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This is somehow similar how we do FMS Non precission approaches in real life (VOR, NDB), The FMS/MCDU calculates an standar glideslope for a non precission approach using the aproach published data on the FMS. Actually the aircraft flies itr nicely and it is approved for approach. However in real life the sistem provides and does all calculations including following the published approach lateral navigation route. You can even reproduce the same published non precission approach on the CDU creating a flight plan with the approach plate and doing as it is detailled on this document about the 3D VNAV for the approach points. This way you could fly safely full published approach plates even those non precission approach ones. Anyway this is a great implementation here for the A-10C. Nice document. ;) ;) ;)

I am in need for a mission to have the Georgia Railway Timetable for DCS A-10 including Tblisi area and so. I have 666th_birdy awesom timetable for Flaming Cliffs that works quite good in russian soil and the very small Georgian territory avalaible on Flaming Cliffs. however I would need to know the timetable for trains in central Georgia, specially in Tblisi area. Since I have no clue where 666th_birdy got that information to create his excellent timetable, I cannot do the job for the rest of the scenario. Any tip, idea or suggestion would be most appreciated. Would ED kindly produce a train tiemtable for mission creators? :thumbup:

Just did this this video to fit into this great music. Watch it in Youtube in HD and turn on the speakers. Enjoy!! :joystick: Also to show that at low level and in appropiate terrain, the A-10C can defend itself pretty well :pilotfly:

What type of helicopter you use there? Does it has the equipment for" FACing"

I did as well :spam_laser:

I have made public my template with all NavAids and waypoints in Georgian Air space (107 items) for using on the A-10C CDU. You will find more info here http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=69880 Enjoy :thumbup:

Empty scenario that contains up to 107 real life navigation waypoints for Georgia already added to your CDU on any mission created over this template mission. It includes: All relevant waypoints for the IFR approaches of Batumi UGSB, Tiblisi-Lochini UGTB, Kopitnari/Kutaisi UGKO. Includes also all VFR entry and departure points for those airports. It also includes all published RNAV points for the Lower and Upper Routes inside Georgia airspace. The waypoints are named as in real life and those Radio Navigation Stations are named after their indicative. From now on and using real life charts you can use to the maximum your CDU, creating SID, route flight plans, STARS and even some IFR approaches. Open this mission on your mission editor and create your own mission on top of it. You will observe many navigation points on it but not all of them. For some reason, you cannot visualize all the stored waypoints on the map, but they are there. I promise you :music_whistling: Do not delete those points or they will be lost on your CDU database. This template works for singleplayer and multiplayer missions. Just "Save as" with a different name after adding your vehicles and aircrafts. You will observe in some airports and charts that waypoints are slightly displaced from their real life location. I have used that actual real life coordinates but for some reason there is some slight difference between RL and DCS Caucasus map, no really much but noticiable enough if you look closer. To make use of it, it is very simple. Imagine you want to fly the Tbilisi-Lochini VOR apporach, but we all know that there are no VOR on the actual scenario. Go to your CDU and select as steerpoint the TBS/DVOR and you have now on your HSI, bearing and distance to that station. If you like it more complex, before take off, take your real life charts and create a new flight plan on your CDU containing the SID, route, STAR and IFR approach waypoints for your flight. :pilotfly: Soon to be available on the User created downloads page (I hope) On the meantime you can get it from here. I hope to release soon the "Russian side" of the Caucasus scenario Airnav Template.miz

Yeah!! that would add a lot of inmersion and would be just great to have. Same as having the pilot actually walking towards the aircraft and climbing into it. We already have the option of a "walking" pilot. Would be just awesome to be able to make a "walk around" for preflighting the aircraft before climbing and "strapping" on it. Little details that make a great inmersion difference. ;)

Looking forward to the new version. I am really missing TARS on the A-10 now :(

The procedure it not as important as the outcome :thumbup: As long as the weather "changes" in a realistical way and we have the possibility to know or forecast, wind, temperature, visibility and precipitation, all is good for me :D:D

Realistic it is as long as the system does not allow to insert absurd situations like snow and winter in one airport and the other with summer warm. Easily fixed. So if you select an Autum scenario, you can have autum weather only. Of course in Autumm you can have in one airport a CAVU condition while another 70 NM away is having fog and rain. Just like in real life. I fly helicopters for living and most of the time for short and middle flights we use Enroute Metars and TAFOR instead just Pressure Charts. Having a Low somewhere does not tell you what kind of weather you are going to find since this is determined by many other factors such temperature, moist, convectivity.................. So only Pressure information is not enough to gather reliable aeronautical data. Take a look at this page for instance: http://www.allmetsat.com/es/metar-taf/espana-portugal.php?icao=LEPA Every red button on the map is an aeronautical weather station giving you METAR and TAFOR. Explore the different airports or even move the map to another country and see how this could be implemented in minnor scale into DCS A-10C scenario. And see that while in one airport is CAVOK, another just 30NM away has rain and low visibility. When I am planning a mission, I need to know the departure, enroute and destination weather data and the actual Dynamic system des not provide information neither in visibility, ceiling, SIGMET or anything alike. Hard to plan a realistic mission with such few data.

I understand the complexity of creating a truly dynamic weather engine, however maybe you should take a look at the approach I propossed above, that is mission creators have the option to set the weather in at least 3 different airports in one single mission, so for instance I make Batumi clear weather, Gudauta with an overcast and wind and Anapa with thunderstom. The weather is created around those airports and in a large area around. This way a pilot flying from Batumi in clear skies, would find clouds and deteriorating weather while passing Gudauta to find a developed thunderstorm over Anapa. This will allow us to set the specifi weather we do need for missions while at the same time it is "dynamic enough" and most important "predictable" Just give us the options to select 3 or 4 airports per mission or maybe more (like if they were METAR stations) so mission creators could place different weather conditions on each of them using the same tool you have now for "Standar Weather" but independent for some airports. I think this would give a lot of possibilities to the mission creators without having to force ED to create a full weather editor. And will give pilots predictable and changing weather. Just my two cents :)

We are already doing some flying like this and we are having a lot of fun with it. http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1132803&postcount=2861 :thumbup:

By the way. What about the possibility of being able to create specific weather for specific airports, so for instance in Batumi we have CAVOK conditions but in Anapa we have thunderstorms. Would be a useful way to have "dynamic" weather but predictable ;)

This is one of the reasons I am not using Dynamic weather on my missions much often. Not only because I cannot control to some extent the conditions I need for the mission, but mostly because I cannot forecast what condition I will find at TGT area or airport destination. While the whole concept of dynamic weather is awesome and extremely interesant, we should have some way to control it a bit more deeper and most importat to have information about its effects on the map before we do launch the mission. Now it is more like a meteorlogical "flip the coin" issue. Anyway I am happy having that option but for detailled mission planning we do need more access and information about the Dynamic weather option

Yeah!! this is very nice to have. If the annimations and graphics are already on the sim. Why not to make use of them easily. I would love to have the aircraft like this when stepping in cockpit. Please ED, give us this sweet !! ;)

LOL, I will post the scenario template as soon as I have it fully ready. I am including airways waypoints as well. You will need the actual charts to make full use of it.

Here are some screenies of one of our Squadron flights. We are using our own squadron training skins (Made by ESA_Lipe) Pictures made by ESA_Birdman. Myself struggling on the boom :pilotfly: The camera really loves this sim :thumbup: Hope you like them.

I always turn it on with right mouse button going directly to TK instead DF, but it does not work for me. It is a pity since it worked real nice and easy before the final release. :( I hope they fix it

I have not seen a single NDB station on the DCS A-10C scenario in Caucasus. Only TACAN and only in some selected Georgian Airports. And sadly no located where the actual VORTAC stations are in the real life so they serve not for IFR approaches since all the bearings and ranges do not correspond to the published ones in RL plates However in order to fly IFR I have found a nice method to replicate NDB. Simply create a Navigation point on the editor on the exact possition of the RL NDB station, you can even name it the same as it RL counterpart. Select it as Steerpoint and you can use you CDI or RMI on your HSI to fly the needle and bearings. Actually I am populating an empty scenario with all the relevant air navigation watpoints VFR and IFR (IAF, IF, STAR and SID.....) as well all the relevant waypoints related to the construction of slected approaches ILS and VOR or NDB. With this done, I use this template to create on top all new scenarios I am flying and this way I have my CDU all the nav data I need to fly any approach or route. Just like the Honewell MCDU I use at work. ;) Well the A-10 des not build and fly the approaches, but if you have the plates, you can simply create an "approach" flight plan on your CDU using the previously stores relevant Nav points on your CDU. So if you are fliying in the soup and have to land in Batumi, simply create a new flight plan to NEDEK for the STAR arrival , from there go to the IAF that can be LU (An NDB) and fly the approach, fly over AKAIKI, the IAF, pass the FAP and there you are flying your ILS needles :smartass: I already have Batumi, Kutaisi and Lochini.

Thanks for the Tip Chokko. Me and my colleagues have been unable to use the Preset frequencies since Final Release. It worked beautifully in the previous Betas and we made extensive use of them so you can say we are able to to use it, but since Final release and also with the latest patch, we have been unable to use them. I will try the "SLOW" mode and hope that it works. When you say "PAUSE" in your post. How long is this supposed to be. 10 secs? 30 secs? 1 minute ? Thanks!!

And where is the "popular Fixed-Wing" rating list? Popular to simmers? Popular to military brass? Popular to the pilots Popular to the maintenance crews? popular to the rifleman on the ground? I guess each of this groups would have a very different "popular" favourite. The key would be to know from wich list is he drawing his conclusions. ;)

Lately me and my colleagues are experiencing some strange behaviour related to the snapviews. While in some scenarios, the snapviews are nice ones for instance the full CDU, in other MP flights we all experience that for instacnce the snapviews have changed to what it was Beta 1 with only half CDU shown. We do use the stock snapviews, having changed nothing here so far. As I said the puzzling thing is that sometimes when using the snapviews you get one view and the next time you play you get another different for the same key command. Has anybody experienced something like this? Can this be related to be using MP scenarios created with Beta 4 and adapted with Final release?

Well, it is not on the poll, but I would love to have the AV-8B Harrier. I think it would be not difficult to implement and development time would be much shorter than creating a new platform and systems from scratch since the AV8-B have many common systems and weapons with the A-10C. This aircraft would allow us to have carrier Ops and a lot of fun. And it is a subsonic one. The "tinny" scenario of the Caucasus we have now would be really small for Mach 2 aircraft :P A lot of docs have been recently declassified about this aircraft. VTOL, STOL... would be real fun and challenging :pilotfly:

Most Thanks!!! Works real fine :thumbup: