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Saintaw · « **on:** April 06, 2001, 10:51:00 AM »

Do you remember your 1st Aces High flight ?

I am not takling about the 1st ones where you end up breaking your left/right wing 150 yards down th Tarmac<g>, No I'm talking about the one when you managed to take off, get your gear up and face your 1st Foe...

I remembr taking off in a SpitIX (Spits were "THE" dweebplane back then). I had not yet setup my views correctly and my convergence was probably set to 650yds or so

(ey, AH is my 1st Online sim). So, I takeoff with my Falcon4 Squaddie/Buddy "Groundhog". We're both flying next to each other at 5K gently climbing towards the sun & discovering the wonderfull terrain from somewhere above our usual crashontakeoff views...

To our surprise, we saw a Low P51 comming right at us, and both of us started screaming orders to each other on Teamsound (or whatever comms we used back then), start a gentle dive pointing straight at the low P51 (this was back in AH ver 0.45 or something... ). Both of us started shooting towards the low P51 at about 2000 yards, missed all our shots, spinned, stalled and promptly got shot

That P51 was "Wizzer" ... I'm still waiting for payback time d00de

Do you remember your 1st fight ?

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"I am distracted when I talk to my privates".
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J_A_B · « **Reply #1 on:** April 06, 2001, 10:53:00 AM »

I can't remember my first AH flight.

J_A_B

Kratzer · « **Reply #2 on:** April 06, 2001, 10:56:00 AM »

I raced down the runway, ground looped, and smashed into a hangar... I never got off the ground, so I'm not sure if it could be considered a 'flight'... hehe

Mighty1 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 06, 2001, 11:02:00 AM »

hell I can't even remember my last flight!

Oh yeah! I DO remember it.

Last night we had a base that was under heavy attack so I went up in a tempest and headed right for the red wave. I blew past it knowing a lot of the attackers would peel off looking for some perk points.

I pulled several away but only 1 was hot on my tail. A La-7 was getting closer and closer so I pulled up and rolled while in a black out and when I could see again he was crossing right into my path. (yummy...doh I missed) I started doing some split-S with him and was getting ready to fire again when I noticed the P-51 coming in and knew it was over.

<S> SKViper and who ever was with you.

Was fun while it lasted.

Yes Yes I know this isn't a story of my first flight but it's the best I can do.

Ozark · « **Reply #4 on:** April 06, 2001, 11:06:00 AM »

I remember the first day of open beta. hehe...poor MarkAT typing like a madman helping folks drop fuel tanks, use the radio and on and on. It was pretty exciting to see the flight controls REALLY move too.

Lephturn · « **Reply #5 on:** April 06, 2001, 11:17:00 AM »

Heh, I remember when I came back from my Austratia trip (was gone a year) and finally got access to a computer. I'd been a trainer in WB, and been around a bit.

I downloaded the latest WB... and it was the same as when I left. Then I went and downloaded AH and tried it.

Wow... movable flight controls! Look at the terrain! Wow, mountains! Canyon fights! I fired the guns and spooged at the awsome tracers. I played with fuel tanks and fuel loads. Woah. 3D cockpits that are excellent, moveable head positions. It had everything.

Heh, I remember when I registered for beta and got HT's email with my password. I still have that email too.

I did a big "woohoo" and my wife wondered what I was smoking as I sat glued to the computer with a big stupid grin on my face. I got online, grabbed a Hog and commenced the fun. I really don't remember if I got a kill my first flight or not... I was too busy marvelling at the awesome game world. That's what I remember.

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LePaul · « **Reply #6 on:** April 06, 2001, 11:20:00 AM »

Oh yea, I remember my first time on here....grabbed a P51 and raced down the runway with 100% gas and wondering "Why isnt this thing blasting off?". Stall horn blaring, got her to 2000 feet, level and waited for the speed to build. Never saw much, then someone dove in on my 6. I banked, stalled and before I could recover, I was hit. Kind of a frustrating ride but a few guys who saw me die suggested the Spit 9 and mentioned a few guys in the training room could really help me out. Rode the Spit9 for a few weeks, spent some time with the guys in the training room and a year later, Im still hooked to this game

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Paul J. Busiere

Aces High Arena handle: BD5Pilot
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BD-5 "T" (TurboProp) 90% complete, first flight in 2001 (We hope!)

Swager · « **Reply #7 on:** April 06, 2001, 11:28:00 AM »

Yes! I took off in a P51. I thought it was the only plane available.

Took Off and climbed with little trouble. Seen a few green icon around. Flew over the canyons. Approached a red B-17 but someone got it before I got there. At that time B-17s had no guns!! HeHe!

Crossed over to bad guy territory and went toward a red icon. Was another p-51. We HOed each other and fired. Neither one of us hit and I just kept on flying straight! So did the other guy.

Seen an airfield went down to check it out. There was a bad guy there too. Flew over the field and got killed by ack.

I flew 3 missions before I realized how to change planes! I always took off from the fields that were high elevation. It was so cool because it was my first on-line flight sim. I remember fighting 'mossback' alot and winging with 'crisis'. I remember early on was 'porn' and 'pnus'.

Those were the days!!

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Swager
On Leave 3./JG2~Richthofen~[/i]

"Enjoy yourselves now... for I'll be back"
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R4M · « **Reply #8 on:** April 06, 2001, 11:31:00 AM »

sure. I took a F4U1-d, started the engine, firewalled the throttle and, of course, I ground looped.

Bit surprised (I was rock'n rolling in falcon4 H2H mode those days, and thot I was invincible

), I tried it again, with similar or even worse results (yes, first time I groundlooped and somehow died on the runway. Second I died OUT of the runway

).

now I tried the 190 ("well, the f4u, the ensign eliminator...maybe it is the plane"...)

I ground looped, and exited the game ("WTF is this, it sux!!!").

Three days after that a friend convinced me to give it a try, and to try taking off usign the rudder keys (2-button yoke and no rudder pedals by that time)

. Finally took off. I was immediatly vulched (lol). But I got caught and took off again.

tHen it was a typical learning stage...someone helps you,someone vulches you, you get your first kill (at a target 1.1K away with a spitfire....lol), you go private to ask Torque how in the hell was he getting his 7th kill, nd then you got the answer when he got the 8th...

I got hooked. And from then until now

oboe · « **Reply #9 on:** April 06, 2001, 11:41:00 AM »

I remember a Mediterranean League scenario flight I was in. Was in Maik's flight of 109G-2s, patroling the N African coast.

As it was a long, uneventful patrol, Maik would occasionally issue orders in German, or entertain us with a Luftwaffe song. Looking out over my formationmates, hearing the German over RW, it just doesn't get any more real than this I thought to myself.

I was right - minutes later we encountered B-26s escorted by Spits, and in the giant furball the developed my FR plunged to a single-digit slide show. I was hit and killed trying to bail.

Still, for those priceless moments of really feeling like part of a Luftwaffe flight, it was worth it.

Next I need to hook up with some RAF chaps!
Cheerio! Right! Carry-on!

Hajo · « **Reply #10 on:** April 06, 2001, 11:47:00 AM »

I had gotten tired of aw, although I'd been playing it for about 6 years. read a review and talked with vati about aces high.

I downloaded AH, installed and took my first trip on-line. I chose the a-5 since I'd been known to always fly the FW.

When I saw the graphics, in the tower, then went to the hangar, noticed the various loadouts etc. I was hooked.

I pointed the fw down the runway, noticed I better use the rudders to keep the butcher bird on the runway, I was hooked even further. First time I got the bird up, patted myself on the back, and said "this ain't so tough"

I immediately went looking for my first victim, little did I know it would be me!

I saw a low 109 on the deck, about 300 feet, and being about 10K I rolled into a dive on the 109s six. Lined him up in the sights, leading a little forward, proceded to start firing at 600 feet, blew his tail off, and I promptly aurgered into the ground behind the 109<G> first day at AH I signed up, didn't need a two week trial period, I was hooked!

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hblair · « **Reply #11 on:** April 06, 2001, 12:14:00 PM »

I had been watching the Aces High bulletin boards, as was all other warbirds players. Open Beta was getting near, then one day in (September or was it October?) 1999, the Aces High beta had been released. Cool! I rushed home from work that day, downloaded it, I think it was like 3 megabytes

. Like a smart simmer, I skipped pesky stuff like a readme, or flying offline. I went straight online. I think I got in the air on the first attempt. The torque was waaaay more unforgiving than warbirds.

I grabbed some altitude, and flew over to a mountain range. I noticed kills in the buffer, back then it read like..
SYSTEM: scop killed hblair
... instead of the way it is now. I looked down in the canyons and decided to dive down there and see what was going on, at that time, flaps worked no matter what speed you were flying. If you were compressing at 500+ mph, just drop the flaps!

I think I was killed by scop not long after dropping into the canyon, and so concluded my first flight in Aces High.

Furious · « **Reply #12 on:** April 06, 2001, 01:18:00 PM »

I remember that my first dozen or so flights in the beta had to be launched from the hilltop fields.

All I could do was slowly eeck up the throttle and keep it straight enough to dive it off the cliff and viola I'd be airborne.

A side note:
I had been considering myself a relative newbie to AH. I flew in the first beta tour, then just recently came back. I looked at the pilot stats for the different tours and realized I have been in here regularly since tour 5. How the hell am I going to rationalize my lack of skills and prowess to myself now? crap.

F.

paintmaw · « **Reply #13 on:** April 06, 2001, 01:51:00 PM »

I remember my first Goon flight , The guy running the Mission (back then a knight and well know for his missions) chewed me out for 5 minutes for not landing close enough to the maproom . I was new and had no idea what I was doing . I try to help new guys now , mostly because I still remember that bellybutton chewing

mrfish · « **Reply #14 on:** April 06, 2001, 02:16:00 PM »

i remember seeing films of wwii where the bombers just fly over dropping bombs to carpet the area and not very strategically.

i took up a b17 or something and flew over a field at about 5k and dropped everything at random - yehoo i did it!

we were capturing the field and everything was down in reality i just scared the hell out of the c47 crew that was landing there and the people capping it!

i think it was escafe or central that started harassing me. i was pretty embarrased. not my first flight but the first one i remember. its been down hill from there as far as skill goes