http://riseofflight.com/Blogs/post/2012/02/10/ROF-Development-Plans-2012.aspx

Ooo. Anyone got any ideas of major air conflicts that happened around the English Channel? Time to hit the history books to see if there's any potential there..

hmmm let's see, major air conflicts, major air conflicts, english channel, english channel. Nope nothings coming to mind.

cant wait to see what the English countryside looks like in ROF.
In fact the whole blog looks great.

Ya darn I wish I could enjoy flying ROF without having to crank up the speed to 2 times. lol

Indeed, plus the radios never work either..

The shown Channel map wouldn't be any good for the BoB, if that's what you're hinting at.

You'd be amazed how far fans are willing to compromise on some pretty key things once the will and enthusiasm is shown to be there..

That's so true. Some 20,000 people downloaded my IL2 Battle of Britain campaign in which the LW had to fly SW from "France" to get to Kent!

Why? The ATAG server only uses about the same area, maybe less. i always thought CLOD should of had maybe 4 smaller maps of the channel. Nobody makes use of the large map anyway.
We still dont have COOPs and single player is still rubbish so why not have a smaller map?

During WW1 Germany bomb London using air ships. Not just a little. Lots of London burned. The ships came a night and as the campaign went on they had to fly very high. I have no recall of what plane vs plane action took place over England.

Gothas gradually replaced airships on the London raids (as the war progressed). There were also R planes (but I don't think any were shot down).

Plane v Plane was mainly bomber interceptions, and some encounters between naval seaplanes.

the main action for these map are not he ones from the continent to england.....
thats more a nice surplus.

its more about northern flanders and the fight over the sea and along the coast line to attack enemy shipping and bases.

I think it is great news and I'm going to pre-order. As for BoB scenarios there aren't any suitable planes and without London the second part of the battle would be pretty much impossible. It does give food for thought so far as the future is concerned though.

It will be interesting flying in over Dover to see how it compares to CoD.

Oh yes, not nitpicking but the map says 'Canterberry' and it should be 'Canterbury'.

I can see ROF slowly, very slowly evolving into a WW2 sim if the market is there. I haven't flown ROF for quite sometime and don't know how much more work is required to finish the sim satisfactorily. When thats done I suppose they could start developing WW2 aircraft and in maybe five years or so expand the channel map to include London. Then it will depend on wether or not their game engine can handle or be modified to handle all the far more complex features.