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If you do any damage to an aircraft that later crashes for any reason you are credited. I do not claim these, however, as without the adviser I would have no idea they did go down. I have put my damaged aircraft down in a shell hole, on a road, in some soft-looking fields, anything to preserve my pilot. Back in WW1, standard practice was to find someone to guard your aircraft, then go find a phone and give your aerodrome a ring.

Fly in his rear quarter area on the same course that he is, then kick your rudder around so your nose is pointing at him and bang away at the fully exposed flight crew and engine. If you are proficient at side slips, you can stay next to him, with your nose pointed at him for minutes on end.

I don't have ROF, but I'll think about it. :)

I think that's always been the point, Olham. :D

Yes, I find 25% to be my average. I get in REAL close, and just give a few quick squirts. Best way to kill someone is at the top of his climb when he's barely moving at all, then unload all over his engine and cockpit.

Just FYI, I'll be coming out with a few more of these, all of them aviation-themed for those of us who like a laugh with the industry we love.

Well I used to be "Long Nine" as a reference to the 18th century naval artillery piece, with the slogan "Luff up and touch someone" but the internet is so chock full off scrubs that no one knew what I was talking about and just thought it was some crude penis joke. So now I just use my last name.

I would suggest you change date advance to manual. That way you're not required to fly 2 or 3 times a day, which is not historical. Fly once a day, and give yourself one day off per week for max realism. Except during offensives, then fly as much as possible.

Okay I admit. It was me. :) I'm glad you guys enjoyed it.

And knocking up an Englishwoman should have the same effect.

When jumping out, try to aim for between General Meltchett's ears. ;)

Your mixture it too rich. Assign a button to decrease mixture, and keep pressing it until the engine picks back up.

I've always thought it must be hard for Germans to laugh at this, but more so from the light that they can understand what's being said. To non-german speakers, it's mostly a lot of babble, thus funny.

So I watched all the show, then looked up Knights of the Sky game and watched that for 10 mins, then watched Reb Baron vids, then Hothouse's Gangsters: Organized Crime, and Lords of the Realm II, and Aces of the Pacific, and 20 other games I've played in my life. THANKS. :P

Is your engine on when you land? If so it's no wonder you're dying. Best way to land is to be nice and high, shut off the engine, side-slip heavily until you're just 10 or 20 feet off the field, then straighten out and wait for your speed to bleed off before you touch down, which should be made at about 40 MPH. If you land fast it causes you to bounce, and if your wing is damaged and you bounce, that side of the plane will fall rapidly and that's how you get your kidneys all mixed up with your knees.

Not as many Huns as I would have expected. Great map though :D

Picturesque Knaresborough in North Yorkshire.

I have it on good authority (mine) that's she a Hun spy. But never you mind, I'll have her shot directly. Now where did I put my pistol? It's one of those clever American automatics, too, had to trade a yank four bottles of cognac that I pinched from a French lorry that overturned in a ditch after I flew right over his head and scared the daylights out of him. Well never mind, just have my fighter wheeled out and we'll use the Vickers.

And doubly so, as I'm sure he wet himself when it happened.

Bloody brilliant thread. Five stars.

The CH pedals have four rubber grip pads like you see on the bottom of some joysticks. I have my CH's on hardwood and they don't move an inch. That said, I've been flying with them for years: Microsoft FS9, IL-2, OFF, etc. and I wouldn't fly without them again. It certainly takes some getting used to, but once you've mastered them you forget you have them. Your feet will act more or less of their own accord. Best advice I can give you is to move them back and forth until you're comfortable, but then don't put your entire foot on the pedal. When I'm doing something that requires low movement and high finesse like landing and cruising (keeping those from hunting) I keep my feet on the base of the unit and manipulate the pedals with my toes. When I need a longer throw from the pedals I will put the balls of my feet on the lower part of the pedal. This gives much better accuracy and less leg fatigue.

And then you shall stand up tall to your full height, look him in the eyes, yank off your flying gauntlets, poke that Blighter in the chest and say "Don't you bloody ever even dare consider speaking to an Officer in that insolent tone again!" And then after they've fixed your kite back up, go and prang* it right on their tea room, just to show them. *Yanks take note: Prang is a rather clever British term for a crash.

Treadmills are good for the planes. Stops them from getting fat. :P

Mmm...Not too sure about that one. It would, of course, take one hell of an engine powering one hell of a prop that has to be wide enough to pass prop wash over the entire length of the wings, WITHOUT running so fast that the tips reach supersonic speeds. I've seen a 172 damn near blown over by the jetblast from a Gulfstream IV (lovely recovery by the Cessna pilot, btw) and that's more or less the same deal. As long as the prop could propel the air over the airfoil at a speed required to generate sufficient lift for flight, well there you have it. Think of it this way, when you're on the run-up pad in your single, and you push her up to 1800 revs for your checks, if you manipulate the elevators you can feel the tail of your aircraft go up and down. Of couse, there's the troubled nature of the air coming from prop wash. It's not nice and smooth like the air you usually slice through, it's curling and buffeting and all around angry. God what a brain-bender. As far as the question of the treadmill goes, it's nigh-on irrelevant. Of course, if the treadmill was moving in the direction opposite to the aircraft's path of travel it would slightly lengthen the takeoff roll because of the slight increase of drag on the wheels (remember, there's no such thing as frictionless movement) and vice-versa. Those people who try and present the treadmill as a way to shrink airports and lower noise pollution are just a pack of fools with no grasp of aeronautics.

You and I are certainly of one mind in these factors. I want to ask how you handle your padlock, however. Once I have identified aircraft as hostile, I open the TAC so I can padlock them, then close it again. If, when in padlock, the enemy goes through a blind section of my aircraft (lower fuselage, etc.) I drop the lock and find someone else to pick on. No joke at all. When I saw the briefing I thought HAH! Enemies at last! And then we took off (TAC check was clean, I do the same thing you do, check to see what direction as if spotters saw them) and climbed on warp and circled endlessly and then landed. The squadron is based south of the St. Quentin area and north of the Verdun area, in this sort of strange area where there are no German airbases at all. You can see it on the map, there's just a large space about 30 miles in either direction with no airfields. It's not really a bad way to spend a war, however, though it has gotten hot at some time. Had a few ground attack missions to make the hair stand up, got hammered in the wing and crashed on landing. Only doing 45 MPH, couldn't keep the wing up and ground-looped. I thought I was finished but I survived it, very pleased about that. Went balloon busting, caught a packet of flak in the other wing - same result, messy landing - poor aircraft a complete write off. I somehow walk away with a laugh and a smile. Funny how these things work out, you know. My very first pilot didn't even get in the air; killed on takeoff, poor man, doing only about 40 MPH, dug the nose in and died. But after that I had an Eindekker pilot lose a whole wing at 10,000 feet, spiral all the way down and survive (though only to be taken prisoner).