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I have read Arthur Gould Lee's great book "No Parachute!" some time ago, and it is probably my No. 1 book of all books from WW1 pilots I have read so far. Now I'm wondering how the follow up book "Open Cockpit" might be. Could he write something new after the first, or at least write about the same time again in an interesting way? Perhaps those of you, who love the first, and also read the second book, can tell me what you think?

Northern France, Southern England, Belgium and Germany benefit a lot from the Gulf Stream. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Stream We have rather mild winters. But the air coming in from the North Atlantik brings rain quite regularly..

Life changes every moment - we only keep forgetting. And we are fragile acrobats, sometimes on the high wire. I really wish her all the best - that it will all get okay again, Tony!

Some phases during WW1 were especially bad. I have the theory that the permanent shelling may have released so much gun powder, cordite or whatever they had in there, that the clouds rained off more than usual. Here is a climate table for Paris of today. The blue curve are the rainy days per month.

Did you follow the install proceedure in the correct order, with all the patches?

Now you understand, what I mean when I say I love that lady! ... Yes, I know the craft and have posted about it several times. There is even a good video on the web about her maiden flight.

Not having any expertise to show off with in this case, I am nevertheless very glad that you posted this, Dej. After more than 90 years these photos surface now; and if only to give people like me a better, closer insight into the lives of British airmen of the time. Some shots are almost intimately close, and they make little stories around the photographed persons come up in my mind. Every-day-life little stories; stories of failures and success, and of the spare time inbetween; time they knew to fill with life, as I have learnt from Cecil Lewis' own writing. Thanks a lot for posting these links, Dej! (Bookmarked!)

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That is definitely the problem, beagle. When the stuff was released, the devs had pointed out repeatedly, that the install- and patching order had to be followed strictly. You will learn from this, and you'll see how fine everything will work then. The button "Reset OFF Manager" can (in an okay install) cure several known manager problems. The "Reset CFS3" button seems to do more fundamental CFS3 things (never needed that one). But, as you said: you will loose your pilots; at least with the first button. beagle, I don't seem to have you in our "OFF Pilots Maps" yet? If you send me a PM with your town and country, I'll add you there.

There are two new screenshots over at SimQH. Only two, but fine shoots of a forthcoming project. I guess in qiet times like these they are more than welcome. http://simhq.com/for...tml#Post3649825

Bullet, I must say you have a very interesting life. You see more in one year than other people may see in their whole life. Good that there are people like you to help.

That should be working okay then, I guess.

Beware of the Hun from the Sun ! Viktoria!

Bullet, I made the experience (after RABU's advice), that it is important, that TrackIR cam is not too close to the reflectors. I use a bit more than 15 inches distance now. That means, I installed the TrackIR cam even behind the monitor. Since I did, I never had strange things happening anymore. Thanks, RABU!

As far as I understand, you must install OFF and HitR and ALL the patches in one go, BEFORE you fly the first mission. You should follow the installation guide on the OFF website exactly. And yes, you still need the 1.47 patch. See "Installation & Graphics" here - it may be a bit long, but make sure to read it all - it helps: http://overflandersfields.com/FAQ.htm

Damn, good you saw this, Tuba! I post so many files, that I must clear up my attachment space occasionally, and this time I deleted the profile accidently. I have attached it again now in post #1.

Never smoked fortunately (the first one just tasted too awful), but I liked drinking wines and beer. Occasionally I still miss beer (especially on hot summer evenings), and red wine - mostly when I am having Italian meals. But the benefits of not drinking win every time. My mom was teasing me with a 25 year old single malt whisky she got for her 80th birthday. Oh yeah, I remember the taste, but go away, devil! Maybe when I get 80 I'll buy me one.

Congratulations, Lou! I know it IS hard after the early successes. What program do you follow, if I may ask?

How very practical! I've been to Paris several times, but they don't seem to have that anymore. The ingame map is still a leftover from CFS3, as far as I know. The first or second preview movie revealed a very different-looking Campaign Manager map. So I hope they also changed the ingame map. If you fly in Alsace with it's many lakes, you'd be surprised how close they all are! I even once noted the longitude and latitude of a road/railway crossing near one end of a lake, and checked it in Google Maps - and it was there, only just slightly offset by less than a kilometer! Wise man! This pilot was pretty new, so I didn't give a damn - I had to let off steam after 5 days of web design training. I never do this with my real Campaign Pilots.

"April 1917. Jasta 28w received several of the new Albatros D.III. Franz (Ray) painted his one all black, as he he wanted to appear sinister and bad. In fact he is rather the opposite. I have still to fly the D.II - I may receive a D.III with the next delivery. Our morning sortie should have been a defensive patrol over Baiseux aerodrome. But we didn't get there. Still circling our field after takeoff, we got under attack by 3 silvergrey British Nieuports with Lewis guns. Three of them jump a whole flight of 12 Albatros! Is that courage or insanity? However - we must never carry the fight to the Englishmen - they come over and bring it to us. This time it didn't earn them any laurels - it cost their lives. We shot down all three. Mahler from my Kette had to put down his shot-up bird. But he was only lightly injured. Tango is a close dance, but this one was by far too close! I'm asthonished that we had no collision."

Guys, I had meant my last post serious. If they take photos from a military base, to build their game as real as possible - then they would have visually opened a restricted area to the public eyes. And that is definitely forbidden.

Hey, you shouldn't enjoy the "Little Italy" Campaign all by yourself, Brandybuck! Me want fly too! My Albatros, my precious... my birthday present...

Well, if they were working for ArmA, then they were actually spying out the installations of Greece. And they would have attached them openly for all to see, in the next ArmA version. A delicate matter...

Ah, that's where the rant about "scrambles" originated! Label? The buildings have "Labels"? Didn't know that.

No, I guess that's the Pantheon. The Absinthe Factory is right beyond, the many chimneys. Here are two "Green Fairies" for you - I guess you'll pick the right one.