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Not yet, tone12 - it happened accidently. But they are investigating the problem. Let's hope, they find it.

Thank you for the warning, Bullethead - it may save my life.

Okay, Creaghorn mailed it to me - so I'll experiment over Christmas.

Duke, when the mixing of both AIs starts late 1916, you should get a 50/50 mix mid 1917. But still it is random. That's only what I understood.

Someone from Canada said earlier, he had it in 12 days. So hope and pray. But if you have familiy, it might be even better, if you didn't get it BEFORE Christmas... Please send me a PM with your hometown and state - I'll add you to our OFF Pilots map then.

Pol, I don't know HOW you had done it before, but it was a noticable difference between 25 %, 50 % or 100 % fuel filling. I used them very variable - on patrol behind our own lines, I filled in the necessary amount plus 50 % (so for a flight with necessary minimum of 30 % fill I used 45 % fill). For flights crossing the line I filled in 200 % of the necessary minimum (so if 40 % would have been the necessary minimum, I filled in 80 %). The noticable difference allowed me to fight such agile craft as the Pup or the Triplane - with a 100% filling almost useless to try in an Albatros. But that's the way I would have done or tried in RL too.

Sitting Duck, I mostly go the easy way for pics: Google picture search. I typed "snow storm virginia" or "snow storm east coast", and there I got it amongst many others.

I had the same problem yesterday. Should this be another thing broken with the ad-on?

JimAttrill, the fuel loads where only given in percent; you just decided, if you filled in 50% 0r 70% or 100% - no gallons or litres given. tone12, the ability to manage fuel has gone sown the drain (so to say) through changing the sim so we can have real personal skins. But - as far as I know - even using a default skin won't give it back to you; it's gone.

You may have got that wrong. I only noticed, that they have made hints recently, that we are in for a good surprise with P4. That could, but must not, mean a new engine. Or they got much more out of this one. Who knows...

Von Paulus: ... a couple of days ago I felt a earthquake level 6 in the Richter scale. I was playing OFF and thought that was probably a effect of the new wind buffeting...

They may have, BuB - the few hints I read about P4 made me wonder!

Siggi: The only reason it matters to you is it was once variable and now it's not. Would you care if it had never been variable? No, you wouldn't, you would simply have got used to their performance envelopes and flown them accordingly. That's absolutely right. It's like with getting blind. You miss your eyesight only, cause you used to have it.

Yes, nbryant, sometimes, when you land in enemy terrain, the sim says something like: "You where captured, but you could escape after 20 days." It seems to me, that you get it more, the closer you land to the line. but that may be just my impression.

Perhaps the misunderstanding lies somewhere else. Perhaps you didn't notice it yet, BuB. Whatever amount/percentage there is written in the fuel amount window in the briefing, doesn't mean anything, cause it's broken since HitR. There might be 60 % written, but when you press F5 for the gauges, and you read the blue text, you'll see: it is always 100 % at start.

Perhaps you read the posts of Bullethead and RAF_Louvert, BuB. You want to eliminate realism points? Okay, so let's take off 60 % for using throttle, and 30 % for using inflight trim, and 20 % for auto mixture control. and 40 % for warping and 75 % for using TAC and 60 % for using Labels well, you may get it - you can calculate yourself, where you would end with realism. To regard just the petrol management as non-realistic, is starting at the wrong end. And I say it again - if I had been a pilot, I would have used it as well as goggles and gloves.

This sat picture shows the whole wide spread.

Your fear was out of reason, and quite healthy, like the fear of a fighter pilot. Good to hear, you are safe and warm there now. Found this pic in the web.

Okay, you guys, now you made me curious: new pics, please?

Thanks for the confirmation, Winder.

Indeed, look into your workshop settings for wind. It is now even bumping your crate. And for the cold air: place a pot of ice cubes in front of a fan blowing into your face. As close as it gets...

There I'm lucky with having my older rig running still, Bullethead. As I didn't dare to move the pilot data to the new rig (with HitR), cause it might lead to corrupted files, I will fly our DiD Campaign on the old rig, until the pilot falls. Sitting in the cockpit already for a Ball. bust. mission - wish me luck!

Thank you, RAF_Louvert - good information, Sir. And a nice post in general - I fully agree with you.

Yes, they did, what I would do, but they where much too passive. That's why I'll try the "Historical AI" - there, the later war time will be more of the old aggressive AI. Randomly chosen by the sim, if I got that right. So, in Historical, you will get flights with the new AI earlier in war; and later it will change more and more often to the old, more aggressive AI.