I just write down the necessary information. Since you are likely to know the name, rank and home base of your pilot pretty well, my information last time came down to;

5 missions, 5.35 hours (quiet)

That's it.

Happy new year to Ashton Maclareux!

Came back from war wounds suffered in my 2nd sortie with esc 76 just in time to fly a couple recce missions before the weather grounded us for the remainder of the year. The CO also has just informed us that we will be replacing the old Moranes with Nieuport 17s on the 1st of the new year! Great news! Time to take the fight to the Germans!...After the weather clears of course.

S! If you can survive in the Morane, you will thrive in a N117

Happy New Year to all DiD pilots. It is officially Jan 1st 1917 and there appears to be no end in sight for the war!

Fly to make it to the end!

Are we downhearted? No!

Hop into DiD, just enlisted my pilot so starting from zero, in this case 0.1 to fill-inn.

Dear Uncle,
Happy New Year to you! Our flights are cancelled due to weather for today and we have the day off. I do not see any end to this war so the break is welcome. We have some replacements in today. They are eager to get into the fight but I am afraid they are ill equipped for the task. Fortunately we have enough experienced pilots to teach them what they need to know. That is, if they will listen.

I led a flight to take down an observation ballon yesterday. They burn wonderful in the morning. It was a beautifull flight back home until we were set upon by two French scouts. They were brave to attack but I will say it was a foolish endeavor. Both went down as they were hopelessly out numbered.

I wish you the best dear Uncle,
Fabian

I have taken you on as an ID on the web site. Please read the rules at page 1 of this topic as your pilot's name is incorrect. The First name MUST start with A, and goes from there to B, C etc as each pilot kicks the bucket or goes west or whatever. Doubtless you will fix this after your next flight.

Otherwise welcome to the DiD Campaign

Dairy,

I was posted to SOP 7 at Plessis-Belleville in the Verdun Sector . Bad Weather all along the route traveling here. No flying, Much to Pity, I will be flying a Sopwith 2 Seat instead of the Neuiport types flying school said I would be assigned.
The Captainie was polite but said as the Adjutant I will have much paperwork to do with little flight time. 1 Jan 17.

Brain de Bois Guilbare.

Hello Gents,

It is a new year and I am ready to join the DID campaign. Can you please add my userid to the list of fine pilots? I am ready to report for duty!

Thank you all for the hard work getting this up and running. Looking forward to it!

My first mission with RFC 5 had me taking off in bad winter weather for a recon patrol over the front to spot enemy artillery movement. The flight was long and we lost contact with the supporting flight shortly after our rendezvous. Although two enemy patrol flights were spotted over the front, they did not attack and we returned safely to our aerodrome without incident.

Gladd to see you are now active in the DiD campaign Tailspinner! Welcome to the fray!

Best Regards

Is there a way to chance the actual pilots name after you did fly a mission, must be a .txt file somewere to change.

Finally they let me fly Tripe instead of Bebe!! For several weeks I've been the only one flying N11
Happy new year!!

The continuing service of Albert "Mushroom" Ward:




2 Jan 1917 @ 07h01 Patrol over Ghistelles aerodrome

I lead the flight with Mack, Blake and Mulock accompanying. We had scattered cumulous from 3000 to 4500 ft. Wind 8 kn out of the WSW. Bitter cold with snow squalls.
Our flight to the lines was quiet, very cold and dark. I could hardly wait for the sun to rise and give some semblance of warmth. This was our first mission of the New Year after having spent Christmas on leave in Old Blighty and we see no end to this war on the horizon. We crossed the lines in solitude as the sun began to emit a glow in the east.
We approached Ghistelles straining our eyes in the dark for any sign of the Hun. He obviously had no intention in flying in this weather and I thought to myself who is the smarter of the two. In my mind I could see him snuggled in a warm bed while I was up here freezing my begeeses off! We circled Ghistelles a few times while the Hun sent up some flak to greet us. Nice of him to try to warm us up but I would have no part in it and lead the flight higher in a spiral keeping the flak below us. After several circuits, I signaled to return to base as we watched the sun climb above the horizon with it’s red glow. It sure was a pretty sight to see and warmed my heart some. We all landed safely, reported in and rushed off to breakfast and a warm cup of tea happy to be back home.

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Logbook: Barely got off the ground when the motor blew a gasket and had to land at the Aerodrome. The other 2 ships went on in the skies droping snow flakes to Recon East of Reims. Since I was new and this was a orientation Flight I had to ride in the back seat per Esc Rules. 2 Jan 17.


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Just record an appropriate name when you fill in the submission form.

My first pilot was called Algernon Didsworthy in WOFF but I missed the Y off the first time I filled the form in. Then I decided Didsworth sounded better and stuck with it. He remained Didsworthy whenever I screenshot his dossier of course.

There is a file but it is not readable in WOFF. It used to be readable in OFF.

Carrick;

Now you can be the proverbial "Back seat driver"!