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OK DD_Fenrir I understand. Thank you.

Hi, A-1 SAINT-PIERRE DU MONT: Operational June 17 49°23'30"N 000°56'42"W runway: 09/17 - 1500m/5000ft - SMT Altitude: 135ft https://www.forgottenairfields.com/airfield-saint-pierre-du-mont-a-1-1100.html Please remove all these sheds, wooden houses and watchtowers! NO permanent buildings on any of Normandy's ALGs! It's not historic at all! Life on these airstrips was all about camping! Take a look at the following images: https://www.anciens-aerodromes.com/?p=130093 A-2 CRICQUEVILLE EN BESSIN: Operational June 17 49°21'58"N 001°00'23"W runway: 17/35 - 1500x..m/5000x..ft - SMT Altitude: 100ft https://www.forgottenairfields.com/airfield-cricqueville-en-bessin-a-2-1101.html https://www.anciens-aerodromes.com/?p=130102 On the black and white photo above, you can see that the hedges leave just enough room for the taxiways and runway, in contrast to permanent English airfields (Tangmere, West-Malling, Ford, Biggin Hill, Kenley ....) and French airfields, such as Saint-Andre de l'Eure, where there is a forest right in the middle of the airfield! It's just not right for these permanent airfields ! A-CARDONVILLE: Operational June 16 49°20'42"N 001°03'52"W Runway: 16/34 - 1500x35meters/5000x120feet - SMT Altitude: 110ft https://www.forgottenairfields.com/airfield-cardonville-a-3-1104.html https://www.anciens-aerodromes.com/?p=130108 P-47 parked next to a nearby farm: Staff tents planted under the cover of hedges:

Hello everyone, DD Fenrir, I opened a post more than a year ago about information on airfields, why create other posts? Why not bring everything together in one post instead of scattering it all? I've already uploaded most of the information you give, so maybe it's being modified, or at least I hope so!

Why? I don't think Ugra Media is more work because the work is already done! Above all, I think that the ALGs on the Normandy 2.0 map are like permanent airfields, whereas they were meant to be temporary airfields with tents and no wooden barracks or hangars. These airstrips were hastily built because the Germans were not far away. The engineers destroyed as few hedges as possible, just to make way for taxiways and runways. They weren't just fields like the permanent airfields. If the Normandy 2.0 map is supposed to be as historical as possible, then I'm trying to help the devs make it so.

Hi, We'll see if the devs take my information on board...

Hi, Advanced Landing Ground in Normandy: The Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) were temporary airfields used during the Battle of Normandy, from June to the end of August 1944. Some were built as late as August. So, of course, there were no permanent buildings or control towers. In the photo below, you can see ALG A1 Saint-Pierre du Mont: In the photo on the left above, you can see that the engineers did not raze all the hedges to the ground. They went straight to the essentials to build these airstrips, not like permanent airfields. There are no sheds or wooden huts. Air traffic control consisted of a few men with a radio like this: Link to an interesting website: https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/battle-of-normandy/alg/airstrips Here are a few videos of these ALGs. It gives you an idea of the atmosphere that reigned on these airstrips:

A Hawker Typhoon and a Tempest would be excellent for DCS ! Typhoon RB396 is being restored with the aim of flying it before the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings. There is also a Tempest MkV under restoration. To begin with, a Typhoon would go very well with the Normandy 2.0 map. In fact, it's really missing in DCS! I know it's a plane with a fairly complex engine to reproduce but it would be great!

Avranches: Avranches was a Former Landing Ground, a basic airfield with no permanent buildings or control tower: Today: Deauville: Before the war, Deauville was an airfield with a grass runway. When the Americans arrived, an SMT runway was built:

Hi, Lonrai, Barville, Essay, Hauteville and Rônai were also fallback airfields. So, as usual, no control towers or permanent buildings: Lonrai: Barville: Essay: Hauteville: Rônai:

Vrigny: Another airstrip: On the Normandy 2 map, Le Goulet and Vrigny are well placed, but all those sheds that don't belong there have been removed, as have the barracks, watchtowers and barbed wire around the airstrips. Argentan, on the other hand, is badly placed on the Normandy 2 map. For example, Le Goulet: In addition, all aerodromes have runway markers. They didn't exist during the Second World War! To be removed from all the airfields, airstrips and Advanced Landing Ground on the map !

Hi everyone, Argentan: Argentan is also a fallback airfield; no control tower, no hard construction... In red, the limitations of the airstrip In yellow, the grass track In blue, the grass parking areas and amenities. Today, and since the end of August 1944, the site has been returned to agriculture: Le goulet: Another Airstrip;

It is a good suggestion !

Bernay-Saint-Martin: The airfield is in the wrong place and the layout is incorrect. It should be in the yellow oval: Aerial view in 1947: Layout: Grass runway in yellow. No control tower. In grey, access roads to the car parks and aircraft parking areas. Broglie: Attention: Broglie was a satellite site of Bernay Saint-Martin. It was a fall-back airfield. It was a simple field ! No hard construction, no control tower... Just tents! The mechanics slept next to the planes. The officers stayed in farms or in the villages around the air strip. Aproximative position :

I started to reproduce RAF Northolt as it looked in 1940 in IL-2 Cliffs of Dover:

My images are hosted with Zupimage, I don't understand why you can't see them? No, I don't have any more photos of RAF Northolt than here:

Hi, Flers-Saint-Paul: Aerial photograph taken on 7 June 1944: Aerial photograph taken on 12 June 1944: After war: In 1957: The airfield apparently had no control tower. It had a grass runway.

Hi, A little addition for Rouen-Boos: A screenshot from the "Remonter le temps" website: It shows 2 runways, in green on the photo below:

Hi, Rouen-Boos: The airfield as it appears on the Normandy 2 map. This is one of many generic airfields on this map. In reality, the airfield looked like this: Fecamp-Benouville: Here is the Fecamp-Benouville airfield on the Normandie 2 map. The position is incorrect. What's more, the airfield as it was built is not at all in keeping with German airfields in France during WW2. The 2 Branches of each three parking aircraft (in the yellow circle) are typical of the ALG's on English soil as: Chailey, Deanland ... The airfield consisted of a grass runway with taxiways and parking areas for aircraft on the outskirts of the village of Eletot. There are NO CONTROL TOWER ! The yellow stripe represents the grass runway at the airfield. I wonder why the devs chose to model this airfield, as it's hardly ever been used! Le Havre-Octeville airfield would have been a better choice!

Thank you very much Maestro and the entire Ugra Media team! Thank you for considering our information from us, the community. I still have information to provide you. They will be available here:

Little effort, that's for sure! I spent a lot of time providing information, plans, schematics... I feel like Ugra Media doesn't care! I'm not going to waste my time any longer, too bad!

Abeville is well done. On the other hand, hangars are missing in Manston, there are also no Blast pens like in Biggin Hill and Kenley and another RAF Airfields. There sould be some. In general, the airfields on the Channel map are historically well done.Why not copy what has already been done on the Channel map ? I notice that there are always too many control towers. This is historically incorrect! You are doing a good job and adding these new airfields is a plus and I thank you very much! However, why not use the blast pens already present on the airfields of the Channel map? Perhaps you don't have the right to take back what is on a card that was made by ED? I think it’s a pity ! It's my opinion. I published quite a bit of informations on the Biggin Hill airfield in the Channel Map section, why not use it again?? If you want you can contact me by PM. I could give you some informations.

In Chuck's guide, on page 678 it is stated: "Select Manual or Automatic sequencing as desired. This is done by setting Dobber switch Right (SEQ)." There must be a bug... It’s also like that in the Wags video:

Steerpoints can no longer be switched to automatic mode by pressing button number 4 (STPT) on the ICP and SEQ. Before we could.

This mod looks amazing !!! I love Lancaster !!! Thank you very much !!!

There is a French imagery site on maps from the 1950s: https://remonterletemps.ign.fr/ Although the maps were taken about ten years after the end of the Second World War, this site is very interesting because we still find a lot of information on German airfields in France. For example, Dieppe Saint-Aubin: here is an example of the realization of the airfield by the IL-2 GB team on the Normandy map: Although I find the airfields well done on this IL-2 GB map, I do not judge at all the work of Ugra Media on the DCS Normandy 2 map, it's just to have an overview of the airfield and to help the devs!