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That is a very beautiful scenic and athmospheric screeny, Lou!

Several unfortunate reasons had kept me from getting WOFF earlier, but today I finally had the time and downloaded it. The download, install and patching went smooth as silk. My only problem was, that no "Mission Result" appeared after my first test flight. Well, one should read the FAQs - the reason was my German (non-English) system, as pointed out in FAQs Part 4. After changing the comma into a dot for all numbering, it worked. Setting up the buttons and keys was rather easy due to the well-made setup lists in "Workshop". Only thing I missed so far was the free view around my aircraft in outside view. I had used to do that per mouse in OFF, when I wanted to look at my craft on the field. I can't remember how the view command was called, and which button it was on. For my first flying I have bypassed training and selected "fighter pilot", but without any selection of a unit or region. WOFF decided to put me into Jasta 7, where I had my first sortie under Oliver Beaulieu-Marconnay. A Lt. Hermann Göring was also in our flight. The leader and his wingman had the brand-new Albatros D.II; we others had ivory-white Halberstadt D.II. The patrol was over friendly territory and eventless until landing. But then! ... Everyone else had landed already, when I came gliding in. Suddenly loud barking Flak - black puffs low over the field! I pushed my throttle forward and took off again. Quickly checked everywhere around me. A silver Nieuport came curving in low behind me - what a shock! Blue-white-red roundels - a Tommy pilot! I was almost certain to be lost. I was too low, and in a climb I was slow - he couldn't miss me at that distance! But in the next moment his right wing got violently ripped off and summersaulted over our field, while the crippled craft rolled right over and slammed in - only some 50 yards from my tent! He had been alone it seemed; the Flak stopped barking, and I landed. Gee - what a debut!

Yeah, good point, Robert - I guess I made the mistake to think it was like OFF. But now I will approach WOFF like a completely NEW sim - which I guess it is.

I would try that out, but I'm afraid to run into another Englishman, while I look back...

Haha! Well, it may becalm you - I just tried out an Albatros D.II vs a Pup, and I had to realise that I didn't know this craft. The Albatros I mean. It behaved totally unknown to me, and I will have to learn to fly it again.

Well, I had changed the key from "K" to "F12" - but it didn't work! No screens.

I had another test flight with a group of Albatros D.III today. A patrol in friendly airspace. I was fighting with my settings andTrackIR view, so I was rather useless. But I had a sixth sense, when we were at cruising altitude, and soon I noticed just a few sparse Flak puffs low right. Just in time - a single Tommy again, in another silver Nieuport 17, tried to get behind me! I tossed nad turned my bird, but I was badly hampered by wrong TrackIR settings. He hit me with a few rounds, and I decided to dive for the deck. As I had hoped, he didn't follow, and I flew back towards our field. After some time the engine cut out - he had hit something. But I could make a glide landing and put the craft down intact. Still though, I had light injuries and spent 8 days in hospital.

Same settings here, Lou, and running smooth to on a Win7 (32bit) system.

Hey, Duke, I'm running WOFF on Win7 (32bit) and it works fine. I see no good reason why it shouldn't work on XP?

Thank you for the path, Adger! Must make new ones though - I had pressed the wrong key it seems - Mmuahahahahaaa!!!

Nice pics, Adger! Maybe I'm a blockhead - I forgot where the screenshots go??? Can't find the ones I made...

Wow, that is a nice collection! Thank you for sharing, Widow!

Just had my first sortie, and yes - it could have been my end already. A bit dozy after 1 hour of eventless patrol in friendly airspace I landed back a Xivry aerodrome north of Verdun. Our two Albatros D.II and the other Halberstadt D.II had landed already, and I was the last to glide down. I was about to touch down, when our Flak began firing like mad. Instinctively I pushed throttle forward and climbed out of the field. Quickly checking all around me, I found a blood-freezing vision: a silvery Nieuport 17 came curving in behind me for the kill! I could see the blue-white-red roundels - a Tommy pilot! I was sure I was lost - he couldn't have missed me! In the next second his craft was torn apart by a direct Flak hit, and it slammed into the ground near our tents. Life and death - only some yards apart from each other - gee, what a debut! I wonder how big or small my chances are after that...

I also wear two pairs of wollen socks for flying (Germany is cold this time of year). But I rest my feet fully on the pedals. The socks allow me to feel everything just so much more sensitively than shoes would. Working fine for me. Like every new control, you need to allow some time to get used to it's handling. Remember when you first used a joystick...

"Mwahahaaa!!! Mmuahahahahahaaa!!!

Yeah, I guess I will. Due to several reasons I will only get WOFF in a couple of days or so. It would be too nasty to order it now, and then not being able to fly it.

Yeah, Widow doesn't even need enemies to bring him down - he can easily handle that part himself. Mmuahahahahaaa!!!

"Mmuahahahahaaa!!!"

Only recently I had the idea to get me a MUCH larger monitor with "full HD resolution". When I compared prices, I saw that they get quite expensive above 24" size. Among the comparing monitors, I also saw flatscreen TVs - and I thought: why not?!? I tried it out with my TOSHIBA REGZA 37" TV - and the result was AMAZING! My eyesight is not as in my youth anymore, and I need to wear glasses. But even with glasses, I never saw everything so clearly before. I had expected a pixelated view, as the TV pixels are larger than on monitors. But not at all! Sitting ca. 1 m away from the screen, I get a wonderful huge "cinemascope vision" of everything. My cockpit is now real life-size. The clouds are huge and soft; the skies around me endless, and the landscape wonderfully detailed. My spotting of E/A and my shooting improved a lot! I will now fix a wall holder, so that I can move the screen forward or back. For my graphic jobs I will still use my 22" monitor. But for flying I will use the "Cinemascope" vision from now on. For my living room I ordered a new 39" full-HD TV - a WAREHOUSE DEAL from AMAZON for 320,- Euro. That is my Christmas present to myself. (I had been a good boy most of the year - Mmuahahahahaaa!!!) EDIT / IMPORTANT NOTE: I have now received the new flatscreen TV for my livingroom; a newer TOSHIBA model. I tested it both as TV and for sim flying, and it didn't look any good on both. So if you want to fly with a 37" TV monitor, make sure you get a good one. There seem to be huge differences!

I'm afraid his answers are to short for that job, Lou.

Wonderful work of art and spirit, Lou - I'll have to read it closely again tomorrow morning, with a freshly brewed coffee! (02:10 h now - time for switching the brain off)

Pints? Did I hear "pints"?!? I guess the sizes of the skins will remain the same, but if not, I think I'll be able to do the one or other skin in the new format.

He may not know enough about computer hardware, and so he thought it was a mouse? Mmuahahahahaaa!!!

Dej, you are the goldsmith for the club's works - wonderful new badge, Sir! Can you deliver them to us? Maybe I could have mine as a PNG file with a transparent background? Then I can try all sorts of coloured velvet with it.

Ditto from me!