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Should allow free-form entry in the aircraft tab. For example, I entered Oblt. Walter Thom, 10/4, as unknown. He’s an Eindekker pilot and that’s what I’d like to enter. I entered Lt. Emil Zirocky as unknown. He’s a Two-Seater Pilot and that’s what I’d like to enter. In fact, of the active pilots I entered, 4 are unknown, 3 are unrestricted, and one is a Fokker Dr I. The four unknown should be the two mentioned above plus a Breguet Crew. The three unrestricted should be Camel, SPAD, and Camel.
You don’t have naval ranks for the Boche.
I hear you on this one. I only implemented the version 7 aircraft groups because the “new” plane data is not yet available. I could handle this several ways.
One, I could implement free-form as you said. The reason I wanted it to be a table driven type field is for later reporting use. If your Eindekker pilot for example was entered with a type-driven table, then later I can have a page that shows all top Eindekker pilots and he would show up. If it were free form and you typed it differently somehow, then he would not show up in a comparison list. This is why I do not like the free form idea.
Two, I could setup a cross-reference with the aircraft data table I have setup for the Aircraft Stats Viewer. However, some of the more exotic planes are not in that data either.
Three, we could wait for the new aircraft data from Mike, he did say it was coming soon.
Four, I can just stop worrying about it and add free-text and hope people will update their records when the new plane data is up and running.
I will probably go with four, but unfortunately it might be a few days. I am visiting family in Appleton WI right now. We saw the Oshkosh airshow for the first time today and had a blast
I will follow up here by Tuesday at the latest. I did fix the description issue you had. Please keep the notes and questions coming, this was a lot of code I did with only myself as the QA/unit tester for most of it. I will always respond to issues ASAP, and seeing that people are actually using these tools makes my day.
Take care,
DanWhile looking up the information on ranks, I also found the Pilot Progression and Aircraft Groupings chart issued in 1999 for 8th Ed. If you want to keep this table driven I could live with updating the tables to this standard.
The changes for the Germans are:
1) Change Roland D IIa to Roland D II/IIa.
2) Add SSW D I to the Alb D II/Alb DIII/Roland D II/IIA group.
3) Add Fokker D VI to the Fokker D VII/Fokker D VIII/SSW D IV group.
4) Change SSW D IV to SSW D III/IV
5) The Roland D VI/Pfalz D XII group changes to Junkers D I/Pfalz Dr I/Pfalz D VIII/Pfalz D XII/ Roland D VIa/VIb. (aka please pass the trash!)
6) The following new groups are added:
6a) Fokker D II/III, Fokker E III/IV, Halberstadt D II, Pfalz E II (these are all one group). Promotes to the Alb D II group.
6b)C type two seater pilot. Promotes to 6c.
6c)CL/J type two seater pilot.
6d) C type two seater observer. Promotes to 6e.
6e) CL/J type two seater observer.
6f) Seaplane pilot.
6g) Seaplane observer.I’ll get back to you later on the Allied changes.
Thank you sir! I worked through part of your list and will finish up the rest tomorrow. I wanted to ask though – what about the other Central Powers groups? Were there differences there too?
Thanks again for the contribution!
Dan
Also – just to let you know, I have the mission log piece for DP-PILOTS almost finished. Also – very soon I will be adding in the ability to designate someone as a pilot or observer along with the ability to link pilots with observers. I am envisioning a clickable list of the people a pilot or observer has “crewed” with.
I ended up playing in the online VDP match last night. I am going to get to the changes for you ASAP over this long weekend!
dan wrote:
Quote:other Central Powers groups?That would be the Austro-Hungarians. They go Hansa-Brandenburg D I, promotable to Oeffag/Phonix/Berg. Only two groups.
Ok,
The group changes, including the Austro-Hungarian changes are in place. Thanks again for reviewing these.
Dan
Do you mean each of the following shown below?
Alien wrote:
Quote:6b)C type two seater pilot. Promotes to 6c.
6c)CL/J type two seater pilot.
6d) C type two seater observer. Promotes to 6e.
6e) CL/J type two seater observer.
6f) Seaplane pilot.
6g) Seaplane observer.I’ll get back to you later on the Allied changes.
dan wrote:
Quote:Do you mean each of the following shown below?Alien wrote:
Quote:6b)C type two seater pilot. Promotes to 6c.
6c)CL/J type two seater pilot.
6d) C type two seater observer. Promotes to 6e.
6e) CL/J type two seater observer.
6f) Seaplane pilot.
6g) Seaplane observer.I’ll get back to you later on the Allied changes.
No, The A-H has only one generic two-seater group.
Alien wrote:I’ll get back to you later on the Allied changes.I didn’t intend it to be quite this much later!
Brits
Ni 17/27
D.H. 2/F.E. 8/Morane-Saulnier N
D.H. 5/S.E. 5
S.E. 5a
Sop. Pup (RFC)
Sop. Pup/Sop. Tripe (RNAS)
Camel/Snipe
SPAD VII/XIII
Sop. Dolphin
F.E. 2 b/d Pilot
Bristol F.2b Pilot
D.H. 4/9/9a Pilot
Sopwith 1 1/2 Pilot
Two-Seater Pilot
Seaplane Pilot
also Observers for all the above.If you want to take a short-cut for the Brits, just add the DH 2/FE 8/M-S N, the generic two-seater crew, and the seaplane crew.
Americans
Nieuport 27/28/SPAD VII
SPAD XIII
Sop. Camel
Two-Seater Pilot
Seaplane Pilot
Observers for each of the above.I’ll get back to you with the rest of the allies and it won’t take nearly as long. Honest!
Alien wrote:I’ll get back to you with the rest of the allies and it won’t take nearly as long. Honest!Belgians
Ni. 11/17
SPAD VII/XII/ Hanriot/Camel
Two-seater Pilot
Two-Seater ObserverFrench
Ni. 11/17/27
SPAD VII
SPAD XIII
Two-seater Pilot
Two-Seater Observer
Seaplane Pilot
Seaplane ObserverItalian
Hanriot/Ni. 11/17/27
SPAD VII/XIII
Two-seater Pilot
Two-Seater Observer
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