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Raaaaaahhhh, this barmyness is killing me!!! For the Overture, I recommend Ludwig van BOChoven!

Don't get me wrong there, Lou - it IS worthy of a "sticky", Sir. But I know that Pol tries to keep the "sticky" space tight, and it wouldn't even be necessary to do, cause each time you post in there, it will pop up top of the page anyway; and we can do with some more activity on the posting page, IMHO. I am definitely looking forward to any future numbers - a big thumb-up! .

Geeze, the book "Flieger über Makedonien" is at AbeBooks only once - for 100,- Euro! Looks like I have to get it in English then. But there are several others from him. One has this very funny title: Die Leuchtkugel in der Champagne pouilleuse abgeschossen von Leutnant Georg Heydemarck, Brigadeadjutant. (The Flare in the poor Champagne fired by Leutnant Georg Heydemarck, Brigadeadjutant) Georg Heydemarck has also released a book with collected stuff from Wilhelm Busch, who was a great cartoonist and artist on the field of black humour in Germany. I have ordered "Doppeldecker C 666 - Flieger im Westen" for a start. Thanks a lot again, Lou. Such stuff is hard to find, especially when you have no names to search by. And a recommendation from you is to me like 5 stars.

This is the first time I hear anything about Hauptmann Heydemarck, Lou, and I thank you for this tip! I actually invite you on a virtual Warsteiner for this! I'll go and search AbeBooks for it. Of course I'd prefer to read a German version. Hope they are still available somewhere.

Dej, that song text of yours is great. And now you even got it changing verses. How did you do that? Is it an animated GIF?

And it could have come even worse for him, if I remember that right. Hard times! Have you already read the passage, where they tie a little French girl on to a huge kite and let her fly? Real rogues, most of those fighter pilots. The other best German book I came across so far is that by Julius Buckler ("Malaula!" The battlecry of Jasta 17), which was translated into English (or at least supervised) by Norman Franks. Although the title sounds quite warrior-like and aggrassive, Buckler was rather a friendly and sympathic nature with some good humour. As it begins with a passage about Buckler's late youth and his journeyman years, it also gives a good insight into the poverty and hardships of many common German families back in those days. And it shows, how almost impossible it was back then, that someone without A-levels (in other words: one who wasn't born in at least a good middleclass family) would become a Leutnant. But Buckler did - and he also received the "Pour-le-Mérite". I found this book as good as Udet's really.

Did you check the resolution set in "Workshop" under "Graphics Config"? Make sure your highest screen res is chosen there. Also check at the left, if it is set to 4:3 or to 16:10, and correct it if necessary. Then the OBD screen should be correct and centered again.

Yeah, that would be fine, if we had Austria and Italy in OFF as well! You'll see, Herr Prop-Wasche, your knowledge will grow here. When I joined the first forum in October 2008, I hardly knew anything about WW1 and it's aviation.

I wonder where our UncleAl is - he usually is among the first to answer a newbie? Are you ill, Unc? - He may be on holidays...

Wow - then it must be pretty good, your German! Yes, great poems surely! Rilke is amazing! But especially pop-songs are easier to write with short words (1-2 silabels), and then English is so full of words with many different meanings, which keeps it open, or can transport double meanings in one sentence. I like that. I hope so; I hope this will never happen again. And if it does, I will paddle over the north sea and join Widowmaker's troops.

Must be hard to learn German. I find it is a very complex and complicated language. Someone once said, that he found English most appropriate for writing pop songs, and German for setting up texts for rules and laws. While English is short-silabelled and therefor light and quick, and often rather open, German is very precise (if used correct) and can pin things down with words. It doesn't have the nice flow of other languages though - even Russian sounds more fluid, round and warmer to me. So be glad, if you must not learn it.

The great "Wingnut Wings" website is always good for new discoveries. I just strolled through the photographs again and found pictures of the Roland D.VI, which is waiting for it's restauration in Krakow. The pic shows very well, how they built the seat so, that you could set it back or fore, in three steps. The handle on top of the stick looks interesting and unfamiliar to me. Does anyone know, what that left hand grip is? Could it be a throttle? Here is also a cockpit interior from the Albatros D.Va built by "The Vintage Aviator".

Exactly my feelings, Shiloh!

I'm afraid it was only really found out later. Maybe it was RAF_Louvert, who wrote it somewhere. However, now that you know how to save a pilot (I hope you don't have many). it might be worth a new install. And if you put it on C:, you could later also get a backup program. That will be able to save your OFF and Windows very well.

Good to have an expert here with you, JFM! Thanks a lot! It looks like the Germans only then, in August/september, really started that efficient Jasta system?

Well, to get back from IKEA to the Roland restoration in Krakow: Here is what the got so far. The Roland D.VI was a wooden construction with a planking similar of that of a boat. (Something you would never got assembled with an IKEA construction sheet!) I find her beautiful for this way of construction alone.

That's correct use, Shiloh, as it also means the same as your "super".

Shiloh, it may depend on the way you installed OFF. Some old recommendation said, you needed to install CFS3 and fly one sortie, so that the savegame folders would get created. This proceedure is not necessary. If you own a DVD, you start installing with the OFF disc. After some seconds it will ask you to insert the CFS3 DVD. Now it will grab some necessary files from there, and then ask you then to re-insert the OFF disc. The rest goes from there, and it's done. After this prceedure, you will not need either the CFS3 disc, nor the OFF disc in the drive.

Welcome to the skies Over Flanders Fields, OotL! (Well, almost. Soon...) 1. How in-depth is the game in regards to engine management options? Should I expect to be dealing with fuel mixtures and radiators on certain aircraft? You have mixture management, if you want, but you can switch it to "auto", if you like. You can also use "fuel management", at least on German side, which allows you to reduce weight. 2. Does the game have padlock, or a sort of 'aiming-assistance'. Yes, there is a padlock view. But I also recommend TrackIR. Save for it, get a second job, sell your grandma - it is easy to handle, and after using it, you will never understand, how you could have been flying without it. A must-have for flying. 3. I was pretty excited to see so many aircraft, and was wondering on documentation? I for one, like to see every single gauge in my cockpit and know what it is. There the forum comes in handy - these guys here know all these things and can tell yer. And as for the aircraft: "Hat in the Ring" add-on brings you even more of them (Fokker E.V/D.III; DH-5, Nieuport 28) 4. During Campaigns, should you get new planes are you able to keep older models? I.e. I would rather fly my pup or whatnot. This is a history-orientated sim. Your squadron/Jasta receives the new planes historically. The guys had to use what they got, right? 5. I never did find a DVD copy of CFS3. Everyone mentioned it, but I only ever saw the CD model for order. Will I still need the CD in the drive? I don't know, to be honest. I think not. DVD makes installing easier though, and you get them at AMAZON. 6. Is there somewhere I can get a .pdf manual or some other form of documentation to read while I wait? Not that I knew, but you can se through the pile of good info in the "sticky threads" above. 7. I hear nothing but good things about the flight model, but how much can I change my stick responses in game? That cannot be changed - not that I knew. But I never heard of anyone, that it was necessary.

...and you always end up with having bought lots of little funny devices and stuff, which doesn't appear so funny and nice anymore, when you have them back home. Maybe they spray some drugs in the air?

"Über" means something like "above" or "on top" - I guess, a man can only feel weak under such an Übervixen... But I wouldn't mind; I mean, why should we always be the strong gender? Interesting clearance about the strangely painted aircraft. And I had rashly accused typical British carelessness...ouch! Great stuff, Lou - I knew it all the time, that Winder, Pol and OvS could only be time travellers. I mean, just look at OvS's outfit! Does this man look like a person who could exist? And from the others we don't even have any pics!

No, we have shortcuts inbetween the various departments.

This is an interesting bit I did not know. You are a good researcher, JFM. I should have written: MvR never scored in a Halberstadt, before the Albatros D.I appeared. But wouldn't it have been also possible for him to fly an Albatros D.II, when the D.IIIs had to remain grounded? And when Jasta 2 was never outfitted with Halberstadts - what did they use before the Albatros?

Herr Prop-Wasche, you get some facts about Albatros mixed up there. The Austrians built the Albatros D.III in license, but in their own version - at least for the lower wings. They had info about wing failures, and so they decided to give the lower wing two main beams. The Germans did not fly the Austrian version. OeFFAG = Oesterreichische Flugzeugfabrik AG (Austrian Aircraft Factory Ltd.) OAW = Ostdeutsche Albatros-Werke (East-German Albatros Work) So the OAW Albatros is only another German build, made in a second plant. The original first plant was Albatros Flugzeugwerke GmbH, Johannisthal (Berlin). The main recognisable difference on the D.III was the rudder, which was round-shaped on the OAW Albatros D.III, while more vertically cut off in the Johannisthal version. The Albatros D.V was only produced by the Johannisthal branch; the Ostdeutsche Albatroswerke produced their OAW D.III during that period. If you want to see the differences on the D.Va, you need to take a closer look to find them. (For example on my uploaded Albatros D.Va) Now, before you feel stupid after this: I have also only learnt this all here in the forum, from people with more detailed knowledge, who had just learned it earlier than me from people with more detailed knowledge, who had learned... You see, what I mean.

Not as off-topic as you may think, guys! A friend of mine insists in buying me a POÄNG from IKEA (they have two types of these, which look similar; the POÄNG is the expensive one with a change- and washable cushion), cause I helped him with some work. I will, like Hasse Wind, take a red one, with black wooden parts. Damn, the world has become small... ...or IKEA got really big! As for the Roland - it surely had some padding or leather seat, which got rotten away or removed.