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As I said when I also suggested this: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=200319 This would really be a good map to showcase DCS graphics with fjords, mountains, valleys and great plains, rivers and lakes, vast forests and wilderness, as well as plenty of ocean to do carrier ops in. If the map contained Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia/Soviet, there would be plenty of scenarios that could play out. I think that the map should cover from the northernmost parts of mainland Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, and at least as far south as Bodø, as this is an important fighter base. The bigger the better of course, and most of it is wilderness, so it would not be as tedious to make as for example downtown Dubai or Las Vegas with hundreds of landmarks and unique buildings. Create some of the most prominent buildings and bridges in the cities and the vast wilderness in between would consist of mountains, rivers, roads and trees, mainly. It's an exotic location, with polar night and biting cold or winter storms in the winter, and midnight sun and beautiful sights in the summer. The terrain in the mentioned area is very varied, and you do get a lot of "bang for the buck" in terms of interesting locations to fly and fight.

This! YES! Please!! Free or paid, please make a map of this area. Road bases for Viggen, NATO planes in Norway, Finnish hornets and Russian air bases. Spectacular scenery ranging from deep fjords, wild mountains and valleys, great plains, taiga and tundra, hot summers and cold, snowy winters with all kinds of possibilites to really show off the graphics engine of DCS. Polar night in the winter, midinght sun in the summer, a really exotic location with extremely varied terrain, seasons, lighting and weather (especially if the weather engine gets a long-deserved overhaul) ranging from beautiful summer days, thunderstorms and rain, to blizzards or icy cold clear weather in the winter (which really brings out the performance of jet engines!). Such a map would be politically interesting (cold war, WW3, with NATO, Russia and two more or less neutral countries in between with Sweden and Finland). It's got ocean enough for carrier ops on both sides, it's got real-world military airbases and civilian airports, and lots of very interesting terrain. This would IMO be the best possible location for a DCS map!

How do you make a track file from a multiplayer session?

Yes, when watching a replay track, the F-14 does things you never did when flying it. I taxied out to a runway and took off, but on the replay the plane never took off and crashed into the ground when the gear was retracted. This is just like the Viggen, where replay functionality has been broken for years. Leatherneck/Magnitude (or what they are called) had the same problem on the MiG-21 and Christen Eagle, but both those were fixed a few weeks ago, so I hope the F-14 and Viggen can be fixed as well, as watching replays of my airshow displays or simply my landings would be a very nice way of reviewing and improving my flying.

Also, having a heated cockpit glass, the surface of the glass will typically be above 0°C even if the air is a few degrees below. So the snowflakes will melt to drops as they hit the glass. Happens in cars in winter too.

Oh, and there are many functions in controller assignment that don't apply to the plane, such as weapons firing, flaps and countermeasure dispense.

Also, I've discovered 3 bugs: - Runaway oil temperature (goes off-scale high) - Tail wheel animation shows tail wheel turning more (twice as much?) as it should, visually - When changing elevator trim with buttons on a joystick, the trim doesn't update until you move the stick. So you trim and nothing happens, and then when you move the elevator, it snaps into the new trimmed position Other than that, a great little plane and a lot of fun to fly! :)

Thanks for clearing that up. :)

Thanks. So, is the real aircraft made so that if you hold the speedbrake deploy button (even if the speedbrake has reached full deployment), the aircraft trims up and up until you release the speedbrake button?

If you keep the speedbrake button in the retract position, it trims down. If you keep the speedbrake button in the extend position, it trims up. If speedbrake is neutral, trim is not changed. So extending speedbrake and keeping the button depressed after the brake is extended (on the Warthog HOTAS this button is not spring centered), it keeps trimming up, and the trim button on the joystick is not able to counter it unless you neutralize the speedbrake button. A bug?

When pressing the right toe brake hard, both the left and right main gears stop rotating. When pressing the left toe brake hard, none of them stop rotating. So the animation that shows wheels locking on both the left and right main gear, respond to if the right main gear should be locked. This is a visual model bug only, as differential braking makes the plane do what you'd expect in both directions.

It seems you are correct, NineLine. Only aircraft that have had their control bindings edited since the previous version are affected by this. Also, some users seem to be reporting that their .lua files are missing, but that is not the case here.

Well, this hotfix seems to have destroyed more than it fixed. After the fix, the MiG-29 suddenly had double mappings, missing mappings and a mix of default and custom mappings. So I guess we will have to go through the control mappings on every single plane after this fix... But the Hornet is fine it seems! It's just everything else that is messed up. EDIT - it seems that only aircraft that have had their control mappings edited since the previous version, are affected by this.

Still the same.:music_whistling:

Same here.

I will do low-speed taxi tests, followed by medium and high speed taxi tests, and the I will do a proper maiden flight, and then a simulated flight test program as I gradually open up the envelope.

Here is my wish for the future. A map of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. NATOs northern flank, where NATO borders with Russia (or USSR), with a couple of (semi-)neutral countries in between. Now that you have mastered seasons, especially winter, the wild and mountainous terrain of the north would be an ideal place to show off the new graphics engine and ED's map making abilities. Distances are quite far (actually requiring tanking and fuel planning?) but there aren't many big cities and famous landmarks in this area, so a lot less of that fiddly stuff than with Vegas or Dubai. I think it would allow for some VERY exciting WW3 or cold war style scenarios, and in the winters of the 70's and 80's, huge NATO exercises were held in Northern Norway, basing aircraft out of Bodø, Evenes, Bardufoss and Andøya, with tens of thousands of ground troops practicing for World War Three. This area is home to western forces (Harriers and later Harrier II's visited Bardufoss regularly, and Bodø is an active F-16 base, Evenes has seen huge NATO fighter forces, with carriers participating off coast during exercises with F-14s and F-18s in real life), to Finnish MiG-21s and later Hornets, to Swedish Viggens, and to Soviet/Russian forces, including Kilpyarv Air Base where one of the default Su-27 skins is based. All three countries have air bases within this area, and it would be useful for all post-WW2 eras. The terrain is exciting for low-level flying, the wilderness is rough, weather is often bad (but can be very beautiful as well), there are short but nice summers, cold and harsh winters, and mountains, valleys, rivers, forests and fjords aplenty to create a beautiful and exciting experience. There could be interceptors launching from Bodø to intercept Soviet bombers over the ocean in peacetime (something that happens even today with F-16s intercepting Russian Tu-160s in the far north), deep strike missions both ways, Viggens operating from snowy roads in northern Sweden, deep strike and long-range patrols, escorts and interceptions, all within this cold war hotspot. So my vote for the next map area for DCS is the northernmost part of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia!