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According to this chart, the Vizefeldwebel was ranking below the Feldwebel (as one would assume from the rank name). It looks like a Vizefeldwebel would have got the (almost) same rank as the Feldwebel, when he had the position of an "Offizierstellvertreter". http://www.agw14-18....ienstgrade.html "Offizierstellvertreter" seems to mean the highest available rank below an officer, which normally would have been a Feldwebel. But a Vizefeldwebel could be given that position "to replace an officer" - a "deputy officer" so to say. So again, "Offizierstellvertreter was no specific rank by it's own, but an addition to an available rank for that position.

Thank you for that Aerodrome link - missed it before. Merry Christmas, Paarma!

Thank you all, guys! Now it's 00:18 h Berlin time, and in eleven-and-a-half hours, I will hopefully be on the train to Ostfriesland. I say "hopefully", because the German railway - Die Bahn - seems to be totally surprised and deeply shocked about - winter! God, it's almost a year ago we had it, and so they must have forgotten, that winter would come back! If my train will go off at all, I may still have to calculate 1 - 2 hours delay. Merry Christmas!

Hmmmm - Christmas cookie! Crunch! Grmpf!! Crumb!! Crunch!!! Cookies! I like coooookieeees! Did you Americans know, that the German television bought the "Sesame Street" series? Later, they banned Oscar (the monster in the dustbin - was his name Oscar in the US?) from it, cause they found he was too destructive or to negatively unpolite. Reminds me of someone - but I found it a pity; I loved the frank monster Oscar. One scene I still remember, BigBird and Suzanne brought him a knitted yellow wool cap for his birthday. So they knocked at his bin. First he did was complaining, who made all that noise. Then, when he had got the cap, he complained: "Argh! It's totally new - and so terribly clean! I'll have to pour half a gallon of waste oil over it, before I could like it!" As I said - reminds me of someone.

The "Warrant Officer" was in the army of the Kaiserreich the "Feldwebelleutnant"; he was a non-commissioned officer with lanyard, who got promoted after long service time to Feldwebelleutnant, which was almost the same rank as a Leutnant, but still slightly below Leutnant, because he did not have the officer's patent. I just found this excerpt from a companie in WW1, which seems to show, that "Offizierstellvertreter" was not a military rank, but a position given to a non-commisioned officer with lanyard. Here in this example are four Vizefeldwebel, who were also "Offizierstellvertreter"; directly translated, it means "someone to replace an officer's position". 11. Kompagnie: Hauptmann Sieveking, Oberleutnant d. R. Rissom (gefallen), Leutnant d. L. Kreipe, Offizierstellvertreter Vizefeldwebel Trettin, Offizierstellvertreter Vizefeldwebel Heberling (gefallen). 12. Kompagnie: Hauptmann d. R. Orth, Leutnant d. R. Stüve, Leutnant d. L. Kahle, Offizierstellvertreter Vizefeldwebel Rose, Offizierstellvertreter Vizefeldwebel Eckstein.

You will surely never get accused for charming anyone, UncleAl. And JFM is right there - you acted against your own principles. I remember you helped me, when I was a newbie in the old OFF Forum, so I can't say anything you'd deserve now. The question was not at all stupid - as you may see from Winder's answer. But perhaps we better change the subject now - I don't want you getting banned again, so short before Xmas.

Yeah, I checked other sites, and you seem to be right - at least compared with today's army ranks.

Then it can't be a Pour-le-Merite - no gemstones on that order.

There is a lot of damage simulated in OFF, be sure, Wodin. Just see through the "Screenshots" thread. Go to "Workshops" and check, if you have skin resolution on "highest" (or however it's called) - then you don't see all damage. Set that on the medium (normal?) setting.

There is a Wikipedia page which seems quite detailed about this question - unfortunately it is only available in German. Here is the link: http://de.wikipedia...._Kaiserreich%29 And yes - the Vizefeldwebel was ranking below the Feldwebel (as you can see there). I can only attempt to translate the ranks - one is never quite sure about English or American ranking details. Portepee = lanyard Unteroffizier - corporal Sergeant - sergeant Fähnrich - ensign Vizefeldwebel - (?) Feldwebel - staff sergeant Offizierstellvertreter - first sergeant / master sergeant ? Feldwebelleutnant - second lieutenant Leutnant - first lieutenant Oberleutnant - senior lieutenant Hauptmann / Rittmeister - captain Major - major Oberstleutnant - lieutenant colonel Oberst - colonel

Will try it next year, HPW! Sounds terrible, doesn't it - next year - but there's only 11 days left of 2010, and I'm packing my bags to travel to Ostfriesland. To be honest - I'd prefer to test it over Xmas - but family duties are stronger.

Even 10 % is not necessary my way, UncleAl. Throttle "idle" should be zero.

Restart with magneto would be much too slow, I think. My method should work, as the throttle has many number steps inbetween "full" and "idle", which you would all drop. It should be totally down at once, without the slider.

As far as I understand, the blip switch switches between "throttle full" and "throttle idle" ? In that case you can just set those two commands in "Controls" on buttons on your stick; drop using the throttle slider, and use those two buttons instead.

Wow - look at the new decals for the Albatros!!! And then they have built a ROLAND D.VIa !!! Oh, if we could have those in OFF (hint, hint!) The new photographs for the Roland and Albatros are great to see.

Wodin, I'm just wondering if you are in our OFF Forum Pilots Maps already or not? If you PM me your home town and country/state, I'll add you in.

Indeed - that sausage should be safe for Christmas. Lou and everyone here - Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch in ein gesundes und glückliches neues Jahr 2011! (And now get your dictionaries out, boys)

PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING: RULES FOR NEW FORUM GAME Today I'll start a tour all over the world, to visit places where OFF Pilots live. And I want to play it like a little game: The OFF Pilots, who recognise their home town from the picture, post here, that they have recognised their town. If you don't want to spread here, which the name of your town is, you could just say: Hi, here's .... and that's my town. I will know, if you are right. As soon as the picture of the place is recognised by it's inhabitant, I will move on to another town. I will not try to show here the most beautiful view of the towns - I'll just pick places I find interesting or I have heard about. I will use Google Street View for this, as far as possible, and hope they won't mind. It's not for making any profit, and should be even a commercial for them. The pictures will get deleted, as soon as someone identified their place - I'd fill up all my attachment space otherwise. Okay, here we go: Whose town is this? And what do we see in the picture? The picture got deleted to make room for new ones - here was: Town One: Newcastle upon Tyne Barras Bridge, near Haymarket; looking at the "Crow's Nest" Pub

Shredder, being an Ostfriese from the salty marshes by the North Sea, for me mountains are rather something to look at from a safe distance. I was never one for climbing around on them - going up, just for coming down again? I have that in OFF. (But yeah - beautiful they are!) TaillyHo - I suppose that's what they call "global village"? Merry Christmas to you both!

After reading the passage about Voss' last fight in Peter Kilduff's book "The Red Baron", I went searching through the trench maps and found Plum Fm north of Frezenberg. I made this map in Photoshop.

Wednesday, when I was just working in my graphic program, my system crashed down. I had that before, and after a new start, it was usually all back and fine. But this time, when I tried to open the same work again (which I had saved on the desktop), my system froze. Another reset failed to boot Windows at all. A friend of mine helped me to get it all working again. We had to write back a safety backup of my C: partition from September. My OFF couldn't find several data anymore, so I'll have to re-install it now. In the new year, I'll save money to get me a new system now, with Win 7 64bit.

Okay, I'll try to remember that. I seem not to be the only one who didn't remember that.

Yesterday, I made "Berliner Mandelbrot" - my absolute favourite Christmas bake. Here's the recepy. I only have it in Gramm weight, but you can easily google for a website to change it to your local weight. 4 eggs 400 g ground almonds 400 g brown sugar 300 g wheat flour 40 g cacao 1 good soup spoon of cinnamon half a teaspoon ground cloves half a teaspoon cardamom a flat teaspoon of baking powder a little salt Heat the backing oven to 200° Celsuis. And now for all rotary fans especially - equip your rotary stirrer with the kneader tools. Stirr the eggs with the sugar; then add the ground almonds, cacao, cinnamon, salt and spices and stirr again. Now add the flour bit for bit, and the backing powder, while kneading the pastry. It will become pretty tough - you may add a little hot water, but only so much, that your kneader won't collapse. Now smear a little butter on a baking tray, especially into the corners, so the cake will come off better, when it's ready. Then pour the pastry onto the tray, and flatten it equally thick over the whole tray. That may be easiest by putting your hands into a bowl of warm water and then flatten it by hands. When the pastry begins to stick on your hands, put them into the water again. Now you put the baking tray into the heated oven and bake it for 20 minutes. It will still be soft enough to cut it into the right sized peaces after baking it; then let it cool out. You may need a pan scraper to get it from the tray later, without having half of the almond bread sticking to the tray. I hope you will find it as delicious as I do - enjoy!

One tip - make sure your AV program is set to use the game mode (that means, when you run something full screen - which means any game - your AV won't try to update, and won't do other performance-hungry things). Is game booster a program, that really does improve gaming performance?

Another sortie with Jasta 2 - September 1916 is still almost quiet compared to the same time 1917.