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FWIW, the beacon page in the ME does not show any channel assigned to COL, and if the lua also does not show any entries, it would be very interesting if it worked in the game.

Also, having watched your video a second time on a bigger screen, the take-off trim light on the main panel is not illuminated, so you haven't trimmed the aircraft properly for take-off. (Trim should not be affected by being on emergency hydraulics). For take-off, try to maintain the centerline, and you can rotate much earlier, nosewheel should lift at around 110 kts, and the aircraft should lift off at 140kts latest, all depending on weight of course.

Ah, that's nothing. I remember with the Mi-8 it took ED eight, EIGHT! years to fix an acknowledged bug. As much as I love DCS, it can be a very frustrating experience sometimes...

Hard to tell from the video. Looks normal from here, I assume that the take-off is a result of your technique. Are you trimming nose down at all? I cannot tell from the video. When your aircraft accelerates, the nose will come up, so you need to trim nose down with the trim hat (did you assign these to your joystick hat?) to remain level. Maybe that is why you did not see any problems with airstart, because there you get a nicely trimmed aircraft at mission start according to set speed. Coming from the FC F-15, this might be your issue.

It is actually a good thing Ugra forgot to add the TACAN channel, because they also significantly misplaced the navaid (see my bug report below). This way we can at least put a mobile TACAN unit to the right location with the right channel and not have any interference with the misplaced one.

German Navy pilots were a common sight at Jever nevertheless, as basically all German F-104G pilots, be it Airforce or Navy, went to Jever-based Waffenschule 10 (WaS 10) after their B-course at Luke AFB for "Europäisierung", i.e. learning to fly in German airspace structure and weather. Same thing applies for German Airforce and Navy Tornado aircrew, albeit their training happened in Jagdbombergeschwader 38 (JaboG 38) after basic Tornado training at Cottesmore, UK. (WaS 10 closed down after F-104 training ended in 1983)

The COLA VORTAC in the vicinity of Cologne-Bonn airport is placed wrong. Reference is the in-game TPC chart and my 1989 ICAO VFR chart. I marked the correct position of the COL VORTAC in red in the ME.

I would not count on it. Almost all team members have left PC, and the founder/CEO has gone into hiding, so it was said on the PC Discord.

I compared real times for sunrise and sunset with in-game times for Goslar, which is close to the coordinates shown in the ME for SR/SS. I think the CWG map is permanently on summer time (daylight saving time). To compensate, I now add one hour to the intended time, and then sunrise and sunset do match real German timings more closely. 30 minutes seems ok for dusk/dawn. Before SERA night started 30 minutes after sunset in aviation.

No real mountain ranges, but there is quite hilly terrain in the center and the southwest of the detailled area. It is by no means flat. And btw, people are complaining that airbases are totally flat - not correct for Zweibrucken AB at least, that one has a sloped runway. There might be more, I still haven't flown to all available airbases so far.

I have a Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant too. It's recommendable, quality is good. Only the integrated AP controls and buttons behind the throttle levers are rather useless, as it is hard to access them behind the levers, but in the end it's the reliable levers that count, so that is not a big issue for me. Haven't used it in ages since I went from XP11 and MSFS2020 to DCS only, but for the C-130J I think I will get it from the attic and integrate it into my current combat flight sim-only hardware setup.

I have this crazy "conspiracy theory": The Bo-105 developer used to work / is still working for Heatblur on the EF 3d model. Now most of Polychop staff recently switched to Heatblur... can you see where I'm going at? One can dream, right?

Hi, I am a ME noob, and I cannot for the life of me create the following setup, even after watching YT tutorials and asking AI: I want to create a repeatable scenario where ... I spawn one aggressor via the F10 menu; ... make him report "Dodge 1 at IP" via message to coalition when he is in a zone over the IP and circle there until... ... I start the setup via F10 menu "Start new setup" and make him report "Dodge 1 copies, fight's on" via message to coalition and go weapons free; ... when he drops below the harddeck of 10000ft, make him report "KIO, KIO, Dodge 1 hit the harddeck, resetting" and then go weapons hold and switch back to the waypoint; ... make him abort the fight, go weapons hold and go back to the IP by F10 menu "Reset setup"; ... have him report again when he is at the IP; ... make him go hot again, weapons free by F10 menu entry "Start new setup" and him reporting "Dodge 1 copies, fight's on"; and make it repeatedly available until everybody's sore of BFM. The messages work like intended, and I can make the AI do it all one time, but I cannot figure how to make it all repeatable. I tried different approaches to flags and triggers, but after one successful round the AI usually will not disengage anymore and continue fighting, or it will not engage anymore after the first setup. Is there a virtuous ME wizard who could create a simple .miz on Caucasus with these settings for me to look at the triggers to see what's needed to make it happen??? Here's one of a thousand attempts of mine... 9_Georgia_factions_test.miz

Were/are highway landing strips planned to be equipped with ILS? I don't know, but I doubt it, setting up an ILS is not a trivial thing. I would expect a mobile PAR unit to provide GCAs for highway strips though.

Looks fantastic. Will users be able to fine-tune cloud ceilings with Atmos-X, say, to put a ceiling right above the minimum for an IFR approach? DCS currently doesn't allow for that, at or below 500m/1640ft clouds are at SL in-game, and above that you can only increase the ceiling in 400m steps (even if the ME makes you believe you can set any altitude... it will not show in-game...)