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Thanks, Bullethead and all - will watch out for "Pandorum"; sounds very interesting.

Since I don't have RoF, I cannot judge about it really. But I can read, and I saw, that there is little to none immersion factor, as we have in OFF. Someone compared the two sims like this: RoF is a hot one night stand with sobering up later - OFF is the right girl for a long relationship What I can say is: most of us are really so deep into their campaigns and pilots - as if we really live in that Jasta / Squadron / Escadrille. Everyone, who is at least a little bit into WW1 air combat, will find all the detail in OFF. The skins of all the pilots with individual markings or paintings alone are more than 3200 ! And without any exaggeration: OFF was the absolute best and most immersive air combat sim I ever found! And, by the way: you CAN of course also fly it online - there are several people here, who do that regularly and with great fun. Here is the link to their site: http://www.overflandersfields.com Before I drown you in more excitement, just short: OFF is made with LOVE !

Just searching for some really good paintings, I found this one by Jay M. Thompson. If you know a good link for such paintings, please post it here. Thank you!

Indeed, Lou - thanks for bringing him back to my mind.Here's one of his works:

You best program your controlls by hand, I think. That is funny - as far as I remember, one can't change a key setting at once. I had to click "assign additional key" or how it's called. Now you enter your desired setting. After that, you may delete the original first one. You could get a "THRUSTMASTER T. Flight Stick X" with a head button for panning views for some 30,- Dollar, I suppose. I used that before TrackIR; I had a thumb button assigned to toggle between snap and slide view. With the top hat I could now get either 8 fixed view angles, or move my slide view. I was pretty good at it after a while. I don't think, TrackIR would give you migranes, as it is just like glide view - only that your head moves controll it instead of a hat switch. Nothing gets close to it, once you familiarised yourself with it. It's a bit expensive to buy, only to find, it DOES give you headaches, but when you know someone you could borrow it from - might be worth a try?

Oh yes, hughesyman, Mark Miller's stuff is always special. Great aircraft skeletton pics there too!

In our DiD Campaign, we recently get the wheather forecast "bitterly cold". Still though, we have to make one or two sorties a day. I often think, that those guys must have been frozen to their bones after return. I cannot imagine, that flights could have been made in January, without wearing a facemask with a fur inlay. So I kept searching for pics, and now found this one. http://www.redpilot.com/museum/ww2/wfacemask.html It is a Soviet mask from WW2, but that doesn't matter - I can hardly have been much different in WW1. The guy writes, that he doesn't know what fur it is, but that it is very soft and short-haired, so I guess it might be mole skin. If anyone has a picture of a WW1 pilot wearing such a mask, please post it!

Well, he looks like the people see the German soldiers: upright, determined and dark - just frightening. Metal facemask where used though, but rather by snipers, to protect them from other snipers. In the cold up there, I think it would be nasty to wear. But if you want to frighten your opponent...

Update 01/21/2010 19:02 h Berlin wintertime (= GMT + 1) slartibartfast, England, added. All the maps are in post 1 of this thread

Well, the thanks should go to IV/JG1_Kaiser, who saw it first. I have just clicked at the section "engine & prop". There is a picture "Cowling and spinner detail" which shows good detail of the nose. That grey-green looks very much like the WW2 Luftwaffe RLM 02 Grau, which was also used for interiour and protecting parts.

Update 01/21/2010 14:12 h Berlin wintertime (= GMT + 1) GeorgeBoles, Australia, added. All the maps are in post 1 of this thread

Oh my goodness! I knew the Vintage Aviator, but hadn't been there for some time! These pics are superb! Please post this link for OvS, under "An Albatros for the Black Baron of Boistrancourt". (OvS' sub title).

Good re-find; thanks, Dej! Only now, I realised, that there where more than one page of gallery. And they all look very good - also WW2 ones. So we should recommend this site to everyone.

Ah, thank you for bringing that link back to my notice, Dej! I had seen it some time ago, but now there are more good pics, and they all would make fine desktops! Like this Halberstadt (I just see - they can be downloaded desktop size 1024 x 768):

Perhaps it's bigger, and therefor further away, than you thought?

The Aerodrome gives me N65; Spa65; V106, V116, but in OFF, I can't find those squads after Esc.65/after end of 1916. Where did he go from there?

It is indeed so, and you got me on the track, Bullet - Nungesser is back with SPA65 in December 1917. Shredward - the man who has the facts! (What a brilliant team found together to create OFF !)

Thank you for good information, Bullethead. Now, when you say he was still in Esc.65 until summer 1917, I must have a look again. Maybe Shredward went as far as taking Nungesser out of the chalk board, when he really was in hospital. Wouldn't asthonish me much - he contributed such detailed data already. (Thanks, Shred!)

You f g basterds, I'll come after you with my twin Spandaus!!

Hmm - but what squadrons do the Aerodrome numbers mean?

(I still yet have to try it, as Bullethead is involved there, and I really want to check it some time. But somehow, a day is always so short, that so far I never wanted to take time off from flying our campaign. Maybe I have to die first.. But one day I will have an attempt with seabattles - although I get seasick very easily... Hope it won't be too difficult to learn the Navy stuff. And that I won't have to grow a beard?)

There are never enough Albatros' around - thank you, Paarma! I favour the Moosbacher one, and the Black 9!

Morris and appraiserfl, I hate you! If you don't stop I'm gonna show pics of MY big !!!!

OvS: "It all balances... it has to, otherwise I'd be in 'D'-court faster than lighting through a tree." Yeah! But believe me, OvS - that's fact for the most self-employed anyway. Hope you'll find some more time to enjoy your great product, as much as I do - and to see some screenies of it.

Enjoy!