Olham

VonOben, check your "workshop" settings. Set ground fire to "Easy ground gunnery". That should help. Flak wasn't too deadly earlier in the war. But if you dive onto a railyard with lots of machine gun positions, it becomes more likely that you will collect hits.

Hey, Lou! You want Postcards? Okay, here is a link to a site with wonderfull pics from the 50s and 60s and even earlier. They show my town Norden, and also a lot of the whole region Ostfriesland. Enjoy! http://www.helga-christians.com/eala_frya_fresena.htm

Breathing in the North Sea air with it's salt and iodine cleared and cleaned my lungs well; long walks and bicycle trips through the juicy green marshlands and woods brought peace to my eyes and mind; and the freshly caught fish in many variations, cooked and fried by my old mom gave me new energy - but boy! did I long for getting back into my Albatros!!! It's so good to see you all again!

Hey, do you guys ALWAYS have to pretend you don't really care about anything like death? Tranquillo mistakes the name "Scout Experimental" and develops an early helicopter from it; and Widowmaker barbeques sausages in his buning fighter - tch! Death, where is thy sting?!

Welcome to OFF, Dan! All you have to change is the third line in your pilot's dossier. If your pilot is Pilot No. 1, his dossier will be that for pilot no. 2 (always one higher). You find the dossier here: (your game folder) > campaigns > CampaignData > Pilots Change the third line from the old to the new squadron. That's all. You'll keep all hours, medals etc. But make sure to get it right - have a look, how the new squad has to be written. If you write it wrong, it won't work. But like in Lotto - no guaranties! (Best is to back up the pilots files first by copying them into another location). Oh, and please send me a PM with your town and country/state - I'll add you to our OFF Forum Pilots Maps.

Thanks a lot, Siggi and Lothar! It would be great if you could deal with the board for the time Siggi's absent, Lothar. All the best for your family, Siggi!

Thanks, Widowmaker, and be relaxed - I move to the home front only. I had actually expected a complaint by you, about my effrontery placing Ostfriesland right over Yorkshire. Yes, please, keep the guys entertained! See you in 2 weeks!

Thank you all! Rabu, Ostfriesland is the home of the brave Ostfriesen, our people lived independant from Kings and Lords until Friederich der Große added it to Prussia. Shredward, I don't have to go far for a Luftschiffhafen. Hage ( C ), the place of my birth, is only 4 km from my hometown ( A ). In Hage there was a Luftschiffhafen for 4 "Zeppelins" in WW1. On the island of Norderney was a Seeflieger base in the Great War ( B ). Unfortunately, there is nothing left of all that, except a concrete ramp on the island. See you all in 2 weeks! Olham

Hihi! Yes, it does - I'll have to go to the dentist soon, and I'd rather do a real life combat flight. "Denkste!" is a low German slang for "Das denkst Du Dir!" - translated somehow as: "You thought you would !..."or "You only thought you could!"

Thank you, von Paulus - but none of them did it.

Guys, I will be off for Ostfriesland tomorrow morning. Two Olham-free weeks for you all! Enjoy the time and make the best of it! See ya in 14 days!

Thanks for posting it again, Rabu. Some time ago, I searched for it - without remembering the title, nor who had posted it. And without success. It's a great little story.

Feels so good to know I'm not alone!

I have cleared all space, there are no "cookies" in their folder. Still no pics.

rabu: BTW, Olham, I've always been amazed how good your English is, are you German born? Yupp, half Ostfriese, half Berlinner - born in Ostfriesland, which is the north-west corner of Germany. My (female) English teacher would have liked to read the above. She was really good. Thank you, Widowmaker and Burning Beard - I'll clear up.

This is quite interesting, Rabu. I was wondering why the heck they didn't make the movie "Der Rote Baron" into something REALLY historical - or drop the title and make a film about some other Jasta. They have done so many good details, that it aches to see, what is still wrong. I believe, these film people just don't know anyone better to ask, and so they come up with what the second best people gathered.

Testing my new Jasta 17 skin with my Albatros D Va, we had a "scramble". I could shoot up two SPADs, but then someone crashed into my bird. Dead!

Hihi, I could laugh buckets full about myself! Around 18 h, I had enlisted a new pilot with Jasta 17, to fly a new skin. And I had already gone through the briefing, and sat in my Albatros D Va ready for go, when I realised I was hungry. So I paused the sim, and started to make me spaghetti with fried aubergines and Mozzarella. Whilst I prepared these, my neighbouress rang to say thank you for a favour I had done her. She found it smelled very good, and I invited her to eat with me. She had made a salad, and so we ate all this, and had a nice chat. After a long time, I came back to my screen and saw: "Oh, the mission is still waiting!" I released "pause", started the engine, rolled along the field and took off. Made the usual look over my shoulder, before I would check the map and compass. And what the heck - we are under attack! Dark bulky shadows rushing over the field, one of our craft is on fire! SPAD XIII !!! For a milisecond I thought "What a wonderful idea from the devs, to build in such a surprise attack! Man, what a shock!" But then I remembered: it was a "scramble" - I had only forgotten! Hihihi!!!

I use Mozilla Firefox, and it does updates now and then. Here is how my search result looks, when the search is done:

Can't say, when it happened, but when I do a Google Picture Search, I don't get the pictures shown anymore. I still get a page with the sublines for lots of pics, but above them are empty frames, and the browser says "loading" all the time. But he never gets ready. Does anyone know, what could be the problem?

Had the same problem, but only with some threads; like "Screenshots". Thanks for the info.

Write to Herr Prop-Wasche - he made a backup program for just this case. And check the downloads section for it. Here it is: http://forum.combatace.com/files/file/10890-offuserbackupfiles-program/

PS: here is the man - "Rainbow in the Dark" (...could get used to it!) ...and with Deep Purple & Symphony Orchestra http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

I'm not a heavy rock fan, but I know how it feels, when one of your great musiscians goes. It struck me quite a bit, when Richard Wright from the Pink Floyd died. And yes, that sounds would fit better in hell - the angels above might not like the noise. Rest in peace, Ronnie.

Alright, thanks for that, Unc.