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When I create a fast mission I can't select "India" as the country for an airplane group. I've tried each of my modules ([A-10C] [AJS 37] [AV8B N/A] [black Shark 2] [F-5E] [FC3] [M-2000C] [Mig-21 bis]) in each of the three versions, but "India" wasn't available for any. Is this as intended? Are there other modules where "India" If not, when will it be fixed? It seemed like "Pakistan" wasn't available either... I know more important things are going on, but I'd just like to know if this is on the 'to do' list.

Thank you so much, all that information is incredible! Makes me feel at ease about working with the AI, I’m thoroughly convinced that you guys have taken a very thoughtful approach to the functionality JESTER will offer. Now I can’t wait to get my hands on this module!

Thanks Elysian Angel :) It would be great if I could learn the basics of the RIO role so I could offer assistance as needed. Wouldn't matter how rudimentary the AI pilot was, I'd be happy to make missions where the AI just needed to fly straight and level. After looking at the announcements Heatblur has made about JESTER and considering how high quality the Viggen module is, I am sure I'll pull the trigger on this as soon as it comes up for presale and just deal with what I wind up getting. Thanks for the input all :-)

Thanks. Since that seems to be the solution, I guess that means the Tomcat’s systems don’t allow one person to do both jobs from one seat. I don’t suppose anyone knows of any way to preview how good the AI is before buying? I’d like to get this so my father can fly with me but most of the time I’ll be solo, so the quality of the AI or the viability of switching roles will be one limiting factor for me.

Will it be possible for a player to both fly and employ weapons? I know we can take an AI RIO and the workload is meant for two people, but I’d like to know if I could do both myself, successfully or otherwise. If this is covered elsewhere I apologise and if someone could point me towards it I’d be grateful, I just had no idea what to search.

Could ED receive revenue they otherwise wouldn’t if I used Tapatalk to browse these forums? If so, would I have to click a banner to cause it? These forums are great, so if I can put a little cash in ED’s pocket without putting myself out too much I’d be glad to do that.

Thanks, I was wondering what the breakdown was. So, was that 92 responses represented, with 51 of them 30 - 49?

I thought I read the newsletter pretty closely each week, but I completely missed that. Shows me I should pay more attention, thanks

Ah awesome, I didn't think of that one, thanks grunf :)

Thanks QuiGon, I am subscribed to the newsletter but I didn’t realize we get merge info there. Much appreciated.

With 2.5 due to hit us by the end of this month, is there any specific forum I can watch for official information? I'm not trying to rush anyone, but I would like to be sure I'll see information ASAP so I can plan bandwidth with the other members of my house (on Australia's older, slow internet) and right now I'm not sure what will be announced where or by whom.

It's a shame to think that there was a solution to this that was criticized out of existence. I seriously considered quitting the game because it was so hard to spot targets, and I don't think I'm alone, and one would think that losing players over this would be worse than people being spotted too easily in multiplayer. Sad that ED (or whoever) wasn't able to just disable the pixel enlargement aid (anyone else worried about making a typo with that?) in multiplayer.

Thanks Grunf, it is good to have an example to emulate, great flying! Seeing that should make it easier to trust that I'm not going to ditch into the water because of the altitude alone. Thanks to renhanxue too, great to see the real thing in action. As I stroke my luxuriant facial hair I realize the tactical importance of a beard - if it's not wet I'm flying too high! :P

Thanks QuiGon, great idea, will do. Would be great to deliver and dash without the Moscow being able to fire on me. Shame the Viggen didn’t get integrated chaff and flare dispensers, given the sort of missions it does.

That is really low! That gives me a solution and a way to achieve it, I’ll practice the autopilot method you outlined, thanks :)

No matter how low or fast I fly, I keep catching missiles from the Moscow carrier. My Viggen tracks never play properly and it would take way too long at my up speeds to upload the video, so I've attached a screenshot. As you can see I'm at Mach 1, 30 m above the water, the highest I've been since crossing the shoreline. Directly above the midpoint of the 24 km arc on the radar is the dot that represents the Moscow (I know it's really tough to see) and that big black spot under the 5 degree pitch line on the hud is the missile that has come to mess up my hair. I'd really love it if anyone can help me diagnose what's going on. I had been consistently completing this mission successfully, I've taken a break for about a week and today I'm zero-for-three, with this being the lowest and fastest (slowest was 875, and they were both 40m altitude). Thanks.

Is it common for a planning cell to create flight plans during combat operations, or is it just in unusual or very specific situations?

Thanks QuiGon, as always I appreciate the info :) The most recent time I remember seeing a conversation about who makes the flight plan was when someone had suggested it was done by the ground crew, so it makes sense that the correction was that the flight plan was made by *a* pilot, not *each* pilot. Thanks for the info on the need for a reason for low altitude/high airspeed too, guess I should wait for radar warning rather than dropping low just in case. Thank you to renhanxue too, it's good to know that when there was a need for pilots to fly low it was up to their judgement to decide how low they could be. It makes sense too, when I was editing flight plans to reflect my preferred altitude I was unsure of the altitude I should set because I felt safe flying over flat terrain with few trees at 20m, but over unveven terrain with a lot of trees, powerlines etc I often felt like less than 40m was unsafe.

Hi all, I have some questions about aspects of flight planning in the Viggen that I hope you might help me with. 1) IRL would the flight lead create the flight plan for the other pilot/s in their flight? I know I've seen people say the pilot makes his own flight plan, but I don't see how missions could go smoothly if each pilot was working off a different flight plan, but then again I can't imagine an efficient way for the flight lead's flight plan to be uploaded to each a/c in turn either. 2) Would a flight plan creator need a specific reason to set a particularly high or low altitude or a speed higher than cruise speed? I'm most comfortable under 60m over land and 80m over water, but I don't know if I'd need to justify this beyond 'personal preference' in the real world. Similarly, I'm more comfortable flying at 800 kms + when fuel isn't tight, but I don't know if this would be acceptable in the real world. Thanks for reading :)

I don’t think this radar tracks, so it should let you lock the position it’s in at a given time, but when it moves (as a/c tend to) it will no longer be at the designation point.

These are the last items in the “radar” section of the controls. There are no default keybinds for them. T0 is the default starting point, so you would pull the fix trigger over the first detent to t1 to allow you to designate the location of the radar fix point or target, and then you’d pull it over the second detention to TV to lock it.

I think the same as for the initial start ("Start system - on", fourth from the bottom in "motor") worked for me once, but that was a while ago and I could be mistaken.

I asked a similar question here and a couple of people said there are lighting changes in 2.5 that might help with target spotting. I spoke about this in another thread I can't find now as well, and someone said that one issue with spotting targets in 1.5 is that their size is determined by pixel count, so the higher the screen resolution, the smaller the target. I reduced my resolution from 1440p to 1080p and found spotting targets easier. I believe Lao Fei Mao is talking about the graphics in 2.x, since they are speaking about the Vegas map. May I ask which a/c you're flying? I wound up solving my target spotting issues by switching from the Su-25T to the Viggen because I found it much easier to spot targets from <100m altitude rather than 200-500m. Here's hoping you don't have to buy another module to solve your problem. EDIT: Apologies, I inferred that you were asking about ground targets. If your question is about air targets I’m afraid much of this post is irrelevant.

That seems like the consensus smart move. Perhaps something I should have worked out for myself haha

Apologies for the misunderstanding, I should have said "mini campaign" to begin with. Ah ok, thanks for explaining. I'll give the Viggen a rest until the merge and try again after that.