Brit_Radar_Dude

That was a super vid. So simple, just showing stuff going on around the airbase, yet it really brought home what flying online is about......

Sweet.....

No not possible. ED said a long time ago when BS came out that the Crimea map area had to be sacrificed to make space for the extra Georgia area. Since FC2 is fundamentally FC1 ported to the BS world then the same rationale applies..... I'll miss Crimea too. Lots of interesting coastal inlets, islands and bridges in the North plus all the sites of historical interest....

Read the William L. Smallwood book WARTHOG : Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War ISBN 0-02-881123-2 for a great insight into A-10 tactics (day and night). No NVG's (the aircraft had not been tweaked for NVG use), only flares and Mavericks. They had been taught in training "Do NOT use IR Mav's to search for targets at night" as you will end up flying straight and level with your head inside the pit and thus be vulnerable to SAM/AAA. But in Desert Storm they ignored that. Seems that if they were above about 5,000ft they could not be heard by enemy troops on the ground. Unless the enemy were using radar (and thus likely to get HARM'ed) they were pretty safe at night. The issue with using NVG's in an aircraft is that the brightness of the dashboard lights in your cockpit need to be altered to be much dimmer so they don't blind you when you are using the goggles. A-10 pilots were initially reluctant to be tasked to night flying, they thought they would be much more vulnerable. As it turned out they were safer, not a single A-10 was lost on night missions.

One thing to think about regarding the Mission Designer "forcing" you to use particular payloads is that he is simulating supply problems. You might have to use certain bombs or rockets because your airbase has nothing else to give you......

Change the heading that the radar unit is facing. Defaults to facing North as far as I remember.

This should not be taken as any kind of hit against the educational standard of personnel operating the system. Simplicity of operation is a sensible concept to apply to any military computer system. I've worked on both military (and civilian) radar and comms systems for over 20 years - designing, writing and testing software including GUI's. Especially on military systems, you have to always be aware that the guy operating it might not be in an office environment. He might be stressed, tired, cold, hot, dehydrated, scared, etc. He might be physically struggling - wearing NBC gear, perhaps having to press the keys with a pencil because he is wearing gloves, etc, etc, etc.... Making the system as easy as possible to operate makes sense and, if you can make the job that the operator is doing that tiny bit easier, he'll thank you for it.

http://www.lockonfiles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8435 Lanzfeld, see my post in answer to your same question on LockonFiles regarding arty ranges plus a bunch of other Mission Editor related stuff I thought you would want to know...

Now we're cooking! Nice job Aero.....

I'm afraid so, Lanzfeld....... I've spend countless hours over the last 7 years with the Mission Editor trying to make the AI do what I wanted. In the end I had to accept that they will simply dump their bombs when fired at by a SAM to increase their chances of shaking it off. I guess in real life, I'd do the same! But at the same time they will sometimes do cannon runs when I dont want them to. Go figure... If the AI think they can climb above AAA and drop from altitude, they will give that a try. Of course if they have retarded bombs they will take 3 days to actually reach the ground :)

You say you patched up LOMAC to 1.2 Do you mean you patched the vanilla LOMAC to v1.02? Or do you mean you also installed Flaming Cliffs and patched to v1.12? CNTRL/T for quick setting of neutral trim can help.

You may not like the answer, but yes this is the reason they are behaving like that.

Try Crimea at 44.39.10N, 34.02.20E

Did you mean Kirk Douglas in Heroes of Telemark? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059263

Years ago I shared a room in a Youth Hostel in Dusseldorf with a Russian guy. Once we had a drink of his vodka and my Scotch Whiskey and found out that his grandfather and my grandfather had both been tank drivers in the War, we got on OK and had a good laugh. Russians have an OK sense of humour. Finns on the other hand, what the ???? I've got friends in Finland and I know they find some stuff funny because I've seen them laughing but I just don't get where their heads are at humour-wise.

In the Sea of Azov are two pairs of platforms, Crimea Tour (waypoints 44,45,36,47) 45.36.40N 35.57.33E 45.37.20N 36.01.30E and 45.32.25N 36.26.10E 45.34.10N 36.30.00E West of Sochi is a pair of platforms, Caucasus Tour waypoint 34 43.33.35N 39.41.00E 43.32.25N 39.44.00E The three oil platforms that many folks dont know about are west of Crimea and pictured below. 45.33.50N 31.58.15E 45.21.30N 31.59.20E 45.18.00N 31.51.10E http://images5.theimagehosting.com/westernmost-oil-platforms2.JPG As for industrial complexes, the Caucasus tour will show you most of those. Read the briefing which tells you about extra industrial complexes not on the actual tour that are marked with static objects to make them easy to find. Hope this helps......

Can't seem to get on with the small rockets, I fire a few of them off at what seems like close range and the truck convoy keeps rolling. I tried the real big stuff S-24 and S-25 and they are great but you cant carry many of them. Full load of S-13 is now my preferred loadout. They seem big enough that a near miss will still kill a truck, but you can carry a bunch of them.

One vital thing for everyone to know if they've never used MODMAN to load up Mod Packs - it expects the packs to be zipped, so don't go unzipping them yourself! It does it for you.

I can remember as a child staying up till the early hours of the morning (in the UK) with my Dad. We were glued to the TV to watch Niel take that first step back in the Summer of 1969. That memory has stayed with me for life. The next 5 or 6 years for me were a roller-coaster thrill - colour pictures from the Moon, the Moon buggy, etc. It seemed that science and technology had no bounds. I always thought that I would live long enough to see a man walk on Mars. I doubt it will happen in my lifetime now.......

My understanding is that rather than produce a super detailed single aircraft Sim and basically copy Micropose's Falcon 4 approach, the Devs made a decision to model a bunch of different flyables for vanilla Lockon (7 aircraft - Su-27, Su-33, F-15, MiG-29S, A-10, Su-25, MiG-29A and within that the MiG-29A was either Russian with a Metric cockpit or West German with an Imperial cockpit, so its really 8 different aircraft). Payware addon Flaming Cliffs added yet another jet, the SU-25T. When they decided to do Blackshark, they changed back to the single airframe study Sim style - full clickable cockpit, etc. Well you can pick up the vanilla Lockon on E-bay in the US or UK for next to nothing, so why not?

To paraphrase Mel Brooks, "It's good to be the prince....."

I seem to recall with Sochi-Adler that no matter what direction of wind you set up, it always sends you in from the sea, it was only G*** that was the issue. N*** was nail bitingly close too. As for interesting landings without changing the landing direction, Gaudata is always fun if you land at night with poor vis as the lighthouse suddenly looms out of the dark at you...

True, but it does say Mode 3/A above it, so that will be Octal. Stretching my brain cells too ;) years since I worked on (civilian) Mode S radars, but my recollection of Mode S address allocation is that it is a 24 bit number (ie 6 Hex digits) and that they were to be assigned to individual airframes by the registering authority in that country, thus not cockpit changeable and it likely stayed with that aircraft for its lifetime. IguanaKing who used to be a regular on these forums worked on old style (Mark X) and mode S (Mark XII) transponders, shame he isn't still around. For any folks reading this and struggling to understand what on earth myself and Total are talking about, then this neat website might be of some use.... http://www.radartutorial.eu/index.en.html

Can you change the 0083 that is just under the HUD ? It is the mode 3/A code which of course is in Octal, so the digits can only be in the range 0-7. A minor point I know, but one that has bugged me for over 6 years.

Fun to land on some runways with ILS when you have swapped the direction of landing by using the wind direction. It is more interesting if we let you find out yourself at which air bases the ILS will try to guide you into a hill ;)