Cliffhanger31

I’ll always rep for a new airfield. Northolt would be great!

Great work @DD_Fenrir! I agree that all 75 is likely not possible for several reasons. However in my opinion adding the airfields of the 2nd TAF, 9th USAAF, and a few of the ADGB airfields to the map would allow for endless mission/campaign creation for a variety of different aircraft. These organizations account for the majority of air power that operated over the Normandy area in the summer of 1944. Thus, I believe they offer the best gameplay possibilities compared to airfields that would only offer novelty missions such as Airborne, Photo Recon, or transport.

Great map Fred! I thought I would add this map of 9th USAAF bases in the Southern UK. Taken together these maps detail the locations of all the important airfields in the region during 1944.

North Weald would be a great addition! Very historic and important.

Couldn’t agree more @Fred901. Like Spuks mentioned, airfields are where we spend the majority of our time on the ground, and they deserve as much attention to detail as other landmarks on the map. Thanks to Fred’s excellent thread here, the burden of research is almost entirely lifted.

I’m actually very impressed with Normandy 2.0, it is by far the best WWII map ever created for a flight sim. There are a few issues that need addressing, including Creil, Odiham, Poix, Amiens, and Conches, but I think these are just early access problems. The devs have shown they are willing to tweak airfields to make them correct, for example Villacoublay, Orly, and Cormellies are spectacular.

Yeah maybe it’s just an early access issue and they will continue to improve the airfields moving forward. We’ll see

Ahh yes I meant to say that Conches and Odiham don’t have the same number of runways, at least in the way Conches is represented in the game. Even still, Creil is the one that needs to be fixed the most because it’s not even a wartime airfield layout, the whole airfield is modeled as it looks in the present day.

Yes I’ve noticed that many of the airfields are “copy-pasted”. For example Beauvais-Tille and Amiens-Glisy are the exact same airfield. Similarly, Odiham is just Conches copied and pasted into England which is really disappointing because it looks nothing like a wartime RAF base and they don’t even have the same number of runways! Poix is also exactly the same as Evreux. I hope they can bring all of these airfields up to the same standards as Villacoublay and Cormellies which are both excellent representations of the real airfields during the war.

Creil airfield as it currently modeled on the Normandy 2.0 map appears in a modern NATO era configuration instead of its wartime layout. Below is a photo of Creil from 1944 followed by a current Google Earth image of the airfield.

It’s not completely outside of the high detail area, seeing as Dieppe is in included in high detail the cliffs should definitely be added as well.

I would just like to congratulate the folks at Ugra for creating a truly outstanding map which is certainly the most realistic WWII terrain ever made. Can’t wait to experience it!

The only exception to the “no-foliage” rule would be the ALGs which by their nature were temporary and thus the surrounding terrain was not extensively cleared. St Pierre Du Mont for example has many aircraft dispersals in the surrounding hedgerows.

Looks great! Is there any chance we’re still getting RAF Thorney Island @MAESTR0? It was announced earlier in this thread but I don’t see it on the list anymore. It would be great to have as it was a very important base and landmark during the Normandy campaign.

These liveries are fantastic and are far superior to the ones included in the base game historically and graphically. I know download size is a concern when adding new skins to an aircraft but if that’s the case I would be 100% in favor of replacing all of the A8 skins with the one created by Magic Zach.