Olham

Flyby, give yourself a rest of Sunday today. But maybe you want to get it right tomorrow. (I don't give up easily). So, once you have copied the link adress of an album picture, you need to click on that little picture (see my pic): Then you get a tiny frame. Copy the URL into that line, and you should see your badge below.

Hmmmm - I have put mine into a "Private Album", Lou - can you see my picture, or do only I see it now???

Did you follow that step, that you left-clicked on the image in two steps? Left click 1 - now it appears single Left click on that single pic again - only now it appears largest, on a dark grey background. Only this one you should now right-click, and then follow the rest of the proceedure. Thanks for your instructions, Lou! You solved the mystery, why my signature pic was smaller than it should. I had not known, that I must go to the enlarged pic, and had clicked on the previous one. I had thought, they all have the same adress and therefor same size. My fault.

"Mmuahahahahaaaaaaaa!!!!!"

Perhaps we can make an agreement, Widow, not to shoot at each other? When the Snipe came up in 1918, many a German pilot would have also much preferred to just have some peaceful flying in the azure skies. But I bet you can't resist, once you got that craft in your hands...

There may be only one really safe way to save your pilot(s): You need to have OFF installed on the C: drive. Now you make a backup of the C: partition with a program like ACRONIS BACKUP (best after every 1 - 3 sorties), and you need to make it onto a second harddrive or an external drive. This way you have A) saved your whole operational system as you had it set up; and B) all your pilots. I keep 3 -4 of these backups, before I delete the oldest. Such a backup can be written back onto the C:drive, and it helps also, when you have installed any new stuff, which causes problems. Just write the previous status back, and you are fine.

How must that feel, to encounter a Sopwith Triplane, when you only have the Halberstadt? True, Hasse Wind - these are the very immersive moments! MvR never scored in the Halberstadt, by the way - his first aerial victory came with the first Albatros. Hellshade, here is how Manfred signed with his name - it reads: Frhr. v Richthofen (If you want to read the translation attempt, you find it here: http://combatace.com/topic/60872-von-richthofens-66-victory-claim/page__view__findpost__p__457121 )

I guess it would be "Copy shortcut" - you need to copy the link adress - and then you go to your "signature"; there you select "Insert new picture" (after deleting the old, if there was any), and insert the copied link adress - or "shortcut" - in there.

The athmosphere on the British airfields is very immersive indeed - this will lure me more into flying the British. But what about the French and the German ones? I know, the Germans were more the "Flying Circus", and rather used tents but hangars. But perhaps you did some improvements for their fields too? Or is that still "Top Secret"? (I'm still dreaming of seeing fields like Roucourt, Boistrancourt, Toulis or other well known ones, set up the way they look on the photographs).

A billionaire is so very unlikely... Perhaps you can go there and make some photos for us. You know, we Germans say, the sparrow in your hand is bigger than the pidgeon on the roof...

Save some money - for a WW1 sim, the THRUSTMASTER T Flight Stick X is all you need. Costs about 30,- Euro. I use it all the time, and it's fine - and it has 12 buttons to use!

And I had thought, the Isle of Wight had gone under, when I read your headline. Although - it is almost a s bad as that, isn't it? Are you absolutely sure the hardware is broken? Tried another USB port? Tried a new install of the software?

Lewie, there are many members here, who also fly another WW1 sim. That is perfectly okay and only shows their devotion to WW1 aviation. A real fan can and possibly will have more than one sim - and love them all. Or, like JFM said: One day I like pizza, and the other day Chinese food.

During the last weeks I have been working on these factory-fresh Albatros D.Va skins, which I hadn't completed without the help of the other enthusiasts named below. I made two download packages; one for the Johannisthal-built 1917 and 1918 version, and one for the OAW 1917 and 1918 build. Here is a copy of the text which you will also find in the download section: ALBATROS D.V and D.Va Factory-new Johannisthal & OAW Skins / 1917 and 1918 Since several OFF-simmers had asked for generic skin templates which they could paint their own emblems or decorations on to, I have made four such templates for the Albatros D.Va. All four present the facory-new Albatros D.Va, freshly delivered. I know that many of you are into weathering effects. Well, such effects can much easier be added to a new plane, than to be removed. So please feel free to add as much weathering and battle-wearing as you like. While the D.V was only built by Albatros-Werke Johannisthal, the D.Va was also produced at "Ostdeutsche Albatros-Werke" (OAW). I got a lot of help (see below) about the details of these builds; the guys told me several differences between the two production lines. Many may regard these as minor ones, and perhaps call us "nitpickers", but we wanted to get it pretty close. The differences I regarded here are these: 1. while Albatros Johannisthal used salmon ribtape on the wings, while OAW used light blue tape. 2. The crosses on the fuselage sides were further back on the Johannisthal planes than on the OAW built ones. 3. The weight tables were different 4. The factory placards were placed under the cockpit for OAW-built, and on the side of the nose on the Johannisthal built ones. 5. The Albatros-Logo was looking in flight direction on the Johannis- thal-, and rearwards on the OAW-built ones. Finally, there is proof that the rudder was covered mostly with upper dark Lozenge, but there are also photos with light underside fabric. I didn't find any evidence so far for the OAW using the light, and Johannisthal the dark fabric, but I wanted to present both versions and so I did it that way. The helping hands, brains & eyes on this project were from: elephant - nitpicking corrections and detail Jim JFM Miller - detail pictures and facts Dave "Blowhard" Douglas - metal parts and wheel Without your help I wouldn't have got so far - thank you guys! I also wish to thank the OBD skinners for the countless skins with all the historical details - you guys lured me into this hobby with your work. HOW TO INSTALL A SKIN Unzip the file(s) and move them into this folder: [your sim] > campaigns > CampaignData > skins You may change the Jasta number, but you must not - if you leave it No. 1, you would always find the skin faster in the briefing screen, where you select a personal skin. Scroll below the historical ace skins, and mine will be among the first skins. You can, for your identification, change the names "Johannisthal" or "OAW" into something personal, but keep the ending .dds - otherwise it won't work. Enjoy!

Lewie, I'm not sure how to read your signature (my English fails me here), but if you mean to say, that you're not sure if you are qualified to be a member of the BARMY OFFers CLUB, I take the freedom in Lou's absence, to declare, that you are barmy enough! Welcome in the club!

Oh, I envy people with a job like that!

Quack, you need to get BHaH, as that is the next full version after the still free "Phase 2" (I also entered OFF with Phase 2 free). So with BHaH, you have Phase 3 - the first REAL thing. "Hat in the Ring" was sold like an add-on about 9 months later, but it is actually again half a new version, with a much more dangerous AI. Since the devs may still have to work a while to get Phase 4 done, I recommend to get both BHaH, and HitR. Should be almost cheap by now - see here: http://overflandersfields.com/info.htm And you are always welcome - hope to see you with own combat reports or screenies.

Maybe it's still a work in progress? But still: worth a good look.

Quack, I guess you knew OFF before the "Hat in the Ring" add-on. Maybe even before "Between Heaven and Hell"? Anyway: "Hat in the Ring" rought a new, much better AI plus several new planes, and if you shouldn't know it, you should really get it and try it out. It was a big step forward! And yes, you still need CFS3, but you can get that cheaply for a 10er, or you still have it anyway? I have been flying other sims, but even the great IL-2 had no much of immersion to "suck me in to". OFF has plenty of it. I don't know how I should live without it.

Thanks for the comfort, von Paulus. I downloaded TFC, but now it asked for JAVA runtime environement, and I'm not sure again.

In New Zealand, the paradfise for WW1 aviation, they restored this Bleriot Experimental BE2c. And they documented it with photos, step by step. Wonderful eye-bathing! http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/projects/be2

Hasse Wind, they used original Mercedes engines, as far as I understand. Some missing parts were handcrafted to complete the engine. See here: http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/projects/mercedes-engine/mercedes-engine-restoration quack, if you ever feel like owning and flying a second WW1 sim, I highly recommend OFF. Over 3400 skins in here, and the immersion is on a very high level. You're welcome.

...seems the number wasn't there after painting it white.

A fine work, quack74! The craft is also in "Over Flanders Fields", were it looks like this. The question is, if they would have painted the production Nr. on the white fin again?

Well, Gene de Marco looks like a friendly, sympathic chap, but if it comes to flying their birds, I guess he'd draw a line there.