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To cycle the seats should be F8, and to switch back: Shift+F8 If that doesn't work in your case, I would go to "controlls" and make the assignments new after your coice. To know how they are called, check HomeBoy's key chart in the sticky threads.

Matthias - being a graphic designer, I can offer you this: Send me some well made photographs (digital) of the craft from various angles (also from a little higher than the standing craft). I could then make a collage of that craft in Photoshop, pretending it was flying. If that's what you want, I could PM you my mail address for the pictures. I would do it for free.

Hey, Waldemar Wouldn't you like to make brief combat reports about your "Roland-carreer" in the "Peports from the Front" sticky? We don't have so many two-seater reports yet, and especially German ones (I think Rickitycrate made the last ones). I would like to put you into our OFF Pilots map. If you send me a PM with your hometown and country/state, I'll do it.

Hey, Mathias If you only make some copies for your own use on this Albatros, you wouldn't need copyrights. Only when you intend to get a larger print job done. You can contact the webmaster of the Wings Palette site (mail-address is usually bottom, right). I'm not so sure about the type style used for the number on the side. It looks like Gill Sans, and I wonder, if that type should have been in use so early?

Carrick, have you had "flying experience" before? If not, I would recommend to do many "free flights" in QC, to learn to handle the crate you want to use. But even if you have experience, those Jastas often have several aces in one squad, or they are at least veterans. They know what they are doing, whilst you still have to find out. But we're lucky - we can create a new pilot. One more idea: if you are rather beginning with WW1 air combat, choose either 1. the early 1916, where you could get a Nieuport, but before the Germans get their Albatros (so before September); or 2. start with the earliest S.E.5a available (I think in May 1917 they where there already?) or 3. fly the last year, 1918, where the Allied outnumber the Germans; and there pick an S.E.5a or a Camel "Bloody April" WAS hard for the Allies. And don't give up - it will later be rewarding!

Wonder, if anyone knows the movie "Angel's Wing" with Lambert Wilson, a French film related to Guynemer. I only got it in French, but the most was still obvious. He starts on the Morane parasol - worth to see it! http://www.amazon.com/Angels-Wing-Bernard-...t/dp/B00199PP7E

Animals seem to dislike our hobby craft more often. See these! Magpie dogfighting a model aircraft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrGCKtvG0gI Classical magpie attack on six o'clock:

Good points, Typhoon and Rugbyfan! Sorry to you, groundhog - didn't want to insult you.

Creaghorn, you must be a patient man. I wish I was too. But thanks for your advice about settings. I always fly my sorties with two or three wingmen so far. I'll try and change that; also the altitude. Homeboy, nothing wrong with the shooter, as long as he takes care enough, for himself as for the wingmen. I will never be the hunter. I will do my kills as quick, hard and short timed as possible, and then return home. I am flying BHaH since February now, and only during the last month, I got to use TrackIR almost like a padlock view; my flying became better, and my patience with everything. You will see - some day that desperate chase for instant success will fade, and you will be a veteran (with moss on his back - Lol!!)

Update 07/26/09 01:40 von Baur, Pennsylvania, added. The maps are in post #1 of this thread.

Great you're airborne again, CJ - hopefully from Lieu-St. Amand

...back to the trusty Alb DII with a nice, open forward view. Absolutely, Mr.Lucky! If you prefer a solid craft with a good overall view and two great guns, it must be the Albatros (well, with the exception of the weaker lower wings). I wonder you met Eindeckers in Nupe 17 Lewis - I'm not good at history, but shouldn't they have been in different times? And to your question - they could only win the war by sheer mass of aircraft and pilots, not through having the greater crates, surely.

Oh yes, they do it all the time, BuB! Just to cause us nightmares! (They must be a leftover from CFS3, where they would have a parachute).

Nice combat room, OvS - we both have the same joystick! As for the kid and the fishing - if Widowmaker should get near your home on his USA visit, he can show her how to throw the rod, or how those fishermen say. Shame on you about the Romano-Luke story - it's unbelieveable what parents fool their kids with, and later they want them to be realistic (Lol!) But the baseball story is good!

Perhaps that little furry fighter was the reincarnation of a German fighter pilot, who had to come back as a lesser life form because of his bad karma (Goering comes to mind).

Zoomzoom, you can try this: go to Windows explorer and make a right-click on the dds-file. There should now appear something like "add this file to xxxxxxxxx.rar" here. Click that, and you will have the packed RAR-file. That is a packaging to make files smaller to post them. If that doesn't work, send it to me. I'll PM you my mail address.

Thanks, Winston, but not necessary. The admins have made the proposal to create a gallery in that section. As soon as I have found the time, I'll let you know, and will be happy, if you join in.

http://www.eads.com/1024/de/eads/history/a...tros_D_III.html Just had a look at Albatros DII pictures at the EADS site again, and found, that the OFF modellers and skinners have done a good job here, too. Here is one picture, where it looks like the fuselage is shaded darker above the mid line, and also mottled. The cowling looks painted in a bright colour. And below the cowling, the nose looks darker than the rest of fuselage (can't be a shadow, as sun comes from above left nose side). Does any one of the skinners know more about that?

Good info, thanks JFM! Tch - Bullethead! That's like your story about that Absinth-device in the SPAD! (Lol!)

My goodness - you're right, Hasse Wind! I had never changed the setting for "player altitude"! It was on 3.000 feet - I have raised it now to 10.000 feet. Hope that will help!

As a German pilot, I am a shooter. We are mostly over own ground, and I take risks, and take on almost every enemy flight. My best living pilot - DiD/TWL - has 12 confirmed victories. I find it hard to act as a hunter, cause I am often just jumped upon by numerous enemy craft. And as I want to save my wingmen, I enter the furball with not much hesitation. But as an Entente pilot, crossing the lines most of the time, I will try a hunter way of fighting with my new S.E.5a pilot (if the Germans let me, and don't also jump on us in huge numbers). Could a typicall "hunter" (Creaghorn!) please explain to me, how he avoids that "getting jumped at"?

Update 07/25/09 13:48 Dev Team members RexHannover, Toronto, and Nod, Nottingham, added. Dev Team member colour corrected to Capt.Winters, Australia The maps are in post #1 of this thread. Edit: Jammer28, Texas, added.

Unbelieveable, Jimko - yours is looking SOOO real!

Update 07/24/09 23:40 Red Dog, England, added. The maps are in post #1 of this thread.

Here are some great close up illustrations from James F. Miller's books ACE PROFILES; showing Albatros and other WW1 craft. That bowed thing in front of the lower wing is a metall protection plate. http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http...N%26start%3D108