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Yeah, another Tripe campaign is overdue! I could transfer that Pup pilot - 2nd Lt. David Marlowe - to 54, but I would like to follow Arthur Gould Lee's book "No Parachute!" with this pilots .

As I said, don't take it as an insult or anything like that. It is just, that after flying BHaH for 1 1/2 years now, I think I should take at least one campaign more seriously. Cause, if I want to last for a whole year or even longer, I MUST fly it pretty different to now. Not search each and every fight, be on the watch even harder; fly with much more awareness for everyone else around me to avoid collisions (my main kill reason). But everyone should feel free to fly OFF as they like. The more "serious" attitude may come sooner or later, when one has exhausted the hotspur in oneself. (I hope it will come!)

Welcome on the field of OFF, Nofsdad! I am pretty sure, that there are some guys here, who run OFF BHaH (Phase3) on a Win 7 (64bit) system. May I highjack this thread for one own computer question? My new motherboard (P8P67) has 6 GB ports and 3 GB ports for the harddrives. I am running Windows 7 (32 bit). Could I use the 6 GB ports with my SATA harddrives?

Lou, I think, 8 and 9 are also RNAS and not RFC? I don't find RFC 9 in OFF? Thanks, guys - the Tripes are never long there, it seems; so it may become 54 with the Pup; as soon as my other Pup campaign with No. 46 Sqdn, RFC, will end. But I would like to survive long enough to transfer to Filecamp Farm with Arthur Gould Lee and the boys - he describes the place almost like "paradise with Nissen huts". Lewie, 1,50 Euro is indeed extremely cheap for a camping site.

TaillyHo, a "taken seriously Campaign" is IMHO a Campaign as flown by Creaghorn, RAF_Louvert and Hasse Wind. These chaps fly them as if they could lose their own lives; they fly them much more defensive and careful; they make very little kills, but they survive a very long time. Please don't feel bad about your own flying - I never got anywhere close to their Campaigns' length myself; I fly far too aggressive; I make a lot of kills that way, but I am dead within half a year. I always think to myself, I want to fly it "more serious" like them, but that's only my conscience - my temper has a totally different oppinion.

For Widowmaker: you could make a combined tour of Camping, WW1 History & Fishing at Chipilly. See this site: http://www.camping-peche-picardie.com/

Does anyone fly with a certain Sqdn, Jasta or Escadrille, simply because he like the aerodrome they fly from? Please report, where and why. I want to do exactly that, and I fell in love with Google sat pics from Chipilly. I will check out, if it is really so beautiful there. What I need to know: which British and French sqdns are flying from Chipilly in OFF, and what time of the war? I don't want to switch through them all manually to find out. Chipilly, anyone?

I know you don't like to report about your pilots, Creaghorn, but would you make some exceptions here? I think it would be the first "taken seriously Campaign" in a Bristol Scout.

Another idea for you, Creaghorn, would be to begin as a two-seat Strutter pilot, and then change over to No. 24 Sqdn, RFC, to fly the Airco DH-2? Challenging carreer!

Uuuuuhhhh! That was nasty. Understandable, but nasty.

Hmmm - I feel different there again. The Halberstadt can hold it's own against any enemy, and would be even greater, if it could make use of it's superb dive ability, without the fragile Nupes performing the same. The Albatros is a monster fighter for me. When I get that craft in September 1916, I feel really superiour. I only die from collisions in late 1916 and early 1917 (which must have been a really big danger in any fights; and I must learn to control my eagerness even much better; so not to fly and fight as if I was invincible).

How wonderful to see you back in the air, CaptSopwith! You sure deserve a lot of pleasure after your examn. Nice screens there! And thanks for honouring me, but mostly the OBD skinners should be honoured here; I only changed the tone of the wood and added some detail. Have fun, pilot!

Well, as you left one point unanswered, Dej - here is the recepy of "P10": For one hundred gallons of PC10 the recipe is: 260 pounds nitro Cellulose syrup 74 pounds of pigments in the following proportions: 40 pounds yellow ochre 30 pounds umber 2 pounds 8 ounces Red Ochre 1 pound 8 ounces Chinese Blue Which was then added to: 20 gallons Acetone or Methyl ethyl ketone 15 gallons Amyl Acetate 15 Gallons benzol 15 gallons Methylated spirit And here is the whole of the info for everyone interested: http://www.southsearepublic.org/article/1723/read/pc10_and_doping_variation_in_wwi/

Sometimes the "time advance" seems to go to the same hour on the next day. So, when there were only two flights that next day, you may get the later one. If there was only one flight, you may miss the whole day. It doesn't have anything to do with "die roll on death". I advance time, when I get a mission type the Germans didn't fly with fighters, like railyard attacks. I don't bother, if it skips a whole day - I know I won't survive the whole war anyway - even with cheating.

Laptops! Reminds me of this scene from "Wild Hogs" with the great William Macey:

Widow, three cheers to you, old chap! I had a lot of trouble with my new rig the last two weeks, and I was now convinced, that my C:drive was broken. It part-time failed out. Now, that I had travelled through most of Berlin and back, to borrow another harddrive from a friend, I found, that the red SATA cable might be sitting slightly obligue (they don't really plug in well!), and after moving it, the C:drive works again. So, now I still don't know, if this was it, or if the C:drive may still be half broken. Damn business!!!

Welcome back, Slarti! Take the Pup early in the war - a wonderful aircraft!

Those Vikings singing the "Spam-Song" are just hilarious!!!

My new system is broken down right now - the hard drives are still the old ones, and now the C:bootdisk failed me. Waiting for a friend to bring round an almost new SATA drive of his, I can only use my old (stoneage!) rig right now, to be able to get into the forum at least. My graphic card is still an ATI HD4870 (1 GB), but now I could max out all AA sliders. The sim sliders are: Aircraft: 5 Terrain: 3 (I don't like it too grainy) Scenery: 4 (enough for me) Effects: 5 Clouds: 5 The aircraft skins (Workshop) are on "normal" - the medium setting, cause I want to see damage. But I think most important are the settings in the ATI Catalyst Control (which I can't access right now; I could show them later).

Carrick, all the above tips are working fine, and for the stuff you want to do, you wouldn't need Photoshop. If it shall be Photoshop, any older version would be capable, if you first convert the .dds file into a .bmp file. For that, you can download the free program DXTBmp here: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Editors/DXTBmp.shtml

I was ready indeed - we want to keep it thrilling, don't we? Thanks a lot for doing all this work - great idea, Lou !

1. Sir Arthur T Harris ; Sopwith Strutter A2 2. 45 Sqdn, RFC (1917) 3. "Bomber Harris" He later became the Commander of the British Bomber Command and gave the order for the bombing of Dresden. More accusive was the name "Butcher Harris", which you perhaps meant?

Javito, I haven't even finished it yet, but I would say already, that it must be among the top five reads about WW1.

Welcome to OFF, JohnnyG - I will also have a virtual WARSTEINER ! And if you send me a PM with your town and country, I will add you to our "OFF Forum Pilots Maps".

I had a British pilot with No. 46 Sqdn, RFC - the same unit Arthur Gould Lee (author of "No Parachute!") - was flying with. I started the same time as him in May 1917, and we flew Sopwith Pups from La Gorgue, SW of Ypres. The Pup is a jolly difference to the Albatros; it is a light-weight, carefree butterfly to enjoy. Unfortunately I had to write back a partition-backup from before he existed, so he is lost now. But I'll "start him again" - accompanied by reading the book every night, I get a very good feel with that unit.