Olham

Good advice, Hasse Wind - and the air start has nothing to do with it. Occasionally, that famous butterfly flaps a wing in China, and then, as an outcome of some thousand processes started by it, our warp goes hopelessly wrong. The map open should prevent you from getting VERY wrong. Although it might be nice - could lead you to St. Tropez or Cannes!

BigAl, I forgot - it always makes sense to copy the Pilot folder before changes and save it somewhere - just in case you mess something up.

You're right with every point, BigAl - Lothar, in case you read this: could you change those bits?

Rabu: We've got rockets on some of the planes, right? Not the Germans - I'd love to - I could blow UncleAl out of his occasional Model T.

BigAl, you need to check the pilot's number in your ingame log. Let's say for example, he is Pilot No. 6 there. Now you leave the sim and go to the pilot files here: (your sim folder) > campains > CampaignData > Pilots There, you look for the Pilot dossier of Pilot 7 (their number is always one higher in the files, so Pilot No. 6 is pilot7) You open the dossier file, and find in the third line his current squadron/Staffel. You can overwrite it with the one you want to change to. If uncertain, how it is called or written, you may enlist a test dummy in the desired squadron, check his dossier, and copy the line from there.

It's offline; we fly either "Krauts" or "Crumpets" side - only one pilot at the time being. Here is the link to the "Full DiD Campaign Killboard"; you'll find the rules there, and when you click on the pics, you see the squadrons/Staffeln to enlist in. http://quaero.unm.edu/~justin/off/did/ You fly, when you can - no "every day duty". But you must always fly on the same date back in WW1, that we have today. So, if you started today, you would start on July 21st, 1917. If you can't fly for several days, you need to advance time for your next sortie, until it correlates with the current date. On both sides, you have to fly a two-seater, before you can transfer to the fighters. German side, you begin in FA(A) 250, Menen, flying a two-seater - the D.F.W. C.V - for recon and bombing missions. The man to help you there, is Hasse Wind, our long-time two-seater pilot, and a nice chap here on the forum. You can change to the fighters after either 17 hours, or after getting 5 kills done. The two-seater needs to be done only once. Should your pilot later fall, or become a POW, you are allowed to start another one right with the fighters. German fighter Staffel is Jasta 6. We are currently based at Bisseghem. If you decide to join the German side, the current time-frame in the enlistment for FA(A) 250 is from 1. April - Novermber 17. Now, before you have to click "advance time a hundred times, I can show you how to change the date. For the Crumpet side, RAF_Louvert would be your commander - another good member here. So make your choice, when ready, and give me or RAF_Louvert a sign, okay?

Congratulations. BigAl ! It would be second class, cause you will get another IC, before you get the "House of Hohenzollern", and then, with 20 confirms: the "Blue Max". If you still live by then... Take all the care you can. Claims will come enough. Give it time. Early death ends it all.

I never send my men for rescue - I do it myself, Carrick. Quicker, and more effectively. That moment with Til Schweiger as Voss is by far too airy considering, there is a friend of yours in trouble. Those moments were tense, intensively, straining - no one, however cool he was on the ground, would grin like that in such a situation. Not that I totally dislike Schweiger's acting, but here he failed.

Check the galleries at the "Aerodrome" website. Russel Smith or James Dietz are very good, but there are many more. http://www.theaerodrome.com/gallery/browseimages.php?do=browseimages&c=500&userid=1245&page=2

Man, Italian summer with Italian food and wine, plus RC model flying - that must be paradise, as god meant it. Have a good time - we expect pictures from everything!!!

The addition of incendiary ammunition for balloon busting would make a nice add to the immersion. Imagine,we would have to remember to really choose this ammo in the first place (briefing window). If you forget to do so, the balloon won't blow up. Would make balloon busting missions much more into something special. Does anyone know, how that ammo type would effect an aircraft fired at?

Always the same with Hollywood, isn't it?

OMG, Carrick - don't you make any differences??!!!

The bits, bytes and pixel world - as fragile as a Sopwith craft. But head up, Cameljockey, it could have gone far worse.

Oh yes, the "Vintage Aviator" is well known round here. And I must have "travelled" through the Albatros pictures a dozen times now. Wonderful work! Here it is in flight; enjoy:

Small, fragile, and annoying as mosquitoes, those Nupes!

Capt. Blackadder to Lord Flasheart: Actually, I was more impressed by the content of my handkerchief, when I last blew my nose!

Thoughts about this waste of so countless many lives often makes me sentimental, and sometimes makes me try to condense the feelings and thoughts into something maybe poem like. Forgive me, and if you find it embarrassing, consider me drunk, pass on and don't worry - I don't have to earn my living with this. falling black smoke column growing longer downwards moments rushing faster faster cold lips insecure look helpless hands trembling first touch unknown wilderness warmth growing gently whispered breath world in my arms scent of her skin ever present ever precious ever ever why me why here why today why lord, find a way! save with your gentle hand this falling butterfly this falling soul! never more meadow apples mother blanket sister starlings laughter brook grapes father fishes water clouds faces rain cloudburst concert crayons tender touch autumn swans slowly rising from the golden pond nearby... angel's smile snow flakes winter frozen white burried bodies black smoke finger pointing on pockmarked soil touching down - - -

More than 5,500 Australians were killed, wounded or went missing at Fromelles in under 24 hours, along with more than 1,500 British, cut down by German machine guns and artillery. German troops buried them afterward, Australian investigators say. The site, near a pockmarked battlefield, was covered over time. What a waste - what a terrible waste of youth and future, of ideas, of intelligence, and plans yet to be made, of laughter and joy, of tenderness, love - of life... May we never forget - and let them all rest in peace.

Yeah, good one - I'll try to do that in future.

You could still do raids with your front gun, vonOben, and if you mark ground targets or vehicles (you have to cycle through your TAC to get to those targets), you can order your men to attack those. Maybe your rear gunner would even pepper them.

I'm with you there, Rickity - unfamiliar faces would work much better. "Band of Brothers" was good there. I didn't know any of the cast, so the actors really were the soldiers.

Welcome to the amazing world of OFF, DeathJester! The most Germans know much more about WW2 and the Nazi regime than about WW1, and any movie showing German war heroes was totally unthinkable here. Movies showing "good" German soldiers, were only made by American or British companies, with their actors (Michael Caine) playing the German. When I saw the posters for the cinema start of "Der Rote Baron", I was slightly shocked. I thought: Are we really so far now, that we can show German military heroes? Can people deal with what they see, without distorting it? What the movie did with me, was, it changed my angle of view. I had, like many British people, regarded the German side in WW1 as the "dark side". But it was a pre-Nazi war, a big clash of the well established industrial nations with a "hungry newcomer". America as the other "newcomer" stood on the side of the old nations. There was no "dark side" - it was industrial competition to it's worst, IMHO. Well, the movie was no big success, as far as I can see. People have problems getting and keeping work, getting the money together - the whole economic situation is very tense; so I think they just didn't bother much. The movie was financed by Warner, I think - so it's not really a German movie, but very influenced by American producers, I assume. Would you please send me a PM with your hometown and country/state? I'll add you to our OFF Forum Pilots Maps then. Thanks! Enjoy this great sim!

We had a similar poll, but we may have newbies enough to ask these questions again. And perhaps, some of you have even changed their likes. The American flyers please choose among the French and English craft. In addition to the above poll, I have some more questions, which you may copy and paste into your posts,and answer them there. ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS 1. Which Nationality do you fly mostly ? 2. What is your favourite Squadron / Jasta / Escadrille to fly with ? 3. Why did you choose that Squadron / Jasta / Escadrille as your favourite ? 4. What is your favourite airfield landscape-wise (the most beautiful surrounding/area ? Perhaps you can add a screenshot of that field).

Take care of yourself, mate - that pilot's seat don't have no loop belts!