Olham

Just had that situation - wingman shooting at MY plane. You know, why? I had pressed "help" - and that enemy in front of me was the only plane near! So, better press "help" only, when there are really enemies BEHIND you. And then: turn, cause otherwise, wing one MUST hit you accidently. But the better way for me now: I order attack on a plane, and cover them. That way, I could bring by far more wingies back home, AND made kills.

Watch it, HELLSHADE, "Fritz" IS capable - dogfighting underneath treetop level is my speciality! So, when you check your six, and see tracers from somewhere between a watering can and a garden dwarf - that's coming from my Albatros D II, and could be the last you ever see. (After zatt, I like pickkink some apples - Mmuahahahahaaaa!!!!)

Welcome, Waldemar! Nice idea, that, for the future some day. But seeing, that Winder and the team are still working on patching some things, we should leave them at least some time for their private life, and sleep. We don't want them to develope a burn out syndrome, do we? I enjoy (when enemy let's me) the flights, as they come; and it is really challenging. Have fun! Olham

However - I will try to get those as a DVD box at Ebay. Timeless British humour!

Yes, "Kennst mich noch?" (Remembr me?) and "Du doch nicht!" (But not you!) I know both, but wouldn't want to use the signatures of others. I'm thinking of writing "Dich hol ich mir!" (I'll get you!) on my other Albatros.

Royce, it must be from the late seventies or early eighties. The actor beside "Mr.Bean" Rowan Atkinson, is nowadays "Dr.House" - did you recognise him?

As far as I know, the name came from the fact, that very offensive Jastas, like Jasta 11 of Manfred von Richthofen, gave up barracks, and decided to use tents to live in, cause that way, they could move much faster from one field to another. When he then decided, to paint the planes in a very colourful way, the name "Flying Circus" was given to them by the English aircrew. The decision for colourful planes was kind of psychological warfare by MvR. When his comrades said, that with these colours, they would be seen for miles, he answered: I want them to see us for miles. I want them to know, that we don't see any reason to hide. I want, that they believe, we don't fear them at all."

My system is XP, Ronbo. And I wrote "Cry Wolf" in English, for my Allied opponents often can't read German. (And I wanted the word "Wolf" on the plane, as my pilot is Wolfram "Wolf" Mahlo. In German, that saying would be "Schrei Alarm!" - no Wolf in it.)

Sorry, RRRRonbo!

Forgot the pics of Thaw's and von Ziegler's end.

Burt, pick the Douai-Arras-Cambrai area. End of 1916, it may still not be too dense. In 1918 then, you may be glad, when you didn't collide with anyone.

First time I read that much about him. Sounds all terribly like the "hell part" of BHaH.

Zatt's dsherman war technolodgy, Herr Hauksbee. Vee also had roll-up airfieldz, zatt you could also use as a kitchen table cloth. Mmmuahahahaaaa!!!!!

Yes, it's a Hansa Brandenburg W 20. See this modeller's site: http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http...l%3Dde%26sa%3DG

Hi, CW3FS To change your controls, you hit "escape" in a flight / QC; then in the menue appearing on the right, you choose "controls". To change any of them, do NOT try to overwrite the preset one first, by click "add new assignment". Now you can make a new assignment on the keyboard, or press the button, you'd like to use. After that, you could delete the previous assignment, but you can leave it as well. In the wingmen commands, you'll see "help", "attack my target", "spilt" and "return", for example. All of these can be put on a button of the stick. I use TrackIR 4 with the sim, and it is absolutely fantastic! Hope, I could help. Have fun! Olham

Hey, Ronbo All former RB3D players, I read posts of here, are overwhelmed with OFF "Between Heaven and Hell"; and so am I. But it will feel much more realistic, and therefor harder to survive (unless you choose easy settings). I can't think of anything else, I'd like to fly more (except, perhaps, Oleg's "Battle of Britain" - if it ever appears). About the skins: it is unbelievable, how many skins I could choose from. I'm flying German planes mostly, and the team did ALL the skins of the aces, very beautifully. You can choose any of these for your own plane, if you like. And, yes, you can create your own skin, but it's more work, than in a pre-configured "ace paint shop". You have to have Photoshop or another program, to work on bitmaps with. But some of us did many own skins already. Best see our sticky thread about skinnig (it has an extra place, you'll find it on the forum's first page/list of content)

That was a real great fight! I had a similar one against aces in Pups, with a D III. I managed to survive it, and kill three of the six. But, as I had lost all my men, or they had got carried away by their opponents/fights, I didn't get a single claim allowed (errenious)! That was hard! My new wingman with Jasta 15 may be like your Otto Gund - I'll report, when we reached the first 10 flights.

Thank you, Jammer You will soon come up with something similar? Your slideshow is promising! And nice music - please, show us some moving action!

Leutnant Hasse Wind, I vellcome you on ze right side of ze lines - ze Kaiser's side! Here, you vill get ze tough planes vizz ze right amount of ammunission, and almost all have TWO gunzz! And you can paint your bird however crazy you like - vee are ze "flyink ssircuss"! It may not last long, sso: enjoy your f(l)ights! [see the thread "a tear comes to the eyes" by ROOSTER. It IS hard, to live longer here. But as long as it lasts, it's worth every second. And all you said about this sim, is true! Welcome!]

ROOSTER, 21 missions flown is a helluvalot - at least for me! So, don't give up! You made a mistake, and in war, one mistake could end your life. In your case, it "only" spoiled one sim pilot's carrer. Spaatz's kills-to-mission relation shows, that he was already one of the more careful pilots. He didn't make one or two kills per mission. He could have lasted longer. Learn from the incident. And climb back into your cockpit. I wish I could show a log with 20 and more missions yet. (I'm working on it!)

GAW & RICKITY The Freak Brothers are still printed here in Germany (at least some years ago), as Special Editions, in Rotbuch Verlag. I have just found "The Mexican Odyssee" again. And I have little books about only Fat Freddy's Cat. All absolutely great stuff - can read it every year again.

Yes, and I want an Albatros! We could then pedal with'em on the Steuben parade.

I'm pretty disappointed about that. I had been Forum member since October 2008, and had made two donations in that time. Also, in addition to that, I had given money for Icky's new rig and monitor. Don't know, what tackled them...

Luiz As far as I know, you CAN hide in the sun or clouds. Before the sim appeared, the developers had said so, I think to remember. I spotted a flight of 5 planes on my screen, but they remained labeled as "bogeys", when I came close enough, they should have turned into friend or foe. The same should work for the player/pilot.

Leutnant Mahlo, Jasta 2, Bertincourt; 1. Oktober 1916 Kameraden! I have the sordid task, to inform you all here, that our Kamerad, Flieger Rudolf Spaatz, did not return from the Alarmstart, some of our Jasta made this afternoon. Groundcrew saw him perform a tight turn towards a Nieuport, but due to bad view, he hit trees besides the runway and crashed fataly. I am particularly sad, cause I made several sorties with him as a wingman, and I can say, he never failed me there. With seven confirmed kills, he was one of our best aces. Two more confirmations, and his promotion to Feldwebel were in my post from the Hauptquartier, half an hour ago. He would have been proud to receive both. I know, that you all - that we will always remember him as a most friendly Kamerad and one of our heroic fighter pilots. Meine Herren! Please raise your Glass with me now, and when we've emptied it, smash it on the floor. Salut!!