#3857837 - 11/03/13 02:22 PM
Day to day blog of a virtual pilot.
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Anyone interested can also follow my daily Air Hauler adventures on my newly created blog (in French and English) It also will cover my activities in Rise of Flight, IL2 1946 and Condor soaring, as well as some interesting infos I find here and there in my daily readings. http://cors-air.over-blog.com/Feel free to drop by !
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#3857984 - 11/03/13 10:07 PM
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#3858133 - 11/04/13 09:29 AM
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Hi and thanks to the 13 people who dropped by my blog yesterday ! See you again... Flight of the day : "The Cessna 172 is at home in CYPR. A quick analyse of the job board gives again a majority of jobs for floating planes. I quickly notice an offer : 4800 bucks for carrying a full load of cleaning products between two mountain strips, Stewart (CZST) at the end of a deep fjord 100 nm away and a gravel strip lost in the mountains (CAB5) 58 nm further away. It is already 15:45 local but we should make it.. The job is valid only for the next 7 hours."... Full report at http://cors-air.over-blog.com/
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#3858596 - 11/05/13 11:18 AM
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Today is about mission 5 of 1916 Campaign we are playing with several other squadrons. (Rise of Flight)
"The engines of the 5 Roland C2 are warming up on the airfield in Ste Marguerite. On signal, everyone takes off from left to right. A turn around the airfield to form up and we fly towards the front."
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#3859127 - 11/06/13 11:29 AM
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Today, clouds, snow and fog as we bring back our Cessna to Prince Rupert... "End of evening here, the forecast for western Canada shows a little better before a few days of bad weather. And what about trying to extract the Cessna from the rat's hole in the mountains? If it doesn't work, I can always land back there again..." Full report at http://cors-air.over-blog.com/
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#3860582 - 11/10/13 01:05 AM
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Today complete AAR about Friday night mission 2 in FEOW III campaign (Rise of Flight)... 4 hours of flying and didn't see the time go by ! "This time we are better organised, we have a plan ! (everyone knows plans are usually the first casualties at war) Each pilot has two "lives" for the evening. First mission : We take off from Bisseghem near Kortrijk with 3 DFWs. First one is to do the artillery spotting at arty point 1, that the two other ones (us) will bomb right away. We loiter over the front while J5_Fledermaus does the spotting." Full report at http://cors-air.over-blog.com/
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#3861474 - 11/12/13 08:31 AM
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Today AAR of 69GIAP 1916 campaign mission 6 : "Tonight is a special mission. It is 18h50, end of March 1916, when we take off in a light fog from Ste Marguerite, north of Lille. We have to fly deep into enemy territory (35 mn flight) to go and land at an abandoned airfield, pick up one of our spies and take him back home, with good chances of a night landing. I was crazy enough to volunteer with Mueller from Jasta 5 as wingman just in case anything happens... " Full report at http://cors-air.over-blog.com/
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#3863694 - 11/17/13 10:52 AM
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Nice website corsaire. I especially liked the 1917 photo of the Green Tail squadron, great reference for modelers (which I sometimes attempt). Thks for your visit. Tomorrow Monday is a night mission in the 1916 campaign, should be interesting ! At the moment all pilots are grounded for the week end.
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#3864236 - 11/18/13 05:28 PM
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A couple of FSX Air Hauler flights today, and tonight a night bombing raid in Rise of Flight 1916 campaign, a good pilot's day !
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#3864972 - 11/19/13 10:32 PM
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Today on the blog, report of Monday night Rise of Flight Mission 7 of our 1916 campaign.
"In this beginning of April 1916, high command has planned night bombing missions. It is 21:00 when the heavily loaded Roland C2s take off with each of them carrying a 50kg bomb. They are on their way to bomb a factory deep in enemy territory, while the Fokker EIII fighters will be tasked with chasing the british FE2b bombers."
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#3866142 - 11/22/13 12:12 AM
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"Lt Ernst Luhdemann is based in Beugnâtre, we are in April 1917. Today's orders are to patrol enemy lines at 3300m to try and intercept british RE8 two seaters, who could be escorted by some Spads 7. I am leading the flight, accompanied by two Feldwebels from the Jasta on our Albatros DIIIs."
Solo career in Rise of Flight with Pat Wilson Campaign Generator
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#3867437 - 11/25/13 10:40 AM
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"In parallel to my Jasta 5 campaign in Rise of Flight, I am also running a dynamic campaign with Staffel 1 of Jagdgeschwader 52 on the eastern front. The goal is the same : fly through the war from 1941 to 1945, replacing each downed pilot by a new one. Lt Hartmut Maerz flies his fifth mission and already shows 6 victories painted on the tail of his Bf109 E4."
Solo career in IL2 1946 v 4.09 superpatch Checksix 1.3
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#3868174 - 11/26/13 11:05 PM
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"6 o'clock in the morning, cloud ceiling is low and it rains. Despite the weather, we have to take off for a recon mission on the other side of the front, while a group of Fokker EIIIs will patrol along our lines. The 5 Roland C2 of the recon group take each 4 12.5kg bombs. I have to split from the group after crossing the front in order to make pictures of a brit HQ and bring them back to the airfield." 1916 Campaign - Mission 8 http://cors-air.over-blog.com
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#3869498 - 11/30/13 09:34 AM
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"Today April 9, 1917, I lead a flight of 4 Albatros DIII for a 3500m patrol along our lines south of Beugnâtre. This is the first flight since my new promotion to Oberleutnant. We rapidly spot a couple of RE8s on a mission above our territory and we start swooping down on them." Rise of Flight - Jasta 5 career - Pat Wilson Campaign Generator v 15.0 http://cors-air.over-blog.com
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#3871705 - 12/04/13 10:14 PM
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"On this 3rd of May 1917, patrol at 2500m over the enemy front. I'm leading a group of 4 Albatros DIII with Obltn Erwin Blumenkranz, Ltn Baldemar Beckermann and Ltn Lothar Babitsch. After 15 mns over the front, we spot far under us a group of the new Sopwith Pups, which I encounter for the first time."
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#3872185 - 12/05/13 11:43 PM
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"Today we need to escort a recon JU-88 which must take pictures of enemy troops concentrations around Chklov, 95 km south of our airfield. We take off with 8 Bf109-E4..." IL2 1946 - 1/JG 51 "Moelders" - 11 July 1941 http://cors-air.over-blog.com
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#3874201 - 12/10/13 09:29 AM
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Last posts on the blog : FSX Air Hauler : we take some furniture to Bella Coola and land with empty tank ! Condor : new scenery Over Flanders fields : introduction to upcoming new release http://cors-air.over-blog.com
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