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And the Italian, Spanish, Thai and Indian navies.

Case in point, Kobuleti/Meria. All structures (including hardened shelters) at this airbase were demolished by 2006. It's hard/impossible to pinpoint any exact time frame for the current map, but some time in the mid 1990s isn't that unlikely.

O/T, but: what info do you base this on? And please don't say google earth, as the most recent picture there is 8 years old. Kutaisi was renovated in 2011/2012, with a new terminal building, ILS for both runway directions etc.

Squadron Signal's F-5 In Action is quite good IIRC. It's old (1984), and may be out of print, but copies pop up on ebay now and then.

Ok, so you want the templates, but you don't want to download them from the only place where they're currently available. Then I can't help you. And for the record, the file mentioned earlier is identical (verified with crc-64) to the .rar that I downloaded from the leatherneck site some time ago. Just saying...

The second search result (on the site we're probably not allowed to mention or link to directly due to EULA-stuff) points to a file named "DCS_LNS_MiG-21Bis_Official-Template.rar". Which sounds pretty official to me.

Until someone re-uploaads it to the user files (or better, template section on the main page), this is an option: http://bfy.tw/BrMG

Whether or not we want a full fidelity SU-27 (or Mig-29 (or anything else)) for DCS is irrelevant. If the manufacturer and the Russian MoD doesn't want us to have one it won't happen. Customer interest isn't the only thing that decides which aircraft can or cannot be made for DCS...

http://www.avialogs.com/index.php/en/aircraft/germany/messerschmitt/me163komet.html

Looks like a specular map issue.

That's old news. They have been listed on the tbs site for years. And the fact that something may be coming to TBS does not necessarily mean that it will be coming to DCS. There could be all sorts of government- and manufacturer permissions and licenses preventing that. So there's no point in speculating.

There's no difference at the moment. In Nevada the plane "knows" that it's west of the prime meridian, and in Georgia it knows that it's to the east. That'll have to change once Normandy arrives, as the prime meridian passes straight through the map area.

An example: if your next waypoint is at 36°35'15" N 115°40'23" W LOLA -> IN -> type in: 154023 363515. Longitude first, then latitude. And you simply skip the first digit in the degree part of the longitude.

You don't have to set up all your controls all over again. Just copy the control config files from your c:\Users\[xxx]\Saved Games\DCS\Config\Input\ folder to the new normandy folder under saved games.

The SH-37 has a different radar (PS-371/A, vs. the PS-37 in the AJS). It's modified for longer range and better performance for maritime surveillance.

In hindsight, perhaps you should have checked what the topography of northern France is like before buying the map? Did you expect the Pyrenees to pop up in an area where the elevation above sea level is typically 0-300m?

My excel sheet is way too messy to be presentable, but here's a step-by-step guide to making your own: Inputs: UTM N UTM E Distance to next WPT (in meters) Bearing to next WPT (in degrees) Magnetic declination - in either decimal degrees (e.g. 6.216°) or in degrees and arc minutes (6° 13' etc.). Calculation: First of all, if your magnetic declination is in degrees + arc min, convert to decimal degrees. Let's use the example above (6° 13'): Decimal degrees = 6° + (13'/60) = 6,216°All angles need to be in radians (at least by default in Excel): Radians = angle*PI()/180You then calculate the UTM coordinates of your next waypoint: New UTM N = cos(bearing+mag decl.)*(distance/10)+UTM N New UTM E = sin(bearing+mag decl.)*(distance/10)+UTM E

I know I've said this before, but vs. = balance achieved.

The NADIR system in the Gazelle doesn't use the last digit (1m) in the UTM coordinates, so it only has a 10m resolution. I made a UTM calculator spreadsheet for the Gazelle some time ago. I'll post it here when I get home from work. As for the elevation causing errors, that's technically true, but for low elevation angles (i.e. low altitude difference), the adjacent leg of the triangle is practically equal to the hypotenuse.

Because, with the exception of a few nice flying scenes (f14 vs. a4 over the desert etc), TG isn't really worth watching. I'm not saying that the Final Countdown is the best movie in the world, but it's far from as bad as Top Gun.

The easy way to check if you can use bonus points or not is to put the Viggen in your shopping cart and go on to "check out" (but not all they way to the payment details). Then you'll see how much, if anything, can be paid using bonus $. As a side not, I agree on the bonus system being pretty pointless. I have around 55$ I can't use for anything.

Does it have to be that way? In the Gazelle you can switch freely between the two positions in MP (at least until someone else joins you in the left seat).

Sorry for going into rant mode again (it has been happening quite a bit lately; I guess I'm getting grumpier with age...) but since people apparently spend more time looking at the model in the model viewer than actually flying it (hint: the canopy is something you look through, not at), get yourselves a parametric CAD application (like solidworks, or fusion360 which is free), learn the basics, and build a model of whichever plane you want to look at. Then you can look at beautiful curved edges until your eyes pop out. Or even better, start building models, and then you can obsess over minute details that will never be visible to anyone with the other rivet counters. [rant mode off]

Looks great!

You could also check out the FAA Instrument flying handbook here: https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/media/FAA-H-8083-15B.pdf (that have lots of other great aviation- and aircraft related books/manuals ; and best of all, they're free! https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/) TACAN is just a military VOR+DME, so anything related to real world VOR navigation will also be applicable for TACAN use in DCS (except for the frequency setting and the different a/g and a/a modes).