• What is your Timezone? EST

Do you have a joystick or HOTAS? Joystick with HOTAS

Do you have TeamSpeak installed, as well as a working microphone? Yes

Do you have TrackIR, or a FreeTrack system for view control? No

What sims are you currently flying? IL2 1946, IL2 Cliffs of Dover, Rise of Flight (Primarily) 

How did you hear about JG1? I think there is a possibility that this is the descendant of the squadron I flew with back in 1999-2000 when I was playing Red Baron 2.  My pilot name back then was Paradox1 if anyone remembers.  I just got into Rise of Flight recently and forgot how much I missed flying rickety old aircraft with buddies.  I found this squadron on the Rise of Flight forums.  

Is there anything else that you'd like us to know? I'm an active duty Gunnery Sgt. in the USMC.  I currently work at Cunningham Field, Cherry Point, the birthplace of Marine Aviation.  

Welcome back, Archibald/Paradox1. This is not just a descendent, it is still the same organization continued over the last 27 years.

 

I’ve worked out of Cherry Point, once, with VMU-2 back in ‘07/‘08.

 

Look for an email from our CO, Klaiber.

Roger that!  It's been a pleasure so far being shot out of the sky, wings ripping off, engines sputtering in and out for no real reason.  I missed it so much.  I still have the RB2 music stuck in my head on a semi-daily bases.  It's good to be back! 

S!

Wow! A RB2 JG1 veteran! That was before my time (I joined in 2015) but I am very glad to see you back!

Archibald, certainly not!

 

Welcome back!

 

S!

 

Maus

Wow! A RB2 JG1 veteran! That was before my time (I joined in 2015) but I am very glad to see you back!

 

As in not born yet? 

 

S!

 How I feel having played Red Baron 2, multi.  I don't even remember how we did it.  I had a 14.4 dial-up.  I think you could only have 4 planes per match.  

Wow! A RB2 JG1 veteran! That was before my time (I joined in 2015) but I am very glad to see you back!

 

Thank you for the warm welcome! 

Now, what do I do?  I've not received an email yet. 

At this point, you’re waiting on the CO to send you the initial emails with items you will need to read and agree to as we continue through in-processing.

 

Keep in mind, your initial post was less than 24 hours ago.

Hi Archibald,

 

It's great to meet you!  I'm Klaiber, the CO of JG1.  I'll drop you an email today.  Check the account that you used to register to the boards.

 

Looking forward to talking with you more!

 

 

How did you hear about JG1? I think there is a possibility that this is the descendant of the squadron I flew with back in 1999-2000 when I was playing Red Baron 2.  My pilot name back then was Paradox1 if anyone remembers.  I just got into Rise of Flight recently and forgot how much I missed flying rickety old aircraft with buddies.  I found this squadron on the Rise of Flight forums.

 

Do you remember which Jasta you flew with in JG1?  Or perhaps who your CO was?  Just curious.

SF Marine!

I actually have no idea what squadron I was with when flying in RB2.  I've been trying to remember how the hell I played multi in RB2 to begin with.  It was a German squadron and we called ourselves the black something or other.  Black Vegetable?  (For those that get that reference, bonus points)

We flew competitions and had tournament trees and everything.  I seemed to be quite good with the Albatross D. III? back then.  It's hard to remember.  I've had a lot pushed through my brain housing group since then.  I've been trying to find something on it on the computer box thing and google machine, but to no avail.  

I think our main page was on angelfire back then.  Lol.  I do remember it being the black something or other squadron, 

Hi Archibald, could it possibly have been Black Haze (Jasta 7 and Jasta 16b)?

 

http://blackhazesquad.proboards.com/

 

They're still around, but are unfortunately inactive at the moment.

YES!  That's IT!!!! Wow.  Hahaha.  Good find there brother!  

The only other one I could think of was Jasta 37 Black Wolf.

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20040312194813/http://jasta37.tripod.com/

No, it was Black Haze for sure.  It set off alarms in my skull as soon as I saw your post.  I just wish I could find the original site in the wayback machine.  

Yeah, the best I can find is: https://web.archive.org/web/20181203075950/http://blackhaze.0catch.com/history.html

Maybe worth to mention that some Parts of BH are meanwhile part of JG1

I saw that.  That's a little after my time. *shakes head sadly.* 

Maybe worth to mention that some Parts of BH are meanwhile part of JG1

Well, that's good to know! 

Indeed! There's a number of BH alumni here, some of whom may go back to Red Baron days.

I never did fly RB, but was formerly BH_Dudley (Jasta 16b) and flew RoF with BH for many years.

However, as activity at BH wound down, I loitered more and more with JG1 and only officially joined here a little over a year ago.

 

Sad to leave BH, but JG1 is a great and lively crew -- I'm very happy here!

 

Welcome Archie!

 

FYI:There's still a BH forum at http://blackhazesquad.proboards.com/ but it's very quiet; last post was Sept 2018.

I'm on the JG1 training server.  Hopefully I'm in the right spot? 

Archibald, though it is possible that you could run into our members on the training server at various times of the day, most training events are scheduled between the recruit and the instructor. However, it is a higher probability that pilots meeting online, outside of scheduled practice times, can be found in more populated multiplayer servers.

 

In order to locate pilots currently flying, it would be best to log into TeamSpeak and see if anyone is in the appropriate channels (Richthofen for WWI, Oesau for WWII, Schmenkel for Cold War+). With the recruit access that Klaiber has given you, you should be able to find the TS information pinned in a thread for Communication found in JG1 Combined Ops.