Hello John,

if the plane will be on the left side of your propeller(flying to the right), thats it!!

Greetings,

Knegel

Gotta jump in here. Red Baron 3D is still my favorite flight sim of all time, and I've been PC gaming since the days when a 143K floppy drive for my Apple II costs $545.

I've formally interviewed the developer of RBII/RB3D and talked over beers with him several times. One thing that he confided that they did with that sim, which he said would probably not be done by anyone again because of the programming nightmare, was make it truly dynamic. All manner of sorties, flights, events, etc. were going on and being run by the computer even if you were nowhere near the event. They simulated dogfights hundreds of miles away, that would have no impact in any way on your experience. But what this meant was that you could toodle off on your own, into an area far from your assigned mission, and run into any number of unexpected events. One of my favorite flight sim memories was deciding to take a scenic route back to base after a mission and seeing a speck of activity in the distance. I flew over, and there was a friendly observer being attacked by two German fighters. I flew over and quickly hit one of them, who was fixated on the observer, and the other pulled away in apparent surprise. He tried to come after me, but I had the advantage of surprise and altitude and downed him. However, he did hit me, and I was now reduced to limping back to base. I decided I needed to find an alternate place to set down, and then, dammit, out of the blue another German coming back from some mission saw me, and turned towards me. I was turning, trying to get low and escape, trying everything I could and then suddenly he goes down in flames. I turned and looked, and there were two friendlies that had seen my predicament and come to my aid. I made it back, landed, and then marveled at what happened.

Contrast that with static, scripted missions. Fly outside of your "assigned" region in many sims, such as an Oleg sim, and you might as well have flown into outer space...