ChillNG

I'm a big fan of the 'Osprey combat aircraft' series of books, there's loads like 'F-16 units of Operation Iraqi Freedom', all sorts of variations of aircraft/campaigns. They give lots of first hand accounts of combat operations, mission types, load-outs etc. Always my starting point for aircraft research. There's load of other good aircraft specific books as well, if you've got a particular aircraft in mind let me know and I'll check what I've got on the shelf and give you some good pointers. 'DEBRIEF: A Complete History of U.S. Aerial Engagements - 1981 to the Present' is really good for air to air, provides detailed talk-through of every air to air kill made by the US post Vietnam to when it was published after Allied Force. Amount of detail varies by kill and the writing style of the author but there's some great info in there. I also read lots around the geo-political setup as well, be it China, Syria, or the middle-east in general. I can recommend some from here if you want them. Helps add to the story telling. Finally podcasts are helpful as well, don't tend to get many facts that aren't in the books already, but you get a lot of 'character' from these. Be it anecdotes, insights into culture, personality etc and I often find the odd nugget in these that I can bring into a campaign. I've listened to Fighter Pilot Podcast, Afterburner Podcast, I'm a huge admirer of 10 percent True and love the detail they go into. Just started listening to Authentic as well on spotify, it's a paid subscription for that but so far have found the content to be detailed and excellent. Hope all that helps! Like I said above, if you want more specifics then let me know what exactly and I'll see what I've got in the old library .

Yep lots and lots of reading, and podcasts as well. Plus a little bit of imagination/guess work when required. Happy to offer up any recommendations for books if you need them.

No it's nothing scripted by the campaign, guessing you're making an error unless there's something changed with the Hornet.

Must be doing something wrong, I've not seen any issues with it. Are you waiting to turn your data link/mids on, can't remember the exact requirements but I don't turn on till my ins is aligned and that always works ok.

Yeah that should be fine, ATFLIR should have no impact.

Wingman comms should be added once the SA-15s are dead and providing the UHF radio is set to the flight freq of 260, note that as per the campaign instructions the UHF freqs should be done through the old UHF radio not the new ARC-210 radio. To complete the Silk Worm task simply choose the option from the F10 radio menu, but for full completion kill the radar and all the launchers. Hope that helps!

Should be fixed on today's update as well

Campaign Updates 15/10/24 Operation Persian Freedom Mission 11 - Added fail-safe to Forge 3 egress. First In Weasels Over Syria Updates to fix changes to Syria map. Operation Cerberus North Updates to fix changes to Syria map.

Hmm any mods active? For me it starts it's takeoff roll almost straight away as usual, plus it takes off runway 28 not runway 10.

Still having no luck reproducing, but I've adjusted the trigger anyway to have less variables so hopefully this will help.

Just checked, C-17 took off ok. There was another one parked on the ramp but it's far enough off the runway to not be a factor. If anyone else see's the same issue please post here and I'll look again.

Ok thanks, I'll take another look at it.

Ok thanks I'll take a look.

Mission start or mission end?

No shouldn't be invincible, at least not set that way. I'll run some checks.

Thanks very much for the detailed feedback, that was great to hear. Hopefully you'll like part 2 even more!

Nice one, good to hear!

Yeah the Syria map has had a load of changes made on the last update, this being one of the more ridiculous ones. I'm putting in my own fix for the next update but hopefully Ugra will fix as well.

Did re-arm complete ok? Not something I've come across before.

Campaign Updates 30/09/24 Operation Cerberus North: Mission 5 - Amended Newt behavior in SAR task. Mission 11 - Added unlimited fuel and allow afterburner to prevent AI getting too slow. The Kerman Campaign: Mission 9 - Updates to aim of AI gunners. Mission 10 - Stopped AI dying by falling through scenery and causing mission failure. Operation Persian Freedom: Mission 3 - Moved Whiplash closer to player location to reduce comms static. Mission 15 - Removed now redundant script. Mission 16 - Campaign Epilogue not audible - fixed.

Fingers crossed the new patch is hopefully going to help quite a bit.

I'll refly it and see, maybe their behaviour needs a tweak. Thanks for the report.

No not an issue I've heard of before, must be a problem at your end.

No, there is no moose or mist present in any of my campaigns.

Thanks for the post, it is a problem we've all been aware of since that patch hit performance pretty hard. ED to be fair have been listening from day 1 and I as Scott said have been working hard to fix. Hopefully we'll see improvements soon.