Olham

Hahaha - some never give up. And Widowmaker with his Snipe is the living proof, that it may even pay!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2wOUF7ElR4&feature=related

And what about "Wolfenstein" ???

Hey, von Paulus - the Nazi officers always look like from Frankenstein's laboratory. Which in this case may be almost true. When I opened the post, the phantastic PC-Game "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" immediately came to mind. If you should not know it, you should definitely get it. Has a sheer endless amount of levels! But take care - there was a later one, which was not so good.

Lovely done, that RAF Calendar, Bletch, it has been given that old fashioned touch nicely! Here is the GHOSTS Calendar link for 2012 - but this one has photographs: http://www.ghosts.com/calendar12i.html

What about Ebay then? They have second hand and also new stuff. http://www.ebay.com/...simulator&_kw=3

The forum here was offline for about 1 1/2 days, Wodin. As for your experiences with the other sim: I can only ditto that. I'm trying it out recently, and I like the planes I can fly very much; I am also amazed about the rivers and the light effects - but that is mostly it. I guess there is a lot of potential in there, but it will be a lot of work. And if their engine does not allow to have all the aircraft around you all "really there", or if that would lead to a collapse of any normal rig - then OFF will be the clear "Number 1" for me. Cause that is, what creates the immersion. That's what transforms it from a game or sim to this extraordinary experience.

Another regular ARTE watcher here. They have a good touch about their whole design, and often have good theme nights. About dubbing: I guess one day many films will be Chinese - and I guess, dubbing will be inevitable then.

In the UK you can still get it (at least the top one looks like DVD). http://www.amazon.co...tor+3&x=18&y=16 I wonder wether OBD are prepared for the time, when CFS3 might not be available anymore?

You won't regret that, Widow - the countryside will quickly make you so much quieter, calmer. And it makes you forget all the things you want to run after in the city. Although I still like living in a city, I feel it coming, that some day I will move back to Ostfriesland. I hope you will be able to have a broadband connection there - I wouldn't want to miss you here. You will find a way, eyh? All the best for those plans, old chap!

Hey, you like that beer too? Same for me, epower - make it a large one; you're added to the map.

Update 29 Septembery 2011 - 23:55 h Berlin summer time (= GMT + 2) epower, Rhose Island, added. The maps are in post 1 of this thread

Welcome to OFF and the forum community, epower! If you send me a PM with your hometown and country, I'llgladly add you to our "OFF Pilots Maps".

No, in the Albatros you hear that the engine is damaged. You get a clunky sound, or even worse, like gravel in the gears - depending on the amount of damage. Sometimes, the engine gets running slower and slower (with no leaking tank), until it cuts out completely. But yes, after receiving hits, I mostly check for fuel leakage. The real life pilots would have smelled it, but I need to use that aid.

Duke, I'm using the HPW DM. But to say that again: my problem is not the tank hits. My problem is, that the engine is getting damaged too often IMHO.

Hihi, funny, the memories of the books from our youth. Maybe reading them again will bring up some long forgotten memories, Widow? I do not know, if those Ladybird books got translated into German - I guess not - but your story brought back memories of a series of comic books made after classic literature - "Illustrierte Klassiker". I had several of them in that age, when you still prefer comics to books. Here is one title I had - Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" (Sob! Look at the price! It cost only 1,- Deutsche Mark back then, which would be 50,- Eurocent! You wouldn't get it today below 5,- Euro, I guess.)

The sim seems to be best spread in the English speaking world, as we can see in the USA, Canada and even down under in Australia. Maybe because all info is in English? There are not even 10 % German flyers, if I counted right, although the German market for flight sims is very good. Maybe OBD should have a part of their website in German, and another in French?

Thank you for testing, Duke - should be valuable info for Herr Prop-Wasche. For the engine damage, you got to have rather head-to-head engagements. There, the Albatros engine is suffering more damage IMHO than any other craft I have flown. Now I know the engine is in the front - but all others (except the pushers) are too.

As for the tank: when it was a pressurized tank (like in the Albatros), any piercing, even above the fuel level, would lead to a dying engine very quickly (if I understand that correct). So it's difficult to say what to do - I guess we have by far more very dangerous scraps than the RL pilots had. So I don't know if I should vote for smaller hit boxes. Maybe a little smaller. As for the engine: here I would really like to know, what the WW1 pilot wrote about engine damage. I only found a lot about that in Arthur Gould Lee's book; they often had dud engines, even without enemy fire. I guess, a pusher's engine was exposed a lot more? I also guess, that the length of a plywood fuselage together with wooden ribs WOULD irritate the rounds on impact. It must be hard to know all the various possible types of engine damage, and their consequences. But how often did the engines get damaged in air combat? Does anybody know for the various types of aircraft? Who read all the books about that?

I was not aware that the "Tommies" were "much maligned" anywhere, Flyby? Never heard anything like that here from Germans. Actually, the Royal Air Force is much admired for their resistance against the Luftwaffe. And from what my dad told me about the war, the Tommies were known for being quite tough opponents, and for being pretty fair to their PoWs.

Dan-San's Colour Profile of Ernst Freiherr von Althaus' Jasta 10 Albatros D.V The old man, who in his avatar looked like the Walt Disney of WW1 aviation, may now be watching us from high in the empty blue. But his colour profile drawings are still there - over at The Aerodrome. Dan San-Abbott did not do advanced computer graphics - he made drawings of the plane types, probably copied them, and painted them with crayons and water colours. http://www.theaerodrome.com/gallery/browseimages.php?c=500&userid=26 Here is the yellow Albatros D.V "Black 1" of Ernst Freiherr von Althaus, Jasta 10. It is the D.V as it was originally designed, with the "hunchback", which was later mostly removed by the pilots/mechanics in the field. If you see through the OFF skins, you will find Althaus' colour sheme among them.

I think to have read, that he worked in a parachute-producing company - not sure. His interest in WW1 aviation seems to have been a hobby first, but it grew so far, that he was the "grand senior" of "The Aerodrome" website. He collected all he could find about German aircraft markings, and he made colour profiles, which are still available, as you can see here: http://dan-san-abbott.com/other.php

I still think that the Albatros models have too many engine failures and pierced tanks. The tank was between engine and pilot. The engine was a robust inline engine. I'd like to hear from people who have read more about Jastas with Albatros , how often they had such failures. In OFF I have them most of the times I have scraps. But then - they didn't have that many scraps in RL, I guess?

Jeeze, I didn't know it was that bad for the infantry in the final months - after reading only about aviators like Udet or Buckler, who all had a better life than that. All this tells me, that the Germans were far better soldiers than diplomats.

The OFF Manager decided, that you were not fatally wounded. It may look like a miracle to you, but it is okay.