Hello all!

From time to time I visit a RB forum and see the posts from some of the family of players I once enjoyed and really do miss. I removed myself from the squad and game due to the same things some of you have experienced. New whiney players that somehow tried to change things to their own advantage while putting the screws to the veteran players who were the backbone of this game.

In the past there were many a good fight and if you played your hand right you escaped to live another day. They talk about honor in the game but I have news.. there's very few players (although) they talk the talk, they didn't walk the walk. It sickens me to read the posts by these players in these forums who resemble the plastic statements they put out.

Many great and fun players were met along the way and many a nail biting sessions were encountered from my flight chair especially in the wars. The additions that were designed for this game by players were just outstanding but some (such as the plane mods) just seemed to tear it down and turn the game into something it was not.

I remember my first time behind the stick and how I was torn out of the sky by so many, but with perseverance and practice (many hours) I developed my flying skills and tactics so that I was no longer a target but a threat.

After playing as an independent I joined the 103rd and had a ball for 2 years before leaving to help develop the Esc 48th with Tex, (alias - Lefevre XO) which lasted almost 2 years. I must say that we had one heck of a good squad for a while until all the flight models hit the game along with the cheating and lying and bickering that went along with the wars.

Yes, like so many other games there are people who just have to exploit every crack in it and ruin it for everyone else who are in it for fun and good honest competition. They find different angels to work it and ways to just take the fun away and the realistics from it.

Why the different flight models?, to juice up a plane that needs it to be competitive? Why?, the real plane was a dog and that?s the way it should react. If your a hun then live with it and do the best you can with what you've got and keep your yapper shut. The wars?, over powering the skies with DR's that weren't even there at the time to fight N-17's, common what?s fair in that? Those planes probably never met in a battle and if they did it was probably very limited.

It seems the people who put these things together are just dialing it up for themselves and you just have to swallow it or not play at all, so that?s where I drew the line, I decided (like so many others) to not play at all.

In all honesty I do miss the good times we all had and all my squadies but really don't miss all the BS and bickering that went with it. Just a matter of time before the demise of this game.

Thanks to all the good honest players that I've really had a good time with and enjoyed (you know who you are). May your skies be clear and watch your 6.

Hotrod