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I usually use RAT (Random Air Traffic) scripts with M.O.O.S.E. You can limit them to only red or blue AF's as in the example below. local RAT=RAT:New("RAT1") -- must match unit name in mission editor RAT:SetCoalition("sameonly") RAT:SetCoalitionAircraft("blue") -- or "red" RAT:SetTakeoffHot() -- or Cold or Air RAT:Spawn(8) -- or any number you want

Okay, now how do I make it last longer than 5 minutes?

Got it, thanx.

The only smoke effect that I can find in the ME is "Big Smoke". It looks great, but it's too big and black. I would like to be able to also add white, green, yellow, orange, blue, red, or any color smoke markers at airfields, Helo LZ's etc. I have seen them in DCS videos, but don't know how to add them. Do I have to write a script or something?

Explicitly, but not exclusively. Exactly my point.

Halleluiah Brother. Soldiers do it, sailors do it, why not pilots? Do you mean to tell me that in all of aviation history no pilot ever brought binoculars along and that modern aviation has no enhanced vision??? OOPS, MY BAD! .............so tell me, what is so unrealistic about zoom again?????

Good luck with current availability and prices. Gotta be rich if you can find one.

What is so different from what we already have?

This whole mirrors on/off thing just seems odd to me. A mirror is a piece of silvered glass. How do you turn it on/off with a switch? Are they somehow an electrical device in the Hind? Just folding them out of the way makes more sense.

....and my Father served on this one from 1943 to 45.

As above, when requesting any ground service, the text appears in the upper left of screen, but there is no audio such as "request rearming and refueling" or the response, "copy" in either Eng or Rus.

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.....or you can use task follow.

People...

In main Settings window, Gameplay tab, set labels to "symbol only." Works for me, LShift + F10 toggles on/off.

Glad to see more WW2 stuff coming soon. I would also like to see more Korean War assets such as: Carrier based F9F Panther and early 50's helicopters: Bell-47, Sikorsky H5, H-34 and Piaseki H-21 flying banana.

IDK if this helps, but I just use the file explorer in C:/Users/my name/Saved Games/DCS.Open Beta/Missions and I organize them according to the map. When Downloading, I just direct the DL to the appropriate folder. Apologies, I didn't understand the OP's topic and I agree; the search function for user mods sucks.

The Mi-8 and the Huey both have discernable buffeting when exiting ETL. The Hind has nothing. It's too smooth. VRS comes on suddenly with absolutely no warning.

I did that, no difference.

I hope they reach that point soon now that we have a new map that is mostly water.

I do agree that it does need more texture, but not as much as we had in 2.5.6 where you could see white caps all the time, even from ~30,000 ft. I kinda' like the cloud reflections, but you are right. It's not realistic for the open ocean, however, at 06:45 in the morning, the ocean is quite clam and can reflect like that. During the mid day, wind picks up and the surface isn't so smooth any more. The bow waves from ships are overdone and the foam is underdone. I would really be be happy to see foamier ship wakes and surf and breakers where the shore becomes more shallow. It is the gradual shallowing of the water approaching the shore that pushes up the waves and they get whitecaps at the very least. They are getting close though and the water is much better than when 2.7.0 came out so I guess we can at least agree that cloud reflections, as nice as they look, are overdone, the surface should have a bit more texture and waves, and the ships wakes and shoreline surf need more foam. BTW the wind speed in these photos is 12 Kn. There should be more waves off shore and definitely more surf on shore.

It's a matter of personal taste. I think the the water looks pretty good as it is. The surf around coastlines could be much better and ships wakes could use quite a bit more foam, but other than that; what's not to like?? These pictures were taken between 06:45 and 06:55 on today's date 07/09/2021. The ones in the video were taken a little later in the morning and so are a bit wider. I think my reflections are very close to his. Like I said, time of day, lighting and camera angles etc. The biggest complaint that I have heard so far is difficulty telling where the water is from the sky when flying down low. There is an easy fix for that: Check your altimeter, DUH. Just like any other time you can't see, like at night, in clouds, rain and snow, etc, check your instruments.

The water in the videos looks pretty much like what we have in game. The differences seem to be in the lighting and camera angles.

The water in the videos looks pretty much like what we have in game. The differences seem to be in the lighting and camera angles.