El Hadji

Here is a good example of a road base belonging to F7 (home of the only airworthy AJ37) along Route 44 between Trollhättan and Lidköping. As you can see quite clearly, the road shoulders widens pretty much to provide some space. You can also notice roads very similar to taxiways in both ends (they are in fact taxiways...).

"Viltpeglar" (wildlife mirrors) or "Viltreflektorer" (wildlife reflectors) are black and white plastic posts (that breaks easily if you hit it to prevent injuries) with cats eyes on them. These are placed along the road sides to scare moose and deer away when car lights hit them (you know we always drive with lights on i Sweden). They are also good for seeing the road edges in bad light conditions. On the left hand side there are two circular reflectors and on the right hand side a rectangular. The UK variant wouldn't work here because of the snow. Carriageways does not have these and they are only used on "A roads" as you call them on the island. :)

It was in NAV mode. That was the first thing I checked. Also the WP deviation marker didn't move properly but that also works now. It was probably some sort of hickup since it works now. When I tried it the first time it was by previewing the mission from the ME. When I loaded it as a mission from the main menu everything worked, so it is possibly a DCS glitch and not a M2K glitch...

The road bases are easy to identify when you drive: First of all the roads are wider on those sections. There are also NO roadsigns and "viltspeglarna" (is there a English word for this?) are much shorter (only a few decimeters).

Funny... When I loaded the mission again it worked. Must have been a glitch. What was your theory about the HSI?

I made a simple instrument flying mission with four waypoints set in the editor. I can switch between the waypoints (using "next") and the distance to each waypoint changes in the HUD. But the bearing marker to the next WP doesn't move no matter how I point the nose. Is this a bug/not implemented yet or am I doing something wrong?

I have Win 7/64 on my gaming rig and both Win 8 and Win 10 on my work machines. I won't update my gaming rig until someone either points a gun to my head or Dx12 becomes mandatory. Win 8 is the WORST invention since Subprime Mortgages and Win 10 isn't far behind.

Noticed this as well...

Did you try lowering the seat?

I needed to invert both brake axis for L/R brakes and rudder rudder axis since they operated the wrong way by default. I am using MFG Crosswind V2 pedals. EDIT: When I wrote my post I had only tried it in 1.5. I mapped everything from scratch in 2.0 as well and I had the same issue.

Multi-crew would be nice for the 87. Regardless, it is a instabuy for me!

I fell for the hype here on X-mas eve... Bring it on already! :)

Merry X-mas to the Leatherneck crew and all fellow DCS pilots! AJ37 Viggens from F15 Söderhamn in X-mas tree formation 1996:

I have to agree with the "Stern von Afrika" here... Yes, this is a niche market. Yes, teams are small. Yes, development of modules is complex and takes time. Yes, ED took over a mess from Kickstarter. I don't have a problem with any of that. What I do have a problem with is the lack of information and the inabilty to keep deadlines. If deadlines can't be kept, INFORM us about it before everyone realises this by themselves. Have a look at the pinned DCS WW2 FAQ: I know these were all estimates and I fully understand ED took over a complete mess. But please, keep us INFORMED. Some level of transparency won't hurt if you ask me. If ED is working on the Normandy map - show us some teasers just like they did/do with Nevada. If all hours are being put into making a release candidate of Nevada - let us know. My two cents...

It was THE first using a onboard computer with integrated circuits. Not bad either. :music_whistling:

Viggens over the desert? Nah... Give me a Swedish map and I will be happy.

Wouldn't it be simpler to just upgrade the OS? I mean XP isn't exactly new...

Interesting! Thanx! Did you know that the first prototypes were built in Sweden to bypass the Versaille treaty?

For what it is worth, I know that Cobra has been ill for quite some time. LNS is a small developer and having their "voice" hospitalised will have an effect... Unfortunatly delays and postponed announcements seems to be very common in the DCS World. But in this case I am willing to cut the devs some slack...

I hesitated for a long time just like you simo1000rr for the same reasons but I'd say that the price of the Crosswinds is a about spot on for what you get for the money. Yes, they are expensive just like the TM HOTAS Warthog but they are also very good. Customizable, precise and sturdy. Well worth the pricetag and I don't regret getting them.

Yup... And as you can see here Sweden helped Soviets in distress as well (inside a Swedish military restriced area :D ).

No I haven't yet but it is definatly on my to-do list!

I'm not sure how old you are or if you remember it well, but "international law" was not that relevant during the Cold War in the Baltic area. The fishing vessels in this case WERE fishing vessels but the Soviet navy didn't care much about that. There are some 19 Swedish vessels missing or found drifting without crew after 1948 where Soviet involvement was likely. In September 1991 the Soviet foreign minister Boris Pankin visited Stockholm after a decision to make the frosty Stockholm-Moscow realtion better by the leaders in the Kremlin. Pankin explained Moscow's wish to help Sweden bring clarity to the issue with missing sailors. A month later the Swedish ambassador in Moscow, Örjan Berner, handed over a classified list of missing vessels and crews. Most of them went missing in the 50's and 60's but not all. With that said, Sweden DID spy on the Soviet union both for our own military intelligence and for NATO. The most known case here is probably the Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 in the 50's. A Catalina sent out to look for the missing DC-3 was also shot down by a MiG. But the missing commercial and fishing vessels were not spy ships. So with that background I think the response to the incident I described was more than rational.

I know for a fact that fully armed JA37's came close to Polish borders (and possibly went across...) on at least one occasion: A Swedish fishing vessel with engine problems sent a distress signal and was drifting towards Gdynia (or somewhere close). Another Swedish fishing vessel steamed there and towed the stricken boat towards international waters. In the meantime a Warsaw pact navy vessel (most likely Soviet) raced towards them. Two JA37's was sent out to show force against the Warsaw pact patrol boat who then backed off. I know this since my friend flew one of the planes. The reason they sent the JA's was that they were already in the air south of Gotland when the request for assistance came.

Great info Spiken! Rep inbound! EDIT: I might add that most of the info I share here, unless quoted from other sources, comes from three main sources: the first is a friend of mine who was a Viggen pilot (JA37) during the Cold War. Secondly I did my military service 1990/91 on the northern part of the Swedish Baltic coast (not Airforce though but we saw/heard quite a lot...). The third source is from when I worked for Volvo Aero Corporation (formerly Svenska Flygmotor and Volvo Flygmotor. Today the company name is GKN Aerospace) who made the RM8 engines for SAAB. One of my collegues there had vast experience of Viggen operations during the 70's and 80's. When I worked there, RM12 was in production but they still did some overhauls etc on the RM8. The plant has a pretty unique facility to conduct simulated high altitude jet engine tests (one of the, if not THE, first test facilities of this kind in the world).