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South West Africa Only ngreenaway has it right... Angola is the one! Or the Southern border between Namibia anyways. It has every type of terrain you could want. Desert, Jungle, Savana, mountains, flatlands and the South Atlantic to the west. It also has very few built-up areas which I'm sure would help speed things along. In regards to aircraft, the Mi-8, L-39, MB-339, Su-25, MiG-15, 19 and 21, are all ideal fits. And we have the Mirage III, F-1, MiG-23, Mi-24 and Bo-105 all in the pipeline. Plus the team building the Kfir promised me a Cheetah if I can get hold of the manuals... Oh, and not to mention, we already have all the Soviet ground assents and if all goes according to plan, the SADF ones too. Once I manage to get the 3D Studio files for the Amscor mod anyways... And if I still haven't convinced you, watch this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blIhNR41SMc

Armscor Mod Hi guys. Not sure how many of you play Arma 3 or Squad and have seen the awesome Armscor mod... It's all been pretty much made by one guy and I spoke to him a while back about converting them for DCS. He was keen but as you can well imagine, was way too busy to get it done. I would have done it, but I'm far too thick, unfortunately. However, if I could still get the 3D Studio files, would this be a task one of you would want to take on...? It would be so cool to have for bush wars! He's also done quite a few helo's and aircraft, so they might be worth looking into too. A Rooivalk with a Blackshark cockpit would be pretty sick me thinks! :prop:

lol. No worries my dude. You beat me to it fair and square. But yeah, that was the only pic in that livery I could find. Took a leap of faith with those squaredels. Saw them on a model, so I figured they must be right... Obviously not though. :doh: Yours looks like a sure winner to me though...

Was literally about to submit this... Now I've gotta come up with something new! :cry_2:

:megalol: And people still ask me when I'm gonna get married... Found this on Grabcad btw... It's proving pretty useful. f-14.snapshot.5.zip

Well, I originally was going to build a motion platform, but it will cost me almost as much to make here as I can get one from China. And without the ball ache! (I'm in Cape Town btw) This one is $6560, but he said he'd give me a bit of a discount on it. It's obviously got 6DOF and has a roll and pitch of 30°, a yaw of 40° and half a G of acceleration. Its max load is 800kgs and it can also handle up to a 5m long pit without bashing into the ground. I wanna make my pit modular so I can eventually do a heli as well and use the same platform... Cause I'm not buying two of them at 6.5 K each. As to my wiring, I'm going to wire each panel straight to their respective boards directly underneath, then connect them all to USB Hubs. The PC's will be built-in on rubber mounts at each end. The boards have quick connectors, so I reckon wires will occasionally pop-out from being jolted around by the motion platform so I'm gonna have hinged access pannels so I can quickly get to everything...

Ahh, cool. I think I'm just going to build seats though. Want them to look legit... And be pretty light. I'm gonna get a pair of butt-kickers and jetseats for them too, so with the motion platform and VR, it should be pretty epic! And yeah, I gave up the sailing after going through a CAT 5 in the middle of the South China Sea... In a 38' Cat! Scared the bejesus outta me! Literally almost went down. Took us 3 weeks to limp back to shore on just the jib 'cause the boat was pretty much a wreck afterwards. Even the marble counters were shattered. Oh, and we ran out of food and had to survive on floating coconuts and the odd Dorado I could catch on a rope cause all our tackle went overboard too.

Yeah, fortunately, my old man has an automatic box cutter, which will be perfect for making mock-ups. I have made a couple of panels already, but they're generic so I can use them for any aircraft. But I know what you mean about VR. I have to peak sometimes to see what I'm doing... I'll definitely look into PointCTRL though. I'm reworking the pit plans from scratch myself now because I've found too many discrepancies already. I really want the outer fuselage to be as accurate as possible so it looks like it was hacked right off an actual aircraft. I actually bought the South African Airforces Atlas Cheetah Simpit back in the early 2000s, which I hooked up to a projector with LOMAC, but my bloody father had it shipped off to my old air school when I was out in the sailing in the middle of the ocean and couldn't protest. Apparently, he didn't want half a jet in the upstairs lounge anymore. All I left is the harness and parachute from the Martin-Baker. I'd kill for that seat back! Been trying to organise another pair for this project, but it seems the SAAF has a bit of penchant for scrap metal these days because all the decommissioned seats have mysteriously disappeared.

Yeah... I just want all the physical controls to work. The gauges will just be backlit dummies. No point buying and programming all those Arduino and stepper motors for nothing. I'm having a proper F-14 Throttle quadrant made up with mil-spec switches for $2K and am gonna get Virpils new Tomcat stick when they release it. But I wish my cougar was left-handed now, 'cause I want it for the Lantirn pod stick. Gonna have to figure out a plan there...?

Yeah, it's a momentary 3-way though. I mean something like this... So it won't keep rotating, it will just go one notch left or right then reset... But it will at least look the part.

Actually, this might work... http://www.partdeal.com/cole-hersee-3-position-universal-levered-reversing-rotary-switch-12v-20a-boxed-75701.html

Ahh, I see. Well, I've got 100 3-way momentary heavy duty toggles I ordered from China, but I've also got about 20 or so rotary selector switches which I was planning on using, however, I see your point. They will only work in one direction. I suppose you could get away with a momentary rotary switch and then laser cut the thumbwheels out of acrylic so you can just repeatably push them left or right... The only problem is I can't find any momentary rotaries anywhere...?

Yeah, don't I know it... Kind of sucks they haven't implemented all the rotary's to work with potentiometers in controls. I think the easiest way around it is to just use rotary encoders when you don't have the option to use a pot. I bought a dozen Mach 3 HID Interface Cards which each have 64 buttons, 4 pots and 4 encoders, which is more than enough for both seats, but you have to use DCS Bios to get the encoders to function though...

Hi guys, Thanks to all of you that have contributed to this thread thus far... :thumbup: Like most you, I'm also afflicted with this disease of having to have my own Tomcat. But I've decided, if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it properly. I have plans to do the full pit including the Rio position, entirely out of aluminium. I want a full metal construction because it's going on a motion platform and I want to keep it as light and rigid as possible as it's going to be around 4.5 meters in length. I'm using Mumble's pit as a base and am reworking it to work with aluminium plate instead of 7mm ply. It will have a 40mm square tube box frame, which the ribs and other structural components will be riveted to, and then covered with a stressed aluminium skin. Pretty much like an actual aircraft. However, I'm having some major issues trying to find the dimensions of the rear cockpit... So if any of you boys have throughs stashed away, I'd greatly appreciate being able to nab them off you. I'll release the full vector cutting list once I've managed to finish everything and have tested a cardboard mockup to weed out any potential issues. The image below is far from complete but will give you a basic idea of how I want to construct it. The little tabs on the ribs, for instance, will be bent at 90° and used for rivet attachment points. (Stinger locations have yet to be included though) :pilotfly:

Yeah... Sort us out homie! I'm starting to get desperate for an Iranian skin for Redfor.

We've already got an Eastern and Western European map. We also have North American and Middle Eastern theatres. Plus we've got the Falklands and Syria on the way and I'm pretty sure I heard about a Pacific map in the pipes too. And if you think you're gonna get Nam for free, think again... What we need next is somewhere in Africa! Firstly, almost all of the current DCS aircraft have fought in Africa. And so have a lot of the up and comers like the Mi-24 and MiG-19. Ethiopian Su-27s have even shot down Eritrean MiG-29S's and SAAF Mirages have downed Cuban MiG-21's for example. Places like Angola offer everything from Savannah and desert to wetlands and dense jungle. And all within the confines of an area no bigger than Georgia. The terrain can go from vast flat lands to high mountain peaks and escarpments and provides ample opportunity to create any type of mission scenario you could think of. Plus it's just a beautiful landscape in general. It also has the added benefit of not being very built up. Cities are usually quite small, and most settlements are just shanty towns or small villages that sparsely populating the landscape anyways. This would not only speed up development time but also be easier on your system. And speaking of system performance, unlike all of our other theatres, African conflicts are numerous and low intensity. Trying to create realistic conflicts with most of our other maps is basically impossible because the number of units necessary to really make a good war scenario plausible for a map like the Caucuses or the Persian Gulf would crash even the beastiest of machines. African armies are lucky if they have half a dozen tanks and a pair of serviceable aircraft these days. So mission building would also be a lot less of a task if realism is what you crave... And I do!

I hope you're planning an Atlas Cheetah while you're at it...

Yeah, I could say the same about the SAAF. At least they have seen actual air combat unlike half the countries in ED's list. I mean, who's Switzerland ever gone to war with anyway? Plus they are loads of SA pilots playing DCS and they are SAAF skins for pretty much every aircraft already, but it seems ED just can't be bothered no matter how much we beg. I actually made a mod a while back with most of the countries you guys are looking for, but you'll have to disable it when integrity check is on. ???? If it still works anyways...? I have yet to test it on 2.5. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/2324128/

Awesome work guys! But is it just me, or is the HUD not functioning...?

I tried copying the old AGM-122 "shape" files from both 2.2 and OpenBeta and replacing them in 1.5 (Bazar/World/Shapes) but unlike the R-3's for the MiG-21, it doesn't fix the problem...?

The new water on the Normandy map is translucent. If someone can figure out how to drop the Kilo a few meters from its normal height to periscope depth that would be epic.

This should get your juices flowing... :pilotfly:

I feel the need... Just found this old photo of my brother and I off to battle the Ruskies :pilotfly: I can still get access to this old duck if I do some groveling, so give us a shout if you need me too.

Adriatic sea's not a bad idea at all :thumbup:

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