Ludwig

Looks like Red Baron to me....the pitch and font of the text and the color of the box is pretty well etched in my brain. Also, it would previously say something about shooting down a plane, and I remembered that when it included the name of the person I was really impressed... MAN... *that* was technology.

I see Andrew, Gordon, Ludwig and Markof on the entry sheet so far, if you want in, let Snaggle know so you are signed up and have a car available etc.

Mine was something to do with the VR loading because it would go to the screen with the VR and I saw the little colored blocks going in sequence as if it was catching up... and then started up again. If I had to guess right off the top of my head I think Fawlty had it correct that these are not polished and proven tracks, and they have some rough spots in the code and if you do go to a faster better machine and it doesn't fix it... that would prove it. As Snaggle mentioned the very first track on the very first lap... not this race series.. I forget what that track was... Zolder I think... if you go back and look stop frame you can see my steering wheel and front wheels go to the RIGHT on a left hand bend (under the banner on the hill top) and OFF I went. That was cRAzY bizarr-o..... Fawlty, this is for fun so don't go crazy chasing it... I have never played *any* online game that someone didn't get dropped eventually and sooner or later it got everyone a couple of times if you played enough.

Markof, thanks for pointing that out... I did it at 02:00 and just didn't look I am so accustomed to you being in the Ferrari. I have to go fix it on the Fokkers site as well.

Fourth Race: Belgium, Spa Francorchamps Date: March 18, 2019 Number of drivers: 8 Fastest Lap in Race 3:34.xxx Ludwig Fastest Lap in Qualify 3:34.xxx Ludwig Finish order and driver championship points Place Name Car Points 1st Larry Ludwig Eagle 25 2nd Gordon Jacobson McLaren 18 3rd Fawlty Lotus 49 15 4th JJ Ferrari 12 5th GenMarkof Cooper 10 6th ObviousMan Eagle 7th bostom Brabham 8th Lipfert Ferrari 1967 Formula 1 Season Points Drivers Championship Place Name Points 1st Gordon Jacobson 73 2nd Larry Ludwig 65 3rd Fawlty 43 4th Lipfert 33 5th GenMarkof 30 6th Griphos 28 7th Zexe 25 8th JJ 24 Constructors Championship 1st McLaren 83 2nd Ferrari 79 3rd Eagle 65 4th Cooper 53 5th Lotus 49 42

The D-9 is a gorgeous airplane....

Luft +1 on the speeds and vibration, a little vibration over a period of time is more damaging than a single incident of exceedance. Also something I have disliked in RoF and CLOD is that if you push a motor that hard... YOU KNOW It because you can HEAR it and FEEL it....and the phrase... "it sounded like the engine was going to come apart" is not without reason. Typically, this is said by someone that had an engine in the process of failing. Typically when they fail, they go BANG and that is the end of that... but when you abuse one, and run it hard and long It will complain. I have seen guys flying freight that would run over the redline (and not pay attention to it) and the engine ran and ran and ran... because they set the Redline low so that if you exceeded it, you were still in the safe range, and if you exceeded THAT... you were damaging the engine, but it might go for weeks or months that way before finally complaining enough that someone does pay attention to it... but again... it just didn't QUIT. Were the engine manufacturers of the early 20th century so well inclined and specific in their designs? No of course not... they were grateful to make the thing run. The Wright brothers engine was a "1-off" that was made by a dude... he sand cast the block and made his own pistons and rings to fit each cylinder. Why? Because there were no engine manufacturers that could produce the HP/weight ratio the brothers needed.. I think the engine weighed 200 lbs and produced 8 HP. WOW ! Think what they could have done with a Briggs & Stratton lawnmower. There is the paradox... you can windmill the engine fast enough in a dive with the engine shut down to destroy it due to high vibration experienced in excessive RPM, but you can't dive it fast enough to restart. Those engines were started by someone "flipping" them over. I have done it... most guys that worked on the line for a period of time have "propped off" small GA planes. I flipped a C-310, one of the old ones with a 2-blade and was over 200 horse and it had a kick like a mule... but it started. I could not possibly achieve the rotation speed that you would have in a dive. Any time the engine turns through the firing stroke the engine can fire, and one cough is enough to keep it going while the pilot tried to adjust the mixture to make it happy. RoF had NO CLUE about drag modelling... and probably with good reason... it is in a constant state of flux until you reach "hull speed" as we called it and it just stopped. If you push a shape through a fluid you eventually create a "bow wave" and it is the path of least resistance that the fluid will take and if the compression wave in front of the object is large enough the fluid is reacting to this rather than the shape of surface of the object. It just won't go any more. Period. They never modelled this and it is why the R.e 8 could accelerate in a descent. That thing (string bag) had so much drag a jet engine could not make it go any faster. Period. Drag increases with the square of the speed, the worse it gets... the worse it gets. This applies to the drag on the prop and engine as well. The failure of the aircraft structurally is total smoke and mirrors, and in my honest opinion is just another one of those factors to balance (or IMbalance) game play which is so critical in a commercial game. If the game is not balanced, most people will not play it, and those that do will prefer to take the easy way or the hard way and stick with it. Some like easy kills, some like the challenge. A historical game is not always a lot of fun, that is why you don't see any games about the Alamo... easy to figure that one out. The Fokker D.VII *should* absolutely RULE the sky... because it DID, but that would not go well with play balance. When ailerons and other structural failures occurred, it was not without warning... they didn't just suddenly fly off, they would flutter, vibrate and give the pilot an indication of imminent failure... THEN they would suddenly depart the airplane. The Albatross was a BEAUTIFUL airplane in a dive...and was very successful in attack and escape doing so, the problem with the lower wing existed but you had to push the hell out of it before that was going to happen, but happen it would. If you nosed over and exceeded the Vne you would recognize this and either gamble it or not, it was not a random event. Secondly... the concept that you spin an engine fast enough and it will be destroyed is fundamentally flawed. The "red line" does not indicate the failure point of the engine.... exceed it and the engine will fail.... it indicates the maximum SAFE rpm at which continuous operation will NOT damage the engine. You can operate at MAX THRUST (or RPM) INDEFINITELY, when you exceed that point you increase the WEAR on the engine and this is a LONG LONG way off from structural failure. Indy car engines are good for 1-2 qualifying sessions, different engine 1 race hopefully... NHRA engines are good for about 5-6 seconds... do they explode and quit? Sometimes... other times they survive but are always so badly worn that they are no longer competitive and replaced (OUCH!) 1 pass...1 engine...... but they STILL RUN and that after having been HORRIBLY abused from a manufacturers viewpoint. Then too, another "play balance" issue is the amount of time a damaged engine continues to produce thrust and the amount of that thrust.... this is a value that is totally arbitrary. We still restart engines inflight either with starter assist or "windmilling" I teach it on Day 4 in the sim, the client shuts down the engine (or I do heh heh… from the back) and then restarts it. No big deal, and you have to spin a jet a lot faster and longer than you would one of these lawnmowers with wings.

I thought it felt EXACTLY correct the first time I grabbed onto it... I have absolutely NO complaints. If they want to take it to the next level then I guess it would be force-feedback but I don't see that much demand for it.... more of hand candy than anything else... but it would be interesting.

I got a computer crash on about lap 11, was about 50 seconds ahead and the damn thing quit on me, everyone else did fine. Congratulations to Snaggle for maintaining the JG1 standard and taking the win. That's racing !

...and Congratulations to GenMarkof for scoring his first championship points by finishing in 5th place. WELL DONE ! That was a 1-2-3 finish for JG-1 and Markof closing out 4 out of the 5 points positions (*11 cars running)

I think that TRACK INFORMATION or something such as that as one of the options and it will show you the name of each corner. It is on the list on the right if you have those loaded along with all the other apps.

If that S.O.B. with the 1 litre gas can is in my pitslot next time I will run over him. NICE JOB TEAM JG1 for those of you keeping score that was a 2-3-4 finish. for Lipfert, me and Snaggle with GenMarkof a respectable 8th. I have "a" version of the 1966 Monaco track which will go on the server for practice. Can't say for sure that it is the same version that Fawlty will use, but it came from RACE DEPARTMENT and was my best guess.

Ouch...narrow... looks akin to Zaandvoort <edit> HEY... i know why it looks similar to Zaandvoort.... I figured it out..... duh.....

Can you have parked airplanes on the field??? that are targets? I always thought that was the most fun mission in RB was strafing the enemy Aerodrome and shooting up sheds and airplanes. I thought it was pre-requisite to a WW I flight sim to have that mission among the list, but RoF limitations ended that.

Troll Troll Troll my boat.... hah hah.... well it DID make it down here... you will be happy to know that it got down to 38°... I had to wear my toque from the car to the building today.... and it is going to hang around we won't be back in the 70's again until next week. FREE AIR CONDITIONING ! YAY!

.... and here my air-conditioner is running.... heh heh.... no kidding.... I am glad it stayed a little cool... only 76° today. It was in the 80's last weekend. Darn Winter is over already.... it never lasts.

PArticularly the first one....

Come on..... this IS fun.... get in for the cart racing if nothing else.... imagine Mario Kart on sterioids (but no bannanas) All you need is a wheel and pedals... does NOT need to be high end... absolutely not. Some fo the fastest guys on AC and iRacing are on basic setups. (<$200.00)

For the prices, I am surprised that more guys have not got into the business.... we may see some prices changing down before too many more years elapse....

ok... I have it.... installed... it works. Good to go.

It's all good to me... my favorites are the old cars I knew growing up... but I like the F-1 from the 80's and 90's as well. IMSA, CAN-AM are great. I really want to get a Kart race in there because they are a HOOT.... There *are* some 1995 Indy cars in the sets.... just sayin'........

I never mind buying the car sets.... heck I bought that stupid Russian bomber 4 motor piece of crap for some RoF event that we never used ..... and it was about twice as much as this.... but I am not going to buy the car set until it is official that we are going to use it. I don't know if we need a show of hands, or a POLL or simply talk to the principles which is easy since we have a small group (for now, it's getting larger) but once the decision is official by the League Commissioner then we can move forward.

Why does he have his nose pressed up against it???

Well... I still appreciate your input and you do put so much of yourself and your time in those things... I remember how many times (many) that you helped me back in the old BH days that allowed me to keep going with RoF when nothing was working at all. I do look forward to getting back to the WW I flight sim when things calm down here... I have my 4th check ride coming up Thursday and GOD WILLING I make it through that one... I can finally get off the front burner for a while. SURE WOULD BE NICE.... I told one of the guys the other day I feel like a lab rat... they put me in a cage and keep poking me. I still want to see a mass Gotha raid take out the entire enemy map in one sweep. Also now that I have a good stick, you might find me more of a challenge....never can tell..... It does remind me of my dad though... I was about 6.... Christmas time.... Pop was a GERMAN Engineer (that is NOT the same as an ordinary engineer... if you know about Germans or Engineers, then you understand right away) and I got a toy tractor for Christmas... vollgespurteskraftfahrzeug….. and Pop put the batteries in it switched it on... and.... nothing. He took the batteries out... got the *(analog) VOM and checked the batteries, ohmed out the motor, ohmed out the switch and circuit... broke the connections and resoldered them.... and sat there thinking.... Mom walked up... took out one of the batteries and flipped it around and put it back in..., and the tractor took off across the floor... little Lothar was thrilled... Mom could not have cared less and Pop went and fixed a drink. HO HO HO..... we never mentioned the subject again.....

When I select a PTT button in TEAM SPEAK it does confirm what button I pushed. MOUSE BUTTON 3 which is also the <page back> function so when ever I say something with Gordon and we are doing something it backs up one page on my screen which is highly annoying.... so I reach over and push the button on my joystick and it says BUTTON 4 which if I go look on the map display is the button I used in TS so it does recognize the button. HAH! you laughed plenty loud... something about WElll…. Leave it to you to just start pushing buttons (out there Gordon is shaking his head in agreement) and don't read the "Read Me" file (Gordon shaking again) I DO read the Read Me files... THEN I start pushing buttons... and if it doesn't work right I call Gordon and Mike and complain what a piece of crap it is.