No suicide allowed, Sir! Mmuahahahahahaaa!!!!

So many to pick, too hard a question

This one doesn't look too bumpy




my least favorite landing spot is this



had too lol

This is some of the stuff that made the 90's sims SO IMMERSIVE!
Fortunally OFF tries to "capture" some of this immersiveness (thru videos in this case) together with other immersive stuff also seen in some of the 90's sim (such as dynamic campaigns for example).

Logic says whichever field that has the least amount of green, reason behind that mode of thinking, the heavier used the less possibility of a rutted situation, and since you feel every hole with your butt. The more likely there's a corporal whose sole reason for existing is to make the runway smooth.

This only applies to airdromes located outside the range of cannons. Those near the front are the exact opposite, you're seeking green . . . which you can never find

With a smooth surface being rather important, in an emergency situation every Army Base has a Parade Field which is usually free of holes.
However if you're near the front, forget them. As the army uses the practice of piling their crates of supplies all over the Parade Grounds to lessen the chance of one shell destroying everything

I discovered that fact the Hard Way, by pulling a Dead Stick Landing with my SE5a, now I know what a pinball feels like. But I lived

Thinking of it . . . Hemmoroids must've been a major problem, sitting motionless for long periods of time, in the bitter cold.

As well as flying BEFORE the face mask came along, covering your face with animal fat, to save your flesh from frostbite and wind burn

I think this as good a place as any to mention one of the hidden features of OFF

Make sure your speakers work . . then clic on Credits ( few ever do)

After the credits run, with everyone getting due credit . . the screen will be focused on a field of RED Poppies

And four World War One pilots( all frightfully British ) speak of a day at work. . . Followed by a reading of the poem .... Over Flanders Fields

If I remember ...... that part is on a loop

If you want to listen to those pilots ........ again, and again, and again

My favorite field is the one (I forget the name) that Jasta 4 is flying from on the day it gets the Fokker D.VII. This airfield is RIGHT ON the front line. Seriously, depending on who owns a clump of trees a few hundred yards away on any give day, you can take rifle and MG fire while your engine is warming up, clouds of poison gas frequently roll across the field, there's the occasional artillery barrage, and the flak starts bursting right over your head as soon as your wheels leave the ground. And there are almost always enemy planes right overhead, too.

At this field, forget circling around to gain altitude. Try that and the AAMGs and flak will get you even before the enemy planes above pounce. What you do is turn right immediately and hedge-hop several miles east before attempting to gain any altitude. And if you want to land back at home drome (provided you get the chance), you have to sneak back in the same way.

Ah, la belle vie que l'on mène
Dans les husards, dans les husards!

Wll, that sounds like your place indeed, Bullet! Hussah!
Could that be Beugneux ? (S-SE of Soissons - Jasta 4 lay there from 31 May - 17 July)
Here is the link to a quite formidable little interactive map.

Aeroplane Squadron Locations during WW1

You can select/de-select the national markings for your search, and you can search
by Date, Aerodrome, or Squadron.
If you search by squadron, you receive a zigzagging red line, showing the Staffel's
way through the war and area.

The French are missing (real pity), and some locations he got wrong, but it's still
a nice little help, if you want to know where a certain unit went through the war.

It must be, given it's position right on the red line. But now when I try to rejoin that squadron there, they're flying Dr.Is instead of D.VIIs and don't get the latter until they move back a couple miles. I must have manually advanced time from the Dr.I start until the D.VIIs showed up before the move.

But I highly recommend this location. I haven't found anywhere else in OFF that can match this time and place for sheer intensity from the moment you 1st spawn on the runway. There's just nothing like watching your hangars getting destroyed by artillery while you're waiting your turn to take off, and watching those ahead of you getting rocked by flak before they even clear the trees at the far end of the runway .

Well, I am more the type who would enjoy a peaceful beer on a bench outside
the mess barrack on a quiet evening, after all the fighting of the day.
So, it is a matter of personal taste, I guess.
I feel much safer in Marchais after day's business - or in Boistrancourt.

But I have been on that field, or a similarly exposed one.
You needed to give up all fears about direct impact of shells, by saying to yourself:
a direct impact should be okay - no suffering; just done. That sort of attitude.