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Salute all! I've been working on an unofficial promo video for Rise of Flight since last September. Today, it is finally done. Thanks to all who helped make it possible. I hope that your passion shines through in this effort. Enjoy!  

 

 

Salute kameraden,

 

here are some pictures from 10th anniversary of the Jasta 6. I think that it was one beautiful action, we celebrated with friends from III./JG1 and 312thRAF. Have fun 

 

 

We are on the way - Tomas as driver 

 

first evening - first celebrate...

 

...and our fighter ace was very happy 

 

next day - the decoration of the object by the flag of Jasta 6 and the flag of his Majesty. From left to right: Stefan, Tomas and Pfeil

 

becouse war is war, we did treaning in fire. Unfortunately we havent any Albatroses, so we used old good classic as you can see   From left to right: III./JG1_Dejavu, III./JG1_Willy, with bow is 312_Lazy, behind him is I./JG1_Tomas ako JG1Tomas_J6, and the situation is controlled by III./JG1_Gunman

 

time on cake - was specially prepared for this opportunity. BIG THANKS to Tomas's wife Katka for the fantastic cake. We took it in 10 minutes 

 

photo of members I./JG1 aka Jasta 6 and III./JG1 - in the upper row stands (from left to right): Pfeil, Willy, Dejavu, Black (exmember of Jasta 6, he is excellent man), in the bottom row are Gunman, Tomas, Baron, Stefan

 

Thanks for looking 

 

About an hour north of Chelsea, Quebec. My best bud bought a cottage, they have a good run for a seaplane and we just need to update the dock.

 

 

S!

During the last minutes of Saturday's Flanders in Flames mission, a train needed to be destroyed. It seemed like any other mission...until a horde of enemy planes showed up to guard it! Who can save us? Perhaps this is a job for the Phantom Bomber! 

 

Enjoy! 

 

 

 

First off, photobucket is garbage. But that’s not what I’m posting about.

I’ve taken a break from flight simming to pursue a personal goal of mine and that is coming along. I was hoping to get away from simming altogether but having a new wheel set up, a gaming rig, and some excess lumber I put some elbow grease into a dedicated racing rig. With a $40 Racing seat I pulled from a Toyota Celica at a local U-Pick it worked damn well. I had made some errors that I needed to correct to make it really work right but I never really got around to it until now.

However, when I decided to modify the setup I decided that racing sims weren’t as exciting as other things (and iRacing is a money pit) so when I pulled screws, recut some of the components, added new components, and did a little bit of redesign....well....this happened:

Thanks to Luft's help, here's the picture for modellers to have a laugh!

 

Guys

 

i got beautifull Christmass gift from Sipi and his wife Anka. Here is:

 

 

THANK YOU VERY MUCH BRO IM REALLY HAPPY! 

Im glad, very glad, that we have own WW1 server at IL2 Great Battles game. I must say, that FC is better like old RoF for me and is really pleasure fight against Camels and Spad in Dreideckers and Pfalzes. With Pfeil we did some beautifull battles on this server - look to the pictures. Looking forward to next online battles and to incoming next planes from FC. I feeling the first FC FiF is closer and closer

 

Very very long time i did not see so many planes in air (icons are for illustration only, picture is from track)

 

Furious fight with a Spad  (some minutes later he was shootdown by me. I really like Spad in flames  )

 

I saw that my friend leutenant Peter Pfeil is in big problems - pissed Camel attacked him from low altitude. Pfeil had not any chance spotted him, he followed another one before him (later he had kill this another Camel)

 

Saving leutenant Pfeil`s ass   Pfeil is in dogfight with another one.

 

ha haaa! Is down! another two victories for Jasta 6 - Pfeil got another Camel. Time to beer, cognac, cigarette and very hot french girl 

 

returning to home, low fuel, low ammo

leutenant Pfeil landed in field

 

I LOVE THIS GAME  

Things took a really unexpected turn for me yesterday. Basically, my parents met with me and told me that they would be fine with me returning to flying ROF. This naturally came as quite a (pleasant) shock for me, as when my parents and I decided I should stop flight sims and PC games, I thought that this decision was pretty much set in stone and not subject to change.

 

Now, it's not that my parents brutally swooped in and forced me to give up simming lol. It was a joint decision we made, albeit a very hard one for me. And I still believe it was the right move at that time. Flight sims (plus a whole lot of other PC games) had really gotten a hold on me to the point where I wasn't trying any new hobbies and sacrificing time with my family. I know in JG1, one of our core mottoes is "real life comes first," but things had gotten to the point where real life was starting to take a backseat for me. Also, especially as my younger brother (Furious Flea) started to battle with ulcerative colitis and was hospitalized, it was crystal-clear that I needed to be available for my family rather than spending 2-3 hours on my PC every night. 

 

Anyway, so that's why my parents and I jointly decided to pull the plug not just on ROF but every PC game. At that time, we thought that I would never do it again and just leave it all behind. That's why they suggested I sell my gear so that I wouldn't be tempted to re-enter it. So, when I submitted my resignation from the group, I honestly thought that I was done for good. I closed down my Twitch channel, sold my gear, and said my goodbyes. 

 

That's why yesterday came as such a shock for me! I believe my time on leave was ultimately was a good thing. I started new pursuits, learned some new hobbies, and spent time deepening my relationship with my family in a way I probably wouldn't have if I was still flying every night. But now, I think I can put ROF in its proper place in my life and take to the skies again!

 

I'm planning on flying one night a week, and not on Saturdays. I've grown to like having my Saturdays free, so I wouldn't be doing FiF. But honestly, FiF wasn't what I missed most about ROF. It was just the pure awesomeness of flying sorties with the guys in JG1 and the adrenaline rush of dogfighting that I missed the most. And now that I've been away, I think I am going to appreciate and enjoy that one night a week so much more! I’ll be reopening my Twitch channel too, so really looking forward to that as well. Finally, I've decided to focus purely on ROF, and later on Flying Circus. With only so much time available, it makes sense to focus on what I really love.   

 

So yeah...I'm back! Who’s ready to send those Entente boys down in flames?  

S!

 

 

You gotta check this out

Thanks guys! I am glad you enjoyed it!

Actually, Jason Williams personally commented on the ROF Facebook group. O_O Here’s what he said:
“Cole Austin - excellent video! The team thanks you for your effort. Flying Circus will be even better. Salute!”

I couldn’t believe it! I think he was impressed by the dedication and vitality the community still shows, even 9 years after ROF’s release. You guys are the reason for that. Salute!

 

 

S!   The problem is....  half of the forums are people just bitching with no constructive comments.  HotLead has shown that the real RoF community is positive and engaged.  He not only demonstrated the visual beauty of the game but the vast variety of personal and community aspects as appreciated by the players.

 

The developers could not ask for a more fitting tribute to a marvelous sim.

It was a number of years ago the I flew Flanders in Flames and Bloody April with you all as part of the Wingwalker's Squad.  Some of you may remember that I started a sketchbook journal during the Bloody April tournament that I published after each mission.  I used real events from the flying ( like stealing Adler's Pup by accident) and worked them into the story line.  All the artwork was done on an Ipad.  

 

This experience led to a much more refined World War I project that I have worked on over the last few years.  "Rupp's Skizzenbuch" is a simulation of a German Unteroffizier's journal and sketchbook from World War I.   The characters and story are based on the novel "The Blue Max" written by Jack D. Hunter in 1964. Primary sources including photos, postcards and news headlines are interspersed in the fictional work to tie the story to real-world events during the Great War. 

 

The journal is being published online every couple weeks from now until Armistice Day in November.  You can read the first two chapters here

 

PROLOGUE

http://www.thebluema...t.org/prologue/

An aging German immigrant passes away in St. Augustine, Florida.  Among her personal effects a soldier's journal and sketchbook from World War I is discovered.  The sketchbook is sent on to the Smithsonian's Special Collections Archivist for further study.

 

CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTIONS

http://www.thebluema...-introductions/

Unteroffizier Rupp Gerhardt introduces himself and explains what  brought this “old campaigner” to the town of Beauvin and what services he provides to his squadmates at Jasta 77.

 

I worked the Airshow Saturday.  Morning was beautiful.  Blue sky, gentile breeze and the day was shaping up to be perfect for an airshow.  A few planes made test flights.

 

At 12:15 we started to move the guests back to the spectator line in preparation for flight operations.  Then a sea fog blew in from the north, the wind picked up and the ceiling dropped.

 

No flying.

 

In order to provide some entertainment for our guest, many of the aircraft were started up and taxied along the spectator line so everyone could get a good look at each airplane and at least hear the engines running.  Not the same as flying, but the best we could do in the circumstances.

 

I didn’t work Sunday, but it was overcast with a 1500 ft ceiling, and I understand they did fly.

 

 

 

Curtiss C-46 Commando

 

Douglas SBD Dauntless

 

Kate from Tora-Tora-Tora (Modified AT-6 Texan)

 

Douglas SBD Dauntless

 

FG-1D Corsair

 

AD-4 Skyraider

 

FM-2 Wildcat

 

Junkers Ju-52

 

CurtissP-40E

 

De Havilland Mosquito

 

P-51D Mustang

 

Bell P-63 King Cobra

 

Goxhill Tower

 

AT-6 Texan (front) P-64 (back)

 

Flak 37 88mm Gun

 

B-25

 

Hi,

 

From the looks of the present FC, we will be using RoF for Black September and FiF 2018 fall.  Not much new there.

 

 

For the FC version of FiF. We have many options. 

 

The number of live or killable object is greatly increased. In the past we have randomly selected one of three targets. With FC we can have all three as live targets. So..... 3 real bridges not AAA trucks, 3 factories, 3 Trains, 3 Ships, 3 airfields and 3 on road convoys.

 

I think the standard HQ recon is still a viable mission,  Both Deciman and AnKor are looking into it but it will probably be after FC is released

 

Trains will have MG cars for defense.

 

Bridges will have a  machine gun for defense. No flak gun. Maybe 2 MGs

 

Factories will have one distant Flack gun and one close in MG instead of 2 flack guns.

 

The other thing is the ingame repeating target list. Much of this can be replaced with icons on the map. The example is the factory. You start out with 3 icons on the map. As the targets are destroyed the icons are removed from the map. That way you know what still needs to be done.   For pop up targets it is the same thing. When you complete the artyspot or a recon, rescue, general capture, spy mission etc. You will get a message that a new target is active. You will see a new icon on the map and if you mouse over, it will say if it is a ship or trucks or horses etc.

 

This is just the beginning. 

WELL.... this will be taking up my attention for the next few weeks... I just was hired by CAE Parc Aviation SimuFlite in Dallas as an instructor Type check airman on the Phenom 100 and 300 so I have to bag both type ratings and go to work.  Amazing software on this thing and a fair amount of thurst. When I pushed up the throttles it really put me back in my chair. It is a hoot to fly.

 

 

Beginner's Guide to the Warhawk.