Olham

This was surely posted here before, but I just re-discovered it and want to share the address. I saw books about the "Lafayette Escadrille", which are out of print. Take a look, book worms: http://www.byrdaviationbooks.com/ww1_pg8.htm

You merry Blighters from Old Blighty - if you wouldn't already exist, you had to be invented!

Just checked, which Staffeln got the Fokker E.V (later named Fokker D.VIII), and for how long they had it. If you want to fly a Campaign in 1918, and to fly this craft in it; here are some data: Jasta 1 1. - 19. August Jasta 6 30. Juli - 19. August Jasta 8 6. - 20. August Jasta 19 26. Juli - 20. August Jasta 24 11. - 19. August Jasta 36 15. August - 17. September MFJ 1 10. - 19. August MFJ 2 10. - 19. August MFJ 3 11. - 19. August Seefrosta 1 12. - 27. August (I'm not saying that these are all Staffeln using the E.V, but should be almost all) Edit: Then I just found, that in OFF the von Richthofen-Staffel receives the Fokker D.VIII: Jasta 11 24. October - 11. November

That was always my suspicion, Widowmaker!

I thought that's what they call "Europe" ?

Just received my English book of Carl Degelow's memories, as translated by Peter Kilduff. Right at the beginning, Degelow describes a confrontation with a flight of Sopwith Camel, coming to destroy some German artillery obs balloons. Degelow: "I immediately pull out my flare pistol and fire off a bright red signal that my comrades will recognise as the sign to follow me in an attack on the enemy formation." And a bit later, he describes the reaction of the British squadron leader: "The British flight commander, suddenly spotting us and recognising our numerical superiority, fires off a red flare to warn his comrades." I would like to know, how many colours were used. I assume, they might have had red, green and white flares. Question is: what were the other two colours used for? Or were there other colours, or less? Does anyone know more detail about this?

Wonderful! Now the sky "Over Flanders Fields" is open for you. What aircraft are you going to fly, and in which squadron/Jasta /Escadrille?

As one who has his computer in the FLORIDA Room, the only way to play OFF, was at night Ever heard of curtains? Or maybe the future is sooooo bright over there.....

Okay, Shaolin, maybe you have the same problem as I have: I start the TrackIR, but it does not react. Then I close it, and start it again - this time it will always work. It shows the red dots and the blue light. Try that - I don't know why - but it works for me.

You may be preaching to the choir here, Erik - TrackIR is the next essential device after the Joystick, I say!

Thanks you, Typhoon! I'll keep it in mind for when my KASPERSKI runs out. I'll see what tests I can find about it.

Here is a picture, which seems to show a roof portal.

Yeah, UncleAl comes to mind, who walked outdoors with his TrackIR clip on the hat. He must be "Radar Man" or even a "communist telepathic spy" for the neighbours now. Mmuahahahahahaaaaa!!!! My first memories about what awoke my interest in WW1 combat, was the (rather bad) movie "Richthofen & Brown". Although it must have been awfully wrong historically, I didn't trace that as a boy, and got totally excited about the dog fights. (Blue Max I only saw later). We had one model kit shop in our town, where I found all those boxes with these wonderful paintings on the cover (that always looked so much better than your finished model would). One day, they arranged some more professionally built models in a glas cabinet. The two best looking ones were a Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX and an S.E.5a. It took me long time to dare and ask, if I could buy those ready ones, and even longer, until they decided, that the models had been exposed long enough now. I still remember, that they wanted 7,- Deutsche Mark for each one (which was about 5,- Dollars those days) - a fortune to spend for a kid with very little pocket money. But I saved and bought them both. They were masterly painted, and the dark Brunswick green of the S.E.5a was always a special colour to me. Ah, the memories...

I will try this your mission again, to learn about different behaviour/tactics I might use. It was hard without Labels and TAC, cause I couldn't mark specific targets for my wingmen; but hey! - so thrilling realistic! You have built a very good mission there, Lou - thanks again!

Update September 22, 2010; 00:02 h Berlin summertime (= GMT + 2) Shaolin, Germany, added. All the maps are in post 1 of this thread

Anglo-Americans are strange...

PS: first check with the TrackIR menue, if the TrackIR does react on your movements. Also, if it shows four red spots in the TIR cam, which shows that it's active.

Hi, Shaolin! Did you press F4 ? That will switch you through the views; one of them will be your TrackIR view. Do NOT remove the cockpit (F3) - although; well, it may still work, but feels strange without an aircraft around you.

Hihihi! Watching it, I just thought: maybe that's how we look to our wives, girlfriends, dogs or cats.

Have flown the Escort Mission today, and came back alive. My wingmen were not so lucky. (See "Reports from the Front") Lou, a very big "thank you" for putting it together. I may check the other missions in the "Downloads".

Thanks for this explanation, BirdDog - I never knew, what these settings do. I'll give "edge detect" a try. Although I think, I was quite happy with "box", and Winder's landscapes looked always great with that.

????????????? ??????????? I see the Transporter, and I see the Nupe - where do you guys see all the other planes????

CaptSopwith: I know, I'm a bit strange. No, Capt, that's enthusiasm - the really best fuel we can run on IMHO. I remember vaguely, that a friend of mine, who is a computer buff, got sims like "Aces over Europe" only running on my system by "shoveling free" some extra memory in the "high mem sys". I think it was something like 600Kb. Then the sim would work, but now I'd soon get problems with my work programs. The guy who sold me the work computer set up, had to come round again to check, and he was upset, cause he saw I had let someone else fiddle about it. Those were the days, one Megabyte was a lot.

Not sure, no. I suppose, "good" is better than "average", but I didn' really make observations to confirm this.

Yep! When you enlist a new pilot and choose the squadron. there is a "morale line" underneath each squad name. When it says "good" or even better: "Elite" - you will have good comrades in the air.