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Ok let me suggest a critical pre-mission check!!! Cut the fibre from the reindeers diet at least three days before flight. As you can appreciate we have enough other elements to deal with in an open cockpit environment!!

65 and beginning to discover parts of my body don't work as good as they used to!! But as they say, as long as you're on this side of the grass and still able to do the things you like, life is good! Glad to hear Hauksbee beat me!!! Best Wishes.

Pol; Thanks for your input to this thread, it is appreciated.

Lothar; Yes I have tried OFFbase but only just a little. It's a masterful piece of work but I find it too consuming for me at this time. I'm really trying to focus on the combat side of things and improve my skills and enjoy the flying time when I have the chance. I'm sure the role play will come in later. Speaking of later, if I install WOFF when it is available, are you planning to re-issue OFFbase?

Lothar; I'm assuming from your comments, that your suggestion would not apply directly to OFF, but would only be available with OFFBase. Is this correct?

Ahh!! You may be on to something!! I have noticed the things you mentioned (mission flight time& pilot claims). My problem is I often don't have the time to fly a mission straight through without using warp and I guess I have experienced some trade-offs for doing so. I will have to give the use of warp some serious considerations. I hope they can fix that in WOFF if at all possible. I hope Pol sees this thread for future consideration. Best Regards;

Yes, I often use warp to get to the action and I did use it on the railyard missions consistently. I appreciate your comments. I can't understand the relationship of warp to the failure to bomb. Do you have any suggestions to overcome this. I also have to say I never had fighter resistance over the taget area. Best Regards

Thanks Widowmaker; You just broadened my knowledge with this post. I had never heard of Moore but I'm glad your posted the link to his tributes. An amazing man with and amazing career. Best Regards;

Herr Prop-Wasche I took it upon myself to look in the "ODBsoftware/CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields/aircraft/" directory and looked into the "camel_AC1" through "camel_Sqd" directories at the ".xdp" files and the aircraft show the following: <?xml version="1.0"?> <UnitData> <General Allegience="0" LongName="Sopwith Camel" ShortName="Sop.Camel*" ModelName="camel_Sqd.m3d" BlastDamageScale="1.0" ImpactDamageScale="1.0" FireDamageScale="1.0" Priority="1" Type="moving" EnteredService="01/01/1917" LeftService="11/11/1918" BlastDamageMod="1" ImpactDamageMod="1" FireDamageMod="1" Category="fighter_bomber" Country="usa" AllowSpawn="n" InfoURL="" ChecklistURL=""/> <GunStations> <GunStation UpLimit="0" DownLimit="0" LeftLimit="0" RightLimit="0" RateLimit="0" SystemID="right_guns" Tracer="40" Trainable="0" Trigger="1" Type="OFF_Vickers_air" Name="Right Guns" ConvergeDistance="150" Pitch=".1489" MaxAmmo="500"/> <GunStation UpLimit="0" DownLimit="0" LeftLimit="0" RightLimit="0" RateLimit="0" SystemID="left_guns" Tracer="40" Trainable="0" Trigger="0" Type="OFF_Vickers_air" Name="Left Guns" ConvergeDistance="150" Pitch=".1489" MaxAmmo="500"/> </GunStations> <Seats> <Seat Name="Pilot"> <Stations>

Hi FlybyPC; Thanks for your views on this matter. You may have some relevant points here. I'm not knowledgeable enough to discredit your views or to validate them so I won't comment on the technical aspects you refer to. I do have this to say. My squad was instructed to attack the railyard as designated by the mission task. I know that if I don't make an attack on the base there is no credit given. This would normally infer straffing, but there is an option to loadout some bombs, at least on my own aircraft. I don't know if being a squad leader on the mission means that when I take a loadout, the others have to also. At any rate it appears that the AI do not accept the mission task. Sometimes I encounter similar results attacking airfields but this is much less common. To date I have never had any of my squad successfully attack a railyard. No big problem in the scheme of things. I can live without it but it just perks my curiosity as to what is happening under the covers so to speak! In your opinion, if it's a CFS3 thing is it something that could likely be fixed in future releases if deemed worthwhile? Best Regards

Yes 77scout. I'm aware of that and did select the railyard by cycling through TAC but that didn't help. In fact I did everything that you need to do, correctly to no avail. Olham: Thanks for your input. I suspect that Widowmaker is correct, as it has never worked for me. I do get credit for the bombing as my mission summary reflects my hits. I just can't get the squad to participate or to acquire a loadout. Thanks anyway folks. Maybe Pol will read this and add his 2 cents worth!! Best Regards;

Olham; I did bomb first, and then waited for my squad to attack. Nothing happened so I then made a straffing attack (very dangerous..took some hits!) and my squad just followed me in but did not strafe and I got the hell out of there quickly!!

Lothar & Olham; I tried both of your suggestions in that mission to no avail. I made sure that I had the railyard targeted and then pressed "A" to send in my squad mates, while I waited above the target zone and my squad mates just hung around following me. I have had straffing attacks on air fields and my squad always seems to do the correct thing and follow my instructions, but no success with bombing from our Camels.

Lothat; Those are awesome replacement options for the stock map in OFF!! Many Thanks for your effort. It is appreciated! Best Regards;

Salmon....mmmmmm......Smoked over a peat fire.......mmmmmm! I'm drooling! Now all we need is an Islay Single Malt....May I suggest Lagavulin???

CaptSopwith; I'm late in responding to this thread and am happy to hear things are starting to look up! I learned a long time ago that passion can lead one down the wrong road if not kept in check. For myself, I found that nurturing a sound relationship on friendship and understanding made for a happier time later and a willingness to let myself get deeper involved without suffering so many failures. It's kind of like assessing the enemy in a potential combat encounter before deciding whether to jump in or run if you know what I mean. Wish you all the best

Ah! Let me guess. If it was a business phone, it probably ended up in the toilet one weekend!!!

You all raise some good points here. But at the end of the day, legacy apps support has not been a strong point with Microsoft until compatibility mode came along. I have a strong feeling Windows 8 will end this. I hope I'm wrong. I have been running Windows Vista Ultimate for a couple of years and have no problems with it inspite of the fact that most people give it a low grade. I would really like to hear from people who are already running/testing Windows 8 with OFF/WOFF. Lothars comment: "Windows 8 deprecates DirectX 9, and AMD/ATI will no longer support it with their drivers. NVIDIA may continue DX9 support in its desktop drivers for a while, but not mobile graphics chips in laptops and such. Since CFS3 requires DX9, you may be able to run OFF under Windows 8 with a NVIDIA desktop graphics card until they drop support, fingers crossed, otherwise you're SOL." gives me concern and I would like to understand this more clearly. Best Regards;

For those who have never been there, here is a link that you might find interesting in that it has static aircraft of our interest. http://www.ruudleeuw.com/uscan09-canadaaviationmuseum.htm Hope you enjoy

Thanks for drawing my attention to that. I have made the changes you suggested and here is the results:

Dave; I'm late to this thread but have to also agree that these are great shots!! Thanks for including the Camel (My favorite beastie! Treat her like a lady and she flies like one, Treat her rought and she will undo you quickly!). All the best!

I have modified the stock OFF Camel skin for William Barker to include all know skins for his B6313 camel while he was serving with 28 Sqn and 139 Sqn. If you wish to have the skins they are in the Combat Ace Dowload location at: http://combatace.com/files/file/13489-william-barkers-camel-b6313-4-personal-skins/ Best Regards;

Baldric; No Problem. It's a learning experience fuelled by my personal interest in Barker and skinning. Now if I could only get my hands on an Italian campaign I might be able to fly two of those skins in the proper theatre of operations

Yes! I just added a Saphire HD7870 card to My Intel i7 processor on an Intel DX58SO board and have noticed tremendoous improvement in graphics and more so in the sim performance. My old graphics card was a Saphire HD4870 and I thought it was good but not close to the HD7870.

It's now 9:40 am in Lindsay Ontario Canada and the winds are calm with no rain. Overnight we had gusts of 30 km winds and some rain but all in all we have not had a bad time of it as yet.