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For a phase of learning, I even went a bit further (shameless, the purist says): I had TAC on, marked the first white spec (they are still white often, as they fall down on you from some 12.000 feet - my plane always breaks up, when I try that!) Then I pressed F4, until I got a view of the enemy plane. Now, with button for "next target", I could switch through them all. Now, I knew plane type and number of enemies. Nothing, I shouldn't have known (them AI pilots know I'm down there, too). Helps a lot. Just for learning.

Right, I'll give 'em a good try in "free flights" - sounds, like they're worth it; and maybe I pushed them too hard. I couldn't hit a barn.

Lou, that looks like the almost right clothing for a two-seater to me. (Must have been terribly cold up there at 12.000 - 15.000 feet) Zoomzoom, I have also one pilot resurrected - same glitch, and he was my best man. But I got the game pretty late, and most pilots die early; so I don't have a good kill tally yet. Like you, I will also fly without warping, when I have uprated my rig (hopefully soon).

Hauksbee, that looks terrific - what are your gun settings in workshop?

Thank you all for your great contributions. And, yes, Snoopy, you found your way to a wonderful community. Welcome!

That is new to me (and maybe others). So, the movie IS now available IN ENGLISH?

Bullet, the HARDCORE model means, that both, enemy and your planes, can take more damage, are a bit harder to destroy. But only so much, that it appears more realistic to me. I still can down a SPAD with two very good, or three medium good bursts. For the guns, my setting is on "normal". But I'm still confused there, what the various gun settings would mean. Perhaps, you could write an explaining list, Winder or Pol? Anyway - I like, what I have now.

It's rather opposite, CJ - I can't seem to fly with real pedals. I have them, but find them useless. I always get into idiotic sideward stalls in manoeuvers, that I can do very well with my rudder-included stick. They just behave totaly different.

This model will never fly, but the guy will build another. And if he can find an original benzine filter (or something near), he already has the engine there to get up with it.

Great report, Cameljockey! Makes me think of one more carrer: as a D VII pilot (never flew it in campaign yet). And I have an old FF stick - but not sure, if it has rudder in the stick.

From my own experience: it will make you feel better, and next flight will be like a deserved vacation (as long as you don't run into me and my Albatros - Lol!)

MvR and his crew never did "scrambles" - they regarded it being suicide, to roll over the field with an attacking Squad above them. Sounds familiar, eyh? Has anyone tried the old trick: to wait, until everyone tangles, and then go up?

Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmJPNEop8T4&translated=1

Enjoy these (the music is another matter of taste, but what can I do?): Building Albatros D III Albatros D V Albatros Albatros D Va

Hey, Widow As everyone seems to recommend their joysticks, why not present mine here? It's a Thrustmaster T.Flight Stick X - I'll show you my set up below. It works good for me with all the buttons. I think, though, the HOTAS Cougar would be more precise (plane flying smooth and straighter, especially when shooting!), but I can't seem to get used to my SAITEK rudder pedals.

Geez - Geier, what's the matter? Had a good smoke? Or have you read, that good old Bob will come to town on his never ending world tour?

Hey, UncleAl, we like to be "stuck with you round here". And if you should ever get the money together, I hope you'd still remain with us, eyh? We'd sure miss your grumpy ways...

Hey, ZoomZoom and Lou, could you, perhaps, stop that "battle flirting" and remember, we have a war going on, we should take serious? (Lol!) What do you two fly at the moment? I have 3 carreers with Albatros (D II, D III, D Va), and one just started with a Dr.1. But they are all so new yet, I have only three confirmed kills (on th D II).

The men fighting under such stressful conditions with the resistance, almost single handed, and always in the danger to be discovered and then definitely tortured to tell all - these men deserve our most respect, for making the war shorter, for saving many lifes, and for ending the "brown terror" faschist regiment. Simon - hats off to your father! Those Germans, who felt released, after the Nazi dictatorship ended, also owe a lot to men like him. And great, that he doesn't seem to have lost his humour. I'm sure he was proud of his contribution. And, yes, Sir - you could! Edit: my father was a radio operator on a vessel, shipping iron ore from Kiruna, Norway, to Germany. Nothing heroic. But I'm glad to know, he hasn't had to shoot at any of your fathers.

Yes, Rick, I'm sure he would. But I think he would have liked Snoopy. And he would never have shot this cute little beagle down; he liked dogs, so he would have regarded him as his "opponent friend".

Hey, Lou In 1989, when I was in Cornwall, I had an English breakfast. They brought me baked beans, bacon and eggs, grilled tomatoes and a fried sausage. After that, I could hardly get on my bicycle and felt stuffed all day. But I found out: when I give the sausage a miss, it's fine for sundays - you mustn't cook a warm meal later anymore. And for the tea I say: I am an Ostfriese (East Frieslander - so: east of the West Frieslanders, who are part of the dutch nation). In Ostfriesland, tea is an absolute must, a local speciality. People would rather eat less, than have no tea in the house. But in Cornwall, that lady served the Cornish cream tea with a pot of hot milk. Whn she saw, that I poured the tea into the cup, and only added a teaspoonfull of milk, she rushed back, as if I was about to poise myself. "Have you ever had tea?" she asked. "Yes." "And - ah - didn't you put more milk in?!" "No. Were I come from, we drink it like this." She blushed in despair. "But it surely wasn't as strong, as we do it here? It's meant to be filled up half with milk, to make it drinkable!?!?" "No, thanks", I said, supping a bit "it's pefectly fine, as it is. Almost as strong as I like it at home." She walked away, looking over her shoulder again and again, as if she expected me to drop dead any minute.

Had this written in another thread, but fits here better: BHaH can really keep you occupied a whole day! First, with a pot of coffee or tea, I check and write in the forum. Then it's time for a morning flight. Then, I do some skinning. After that, eat a little, and come back for a second flight. Then, I care for the map project, I do with DEJ. After that, a third flight. Suddenly the phone rings: were are the print layouts you promised me? I expected them for lunch? And I must bite my tongue, not to say: "That would be rather bad for your digestion, mate! You are disturbing me in nothing less than trying to win the Kaiser's war in my Albatros, single handed! I'll call you back, when I've landed!" PS: Jim - that would be the perfect dream: if you could gain your lady for flying a crate next to yours, in a multiplayer co-op... (Perhaps, if you start a free flight with her first, just to relax, flying over the beautiful scenery in summer?)

Wow - that's great stuff, indeed! (But you read: they were all after war time, 1919) RICKITY, when you need skinning advice: look into the skinning section of the board, or Gous' tutorial, and ask Widowmaker or me. I will definitely make me an own SPAD and fly it as Capitaine Damien St.Malo (i like to use variations of my family name). And I'll present it here then. But it may take a while. BHaH can really keep you occupied a whole day! First, with a pot of coffee or tea, I check and write in the forum. Then it's time for a morning flight. Then, I do some skinning. After that, eat a little, and come back for a second flight. Then, I care for the map project, I do with DEJ. After that, a third flight. Suddenly the phone rings: were are the print layouts you promised me? I expected them for lunch? And I must bite my tongue, not to say: "That would be rather bad for your digestion, mate! You are disturbing me in nothing less than trying to win the Kaiser's war in my Albatros, single handed! I'll call you back, when I've landed!"

That was close enough, Hauksbee! Sometimes, they can fly on a bit, and ditch later. After some time in BHaH (when you reach the heavy drinking phase - Lol!), you will have developed a feel, for how much lead you have to pump into his plane to write it off. I then turn on to the next candidate and let him fly his last seconds or minutes, dying. Hard, eyh? Bleech! Widowmaker! Zere it iss again - ze discriminatink war propaganda of ze Limeys! Hair, on zee palm of our handz? You ssink, Beethoven played piano vizz a fur on zee inside of his handz!! Ven you look at zee amount of tea, an Englander drinkz, and furzther, zatt zey like to spoil it by pourink ze same amount of milk into it, zen it'z no wonder zey appear a little pale, huh?!

Well, the SPADs skin designs could be made of an interesting looking camouflage sheme, plus a good personal insignia, plus a great looking cowling colour or design. More wasn't allowed, I think, but it could still look great. I encountered SPADs with a red cowling, and camouflage in "dark coffee" and "milk coffee". Looked smashing to me! It mustn't always be an overall crazy art design - I like the "beauty of a warbird", too, when it looks like the SPAD XIII from Smithsonian (colour pic). PS/edit: the below SPAD was a trainer plane - don't believe, they would have allowed such a design for combat. But for the nose section alone? Why not?