Olham

Flies wonderfully - much smoother view, much more Fraps! Lewie, if you want to try my profile, just download it from this recent thread and throw it into: Programs > NaturalPoint > TrackIR5 > Profiles Here is the link: http://combatace.com...post__p__489226

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God - or Allah.

Back Over Flanders Fields! My new rig is complete now and it's running very fast and smooth, even without overclocking. Here are my first two screens (Photoshop not yet installed).

After all, the devil is just one of god's fallen angels, and he often has the hotter designs!

Shiloh, they didn't fly into the big cumulus clouds - far too dangerous. You can run through a not so thick cloud, if you must escape. But on a patrol, you should go around the big ones.

Yes, the reading would give you an even deeper immersion, if you pick some good books. A very good English book would be "No Parachute" by Arthur Gould Lee. A good German read you find translated is "Malaula! The Battle Cry of Jasta 17" by Julius Buckler.

Good one, Widowmake! It looks impressive and tempting, Parky, but I am more the dogfighter, and they must be prop driven.

Where did you look???? There are at least two new two-seaters there! An Aviatik and a Rumpler. Go, have a look again.

Mmmhh - thanks for the virtual Warsteiner, Shiloh I know how you feel now. And let me assure you - it will even grow better! You get used to this new view more and more, and any queesyness or neck problems will not occur anymore. I am so far now, that I can fly my Albatros more or less right, while I watch a Nieuport crossing below my plane - I look down the right side 'till it disappears, and then down the left, to see it appearing again. So, soon any other view would feel unnatural to you.

Before you ever do a complete re-install, do yourself a favour and save time and nerves: there are two buttons in "Workshops" - "Reset OFF Manager" and "Reset CFS3" (or similar). First, try a reset of "OFF Manager". If that fails, try the other too. You will lose your pilots both ways - but you don't have to do all the work. This worked two or three times for me. One advice you may already know: never use semicolons in claim reports.

I'm not even half through it yet - I read only one letter per day. He was able to write in a way that I can see everything before my inner eyes. Reading it, I'm actually there, by the canal bank for some swimming; in the air after the washout signal, rushing around the big clouds, chasing my own shadow; and in the short, but intense moments of fight. It is a "joy-read" for a German, because I could not sense any personal antagonism, nor does he seem to be "propaganda-tuned". He even hates to see flamers; yes, I think he was a very human nature. And so I find myself wishing the best for him during his scraps. An easy read, and a most enjoyable one - the very best I've come across so far.

Welcome to OFF, Buddy! (I think you're new around here, aren't you?) From the German books I read, I would say 2 - 3 missions a day. Not sure about hotspots though. I have set "Mission frequency" to "Historical". Here Shredward has taken the weather into account, as it had been then. So you will not have to fly on some bad days. The flying days seem to offer 3 missions a day mostly.

You British can perform the strangest things quite believeable.

tranquillo, if you have "die roll on death" selected, you should accept the outcome, as the sim then decides, if the whole accident was fatal (it can only roll the die; it won't watch what happened and decide thereafter ). But if you fly "dead is dead", it wouldn't be acceptable.

Some armies don't need enemies at all....

Damn! No wonder we lost the war! ...

Okay, okay. By the way - you must be glad to see the Snipe so far advanced, aren't you? I bet I will get shot down more often in P4, cause I marvel about the cockpit interior .

Okay, now I got it. Do you still fly an CFS3 mods WW2 ?

Hmmm - could be a compliment - could also mean, I'm a nit-picker... - hmmmm ...

In the picture No. 79 (cockpit of the Snipe?) are two brass zylinders flying through the foreground. They don't look like cartridges; rather like something from the wiring? What are they?

I just had another look through the new shots, and I realised there were rounds visible on the Triplane. Man, I find it hard to wait for all the new detail.

Been over at SOH, but can't get the pics without signing in. Boy, I must be getting old - I hate all these shortages: what's JBsceberyV3 / ETO ???

So true, Lou - a chance that is now forever gone. I thought similarly about Michael Schmeelke's more than lucky coincidence of meeting Viktor Schobinger, former member and ace of Jasta 12 (the "blacktails"). He talked about his work on his book about Jasta 12, in his kitchen with a friend, and mentioned, that he would like to find Viktor Schobinger, who had been one of the Jastas Staffelführer (CO?). Schmeelke's wife stood by the sink and heard that, and she mentioned, that an old man of that name was living near them - she had met him at the baker shop. Schmeelke got in contact with Schobinger, and got a lot of detail, facts and fotos first hand now. How lucky he was there! If only those CGI artists would watch this old material with open eyes, that would help a lot already.

Funny - I had the feeling, that "Hell's Angels" had some intense and serious looking air combat scenes. Even the close-ups of the pilots, although partly overacted, may be pretty close to RL. And Arthur Gould Lee also made the mistake in the first encounter, to look behind him, when he heard and saw the hostile gun fire. According to Arthur, the clashes often were over extremely quick, and he could still not find anyone, neither friend nor foe. It doesn't seem that they did much extreme turn fighting. Attacking pass and gone. Although, I'm not half through the book - maybe they come to that later?