Over Flanders Fields

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Rickitycrate

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Hey gang, I just wanted to share my first impressions with you. I also posted this at the Aerodrome in the sim forum to pass the good word.

Over Flanders Fields
Hi to All,
I just wanted to send out a personal report of my initial experience with OFF "Between Heaven and Hell". I am running Vista and found the installation to be very easy. I was flying in no time and after a few tweaks to the graphic sliders in the CFSconfig file she was smooth as silk. Beautiful? Oh yes, but so much more. Historical? Extremely. Exciting? Beyond description but I will try. After taking in all the wonderful eye candy and preflight briefings I thought I was ready to have a go on the first mission for my selected squadron and time period. Yeah, okay, I've done this before... Red Baron, Dawn Patrol, Flying Corps etc. Got into the cockpit of my SE5 and found we were under attack by a number of Fokker DVII's. No time to admire anything. Must get up and drive them off or shoot them down. Got her up and tried to gain some altitude. Swirling birds all around, confusion... here's one, get on his tail...that's it...now blaze away... ease up there, don't jam the guns. Right, caught fire that one, I think I saw the man jump, poor soul. They had us surprised but we had the numbers and won the day. Fortunately there will be a great many more days ahead. The German crates are beautiful to look at as well as fly. I took a turn in the Roland CII "Walfisch" as both the pilot and observer. Working the observer machine gun with any accuracy is a skill I'll have to work on but is sure a lot of fun. It's hard for me to grasp how an independent team from around the world got together and so thoroughly worked over Microsoft's CFS3 to this degree. But hey, like in baseball there's no crying, right?
 
Good to hear people having a ball Rickitycrate and thanks for posting in other forums.

I think many of us look forward to reading these reports from action.

BTW unless you object I'd like to add this to our website with many other User first action reports of P3
- I'll do that from quite a few action reports/first enecounter in P3 from others here in the forum.
 
Having a ball for sure Pol, thanks. I would be honored of course if you used any part of my post. Best wishes, Jim
 
Congrats, Jim, for being airborne with BHaH - nice report!
I will still have to wait 'till Monday, before I can even order. My account should be balanced by then, so I can do it by PayPal. And then it will take maybe another 2 weeks, until I can join in. I really suffer... (***!)
 
I feel for you Olham but I assure you that you will not be disappointed. I know you are still enjoying P2 but it must be hard to come to the forum. I look forward to your comments after you get yours.
 
Rickitycrate: I know you are still enjoying P2 but it must be hard to come to the forum. I look forward to your comments after you get yours.

Olham: You can say that. Reading all these exited reports...
And enjoying P2 didn't even work either. On my first sortie today, we (our three Albatros D III of Jasta 11) got attacked by six Nieuports (some of them aces) from high out of the sun. Well, I thoght, 3 Albs against 6 Nupes is only fair - here we go. I had shot two of them to pieces already, when the third made a sharp turn and crashed his plane right into mine, when I was just in a pre-stall and couldn't react quick!
Okay, created a new Olham, same time, same Jasta; balloon busting mission. Just arriving at the balloon, 6 Nieuport planes came out of a cloud above. You guess the rest? Right! I had just shot two of them to pieces, when the third etc.
Could you believe it???!!! Had enough for today. And tomorrow, I'll create a new pilot with my second name Juergen, in another Jasta, and another year! And when I see Nupes, I'll do some deflection shooting training. I won't go nearer than 300 feet, I swear!!!
 
hahaha... you're catching on it seems viel gluck with Juergen
 
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