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First Flight - Oh Wow!

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77Scout

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Received and installed BHaH today. Very professional package. Install procedure leads you step by step...very easy. I check out the new interfaces and workshop; nice!

I decide to jump into a campaign right off. I wanted to try one of the new aircraft so I select Jasta 11 to fly the Halberstadt II. A scramble mission right off the bat. Guaranteed action!! I like how you now jump straight to the field.

It is January and the country side is white with snow (no more green winter starts, sweet!). I see about seven other grungy brown Hald's lined up either side of me and they all start taking off. Wow. I scramble to start the engine and catch up.

Silver Nieuports in equal numbers spiral down on us from above and all hell breaks loose.

I see tracers whizzing by my ears so I make my standard hard left turn to shake him as always worked in the past. But when I look behind I see the Nieuport also banked over hard-left following right on my tail.

Oh yes, the AI pilots are totally transformed! The old days of 'shoot down the lazy circling enemy' are over. They turn hard to stay on your tail and evade well also.

I try to out-turn the enemy planes but can't get a shot in. Soon there seems to be just me and about four Nieuports and I grimly realize I am likely going to die. Bullets thud into my plane and suddenly the engine starts making bad mechanical noises (nice!!).

I dive for the airfield and land with a Nieuport or two following and flinging bullets into the ground around me. My plane is written off.

As I land I realize that sometime during the short fight it started to snow (yep, changing weather as advertised, excellent!!).

My first impression is Wow!...this is extremely extremely good. You guys have created something pretty fantastic here. Back to my campaign:applause:
 
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