First off, a word to the wise: ALWAYS fly the Fee in a fighter squadron, NEVER in a bomber squadron. ‘F.E’ officially meant ‘Farman Experimental’ but semi-officially meant ‘Fighter Experimental’. The Fee is MUCH more survivable as a fighter than as a bomber due to the different wingman AIs associated with each role. That said, you might want to do some minor hacking to make the Fee perform in a believable manner as a fighter, as follows:


Find the FE2b_sqd.xdp file in the OBDSoftware\CFSWWI Over Flanders Fields\aircraft\FE2b_Sqd folder. This is SQD without any number on the end. It should be the last FE2b subfolder in \aircraft, after AC1-5 and SQ1-4. In this file,
find the 3rd line from the top (starts with <General Allegience=”0”). Go to the end of this line and you’ll see Category=”tactical_bomber”. Change the “tactical_bomber” to “fighter_bomber”. This will give your AI wingmen a slight semblance of survival instinct, which makes a huge difference in the enjoyment,, frustration index.


Without this change, all AI Fees act like conventional tractor 2-seaters, which means they fly along straight and level; thus they are easy meat. With this change, AI Fees in your squadron ONLY will rely less on a rear defence that isn’t really there, although they will still be quite sluggish so won’t chase down Huns for you. They will, however, respond better to wingman commands in a dogfight and do a better job simulating the ‘Lufbery Circle’ that Fees performed as a matter of course in real life.

Uh oh. Or there is something else in the mix hardcoded.