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Salute, Apologies for posting this in the general GBS forum but I wanted to catch all of the Dogz that may not read the Tank Crew threads. I am now starting to think about building the mechanics and guts of the "Battle of The Bulge" missions and although the first mission is still a good number of weeks away, I wanted to get an idea of the numbers that may / could consider wanting to take part. Outside of the people listed below (who I am already including) who have been regular "Saturday Tankies", do YOU think you may want to take part? The missions will run on a Saturday evening UK time (start time approx 20:00 - 20:30hrs) and should run for a couple of hours. I am not sure for how many weeks yet but would think it will be at least 4 or 5. Even if you do not have Tank Crew, if I know you are wanting to take part and are willing to commit to leaning the controls BEFORE the actual event, (come and join us on a regular Saturday night, we will be glad to help you get set up, or message one of the guys below in your time zone, I am sure they would help) I am more than happy to plan in the free German Panzer Mk III-L for you to use. I am certainly hoping to do this tremendous moment in history justice so should be (fingers crossed) an event not to be missed (ok, I am biased, I am building it!) If you want more information or have questions to ask, check out the BOTB thread in the Tank Crew section. At the moment these are the regulars (this is not saying I EXPECT them to take part, but odds are they will be there); APHill, Sweeper, Sid, Friar, FunFlack, FT, Artie, Painless, Perfessor, Parts So if you think you are interested please post below and state if you will be wanting a free tank or have / are going to buy TANK CREW (you should by the way, it is a huge amount of fun) Regards DD_Friar

Only you FT would come up with such a suggestion!

Question: I do have Tank Crew, but can I still use the 'Free Tank' option you mentioned for this event? And if so, do I get a temporary refund? Or some compensation at least?

A little dissimilar formation flying with Fenrir, BluBear and Papabear on thursday,

Nope and I hope they don’t try and turn it into one either. For myself at the moment I seem to have lost my mojo for ‘kersplosions and shootin’. I think it’s a combination of the workload I’m under and the number of Lateral flow tests I have to take🤔. What I do really crave is a flight around the block in a Cessna or a Piper Warrior or something like that. Unfortunately all my mates who had PPL’s have either let them lapse or in one case have actually moved to Portugal in order to be able to keep flying affordably. So for myself, it’s the flying not the fighting that floats my boat atm and this thing seems to hit that spot. I originally started computer flying with my eldest son and FS95 so in a way I’ve come full circle and to be able to take to the virtual skies, over places I’m very familiar with, in aircraft I’m familiar with has been wonderful these last few months.

Relaxing landing in a Tomcat, heavy cloud, at night and in the rain.