Mission will be on tonight
Usual 9:30 start
Please post if you’re in
So Far:
Brig
Tbag
WB
Marsh
Puff
Swoop
Splash
Bad luck Keets
Can’t make it tonight, am away with work.
I will be on but have an important phone call at 9. Should be finished in time but if it over runs a little can I run my plane on autopilot for takeoff and jump in as and when?
WB.
In for this one, please.
im in as well folks!
Scarf and googles ready…on at 8 ish for a warm up if about Ed
I’m in
Yes you can as long as Brig’s has autopilot on. 
Splash
Will try, mate, but am alone with the little one so no guarantees. ETA between 8 and 8:30 I reckon.
Very nice although not perfect flying-weather 
Abit short for me though. Beautiful big dogfight with british and german AA going off between us.
Excellent screenshot!
That really summed it up nicely.
BTW, you survived a free man. Luckily you fell our side of the front.
When we were fully engaged and they were coming in from all angles I didn’t know which way was east/west or up/down.
I was just pleased when it all died down and I could check my compass again
It was even more confusing in the cockpit, trying to stay focused on a target with planes, tracer and flack whizzing and banging all around. After the second wave, I ended up on the deck after flaming an albie (poor sod), catching my breath I looked all around to see four of us all in the same situation.
Splash called another group coming down, as everyone strained to find them. I latched onto the back of Splash’s Camel, slightly higher and followed him in a tight turn. Suddenly they were all coming through us as other Pups joined and tracer zipped pass in a blink of an eye. I tried to find a target in the passing medley when my bottom starboard wing folded up. Turning hopefully for our lines she stayed together long enough for me to nurse her down in front of our (hopefully) trenches. Legging it to the lines, the Jerry snipers were having target practice as I dived into our wet drank trenches. What a fight!!
Yes great mission. Haven’t had a sweaty palms fight like that for ages. It was great looking around and seeing almost a whole squadron of pups bucking around trying to keep position. I thought it was difficult enough just trying to stay in some sort of formation with all the turbulence and low cloud. And then the enemy turned up! I’d get onto the tail of one and get a few shots off but then would lose position slightly as I constantly had to check my six. Very intense.
And rather spooky when Darth Vader turned up a couple of times. You really need to get that G-suit sorted out Splash! 
Awesome.
WB.
I thought it was great fun, am liking the Pup and doing a bit of offline practice in the N 17 (as none of the servers allow ‘UberPups’ :rolleyes:). I would like to defend myself again any charges of shoulder-shooting; I did not actively shoot over anyone’s shoulder, though given the chaotic nature of the fight I make have fired on an Albi that I did not realise somone was chasing - I did break away when asked and circled over other peoples’ fights to watch for intruders
Dont sweat it Marsh,
It was a chaotic furball. Proper sweaty palms stuff.
I think everyone was guilty of pinching a bandit.
I engaged the first flight leader up high and spiralled down trying to get on his tail. Getting a few shots off. As soon as we bottomed out of the spiral and I was just about to line him up Swoop dived in from nowhere and finished him off (Swoops Flamer) But he did have a better position than me at the time, as I still had to nick a little more edge on the bandit and Swoop was dead on his 6.
But then again my last Alb was a steal. I engaged first, you popped up between us I pulled off and then you pulled off. Meanwhile the Alb was getting a bead on me and Puff jumped in. I watched slightly high and as soon as Puff made a small mistake and lost the advantage I pounced and got a pilot kill
But all in all given the weather and the low flight in the murky dust over the trenches and the fact that there were Pups and Albs all over the show I think we all did well. Only 3 aircraft with one pilot lost against 14 Alb confirmed kills. Not too shabby.
I said I had a bad feeling.
Stats will be updated tonight.
Plus there are some Medals to award Military Crosses for our aces.
Sorry Brigs, never saw you, you sure it was me as both kills I had to stay with them for a while as my shooting is so crap!!
You was on him a while and your shooting is crap, I saw it all as I was right behind you.
At least you haven’t been killed yet. I hold the record for that one
My point is in the chaos these missions bring , and it can happen so fast. It is impossible to be the angelic selfless pilots we want to be.
Stats updated on the EAF92 page.
Also of note is we now have 3 Aces amongst us.
Military Crosses to Splash (12) Paf (6) and Whiskey (6)
I’m going to rework the Scoreboard this weekend and try and incorporate a mouseover pop up for medals.
Whiskey can now choose a new plane if he wants?
Splash
yep!
What were the options again? Triplane or Camel I think it was?
Think I might give the Camel a go although after taking the p1ss out of Splash I’ll probably spin to my doom in the first 5 mins.
Off to get a couple of hours in the Camel.
WB.