It was great catching up with reports.

Yikes CatKnight, hope you get into a scout soon, just not safe in a two seater.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Tomorrow I will travel to my hometown for 2 weeks, as I already announced in the forum.
So there will not be a weekly chart, or maybe Jim_Attrill will post a basic capture -
I couldn't reach him yet.
However - please continue flying, and also reporting your data to the survey.
I wish you all, that your pilots will still be alive, when I return.

CatKnight -- very evocative entry. Two-seater flights are like Russian roulette these days.

The only difference is that you have a decent chance of survival when playing Russian roulette!

On 23 May mission, cold sweat after landing...



Off. A.Lubistch
Jasta 30
Phalempin

Oh my, really looking forward to setting off in my BE2C later on today....

H

Is the Brisfit legal as a two seater in this Campaign. Inquiring minds want to know.

Today 26 may 1917 O.A.Lubistch was shot down by the enemy and died.

HarryH -- Best of luck with the original Lawn Dart...

Lecrop -- took until my C pilot to get that far. Keep at it.

I noticed you asked this right after Olham went on Holiday....

As far as I know flying the BisFit fits the rule requirements. She is a sky dominater at this point in the war.

lecrop, that is alot O'Lead !
Hope you weren't wounded.

Yep, the thought of climbing into any other 2 seater at this point makes me woozy!

Lecrop,That is not a bad show for your 1st pilot. I am contemplating "L" right now.

The continuing service of Albert "Mushroom" Ward:



25 May 1917 @ 05h00 Patrol our lines SW of Cambrai

Today we had winds of 6 kn from the west and low scattered cumulous from 3500 to 6000 ft. Lewis claim on the DIII from the previous day was confirmed.

I lead the flight with Prothero, Stephens, Maxwell, Rhys Davids and Muspratt accompanying. “A” flight sent Norris, Dixon, Bowman and Stone to follow.

While forming up just north of Doullens, Stephens signaled engine trouble and turned back to Vert Galant. We later learned his craft would be out for 2 days repair but he was ok. Our flight to the lines was quiet until we were SW of Cambrai. It was at this time I spotted 5 specks high and to our starboard side but ahead of us moving in the same direction as us. I started to give chase but then decided to break it off since “A” flight was doddling too far behind. It turned out to be a good move as Norris and Bowman of “A” flight broke away with engine problems and headed to our nearest base at Lechelle.Their craft were taken out of service for 2 and 3 days respectively. I took the flight high and shadowed Norris and Stone of “A” flight to ensure appropriate cover for them and we completed our circuit. Returning home Muspratt developed engine trouble and broke away from the flight heading for the nearest base at Bapaume. He didn’t make it I learned later. Apparently his engine caught fire during his landing and the craft was burned out but he managed to escape with only light wounds.

That was four craft with engine failure in one day out of a total of 10 craft in the two flights. A totally unacceptable situation of which the only saving grace is that we did not have contact with the enemy.

Upon landing I called in the maintenance crew and declared I wanted a full inspection of all engines on the remaining craft and a concensus of the problems found on the engines of the three that failed and were recoverable.

YouTube Video:

I watch it tomorrow, Robert, low on wide pipe line for this time of day.
What is up with all those engines failures.....?????

edit... I've 1.7 Gb left for main time, 9.4Gb left for off-time/non-peak time from 2am-8am. I gotta quit watching video in peak time....LOL....

I wish I knew. Historically there were problems with the gear box/transmission on the 150 HP Hispano-Suiza engine but I haven't yet identified how many craft were affected. Maybe the devs built this occurance into the sim.

I'm still looking for answers

At least it wasn't a fuel leak that burns the craft up up before your pilot can set her down.....that sucks in BE 2C early...

Methinks they model some known factors from whatever kite your pilotiing into the mix. The Fokker EIV happened the most for me.

ATTENTION ALL DID'ERS!!

Unfortunately I seem to have lost a few captures from the 24th 25th and 26th of this month. Please do it again if you can. If you can't tell me your id and I can do it for you from emails I get automatically.

Sorry about that - but it will all come right once you have done your next capture.

I'll send in a nutter one, Jim....no big deal to me....stuff happens