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Shredward, the man has taste! Chosen the side with all the beauties - craft and women. Oh, and just had 4 out of 7 new claims, confirmed, for a total confirmed score of 9 victories. Also got promoted to Unteroffizier. BigAl, congratulations - 9 victories is a lot to have already; Lanoe Hawker had less! The DH-2 is not too tricky IMHO - of course it stalls easier than the later craft, when energy bleeds out, but apart from that I find her a good fighter in her time. Even managed to shoot down Rudolf Berthold in his Eindecker, when flying a DH-2. Greatest forward vision! Do you use the TrackIR device? If not, that is the next thing to save your money for. Free looking around without

Hi, Kilo33 Welcome to the skies over Flanders fields. Starting the rough way, eyh? Full DiD is what we maxed out to make it full hard realistic, but for a newbie, I would recommend to switch TAC on (so you see better, what happens around you), and the simulation warnings and chat etc., to help you through the first learning. With Labels "on", you would recognise other aircraft, friend or foe. If you still want the Full DiD settings first - why not do some flying training first, before enemy contact? The E.II and E.III are represented in OFF by the same model, as long as they don't have all models built. I haven't flown the Eindecker much (I'm an Albatros pilot through and through), but I remember, that I could do softly banked turns with full rudder, or hard banked turns with addition of elevator up instead of rudder. But the Eindecker is one of the most difficult planes to begin with, and has a longer learning curve. Those craft were so underpowered, that you only gain energy in giving up altitude, and then you need to regain altitude again. Very hard to do in the face of enemy If you want immediate action, here are the easiest fighters to fly: German: all Albatros, Fokker D.VII British: Sopwith Pup, Sopwith Triplane, S.E.5a French: both SPAD If you start in an Albatros D.I (represented here by the D.II) as early as it appeared, you could start with Boelke and von Richthofen in Jasta 2 in September 1916. You'll find that craft much easier to fight with, and your firepower, ruggedness and speed make you very strong against Nieuports (but beware of their tight turning!). I hope someone gives you more detailed info about flying the E.III Would you please send me a PM with your hometown and country/state? I'll add you to our OFF Forum Pilots Maps then. Thanks!

North Dakota - wasn't that the land, were the Sioux and/or the Cheyenne used to hunt the buffalos?

Check out Creaghorn's Homebrew (download) - he has a text file explaining, where those sound files go.

Does anyone else have two speech tracks on the video? Apart from that, a great demo, Hellshade.

Good advice, Hasse Wind - and the air start has nothing to do with it. Occasionally, that famous butterfly flaps a wing in China, and then, as an outcome of some thousand processes started by it, our warp goes hopelessly wrong. The map open should prevent you from getting VERY wrong. Although it might be nice - could lead you to St. Tropez or Cannes!

BigAl, I forgot - it always makes sense to copy the Pilot folder before changes and save it somewhere - just in case you mess something up.

You're right with every point, BigAl - Lothar, in case you read this: could you change those bits?

Rabu: We've got rockets on some of the planes, right? Not the Germans - I'd love to - I could blow UncleAl out of his occasional Model T.

BigAl, you need to check the pilot's number in your ingame log. Let's say for example, he is Pilot No. 6 there. Now you leave the sim and go to the pilot files here: (your sim folder) > campains > CampaignData > Pilots There, you look for the Pilot dossier of Pilot 7 (their number is always one higher in the files, so Pilot No. 6 is pilot7) You open the dossier file, and find in the third line his current squadron/Staffel. You can overwrite it with the one you want to change to. If uncertain, how it is called or written, you may enlist a test dummy in the desired squadron, check his dossier, and copy the line from there.

It's offline; we fly either "Krauts" or "Crumpets" side - only one pilot at the time being. Here is the link to the "Full DiD Campaign Killboard"; you'll find the rules there, and when you click on the pics, you see the squadrons/Staffeln to enlist in. http://quaero.unm.edu/~justin/off/did/ You fly, when you can - no "every day duty". But you must always fly on the same date back in WW1, that we have today. So, if you started today, you would start on July 21st, 1917. If you can't fly for several days, you need to advance time for your next sortie, until it correlates with the current date. On both sides, you have to fly a two-seater, before you can transfer to the fighters. German side, you begin in FA(A) 250, Menen, flying a two-seater - the D.F.W. C.V - for recon and bombing missions. The man to help you there, is Hasse Wind, our long-time two-seater pilot, and a nice chap here on the forum. You can change to the fighters after either 17 hours, or after getting 5 kills done. The two-seater needs to be done only once. Should your pilot later fall, or become a POW, you are allowed to start another one right with the fighters. German fighter Staffel is Jasta 6. We are currently based at Bisseghem. If you decide to join the German side, the current time-frame in the enlistment for FA(A) 250 is from 1. April - Novermber 17. Now, before you have to click "advance time a hundred times, I can show you how to change the date. For the Crumpet side, RAF_Louvert would be your commander - another good member here. So make your choice, when ready, and give me or RAF_Louvert a sign, okay?

Congratulations. BigAl ! It would be second class, cause you will get another IC, before you get the "House of Hohenzollern", and then, with 20 confirms: the "Blue Max". If you still live by then... Take all the care you can. Claims will come enough. Give it time. Early death ends it all.

I never send my men for rescue - I do it myself, Carrick. Quicker, and more effectively. That moment with Til Schweiger as Voss is by far too airy considering, there is a friend of yours in trouble. Those moments were tense, intensively, straining - no one, however cool he was on the ground, would grin like that in such a situation. Not that I totally dislike Schweiger's acting, but here he failed.

Check the galleries at the "Aerodrome" website. Russel Smith or James Dietz are very good, but there are many more. http://www.theaerodrome.com/gallery/browseimages.php?do=browseimages&c=500&userid=1245&page=2

Man, Italian summer with Italian food and wine, plus RC model flying - that must be paradise, as god meant it. Have a good time - we expect pictures from everything!!!

The addition of incendiary ammunition for balloon busting would make a nice add to the immersion. Imagine,we would have to remember to really choose this ammo in the first place (briefing window). If you forget to do so, the balloon won't blow up. Would make balloon busting missions much more into something special. Does anyone know, how that ammo type would effect an aircraft fired at?

Always the same with Hollywood, isn't it?

OMG, Carrick - don't you make any differences??!!!

The bits, bytes and pixel world - as fragile as a Sopwith craft. But head up, Cameljockey, it could have gone far worse.

Oh yes, the "Vintage Aviator" is well known round here. And I must have "travelled" through the Albatros pictures a dozen times now. Wonderful work! Here it is in flight; enjoy:

Small, fragile, and annoying as mosquitoes, those Nupes!

Capt. Blackadder to Lord Flasheart: Actually, I was more impressed by the content of my handkerchief, when I last blew my nose!

Thoughts about this waste of so countless many lives often makes me sentimental, and sometimes makes me try to condense the feelings and thoughts into something maybe poem like. Forgive me, and if you find it embarrassing, consider me drunk, pass on and don't worry - I don't have to earn my living with this. falling black smoke column growing longer downwards moments rushing faster faster cold lips insecure look helpless hands trembling first touch unknown wilderness warmth growing gently whispered breath world in my arms scent of her skin ever present ever precious ever ever why me why here why today why lord, find a way! save with your gentle hand this falling butterfly this falling soul! never more meadow apples mother blanket sister starlings laughter brook grapes father fishes water clouds faces rain cloudburst concert crayons tender touch autumn swans slowly rising from the golden pond nearby... angel's smile snow flakes winter frozen white burried bodies black smoke finger pointing on pockmarked soil touching down - - -

More than 5,500 Australians were killed, wounded or went missing at Fromelles in under 24 hours, along with more than 1,500 British, cut down by German machine guns and artillery. German troops buried them afterward, Australian investigators say. The site, near a pockmarked battlefield, was covered over time. What a waste - what a terrible waste of youth and future, of ideas, of intelligence, and plans yet to be made, of laughter and joy, of tenderness, love - of life... May we never forget - and let them all rest in peace.

Yeah, good one - I'll try to do that in future.