[robtek]

I'd like to add a short description of my last online-mission:

Yesterday 2 squadmembers and me visited the Server from III./JG27 which has a working mission system.

As a destroyer-squad we did choose Abbeville where the Erprobungsgruppe 210 is stationed, took a Bf110C-7 each and joined the battle.

With Tab and 4 we could look up if there is a mission in progress, there was none so we generated a mission with the press of a button.

"Fly a fighter sweep in sector AO17 to clear the sky for our bombers which will come from AY18 in 18 minutes."

Ok, we left the planes and switched the loadout from JaBo to fighter with 60% fuel.

Engines started, during warm up setting of the gyro, the heading indicator, the autopilot direction, the fuel-tank indicator, the flaps to 20° and the ReVi illumination on.

Taxiing to the runway, number 2 is too eager and his wingtip and number ones collide, damn, new planes and same procedure, as the time is running number three starts alone, scouting.

Number one and two are starting close thereafter, turn on course, trim for climbing and set autopilot.

After a leisurely 20 min. flight, during which the ground-control called out enemy airplanes in the target sector at "Kirchturm 1" 100m alt.,

Number three, at 5000m, calls out the "Pelikane" as a little convoy of seven medium tankers in the target area, Number one and two are 20 km away at 4000m.

Number two the calls out: 9 unknown contacts (Fragezeichen) at our 2 o'clock high, three v's. course toward target area.

Our conclusion (one and two's): Must be the bombers, enemy target should be at 100 m and are probably climbing toward the Bombers, so lets get down, with energy advantage, and get em.

Three is still shadowing the convoi in about 5000m, one dives toward the convoy and two covers one's back.

Two calls out: The "Fragezeichen"(unknown contacts) are diving now, Rear gunner calls out: enemy airplanes on our six! Tracers all around!

The nine "Bombers" are really nine Spitfires, which are really interested in my 110, like moths to the light, every time i look back i see two or three firing at me.

Small fuel leak, large fuel leak, hydraulik line broken, fuel fire in engine 1, cylinderhead burning engine one, canopy away, hanging under the chute in 200m.

During my f(l)ight the Stukas scored some hits and where escorted uneventful home by two and three.

Mission accomplished, though not the way i had imagined.

Remark to myself: Assumptions might be deadly!