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Perhaps we can make an agreement, Widow, not to shoot at each other? When the Snipe came up in 1918, many a German pilot would have also much preferred to just have some peaceful flying in the azure skies. But I bet you can't resist, once you got that craft in your hands...

There may be only one really safe way to save your pilot(s): You need to have OFF installed on the C: drive. Now you make a backup of the C: partition with a program like ACRONIS BACKUP (best after every 1 - 3 sorties), and you need to make it onto a second harddrive or an external drive. This way you have A) saved your whole operational system as you had it set up; and B) all your pilots. I keep 3 -4 of these backups, before I delete the oldest. Such a backup can be written back onto the C:drive, and it helps also, when you have installed any new stuff, which causes problems. Just write the previous status back, and you are fine.

How must that feel, to encounter a Sopwith Triplane, when you only have the Halberstadt? True, Hasse Wind - these are the very immersive moments! MvR never scored in the Halberstadt, by the way - his first aerial victory came with the first Albatros. Hellshade, here is how Manfred signed with his name - it reads: Frhr. v Richthofen (If you want to read the translation attempt, you find it here: http://combatace.com/topic/60872-von-richthofens-66-victory-claim/page__view__findpost__p__457121 )

I guess it would be "Copy shortcut" - you need to copy the link adress - and then you go to your "signature"; there you select "Insert new picture" (after deleting the old, if there was any), and insert the copied link adress - or "shortcut" - in there.

The athmosphere on the British airfields is very immersive indeed - this will lure me more into flying the British. But what about the French and the German ones? I know, the Germans were more the "Flying Circus", and rather used tents but hangars. But perhaps you did some improvements for their fields too? Or is that still "Top Secret"? (I'm still dreaming of seeing fields like Roucourt, Boistrancourt, Toulis or other well known ones, set up the way they look on the photographs).

A billionaire is so very unlikely... Perhaps you can go there and make some photos for us. You know, we Germans say, the sparrow in your hand is bigger than the pidgeon on the roof...

Save some money - for a WW1 sim, the THRUSTMASTER T Flight Stick X is all you need. Costs about 30,- Euro. I use it all the time, and it's fine - and it has 12 buttons to use!

And I had thought, the Isle of Wight had gone under, when I read your headline. Although - it is almost a s bad as that, isn't it? Are you absolutely sure the hardware is broken? Tried another USB port? Tried a new install of the software?

In New Zealand, the paradfise for WW1 aviation, they restored this Bleriot Experimental BE2c. And they documented it with photos, step by step. Wonderful eye-bathing! http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/projects/be2

Lewie, there are many members here, who also fly another WW1 sim. That is perfectly okay and only shows their devotion to WW1 aviation. A real fan can and possibly will have more than one sim - and love them all. Or, like JFM said: One day I like pizza, and the other day Chinese food.

Lewie, I'm not sure how to read your signature (my English fails me here), but if you mean to say, that you're not sure if you are qualified to be a member of the BARMY OFFers CLUB, I take the freedom in Lou's absence, to declare, that you are barmy enough! Welcome in the club!

Oh, I envy people with a job like that!

Quack, you need to get BHaH, as that is the next full version after the still free "Phase 2" (I also entered OFF with Phase 2 free). So with BHaH, you have Phase 3 - the first REAL thing. "Hat in the Ring" was sold like an add-on about 9 months later, but it is actually again half a new version, with a much more dangerous AI. Since the devs may still have to work a while to get Phase 4 done, I recommend to get both BHaH, and HitR. Should be almost cheap by now - see here: http://overflandersfields.com/info.htm And you are always welcome - hope to see you with own combat reports or screenies.

Maybe it's still a work in progress? But still: worth a good look.

Today I was beginning to wonder about the info going in from and out to the internet from my PC. This is what happened: I had searched for a mini compact stereo system. I searched at AMAZON and then at CONRAD (German electronics dealer). When I came to the forum later, I saw an advertising stripe below the posts. And this stripe was from the German dealer CONRAD, and the advert showed ONLY exactly those mini stereo systems, which I had clicked before. Not just any similar choice of them - no, exactly those. Now I am worried, if I'm getting paranoid (which would be only normal, cause everyone in this whole galaxy has it, according to Douglas Adams) - but I find that quite strange...

Quack, I guess you knew OFF before the "Hat in the Ring" add-on. Maybe even before "Between Heaven and Hell"? Anyway: "Hat in the Ring" rought a new, much better AI plus several new planes, and if you shouldn't know it, you should really get it and try it out. It was a big step forward! And yes, you still need CFS3, but you can get that cheaply for a 10er, or you still have it anyway? I have been flying other sims, but even the great IL-2 had no much of immersion to "suck me in to". OFF has plenty of it. I don't know how I should live without it.

Thanks for the comfort, von Paulus. I downloaded TFC, but now it asked for JAVA runtime environement, and I'm not sure again.

Hasse Wind, they used original Mercedes engines, as far as I understand. Some missing parts were handcrafted to complete the engine. See here: http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/projects/mercedes-engine/mercedes-engine-restoration quack, if you ever feel like owning and flying a second WW1 sim, I highly recommend OFF. Over 3400 skins in here, and the immersion is on a very high level. You're welcome.

...seems the number wasn't there after painting it white.

A fine work, quack74! The craft is also in "Over Flanders Fields", were it looks like this. The question is, if they would have painted the production Nr. on the white fin again?

Well, Gene de Marco looks like a friendly, sympathic chap, but if it comes to flying their birds, I guess he'd draw a line there.

Lou, you are speaking from my very heart, Sir! I would even be willing to make my proper pilot license for that reason. (I guess my WW1 license might have expired by now).

Well, they need to get some money in for all their work, and if the users don't donate any money, they earn it with adverts. Any newspaper does the same, and it keeps the price low. Totally understandable for me. What I was wondering about, was how the CONRAD advert could contain exactly the things I had searched for. But Lou has explained that now. Thanks again. Where are the cache and temp folders to find, which I should clean regularly? (Win 7)