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Is anybody else experiencing lag / dropping framerates when looking straight ahead through the gunsight in the MiG-21 on the CWG map? I noticed this when spawning in Peenemuende and Neubrandenburg. Looking to the left or right the performance is perfectly fine, only looking straight forward procudes this problem. This only happens in the MiG-21; I compared MiG-29 and Mi-8 and they showed no issues. I also cross-checked with Caucasus map and the -21, no issues there either. ---EDIT--- It's this known issue with the CWG map. Flying to the south improves performance.

Neuhardenberg/Marxwalde, JG-8 MiG-21bis airbase added.

Great project! Looking very much forward to your 1980s F-15C BT liveries.

Here's another track and the test mission I created both for BluFor and RedFor. RedFor works as intended. The assigned numerical callsigns are visible in the F7 menu, so I know which station I have to call, and the dialogue includes these assigned numerical callsigns. BluFor, see bug report above. 9_Georgia_EWR_test.miz EWR_test.trk

I think this bug is fixed. I do get BRAA calls from domed EWRs. It's just that they do not accept any assigned callsigns and associated numbers and you can't tell which unit is which in the F7 menu if you have several EWRs working on different frequenciesin different locations, see my bug report in "General bugs".

Long-standing issue with the EWR units serving as GCI via the F7 "AWACS" menu, already reported in the ATC bug thread, but maybe worth its own thread: A Control and Reporting Center (CRC) providing control for a Ground-Controlled Intercept (GCI) has a callsign of course. In DCS you could simulate this by placing an EWR unit and assigning a callsign in the EWR task in the ME. Unfortunately, there is this bug that whatever callsign you assign to the EWR unit in the ME ("Pinpoint", "Playboy", "Whiplash",...), in the simulation it always reverts to "Axeman". This would not be such an issue if you only had one single EWR unit in the simulation, but if you want to cover a country like Germany with radar coverage, you need more EWRs. Here the trouble begins, because in the F7 AWACS menu only the unit type names are given (see screenshot), not the callsigns, so you don't know which unit is in your area to call to get the required information. It is NOT always the closest to the aircraft btw.; in my test mission it was #2 which was close enough to talk to me. since the callsign always reverts back to "Axeman" despite being assigned a different one, you can't tell from the callsign to which agency you are currently talking to. I tried to compensate this by assigning different numbers (Axeman 1, Axeman 2, Axeman 3), but unfortunately the assigned numbers are also ignored in-game. Screenshot and short test track attached. This might only be a BluFor issue, since RedFor uses numerical callsigns. I haven't checked that yet. 1_CWG_022-20250609-100258.trk

@MAESTR0 It's noticeable and highly appreciated that you listen to the community, thank you very much, also for creating this thread and asking! Things I think shouldn't be left missing in the scope/area of Phase 2: City of Oldenburg (home to the 11th Mechanized Infantry Division in the 1980s) south of the Jade Bay https://www.relikte.com/nds_heer/div11.htm Oldenburg airbase EDNO, home to JaboG 43 (flew Fiat G.91, Alpha Jet in the 1980s) https://www.mil-airfields.de/germany/oldenburg-airbase.html https://www.relikte.com/oldb_flgh/index.htm City of Wilhelmshaven and the very important German Navy base there, home to the German Navy fleet of destroyers and frigates (would make a nice base to fly to from Nordholz Navy airbase that you also planned for Phase 2) CRC Visselhövede (radar site to guide fighters) https://www.relikte.com/nds_radar/index.htm Itzehoe "Hungriger Wolf" Army airbase (home to German Army Aviation Regiment 6, flew the Huey and the Bo-105) https://www.mil-airfields.de/de/itzehoe-hungriger-wolf.htm Schleswig-Jagel Navy airbase EDCS, home to German Navy Wing 1 (flew F-104G Starfighter and Tornado) https://www.mil-airfields.de/de/schleswig-jagel.htm Eggebek Navy airbase EDCG, home to German Navy Wing 2 (flew F-104G Starfighter and Tornado) City of Kiel (important port and navy base) Kiel Navy airbase (home to German Navy Wing 5 (flew Westland Sea King) https://www.mil-airfields.de/germany/kiel-holtenau-airfield.html Basepohl GDR army airbase, home of KHG-5 equipped with Mi-24P and Mi-8TB https://www.mil-airfields.de/de/basepohl.htm ---EDIT--- I forgot Marxwalde/Neuhardenberg airbase, home of JG-8 (was equipped with MiG-21bis, so OUR MiG-21 in DCS) https://www.mil-airfields.de/de/neuhardenberg-marxwalde.htm Things I'd really like to see, but are not of such a high importance: Wilhelmshaven-Mariensiel airfield EDWI (in the area of German Navy base Wilhelmshaven, GAF Transalls often used it for practicing STOL and it's close to the approach sector of Wittmund and Jever airbases - we definitely need to talk about those when Phase 3 is due!!!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JadeWeser_Airport Rotenburg-Wümme Army airbase EDCR (small army airbase with a flight of Alouette II) https://www.mil-airfields.de/germany/rotenburg-wuemme-airfield.html https://www.relikte.com/rotenburg/index.htm The West-German airbases also deserve a slight overhaul. The perimeter walls should be substituted for fences. I think you could also go a little bit easy on the objects standing around and slightly reduce the clutter. The way I remember a GAF airbase, it was always quite tidy. Also, you can remove all of the big, black light masts on the GAF and GAM bases. and then there is the thing with the ground textures. No sand on GAF and GAM bases please. Also no bushes or trees in the flightline areas!

Der graue Drehregler rechts an der Seite bei den Sicherungen. https://f4.manuals.heatblur.se/cockpit/pilot/right_console/wall.html

And again more GAF Cold War Rhinos in Cold War Germany

Combat Flite was/is a great tool, its stalled development is a great loss to the community. With the release of the CWG map I haven't used it a lot anymore though, since at the outer regions of the map magnetic courses CF vs. DCS vary quite significantly, and the kneeboard maps are of limited use due to the differences between the real charts and the in-game terrain. My flight planning procedure for a MP flight in our squadron, which I do take quite serious, is to create a flight in the ME, then start the mission in SP, select the flight and visualize the route, then measure all magnetic headings and distances and jot them down, then calculate times-to-steerpoints, time-over-steerpoint depending on desired time-over-target, fuel required, and fill in a Mission Data Card manually. A very time-consuming effort, so I'd be willing to pay ED a ton of money if they sold me a fully-integrated mission planner that would do all that for me and give me the in-game terrain on my printable kneeboard charts with my route and doghouses on it, so basically everything that Combat Flite did, plus aircraft specific calculations like fuel flow, take-off and assumed landing data and so on.

Bump. A similar thing happens with FARPs. I assign the callsign "BERLIN" to one in the ME, but in my radio menu it is labeled as "PARIS", and the pilot calls it that way when calling inbound. Turns out the thing with the FARP was actually a problem with the new single pad FARP object. With that one you can't communicate via radio. The other FARP objects seem to work.

By the way, the taxiway markings should be yellow, not white.

Ist line-of-sight gegeben, oder sind Berge im Weg?

More GAF Cold War Rhinos in Cold War Germany

More Cold War Rhino in Cold War Germany

In den 1980er Jahren wurde die F-4F in den Geschwadern der Luftwaffe als "Tactical Fighter" betrieben, d.h. sowohl die Jagd- als auch die Jagdbombergeschwader hatten A2A- und A2G-Einsätze zu üben - mit jeweils unterschiedlichen Schwerpunktsetzungen, die Jäger flogen anteilig mehr A2A, die Jabos anteilig mehr A2G-Einsätze. Aus diesem Grund spielen auch Luft-Boden-Einsätze in der 1./JG71 immer wieder eine Rolle, auch wenn wir primär eine Jagdstaffel sind. Anbei ein paar Fotos einer single-ship air-to-ground mission auf die Range Baumholder (ED-R 01), wo ein SA-8-Simulator der Crew das Leben zusätzlich schwer machte. Das Ausbildungsziel war, mehrere Anflüge mit SAMP-250HD durchzuführen und diese paarweise mittels Direct und Laydown (damit simulieren wir CCIP für Arme) ins Ziel zu bringen, und gleichzeitig mit dem Bedrohungsszenario durch eine nahegelegene SA-8 vertraut zu werden. VFR departure in Büchel auf der 21. F-4F über dem Moseltal Auf der Range, bombs away! Neuer Anflug, tief und schnell, um der SA-8 kein Ziel zu bieten... ... und tief und schnell wieder raus. Ab dem 12. Juni 2025 hat die 1./JG71 "Richthofen" übrigens feste Termine für die Flugabende. Wir treffen uns künftig immer Montags und Donnerstags um 19:45 Uhr zum Briefing. Weitere Termine (z.B. hin und wieder gerne genommen mal ein Samstagabend) sprechen wir weiterhin individuell ab. Die 1./JG71 freut sich auch über Kooperationsmöglichkeiten mit anderen (full real Cold War-) Staffeln für gemeinsames Fliegen mit ATC, gemeinsame Übungen (z.B. ACM, DACT) usw. Falls hier Interesse besteht, schreibt gerne eine Nachricht. Wir nehmen auch beständig neue Mitglieder auf. Falls Du Interesse daran hast, eine F-4 (und vielleicht später mal die F-104G, die G.91 oder den Tornado) in einem möglichst realistischen Alltagsflugbetrieb einer Luftwaffenstaffel im Szenario der 1980er Jahre zu bewegen und die Voraussetzungen erfüllst (siehe erster Beitrag in diesem Thread), freuen wir uns über Deine aussagekräftige Bewerbung per privater Nachricht hier im Forum.

In den 1980er Jahren wurde die F-4F in den Geschwadern der Luftwaffe als "Tactical Fighter" betrieben, d.h. sowohl die Jagd- als auch die Jagdbombergeschwader hatten A2A- und A2G-Einsätze zu üben - mit jeweils unterschiedlichen Schwerpunktsetzungen, die Jäger flogen anteilig mehr A2A, die Jabos anteilig mehr A2G-Einsätze. Aus diesem Grund spielen auch Luft-Boden-Einsätze in der 1./JG71 immer wieder eine Rolle, auch wenn wir primär eine Jagdstaffel sind. Anbei ein paar Fotos einer single-ship air-to-ground mission auf die Range Baumholder (ED-R 01), wo ein SA-8-Simulator der Crew das Leben zusätzlich schwer machte. Das Ausbildungsziel war, mehrere Anflüge mit SAMP-250HD durchzuführen und diese paarweise mittels Direct und Laydown (damit simulieren wir CCIP für Arme) ins Ziel zu bringen, und gleichzeitig mit dem Bedrohungsszenario durch eine nahegelegene SA-8 vertraut zu werden. VFR departure in Büchel auf der 21. F-4F über dem Moseltal Auf der Range, bombs away! Neuer Anflug, tief und schnell, um der SA-8 kein Ziel zu bieten... ... und tief und schnell wieder raus. Ab dem 12. Juni 2025 hat die 1./JG71 "Richthofen" übrigens feste Termine für die Flugabende. Wir treffen uns künftig immer Montags und Donnerstags um 19:45 Uhr zum Briefing. Weitere Termine (z.B. hin und wieder gerne genommen mal ein Samstagabend) sprechen wir weiterhin individuell ab. Die 1./JG71 freut sich auch über Kooperationsmöglichkeiten mit anderen (full real Cold War-) Staffeln für gemeinsames Fliegen mit ATC, gemeinsame Übungen (z.B. ACM, DACT) usw. Falls hier Interesse besteht, schreibt gerne eine Nachricht. Wir nehmen auch beständig neue Mitglieder auf. Falls Du Interesse daran hast, eine F-4 (und vielleicht später mal die F-104G, die G.91 oder den Tornado) in einem möglichst realistischen Alltagsflugbetrieb einer Luftwaffenstaffel im Szenario der 1980er Jahre zu bewegen und die Voraussetzungen erfüllst (siehe erster Beitrag in diesem Thread), freuen wir uns über Deine aussagekräftige Bewerbung per privater Nachricht hier im Forum.

Allow me to bump this. Is there anybody who has access to historical jet charts for the DCS CWG map and would be willing to share it with the community? Especially period-correct (1970s or 1980s) VFR and IFR charts for the jet airbases are of high interest. We have the current MILAIP for German AF and Army airbases that are still active available, and that will do for now, but there is nothing that I'm aware of for Guetersloh Bitburg Spangdahlem Ramstein Sembach Pferdsfeld Fame and glory for those who post those charts here.

I think we're misunderstanding each other. I know that the MiG-21 has its own system that uses "fake" RSBN data and has to be added to the MiG-21 for every new map. But the L-39 uses the beacon data that comes with every map. That's the native DCS RSBN/PRMG system I am talking about. That's what M3 should implement in their MiG-21 too.

Isn't that the current situation with the maps and RSBN/PRMG? The L-39 works just like that, doesn't it?

Or, maybe even better, M3 could integrate the native DCS RSBN/PRMG system into the MiG-21 in their overhaul they announced ages ago.

Yes, the radar sides are only statics, an EWR unit is necessary.

At Pferdsfeld AB there are some issues with taxiway lights at both Last Chance / EOR positions, see screenshots. Also, the dreaded light masts surely can be removed here as well, they just don't fit into the scene of a 1980s GAF airbase.

Fantastic, I am very much looking forward to your new GDR MiG-29 livery. Let's hope ED allows for realistic dynamic three digits bort numbers on the FF MiG-29.

Great mod project! The positive reactions show how appreciated this is and how badly DCS needs a good Su-17/Su-22 module. All the best to you @VinntoreZ