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Left it out on purpose, WTD is not too important I would say, no nice shelter loops or anything. Forgot the other ones. Thought about Erding briefly. I’m honest, as a tornado guy for me it’s mostly about ETSM and ETSL, ETSN would be cool for the Phantom as well. Laupheim is a nice base as well.

I took another look at all the bigger airbases yesterday and have to say that I strongly suggest to at least include the „big“/„obvious“ missing German fast jet airbases in the south: Neuburg (JG 74) Lechfeld (JaBoG 32) Memmingen (JaBoG 34) Then I know, there are more in that same area to add: Fürstenfeldbruck (JaBoG 49) Penzing/Landsberg (LTG 62) Laupheim Probably forgot more obvious ones, sorry. One reason: the most southern airbases that have the classic Germany shelter and airfield layout instead of the US style shelter and layouts are Büchel and Pferdsfeld. If you want to fly GAF style, everything else suitable is to the north. And the map is called CW Germany for a reason, isn’t it? I wouldn’t care if they would actually be right at the edge of the low res area or even outside and just have hi res corridors. Also don’t care about the big cities in that area to be honest. Plus our lovely reference Nado comes from Memmingen, so I have to say another: pretty please

I agree 100% with you without limitation. I know the pain about the yak and all that. I’ve always wanted to teach people the principles of pitch and power, VFR navigation, and everything before jumping into a jet. I’ve met so many DCS newbies that would benefit so much of learning flying from scratch, but as you said, they don’t want to “waste” the time, they want to fire mavericks right away, which we have to accept. It is what it is. And I would really wish that at least all the (in our case German) milsim and semi-milsim squadrons would cooperate to offer a more advanced training for the nieche people like us, people who would be weird enough doing such a training. Let me think: BFT/IFT: Basic Flight Training/Initial flight training. In the past (my dad) did it on the Piaggio P.149, the famous “Piggy”, nowadays the LW does it together with the Lufthansa on the Grob 120A I think. You would learn how to fly, like in a PPL. BQT: Basic Qualification Training. Not sure how it’s done today. Learning curve is turning up sharply and you would fly a jet trainer of some sorts. My dad did this on the T-37, not sure if the Alphajet was used for this. But yea, something like the C-101, MB-339,…T-45 for the navy maybe? IFF: Introduction to fighter fundamentals. Learn how to fly a fast jet and fly formation in it, do all things at the same time, do them precise, fast and correct, and all that. T-38 would the thing to do it for most of us I guess, almost any western air force style at least. B-Course: Learn to fly the thing of the squadron you’re joining. To the people more knowledgeable than me: sorry for the very basic explanation. I’m not an expert myself. Was just meant as a rough outline. Before anyone starts to rant It might include several mistakes.

Some people: it’s called NTTR, which is on the map, it’s complete, no discussion. Meanwhile DCS: Syria has also parts of Turkey, Cyprus, Isreal on it. Is it over-complete then? Or even illegal? And is it forbidden then to add (example) South Georgia and the south sandwich island or parts of Brazil, etc. to the Falkland’s map? I guess it would explode… Seems like adding airbases to the NTTR would actually hurt people. I think some people would actually also pay for an update, now that we also lost a modern training map project, the Australia North End map, didn’t we?

I know it’s outside the yellow line, but LIED (Decimomannu) pretty please For our Nado and the F-104 guys

Did anyone try to add R-27 on the center pylons? Or the fuel tanks? in order to extend the Range and still have 2x fox1 and 2x fox2.

Thanks mate, although we’re not using the Hornet for NAVY purpose, but will go for the Typhoon when it drops. We are doing RCAF Germany style field ops in EDAM. EDAL is sadly not in yet.

Interesting thoughts. I’ll give the 101 and maybe the 339 another go. My boys and me are mostly doing/trying milsim if anything. Ideally I would like to offer the whole lot (again), BFT/IFT on the YaK, BQT on the 101 or 339, IFF would be 100% on the F1BE for me (it’s just so much better suited for training than the F-5, in any regard), and then the B-Course on anything. ATM we’re doing a B-Course on the Hornet. But having resources for the whole lot is so difficult. I offered an IFT some years ago on the YaK, but instructors are rare, I did mostly everything alone and people went away after some BQT sorties on the 101, as I had to jump between the yak and the vacuum cleaner. Plus multi crew sync was really s… for years in the Yak. That much in terms of complete vs patched vs abandoned… We tried the 339 two tears ago. They took ages to fix bugs as well. We kept using the 101 then. Maybe we should do a GT, lets ask @OPEC again XD.

Just checked it, thanks. Was hoping the 339 is also patched regularly, didn’t check too far into the past.

Did anyone keep track which of the trainers (MB-339, C-101, L-39, Yak-52) is at least patched on a regular basis? To me it seems like all those “side” aircraft are abandoned more or less. But to be honest I also always forget to pay attention to them when I read the patch notes. Edit: Going back the last couple of patches, seems like the C-101 is still updated on a regular basis: DCS 2.9.19.13478, DCS 2.9.18.12722, DCS 2.9.17.11733 The Yak got a little fix as well once: DCS 2.9.17.12034

Was wondering since the release, who's idea the map icon was. It's mostly a US and USSR flag icon. The german flags are pretty tiny...

Was there. Was pretty cool. YES!

I think so as well. It all depends on so many factors, but in general I think the ED coders know their code, classes, etc pretty well. Also the CH-47 is at least system wise not as complex as an Apache, Hornet or Viper, and at least in the widest understanding in terms of modeling for DCS uses similar code etc. Then there is the FM but that is different for everything... In general I also think less complex modules like the WW2 birds took not as long as the complex ones, and they also got faster if I think about the Mossie for example. By now it's their 5th helicopter and I think they know what they are doing. Could still be 5 years out if they only have one guy sitting on it, in the end it is just speculation. What if it is 25 month out. Will you buy it then only one day later? Or not at all?

The kings are helping us to understand. How honored we can be. Lovely how much you care. And so professional... Ah sorry, forgot you said it is not your job, I guess I imagined the rest then.

I also didn't hear of particular good bombing equipment in the 104G.