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How was Degelow's original book named?

Perhaps it has been discovered before, but better twice than never. Today I did 6 or 7 test flights with changes on a new skin. I used the Campaign pilot who would later use the skin, but I started "Quick Combat" free flights. My "Workshops" settings are so, that only campaign missions should be logged. I checked that after some flights, and correctly the pilot's log still only showed the Campaign flights I had made yesterday. But when I tried to make a Campaign flight with the new skin, I got an error message, saying that there was a wrong entry in this file: _missions.xml The file is to be found here (for Win 7 users): [your computer's name] > AppData > Roaming > Microsoft > CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields > missions So I checked that file closely, and found, that the date had advanced (through the test flights), and that Jasta 14 had meanwhile transfered to another field. After changing the date back to what I saw in the pilot's log; and after changing the name of the airfield back to "Marchais", where I should be, everything worked again. So, to prevent any such messing up: never fly test flights or "Quick Combats" with your Campaign pilot. Best is to create a test pilot for such things.

I had hoped you would say that, Winder - ah,that did me good; like the cool airstream in the open cockpit on a warm summer day.

Has anyone here read Peter Kilduff's book "Black Fokker Leader" about Carl Degelow yet? I have just found it in AbeBooks, and now I'm searching for a German version. http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=peter+kilduff&sts=t&tn=black+fokker+leader&x=32&y=10

You guys are more and more completing your big step towards a much higher realism, and I am very glad that OFF didn't lose it's special artistic touch through all that. In the action scenes Strutter vs Albatros the gunner is a real human looking threat now. The scenery is masterly done - your landscapes look so much more detailed and "crisp" than those of "the other sim". One question remaining: will P4 be mostly an improvement of the British side, or shall we also see more French and German installations and aircraft some time soon?

Hey, don't release P4 too early, devs - I haven't flown a British campaign on the SPAD VII yet. There are actually several other things I have never done yet - so please wait and let me get all that out of BHaH first! (New tactic - say the opposite of what you want - perhaps I can catch them on that foot?)

Here in Germany I'd have to go to the midland, where it begins to get hilly.

Geeze, Lou - how many books about WW1 aviation do you own by now? When do you read all that? (I hope not during driving down the long country roads of North Dakota?)

The big advantage of being shizophrenic - you're never alone! I am actuall no less but 12 pilots, some of them are British! With Dutch roots! Some French. I can almost even fight myself - or be generous and let myself live until another day!

There - what did I tell you? Widowmaker's nagging about getting a Snipe was like the appearances of Lord Flashheart in "Blackadder goes forth": the devs finally promised him one, just to make him go away. :yes:

Good Luck! No parachute http://www.youtube.c...h?v=HgSSaENMuGA .

Just popped in here after a long time, Herr Prop-Wasche, and have two questions: 1. did you try to create a more historical weather according to data? 2. how many activated mods can JSGME balance with the sim, without stressing anything?

Ah, I see. It was a Jasta 14 transfer from "Marchais" to a field near Verdun (which I forgot the name of). The error message said something of a sign, that didn't match (or similar - should have noted it). I only wrote this post to help people to prevent from something like that to happen. Most of them wouldn't know how to get it right again, and would lose all their pilots in a reset.

Yes, that made me wonder too.

Rugbyfan, Jasta 11 had the Halberstadt in early 1917, before they would get the Albatros. But Manfred von Richthofen's craft was mostly painted with green-brown camouflage like the others. It is a reddish-brown - perhaps that's what you saw? In OFF he has a red spinner and red wheel covers. Even his Albatros D.II was not red. Or you may have seen the Albatros D.III, which he flew in April 1917?

Pol, the problem may have occured because of the transfer, as now there was a different field written into _mission.xml, than there was in the Pilot's Log file. I guess your method is the safe way, Widow.

Oh, one day I hope I'll get to do it - should be a great feeling.

Sometimes planes with a specific mission won't attack you; they may even carry on with their ground attacks, when you engage them, and only after firing at them, they will turn round and fight. Perhaps you should attack some craft? Do you use a "no tracer" mod ?

Well, there is also the powerful Pfalz D.XII. Then there is the Roland D.VI, which is said to have been almost equal to the Fokker D.VII. But then - what about more early war planes? Now our good friend Hasse Wind will come in here and say (and he would be right), that more two-seaters - especially French ones - would be needed. After all, I bet that the devs have carefully balanced the needs with their "modelling power", and will come up with the next good planes - which ones ever that will be. And for everything, that'll still be missing in P4 - there will some day be P5.

Yeah, I was wondering too - 204 km/h? Quite fast!

Ah, good find, Hasse Wind! Wiki has it all!

The "Tatzenkreuz" (paw cross?) was the earlier, curved cross (some call it "Iron Cross", after the medal). The "Balkenkreuz" was the later, square type (bar cross?) cross, which they introduced in April 1918.

Yep, it's there. What is often overlooked is the fact, that a combat flyer had flown more than one aircraft of a type. Manfred von Richthofen had been flying several Fokker Dr.1, before he died. The first was in early September - that one seems to have been painted light blue, with streaks of Fokker green on upper surfaces and fuselage sides. This was Fokker's standard paint sheme for the Dr.1. After wing failures on several Dr.1 in late September / early October (Heinrich Gontermann died in such an accident) the craft was withdrawn from the front, and von Richthofen used the Albatros D.V again. JFM's book shows a green craft (Fok. Dr.I 152/17) with red upper wing surface, red cowling, wheel covers, fuselage back and tailplane for mid-March; and a more or less standard green one (Fok. Dr.I 127/17) for late March 1918 (maybe his second/replacement craft). This second craft was then also painted like the first, end of March. Fokker 477/17 was painted like that again (late March/early April). And finally Fok. Dr.I 425/17 was painted all red. This was first still flying with the Tatzenkreuz. In April 1918 it was overpainted with the Balkenkreuz, and also received a white rudder. This was the version he finally died in, and which became so famous for that reason.

I guess you hated Xmas after that? But then, you have had an interesting life, it seems - working in China!

Thank you, Pol, I guess I will. And you won't regret getting "No Parachute!" Lee went through no less but three forced landings during the Battle of Cambrai, and the man must have had many more than 9 lives, and an overdose of luck.