my case, that did not happen. Only that one pilot was used by OFFbase, and the others remained as they were, and intact (I use Win 7 - 32bit). If you miss life at your homefield between the sorties; or you don't really know your own pilots too well - then try OFFbase - it could be what you were missing.

Interesting points, Capitaine - that war certainly ploughed not only Flanders' soil, but also the crusts of social classes in several ways. Black men from America met white women in intimate ways for the first time; and handcraftsmen without A-levels (Abitur) could for the first time achieve to become officers - at least in the Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte (German Air Forces). Nobility lost even more of it's status; Kingdoms became Republics. The American Civil War, and the Great War in Europe were the doorsteps for modern industrialised, democratic societies, IMHO.