You all know who Roy Brown, right. He traveled to Dayton OH (Wright Brothers' school) with 3 others (all became aces) from Carleton Place Ont to take lessons. They had to pay for their own flying lessons at $1 per hour. It cost him $249 (ground and air) to get his private pilot license (pilot's certificate Number 361) in Dayton OH.

The RFC/RNAS was only accepting trained pilots at the time.

To put the cost in perspective, beef, depending on the cut, was $.05 to $.10 a pound at the time.

Amen to that.


Al Schlageter, to put the cost even further into perspective, I still have my Grandfather's notes from his officer and pilot training. Part of that covers army pay and army law.

In 1917 (when he was in training) a private in the RFC earned 1d (a shilling) per day. In decimal currency a shilling was worth approximately 5p (pence). A Sgt Major earmed the princely sum of 5d per day (25p). This being before overseas allowances and any other payments.

Obviously an officer earned considerably more than that, but all the same, it was a massive outlay for the individual from his wage.

Sorry - 1d is one old penny, twelve of which equalled 1 shilling (1/-), twenty of which equalled one pound (£1)
£.s.d (which dates from the Roman occupation) means Libra, solidus and denarii.

One old penny has almost no value in decimal terms.

Brando, of course you're quite right. My apologies. I got my abbreviations wrong. To clarify it was a shilling a day for a private, not an old penny.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Pfft...pansy..."Sorry,my machine gun jammed. I quit."


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wow i wished they made games like that

Jaws2002, please don't cast aspersions. :-P If I'd had a pistol, I'd have used it - I've been known to shoot at low-flying H.P. O-400s from the ground, with my Colt. And have them crash afterwards (admittedly this was after we'd exchanged bullets, I'd set one of the O-400s engines alight, and he'd forced me to dead-stick back on the airfield. And come to think of it, the flak may have dented it a bit too. But I definitely fired in its general direction. And it definitely crashed... ;))

I think the consensus on the multiplayer servers is that the Colt is most useful for shooting your own gunner. There is nothing more annoying than to have some idiot join you as gunner, and then start shooting at the wings or something. Rather than just giving them the boot, a full clip emptied into them is far more effective in getting the message across, and much more satisfying too...

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Ok, after a few days with ROF i am totally in love. It takes me straight back to the old Amiga times and the game Wings :D

But i have no clue about these old planes so i would like some tips on which of the planes are the best in combat?

Would like to know which plane from each side so to speak because i have no clue which ones that should be a must have :)


Thanks to you all for your great help so far.

I was in the same position of not knowing too much about WW1 aircraft. I found this useful page on the ROF site:

http://riseofflight.com/forum/viewto...p?f=49&t=26651

Gives a very brief intro to everything that's available. (focus is on their usefulness for multiplayer, but a useful intro all the same)