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#4124559 - 05/25/15 11:44 AM Re: DiD plausability for 1915 [Re: OldHat]  
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I'm slowly learning as I read more about pilot training. So, for those interested to role play, here's what I've found so far:

1st day is to fly from a military training school (see official rules post for locations) to the pilot pool:

British: Fly from training school location to St. Omer

French: Fly from training school location to Plessis-Belleville - choose any airfield around Paris

Germany: Fly from training school location to Giramont (see explanation below)

Germany was a bit tricky to understand due to scant information available on the internet. But according to a post by "Dan San Abbott" on theaerodrome.com:

"The Flugzeugmeisterei was two major rear depots, there were : Fliegerdepot Sud, Saarbrucken (Eva) and Fliegerdepot Nord, Maubeuge (Adam)"

http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showpost.php?p=356634&postcount=30

Both places are 200 km north and south of Luxembourg. So, I just picked one aerodrome which will represent both places.


2nd day would be to fly from the pilot pool to your assigned squad. Then continue the rest of the missions as instructed by the rules.


Also, replacement aircraft are the same locations as mentioned in the post above:

British/French -> Aircraft Depot at St. Omer aerodrome

Germany -> Brieftauben Abteilung Ostende (BAO) at Ghistelles aerodrome.


If anyone has different knowledge than what is posted, then please let me know. Otherwise, this is how I intend to play the first few missions.


#4128007 - 06/02/15 05:13 PM Re: DiD plausability for 1915 [Re: OldHat]  
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Adding more challenge to survive 1915, I've "fixed" Bletchley's mission mod to only give lone wolf missions for both my German and British 1915 careers. Only problem is that total flight hours don't seem to get recorded.

I'm having a hard time finding information on the number of planes that were in German patrols (or even British) in 1915. So, I'm assuming that over 90% of missions were done by a single aircraft. If my assumptions are correct, then that tradeoff is acceptable to me just to get the "feel" of lone wolf flights.








#4128034 - 06/02/15 06:03 PM Re: DiD plausability for 1915 [Re: OldHat]  
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OldHat, I just set all other flight members planes at 5% fuel and I effectively end up flying alone, and it does not mess up any of the logging done by WOFF. The majority of missions early in the war were 'lone wolf' types, though that term implies they are out hunting, which they were not. As discussed before, should be mostly gun ranging work and recce flights.

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#4128043 - 06/02/15 06:25 PM Re: DiD plausability for 1915 [Re: OldHat]  
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Yes, I thought about doing it that way, but then I can't control A Flight's fuel. So, I'd still not be flying alone on some missions.

I wanted to fly alone with no support and that's the only reason why I decided to do it the other way.

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