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It sure looks true enough. It would be great test information for designers, I presume. As I know nothing about flight models for CFS3/OFF, I can't really comment on their usability, but wow... Test data of the Dr1, etc... That's a nice paper for the time!

I've always been curious about something like this. And now, without Force Feedback on my joystick, perhaps the stall shudder would help. But as to giving you the feel of turning, g's, etc, I don't know how that could be done except minimally. And as my Wing Commander probably wouldn't approve a requisition for this, I'll have to rely on the feedback of others! I'm taking it, though, that none of the regular posters here have this as part of there setup. You'd have heard by now, I'd think. Best, Tom

I don't think that short climbs followed by dives would give you more speed that flat-out straight & level. To get from "A" to "B" at a given thrust & coefficient of drag requires a given energy, so unless (1) he was able to pick up on some thermals that his adversary didn't, and/or (2) his plane was more efficient in a climb (less drag), it's going to end up slowing him down. I love the discussions on this board! Tom

In the English language (Sometimes stretched to where I don't even get them) the Car Talk Guys have a weekly radio call-in show of comedic car troubleshooting. They make fun of each other, it's pretty good. The link is to their credits, made up of ridiculous names such as we have been attempting here. I linky-link for your pleasure. I could borrow a few here: The first female pilot I trained was a pretty, but nervous young french girl, Yvette DePants. A fellow from the US, Ralph Olover, couldn't handle the aerobatics.... (for our non-US friends "ralph" is an sound-alike word for the act of vomiting...) Anyway, enjoy!

Good advice! Apparently these guys did it from a safe altitude! (I know, wrong war, but...) My new pilot: Benin LaTrine!

No, no. Look. This shed business -- it doesn't really matter. The sheds aren't important. A few people called him Two Sheds and that's all there is to it. I wish we'd talk about the pilot names. We're talking about the sheds. We've got it out of proportion -- we're flyers. I'm going to bomb the shed. I'm fed up with it!

Not quite, but as usual truth is better than legend. Ima Hogg had no sister, but was quite wealthy (Texas Oil), and used her wealth well, apparently. The Ima Hogg Foundation still carries her work on today, though she passed away in 1975. And as for our friend Arthur, look, let's forget about the sheds and go back to silly pilot names!

Well, yeah it does! I think the ETO that I am using incorporates most of it, as well, but again, I've been really short on stick time lately. I originally meant that I thought my link looked valid. Then I checked and found out it wasn't, and found the proper links. I should have edited my post better. But I must admit, even though I've flown more in ETO, nothing quite gave me the goose bumps like my first free flight in a Spad XIII in OFF on my new rig. The scenery was stunning, the wind was blowing me around, it was really great. And like you, I'm a little OCD about making changes, so I haven't made any, as I am trying to get a way to log them carefully. But these flares look nice, I sure hope you get the glare spots sorted out to your liking. Best, Tom

Everyone knows it was a certain beagle mounted upon his sturdy dogho- errr, I mean, his Sopwith Triplane! All seriousness aside, though, this paper goes into a great deal of depth on the subject. Have a look! Best, Tom

Here is a link to MAW 1.31, supposedly, but it sure looks good. http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?34077-Download-Locations Hope it helps! Tom ETA: Checked it out, earlier link was bad, this is the real deal. - Tom

This fellow has problems controlling is aircraft: Lou Swires.

Thank you, sir, and yes, you're right , it was Burning Beard (poor fellow, the visuals I get with that....). Next time I get some stick time I'm going to set all this up. I was running a job for work last night, thought it would be done by the time I came in from the yard, and it ended up running all night. RAM usage was over 15 GB at one point! Durn thing still wasn't done this morning... Best, Tom

You know, with an X52 I have more than enough buttons, etc, to do this. Now that I have my mixture on a slider on the throttle (thanks, Lou!), this seems eminently do-able. Q1: If I use the Saitek Profile editor, do I just program this and let the others "fall through" to what's already in my Saitek_CFS3_OFF.xca file? I hadn't been using the Saitek software up to this point, & don't want to take the time to "reprogram" everything... Q2: Why do we blip the magnetos again? Just to slow down, mostly for landing, or do you actually blip during a dogfight? Q3: Ranging OFF-topic, I noticed Lou has the TrackIR Recenter button (F12, keyboard default) on his joystick. Is that doen with the Saitek software as well? I don't see how one could do it in the CFS3.xca file, and it'd sure be nice to have. Thanks all! Tom

I didn't think these machines even HAD trim! So i guess if you take it off of auto trim, you really aren't doing anything, correct? Except, of course for some behind-the-scenes stuff that keeps poor Jim here from ending up plummeting earthward sans wings... Best, Tom

Going by your logic, Widowmaker, I'd have a list of about 545 people that I could use. But I'm from the US, of course. Best, Tom

@ Hauksbee: Well, in the modern airline industry, Air Traffic Control will gibve a pilot a "wheels up" time when they delay the aircraft at it's origin. So I just back-imagined it to a WWI briefing room, with the Captain ordering a patrol out with a "wheels up" time at , say 8:00AM, or perhaps ending with, "All,right men, wheels up in half an hour!" as they head out the door. And of course me, being the Barmy (and grossly incompetent) airman that I am, end up with "wheels up" in a slightly different sense. Best, Tom

I LOVE Cockney rhyming slang - although you must do it Biblically. As the apostle Paul states, when speaking in another tongue among the brethren, interpretation must be provided! I'm going to graduate to this sooner or later. But, here or on another forum, someone mentioned a setting that governs the distance at which you can see the enemy. I've often thought that I could see them IRL quite a bit further out than they appear, and have thought that maybe my graphics aren't set up that well. But I've been really busy lately and it's all i can do to get stick time, much less tinker around under the hood. Best, Tom

redpiano: What parent would do that to their child? That's worse than "Moon Unit" or some of the other celebrity names you hear! & how would they be listed in the phone book? All in good fun, Tom

Another German: Messer Schmidt! (Reminds me of the old joke about the British WWII pilot telling a classroom of his wartime exploits... "There were Fokkers to the left, and Fokkers to the right... those Fokkers were everywhere!" The class was tittering and chuckling, and the teacher prompted "Perhaps you need to explain that 'Fokker" is a German aircraft manufacturer." To which the British pilot replied, in his best British accent, "Oh, of course! But these Fokkers were Messerschmidts!" Tom

Mein apologies, Herr Olham, sir! But the boards are in English... (loved your accented typing! - Dsherrmnan!!! - great!) Getting a great chuckle out of these! Borrowing from the "Car Talk" folks in the US, how about the three stooges of the air, Dewey, Shootem, & Howe?

Well, now you've got me thinking...! In light of my "Human Drone" status, maybe I should christen one "Heywood Jahshootmee!" And I appreciate the BOC invite, I will see about filing my papers here, perhaps at lunchtime. But while "Barmy" probably describes me pretty well, everyone IRL would agree that "funny" does not. My kids would tell their friends, "That was a joke. Like the funny kind but... different..." and my brother-in-law says, "Yeah, someone else can tell a joke and everybody's laughing their heads off, but if Tom told the same one, you could hear a pin drop, and everyone's just looking at each other with this disgusted look on their face..." Olham, I like "Hans Wurst!" You get the first Foreign langauge bonus, and I think I'll have to petition Lou for an oak leaf cluster for your BOC badge! (if I get admitted, that is..)... And Wayfarer, is the "white feather" a sign of cowardice? Best, Tom

One thing that puts OFF at the top of the heap is it's faithfulness to history and overall "immersion" factor, joining up to a squadron or Jasta, etc. But when you're just getting started, I think it's customary to have some pilots that are "throw-aways". I don't figure my current pilot will last too long, but I will learn from this hapless digital creation. So I thought, why not have a chuckle or two with our disposable pilot names? My guy right now is a (not very funny) 2nd Lt. Thomas Dirtdigger. My brother in law likes to fly (if you can call it that) for the Germans, and he is now Fleigher Rex von Schnapps - and if you saw the way he flew, you'd conclude that he had imbibed quite a bit of said spirits prior to take-off! So in the tradition of, say, our friend here, Herr Prop-Wasche, what do you call your "throw away" pilots used for training, experimentation, etc? (No disrespect is intended to those living or dead. Just thought we could have a little fun...) Bonus for our friends who have a funny name in another language that they can explain for us English speakers! Best, Tom

You know, Burning Beard, after I considered your first reply, I went looking, and found it. Fantastic, and I thank you! Then I checked back this AM and you had posted exactly what I found. What's interesting besides the mixture is that there appears to be settings for both prop pitch and prop rpm (for, obviously, more sophisticated aircraft than these). Now pitch I can understand, but I've never heard of setting prop rpm. Unless you had a transmission or fluid drive like the hydrostatic drive on my tractor, how would the prop rpm not be the same as the engine rpm? Confused, Tom (hope you get your beard put out, that could be painful!)

Well, thank you all, as usual, a great bunch, but Burning Beard has me curious! & RAF_Louvert, that is a sweet watch and a nice setup! I'd sure like to see the particulars of how you did this. It sounds exactly like what I want to do! Did you make an entry in the CFS3.XCA file, or how did you do this? Thanks, Tom

My dear fellow aviators: I'm learning more about setting up my Saitek X-52 with all it's buttosn and slides and wheels and such ('way to many for WWI planes!), and it has occurred to me that the thumb slide on the throttle would be a great place to put the mixture (I know, just fly auto mixture!). But in the Saitek profile editor I have to split the range into bands, or something, in order to do this... Hmm wait, maybe this won't work... It'd have to be CTRL+ going rich and CTRL- going lean... dang. There should be a way to do this, but maybe I'm limited by the keyboard interface the original programmers were limited by. I was going to ask how many CTRL+ or CTRL- does it take to go from full lean to full rich, and split the slide into that many bands, but I don't think thta will work. I guess I'll go ahead and post this and see if anyone has any better ideas. Same idea was going to be applied to prop pitch in sims tha have planes with varaible pitch props... Anyway, thanks all, for your time. Mods may move if I've put this in the wrong place. Tom