Zerfass

Not a problem.  I'll change your name over in the Registered Pilots list.

So I watched "The Martian" the other day then promptly dropped an extra bit on the Cutlass Red this last week. It's pretty much a space ambulance and I'm planning on doing CSAR related tasks with it, maybe have some Hornets fly escort, that sort of thing.  Space-PJs!

 
They've released an in browser ARK Starmap which is a 3D map of the initial universe.  I spent a bit of time planning jumps around the universe.  Travel is going to be pretty interesting, I'm looking forward to flying connections to other players, missions, and slipping through hostile areas like anti-terrorism practices train (vary your routes!).
 
The game is still a ways off but I'm excited again, anyway.  Still just sitting back, though.

At last it’s finally here!    Today signals the end of a journey for me. After 3 years of dreams and hard work, â€œLegend of Murvaux: The Final Flight of Frank Luke Jr.†has arrived at long last.

 
I would like to heartily thank all those here on the forums who encouraged me during this project's implementation. You guys are why I made this film and it is you guys who made it possible in so many ways.
 
Salute! 
-         Hotlead

http://riseofflight.com/forum/topic/47362-personal-skin-vonrd/

~S~
 
I bought these on a whim cause they were cheap, and I like multi speakers in a headset for flying.
Although "our" flight sims will support kinda of a multi speaker surround sound (their not authored that way, and neather
is "surround sound" correct for sim's)...These things push a most realistic cockpit  tone, feel, position, and low resonance.
"I was absolutely amazed"
 
The sub woofer vibration setting, lets you "feel" the aircraft, gear/stresses/impacts/engine etc.
Their "clean", up to deafening volume.
Frequency response is outstanding (I pull easily 20 to 30Hz out of these things! War/engines/bombs its all low frequency)
Gui has good features, and lets you move the speakers around ( get those 110 engines/sounds where their suppose ta be)
Encoder is pretty good, usb plug n play, don't have blow your head off to get these things to perform. But they can.
 
For 'our' flight sim's, I love the tone, and open feel. They produce a tonality like Van Halen's first album.
But I'm deaf anyway lol
 
Good luck
Mox
 
http://www.rosewill.com/rosewill-rhts-8206-usb-connector-5-1-channel-vibrating-gaming-headset-1.html#product_tabs_Specifications

Usually it goes something like this:
 

An addendum to my post above -  I went wireless so as not to be a target for my cats.  My 17 pound house panther used to yank the headset off my head, usually while I was dogfighting.

Thought I'd snap a picture of the Military Aviation Museum's Christmas Tree before we take it down this week.
 
Doesn't everyone have a Pup on the top of their tree?
 
S!
 

Salut comrades!

May have to ask some European friends how 2016 is, haha

S!
 
Needed some space I guess after FiF, so been off to other adventures.
 
One unplanned adventure was to the hospital with a small stroke.  Got released Christmas day.  Quite a present under the tree. lol
 
I'm improving each day, but still a ways off from flight able.  Will try to be around the forums more though.
 
Sorry you haven't had the crazy squirrel making your life "interesting", but we all have to make sacrifices. lol
 
Salute! for now from all 21 personalities.

Merry Christmas JG1!
 
 From all of us at Jasta5

Merry Christmas all !

I'd like to wish everyone in my JG1 family a very Merry Christmas. Cheers

Pilots may be interested in this approach plate, if you haven't already seen it!  It looks like it's a couple of years old, so be sure to update if you're planning a flight ...
 
S!
 
Maus

Salute all!
 
My younger brother and I have been working on a short film/documentary concerning WW1 Ace Frank Luke Jr.'s final flight. We actually started on the project way back in 2013, but have had to set it aside at various points along the way due to real life concerns.    
 
I released a post about our effort on the Rise of Flight forums in 2014, promising a trailer for the film. ( http://riseofflight.com/forum/topic/44210-frank-luke-jrs-last-flight-today-rof-movie-progress/?p=652723) Well...after more than a year, it's finally here!  
 

 
The short film itself is in the final stages of editing.Then we'll present it to our test audience, make the necessary tweaks, and publish it to YouTube! 

Mike Mangold (Red Bull) died flying an L-39 today at Apple Valley Airport (KAPV). I never met him personally but I would taxi past his hangarwhen I was flying out of Midfield Aviation and see his airplanes. He served his country as an F-4 Rhino driver and inspired thousands during his 25 year aerobatic and air racing career. 
  CAVU Mike.   

Not the best quiz out there, but fun none the less:
 
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/hang/a-quiz-on-warbirds/article7919604.ece
 
It's from an Indian business newspaper called The Hindu Business Line.  I got 7 - I missed #1, #6 and #10.
 
On April 1, 1915, a French pilot shot down an enemy aircraft for the first time through a tractor propeller. He achieved three more wins before being shot down in 1918. Who was he? Most stories about the legendary Battle of Britain centre around the Supermarine Spitfire, one of the most beautiful and effective fighters ever built. But which other British fighter aircraft accounted for over 60 per cent of German casualties during the battle? The B-26 Marauder, a World War II bomber, and the ’60s American fighter F-104 Starfighter both have an unfortunate two-word epithet associated with them. What is that? What does the West Indian fast bowler Michael Holding have in common with the Chance Vought F4U Corsair, one of the most successful fighters of World War II, and the British twin-engine fighter Bristol Beaufighter? The most successful ace in the history of military aviation was a German pilot who was known either as the Blonde Knight or the Black Devil by the Soviet pilots. Name this pilot who had 352 kills in WW II? Group Captain Douglas Bader is credited with 20 aerial victories and was one of the few British pilots to win the Order of the British Empire and the Distinguished Flying Cross. What made his achievements unique? Count Francesco Baracca was Italy’s top ace of the World War I with 34 credited victories. What is his claim to fame in corporate history? The Messerschmitt 163 Komet came into World War II late; though 300 of them were made, it proved ineffective against allied aircraft. What was unique about this fighter plane? Top Gun was one of the first films that made heroes out of fighter pilots. In the film, Tom Cruise and his squadron squared off against Soviet MiG 28 aircraft. What was the crucial mistake in the military action? In the ’50s, Teddy Petter designed a lightweight British fighter that never saw mainstream service. But, in the ’60s, it became a mainstay of the Indian Air Force. Which plane did Petter design?  
The answers:
 
 

BTW, just for interest's sake:  
 
collimator
[kol-uh-mey-ter] /ˈkɒl əˌmeɪ tər/ SpellSyllables Word Origin noun 1. Optics. a fixed telescope for use in collimating other instruments. an optical system that transmits parallel rays of light, as the receiving lens or telescope of a spectroscope. 2. Physics. a device for producing a beam of particles in which the paths of all the particles are parallel. Origin of collimator 1815-1825 1815-25; collimate + -or2 Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2015.     collimator   (kÅl'É™-mÄ'tÉ™r)   
A device that turns incoming radiation, such as light, into parallel beams. Simple collimators consists of a tube having a narrow, variable slit at one end and a convex lens at the other. Radiation entering the tube through the slit exits the lens in the form of parallel beams. Collimators are used to establish focal lengths of lenses and to measure the distance of distant objects whose position is known. See illustration at spectroscope. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
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Agreed, the long range shooting was all from the days before they added the increased bullet spread.  Used to be that a Dr.1 could turn and continue shooting at an escaping SPAD and disable his engine enough to slow him down to the point you could catch up and finish him off.  Man did that PISS OFF the SPAD pilots  
 
You can still land a bullet now and then from long range, but it does little to down them, although for some reason the first bullet generally causes a stage one wound to the pilot.....a point of complaint by many on the receiving side.....it will certainly discourage them from coming back, as will the occasional slow fuel leak you can inflict.
 
Personally I've never spared the bullets in the German planes, as 1,000 is a lot to work with, and often you know exactly what you've got left to work with, unlike the Entente crates.  I've always tried to inflict as much damage as possible while the enemy is within my ability to hit him; furballs offer an opportunity to get a lot of kills in a single sortie, but I'm not in those situations often at all.  My favorite thing is to try to combat multiple enemies at the same time while trying to maintain a position of advantage, if the enemy will cooperate by being stupid and not extending away while I'm engaged by others, climbing, and returning to shoot me while I'm focused on others.  In those situations, if I find a good opportunity to hit a plane hard I'll try to blow his wings off in one pass if possible.
 
My opinion is that there's an appreciable difference in this sim of people's ability to see their bullet trajectories.  Captain Darling told me his secret to good gunnery was mainly to watch his tracers, and I always thought "what tracers?".  My video settings have always been as good as I could get them on the 32" 1080p 60 Hz monitor I use; I like the wide field of view but the detail, while quite good, is certainly not as good as some other pilots.  Even when I watched Barton's video that he posted I could see the bullets in the video more than I can in the game.  So for me I am highly dependent on aiming points and judgement of where and how far ahead I should be shooting.  Practicing this helps a lot and seeing the damage appear on the enemy plane confirms correct aiming, and eventually becomes second nature after a while; but it is clear to me that I might be doing better if I ever upgrade, which I'm probably due for.  It's hard to decommission a machine that works perfectly in all respects and runs the game flawlessly, though.

I guess on all those twin-gun planes the Germans would have had to look down the gun sight of either the left or right hand gun.  This is a view you can easily set up and save, and I used to have that programmed for each plane it applied to, like a saved zoomed in view to use for long-range accuracy shooting, like when chasing somebody.  Even though those views are probably still working they've fallen into disuse for me.
 
Perhaps they really "shot from the hip" most often if careful aiming was impractical.  That may be the reason Boelke and MvR always said not to bother shooting from beyond 50 meters range.

Not a fan of the collimater sights because the base is large and obstructs your view when you need to aim ahead of your opponent.  Otherwise it helps if you use 6 dof but the telescopic sights do the same thing and generally obstruct your view a lot less.
 
Fokker Dr.1: as you said, crossed wires
Fokker D.VII: approximate middle of windscreen (horizontally and vertically)
Fokker D.VIIf: midpoint of top edge of windscreen
Fokker D.VIII:  midpoint of the imaginary line formed between the horizontal cross hairs of the two machine gun sights
All Albatros' and Pfalz D.IIIa:  top of radiator cap
All other German, the built-in gun sight works great, including the DFW.CV gun sight on the left side of the engine hump
 
I fly using only 2 dof (actually 3) which keeps your head perfectly aligned horizontally and vertically but of course sacrifices some realism.  Some others I have talked to also do the same, but it is by no means an absolute necessity for success.
 
S! 

Heck yeah, the friendships is what I am thankful for!

Salute all!
 
Today being Thanksgiving Day, I would like to take a moment to thank all you guys at JG1. You guys make JG1 an ideal squad to belong to, and I'm thankful to be a part of it. Thanks for all the training, cameradrie, and shared knowledge. Ever since I joined, I've experienced whole new facets of ROF (like FiF!) that I never would have found without you. It's truly been a great ride.
 
Thanks again,
- Hotlead

Salute to all veterans on all sides of war.