Favorite OFF A/C

Such petulance ! Try the Se5a "Viper". No headrest. Or if you have trackir and flying the Se5a "Hissy" then look around the headrest. It's not difficult particularly if it's only those lousy DR1's on your tail :costumes:
 
Well, went in and tried several of the more familiar Allied aircraft. Hate the Spad VIII.

Ah... I didn't know the Viper SE.5 has no head rest. Will try that next time I'm in the sim.

Have flown roughly equal time in the Hisp/Suzie SE.5a and the Camel. I seem to be more effective in the Camel. For now, I have returned to the Sopwith Camel. :applause:

Andre Ming
The Old Simmer
 
Hi, Kozmo
Albatros is a good choice. The early ones are handy and lighter, I find them more agile. The later ones have better engine power. They are all solid, good planes. Only thing you should avoid: don't pull her into a sharp, loner turning, when you're close to the ground. I lost two pilots, when she suddenly fell groundwards. With a bit of space underneath, no problem, you'll catch her up.
Albatros and Pfalz should be best German planes for beginners.
Cheers; Olham

Hi, OldSimmer
If rearward sight is bad on a plane, you can still check, even with headswitch - just look rearwards left and give rudder left a bit; or rearwards right, and rudder right. Cause, apart from that, the S.E. 5a is a reliable good plane; a favourite on the Allied side, when you're not yet familiar with the Camel's tricks.
 
Olham:

Thanks for that little technique tidbit.

I went in late last night and tried the SE5 Viper. I like the speed. :applause: Good rearward visibility. :icon_lol: Seems agile enough. It's a keeper! :ernae:

Andre
 
alied boys of 60th nieup 17 and the 81 squadrigallia hanriot hd1 field modded wiht side mounted vickers, for the central powers defitly love the dVIIf my fav
 
kozmo514 said:
Good stuff! Thanks for the feedback. My EIII pilot stalled out last night and couldn't recover before becoming a part of the French landscape. So, I now have the opportunity to try a different a/c. I flew a few alb. in quick flight to see what I thought. Wow, what a difference!
I think I'll stick with the Germans for a while and try my hand in an Albatros.
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You'll find anything with ailerons a joy to fly, compared with the EIII which was a wing warper. Plus if you remain a German, you get another Machine Gun. However Bombs and Rockets are unavailable to the Germans :d
 
Vee don't need rockets, Gimpy, to shred olive and earthbrown planez into stripes and let zose rain down over ze mud. Just 1.000 roundz, and ze patience to get and keep zose crumpetz inbetween our gunz... Ruahahahaarr!!! Der Bordeauxred Baron (my dark alter ego - see pic!)
 
The Fokker DVII F

Albatros DIII

Fokker DrI - it's fun to turn and face an opponent who is on your 6, and play chicken with them.
 
OldSimmer said:
I went in late last night and tried the SE5 Viper. I like the speed. :applause: Good rearward visibility. :icon_lol: Seems agile enough. It's a keeper! :ernae:

Andre
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Attaboy Andre ! Go get 'em killer !

Olham54 said:
Vee don't need rockets, Gimpy, to shred olive and earthbrown planez into stripes and let zose rain down over ze mud. Just 1.000 roundz, and ze patience to get and keep zose crumpetz inbetween our gunz... Ruahahahaarr!!! Der Bordeauxred Baron (my dark alter ego - see pic!)
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LOL. That's the spirit Olham. Sounds like you hail from the same area as the despotic Black Baron ? The dialect is very similar ;)
 
Catch:

We have WAAAAY too much fun with this, don't we? :d

Andre "Fokker Fodder" Ming
 
CATCH wrote: "That's the spirit Olham. Sounds like you hail from the same area as the despotic Black Baron ? The dialect is very similar."

Der Bordeauxrote Baron: "Dialect? Vott dialect dos ze Skippy mean?"

Hi, Andre; don't be afraid of our Fokkers - Vee don't shoot crazy chickens! (great pic you made there of you - yes, you're right, we seem to have a lot of fun with all this; I like it !)
 
Four VIPERS bite the big one!

Second mission in new campaign, flying for Jasta 6 out of Lieu-Saint-Amand. Airfield defense! Could be some good hunting today. Myself, Max, and Georg took off in our new DrI machines from Lieu-Saint-Amand at 13:13 and headed SE. About 5 kilometers from the target we encounterd a flight of four SE5 Vipers who seemed to like the 4-3 odds and came down to play. During the ensuing melee, Georg was wounded and had to land in a field, while Max and myself kept the SE5s off his back. To make a long story short, Max and I made it back to our aerodrome at 14:09 and reported that Georg had made a forced landing and gave his approximate location. He will have something to watch to keep him occupied while he waits to be recovered, four SE5s burning!:d I then sat down to fill out claims for the FOUR SE5 VIPERS I destroyed in one mission! Great day!

CJ
 
Ah, the final word................

The ponderous and much too well behaved SE5a is a typical British ( yawn) offering, while the Tripehound at least offers a very nimble climb ,( and soon for Parky, twin guns), but a terrible propensity to snap a wing spar in a hard climb or dive. The Nieuport although a bit fragile, is wonderfully swift and agile. But the DR1 is the cats meow. You must fly it on "Medium" setting in the Workshop Flight Settings, to get the real feel and response from the aircraft, and what it could do, according to the modern day engineer's evaluation of the A/C. If you want the best, it's the DVII, period. I don't fly it because it is so vastly superior, and we do want a bit of a challenge, don't we?:costumes:

Cheers,

british_eh
 
Right, "British_Eh"; everbody can win in a D VII, but it looks like an egg transport box to me. So, I'll stay with my Albatros - when I die, I want it to look good (lol).
 
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