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Hey, that was great! Thanks, Lou!

Great, Hasse Wind - now we are in the same Jasta, at the same time! I'll see you in the mess! Today, I shot down a Fee east of Albert (sorry, Bullet!), and fired the rest of my rounds into a BE2c. It caught fire, but flew on and on, although the crew got their balls roasted. After warping home, I filled it into the claim form - erroneus! It must have flown all the way home burning! Nobody say, the Englishmen wheren't tough!

I can only encourage everyone to fly the Halberstadt. In it's time, it is doing quite well, and you CAN fight Nupes in her. I will try right now, if the original Immelmann will work well with that craft, as Lou suggested. As you did the Eindecker campaign, it's almost your duty to create one pilot flying this craft, Hasse Wind.

As I said in my last PM: you like to fight it the Bruce-Willis-style - Die hard; again and again. Now, I knew the British are very good at improvising, but this is almost Monty Python style. But yes - they are also world champions on the field of good, black humour. I watched the flying Fee in the vid at Vintage Aviator. I got a closer feel to that craft, as they even dressed in old leather coats. But how anyone can seriously want to fly that funny craft... Well, forget that "seriously" - with that table cloth, the Germans may think you come to drop joke bombs, or Lachgas (laughing gas?). A great - when also strange - design. I think, some Fee pilots will download her.

Business trip, hmm??? I can only hope, someone sober will do the driving. Have fun, Lou!

You mean the 'original Immelmann' turn (which I used to call 'high turn' wrongly) ? I have only used that a lot in SPADs, but you're right, it should work well. As I have a Halberstadt pilot, I only need another confront with a Nupe to try. I'll report here. I think, the Halb has no tail fin; there is only a steel tube frame to hold the rudder. That should make her react quick ob rudder, as it does on the Dr.1, I'd say.

The climb in the Halberstadt is not bad actually. I had three or four fights against Nupes in her. Best is, you only attack them, when you are higher. Then attack a single craft, You can even turn half a turn with it, but not much more: then use your dive speed to climb up again. I shot three Nupes down that way, and wasn't shot down myself by one.

You must have flown that in Quick Combat, Carrick? The Pfalz DIII and the Nieuport 11 would have never met in reality, cause the Nupe11 was in 1916, and the Pfalz I think, came late 1917 or even in 1918. It is generally so, that the German craft are heavier and less agile, but carry more guns and ammo; while the Nieuport and Sopwith craft are very nimble, but also quite fragile. If you fly Campaign, you get a better relationship. You shouldn't compare the craft from 1915 or 1916 to those from 17 or 18. In those four years of war, aviation technology made a giant step. Better, you only compare them to the other craft of the same time.

It's smoother, much more stutter-free for me. And when I installed it, my old TrackIR4 install was kept, including the icon to start it with. So I can have both - why shouldn't you?

Early 1915, you may not meet enemies at all, Iti. That's partly, because we don't have all the right fighters for that time, like a Morane Parasol, or another early Fokker. When you want to meet the first serious enemies, start August/September 1916 with a Halberstadt or with the great Albatros DI. Crush ze crumpetz - for ze fazzerland!

Hey, great! I will contact the devs about that; they should have a good one. Thank you!

Lou, I have copied the Google maps of the areas around Arras-Douai -Cambrai. When you switch on "terrain" in the top right corner there, and choose a reasonable size to fly sfter, you have to do many screenshots, of course. Then you make them fit into the normal size of your printer's paper, with a little white left for glueing them together; and there you are! Next I will do, is get me a sketchboard for the maps, and attach a clear sheet of film to it, to lay over the maps (which can be exchanged). That board will be some 60 x 45 cm.

As far as I understood, the break will be from Friday to Monday? Lou: Folks, no fears about any of you missing the end of this contest.Sounds like you're all around until Friday, and I will likely getanother photo set or two posted before then, along with the odd WildCard.

Lou, I always wonder where you manage to find those pics. Even when I assumed it might be a gyroscope or a Barograph or Altigraph, I didn't find these pics or even pics near that in Google picture search. You must be a museum - well, you even knew the Seeflieger Norderney.

Forget about flying through the whole war, Iti. You can still try that later, when you are very good with all this. I haven't heard of anyone here, who made it for more than 6 months - and that's a lot! Rather check the various times and aircraft; there is a huge difference between 1915 and 1918. Very few real aces flew throughout the whole war - like Ernst Udet. For the most of them, the bell tolled much earlier.

I say it's a Barograph, a special Version of that would be the "Höhenschreiber" (Altigraph), which was used in aeronautics. In this picturem it is in the canopy/cockpit of an airship. It is attached hanging freely, so it can work. I hope I understood that right, that you don't want the specific airship here? A barograph is a recording aneroid barometer. It produces a paper or foil chart called a barogram that records the barometric pressure over time. Barographs use one or more aneroid cells acting through a gear orlever train to drive a recording arm that has at its extreme end eithera scribe or a pen. A scribe records on smoked foil while a pen recordson paper using ink, held in a knib. The recording material is mountedon a cylindrical drum which is rotated slowly by clockwork. Commonly, the drum makes one revolution per day, per week, or per month and the rotation rate can often be selected by the user. Because the amount of movement that can be generated by a singleaneroid is minuscule, up to seven aneroids (so called Vidie-cans) areoften stacked "in series" to amplify their motion. It was invented in1843 by the Frenchman Lucien Vidie (1805-1866). As atmospheric pressure responds in a predictable manner to changesin altitude, barographs may be used to record elevation changes duringan aircraft flight. Barographs were required by the FAI to record certain tasks and record attempts associated with sailplanes.A continuously varying trace indicated that the sailplane had notlanded during a task, while measurements from a calibrated trace couldbe used to establish the completion of altitude tasks or the setting ofrecords. Examples of FAI approved sailplane barographs included theReplogle mechanical drum barograph and the EW electronic barograph(which may be used in conjunction with GPS). Mechanical barographs are not commonly used for flight documentation now, having been displaced by GNSS Flight Recorders. Nowadays, mechanical recording barographs for meteorlogical use havecommonly been superseded (though not all) by electronic weatherinstruments that use computermethods to record the barometric pressure. These are not only lessexpensive than mechanical barographs but they may also offer bothgreater recording length and the ability to perform further data analysison the captured data including automated use of the data to forecastthe weather. Older Mechanical Barographs are highly prized bycollectors as they make good display items, often being made of highquality woods and brass. The most common weather Barograph found in homes and publicbuildings these days are the 8-day type. Some important manufacturersof Barographs are Negretti and Zambra,Short and Mason, and Richard Ferris among others. The late Victorian toearly 20th century is generally considered to be the heyday ofBarograph manufacture, many important refinments were made at thistime, including improved temperature compensation and modification ofthe pen arm, to allow less weight to be applied to the paper, allowingbetter registration of small pressure changes (i.e Less friction on the knib). Marine barographs (used on ships) often include damping,this evens out the motion of the ship so that a more stable reading canbe obtained, this can be either oil damping of the mechanism or simplecoiled spring feet on the base.

Very true, Lou. I'm sure, the devs will develop new crates faster than I could develop a need for them. Good to know, on the other hand, that they work on them, until they are really ready.

Great thread, interesting topic. There seems to be a lot of space for improvements, maybe on Phase 4. Please report here, when anyone dared to change the file to "fighter_bomber", and what happened.

Yes, that doesn't sound right, Bullet. Maybe you should do a reset of CFS3 - but that would erase all your pilots. When warping, such things can happen. My flight1 often does things, I didn't know about. So we may have an art. spot. at mil. def. 423, but they suddenly turn away, and dive for a ground attack. I would appreciate it very much, if I was told about such additional orders at the briefing. But when you did not warp - they must have access to a "wormhole" to slip through. Or they play the fairy tale "The Hare and the Hedgehog" with you, just to show you, that even a "battle-punched artillery hog" like you hasn't seen it all yet.

Interesting find, cause linked to the Seeflieger Norderney thread: The Do X has visited the island Norderney.

Condor and Bullet - no, you can't have the "replay" before you fill in the claim form. What I meant was, to look at and read all the info given in the replay. You will see, how much info the sim has collected about your mission (alt., rounds fired, position etc.) That's why I could imagine, that the sim CAN compare some data like the above; and why you should try and put them in to your reports. About rounds fired, you can of course only guess. But other facts like altitude or position can be seen in the map or the red text you get by pressing Ctrl. + Z (or only "Z"?)

Vince, when you are from Natural Point: What must one do to get an OFF video into your site? I saw, other sims had one in there, and OFF could surely do with more publicity?

14/;5/;1917 ;10h;8 ;Flanders ;Aertrycke ;Artillery spotting ; Flying: Albatros DIII early. On this day claims: ;4 ;Sopwith Tripe. Artillery spotting at 1917Ypres2 1 29; east of Ypres we engaged a flight of 6 Sopwith Tripelane from RNAS-1; among them aces. I fired three bursts into the craft of Cyril Burfield Ridley, and he crashed at 10h19 east of Ypres. A second Tripe flew right into my field of view and I fired a long burst into the craft. A wing came off, and the Tripe crashed at 10h19. By now, I found myself alone with only Max-Johann Meyer near. We got circled by 3 or 4 Tripes. My craft got hit in the tail section and showed slight damage. I could fire several bursts into the red craft of Richard Minifie and the craft of Roderick Dallas. Both craft performed rather bad now. Meyer shot down one Tripe west of my position. I climbed away a bit, returned and shot down Richard Minifie at an altitude of 411 feet; at 10h21. Roderick Dallas tried to escape. I could see Flak fire in front of him - more Triplanes arrived. I fired a long range burst into his craft, and he crashed into the trees at 10h24 east of Ypres. Meyer shot down another Triplane, that had been damaged before. Then we turned home, but the new Tripes chased and split us; I did some stump jumping, but with 5 Triplanes firing at me, I had to put the Albatros down behind a tree line. Witnessed by: Josef Muller, Max-Johann Meyer, Wilhelm Jaroch, Alfred Barkusky Status : Pending ;84

Could he have two skins, and one is red? I'll post shots from my last fight - I have run into him again. And Zoomzoom - I sent him into the mud again!!!