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Wow, that had to be be really cool Molders. Yes, pictures please. It'll be good to get flying with you again.

As it says, we're willing to train anyone who is willing to learn. If you commit the time to it and are serious about improving and becoming a member of the team, you'll get all the help you need. If you can't land yet, then we'll start there and work up. Basics first. Just be sure you come in with a realistic time frame in mind. You won't be an ace of the sky in a few weeks, or even a few months. Especially when you start from the beginning, being a good virtual combat pilot takes a lot of time and practice. It's a long, gradual process that is never complete. More importantly though, being a valuable member of the Staffel can take considerably less time, if you have the basics down. So we do that before we do anything else. Staffel "off" nights are Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. We can use those nights to work with you until you're up to speed enough to fly with the Staffel on Wednesday's training. Let me know what days and times work for you and we can get started as soon as you'd like. Just to confirm, are you up to version 4.08m?

Remember that scene from Office Space where they take the computer equipment off to the side of the road and destroy it with a bat? Well, I'm really close to doing that. As stated earlier, the new video card functioned without distortions in CoD, but it froze up after a few minutes of playing. My optical drive, even after switching plugs is not recognized at all, and AEP is not recognized by old external CD drive. That was a few days ago. Last night I had my computer on Stand By when I went to bed. Some time during the night the keyboard was stepped on by a cat I assume because when I got up it was running. I moved the mouse to wake up the screen and it is sitting on the blue user select screen except it is COMPLETELY DISTORTED! I shut down, have to go to school. Get home turn it on and there's a little distortion on the Dell screen, the Windows loading screen it shifted a couple inched to the left, and the user select screen and desktop is all distorted just like it was when this whole thing started a month and a half ago, except there is about twice as much distortion. Also in the clear spots between the bands whatever is there is screwed up too, so I cannot really see to do anything at all, just sorta poke around and guess. I opened the case up again, switched another plug to the optical drive from a different cord bundle, incase the whole thing was bad, and resecured the 9800 card. Plugged everything back in, turned it on and same ole same ole. No optical drive, and can't see a freaking thing. I guess that's what I get for a $400 upgrade. The distortions are worse than they ever were, and now I don't have an optical drive. PERFECT!

Nice one. Are you planning on this being SoW usable?

Apparently it's the UBI hamster's fault. It's okay now.

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Yeah, I saw that first one before. Still funny. The sequel is great.

Thanks Shrike, things kinda got knocked out there, but it is up and usable with 1 channel. That's all we need for tonight, so we'll be on our regular server then, not COT.

As long as Ventrilo is working we'll use that. Don't get rid of TS or anything though. It will be the emergency back up and also might be needed if we have to join comms that aren't ours. By the way Shrike has Ventrilo back up.

Yes torque is a whole FM thing, not just 190. P-38 with counter-rotating props has a noticable advantage from this. And yes, I'm referring to the 109's horrible elevator stiffness at high speed.

It was good to talk with you Krafft. When we got short on time, I kind of sped through that last part, just to get you pointed in the right direction. I know I was dumping tons of info on you there. That always happens at the start. We'll go over more stuff in more detail when we have time, and it'll sink in soon enough. I look forward to getting you in the cockpit and seeing where we need to pick up at.

A-4,5,6,8 are all a bit slower. A-9, D-9 the same. The A-5 1.65ata is just as fast as the A-8, 581. Tempest "only" does 600. Spit 25lb 566. Mossie 547. The poor P-38J got knocked down to 560, but the Ls are the same.

Cool stuff. The Ju 88A should prove to be quite valuable. And those Macchis will be a treat to fly. I hope the modeling does them justice. A Spit IX at 25lb boost is nasty. If they model that to test specs, it will run side by side with the current P-51B/C on the deck. That means no speed advantage for the A-5/6/8. It will outclimb its old self by almost 1,000ft/min. And it already outturns and out-E conserves us by miles. And you thought you saw a lot of Spitfires before! Should make things interesting. Nevermind that it saw no more than token use until November 1944, I'm sure they'll have them all over the place.