1:500000 printable DCS/FC2.0 Tactical Chart (WIP)

Hey, if you can learn a protractor, you can learn anything. :)

In a previous life I used an Australian fold. Here's a link.

www.cavhooah.com/Downloads/australian%20fold.doc

Haven't read this post in detail but it seems like nobody ask for ADF position and frequencies? Personally, that would be really useful!

The A10C has VOR and ILS systems, frequencies to those would be nice as well.

Спасибо!:thumbup:

Can we add some general airport information as well, to make it more of a sectional chart? tower frequencies, ground service frequencies, Runway lengths, lighting info, etc. would be nice. I could probably provide these if needed.

Haven't read this post in detail but it seems like nobody ask for ADF position and frequencies? Personally, that would be really useful!

BaD CrC, the NDBs are there from the beginning. Individual (let’s say) beacons are marked with position, name, frequency and call sign, while Instrumental Approach NDBs are just marked on the map, without any data, but in the left bottom corner of the map, there is a table with type, frequency and call sign. So if you want to find the info of let’s say outer NDB for runway 23L on Krasnodar-Pashkovsky airport, just look in the table.

The reason for this kind of approach is because I didn’t want to overload the map.

I was also thinking to add Morse Codes symbols for each NDB in the table.

The A10C has VOR and ILS systems, frequencies to those would be nice as well.

Yes, if we manage to get them. :)

Can we add some general airport information as well, to make it more of a sectional chart? tower frequencies, ground service frequencies, Runway lengths, lighting info, etc. would be nice. I could probably provide these if needed.

Pyroflash I absolutely support you with this idea, but I think it would overload the map with data.

Actually I was planning to make “Jeppesen-style” Airport Charts for the 16 airports we have in BS and FC2.0.

So, NOTHING fancy, just like IRL.

And yes, if you can provide additional information, like taxiway names, parking position numbers, etc. it would be great, and I think usefull.

These charts can then easily be printed on A5 size in B&W, and put in your kneeboard, together with your other check-lists.

Let’s think about this, but after the final version of the map is released.

So the map could be front & back. Front with the entire DCS/FC2 region and the back divided 16 times for all the airport charts in game??

So the map could be front & back. Front with the entire DCS/FC2 region and the back divided 16 times for all the airport charts in game??

Well, I see you point, but I think it would be easier for the user to have “small” (like A5) Airport Charts for each airport, then to have to flip 140x110cm map.

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Hi Nate - that's a good idea. I'll contact Igormk to explore options.

I'd be willing to buy something like this, especially a laminated version you could draw on and wipe clean.

This is excellent work! And sorely needed!

I would also buy a nice quality laminated version of each map!

When full version (~16000x12000pixels) will be available for download? What are the paper dimensions? Larger then A0? If so - what are the necessary dimensions of paper to print it on 1 sheet? I have already found a company which will print the map for me and laminate. I just need it in properly scaled PDF format :)

, and IGORMK has finished the map!

Great news :thumbup:

!!! wonderful!!

, and IGORMK has finished the map!

 

Great news :thumbup:

Oh, I still have couple of things to do! ;)

Oh, I still have couple of things to do! ;)

My ploter printer is warmed up, just waiting on the max resolution possible before I print this up poster size, heck, might as well make it as a wallpaper for my wall, lol ;)

Well, hurry up!! :smilewink:

My ploter printer is warmed up, just waiting on the max resolution possible before I print this up poster size, heck, might as well make it as a wallpaper for my wall, lol ;)

Patience, patience guys! :)

I’m intensively working on it. Now I’m redrawing all the roads since they are important visual reference and hardly visible when printed. You can just imagine how slow and boring process it is! I think that I’ve draw at least 40000km in last couple of days. :bored:

After that I’m thinking on redrawing power-lines and railroads, possibly bridges too.

Beside that I’m still waiting for confirmation of precision of the MGRS grid, and testing geodetic grid precision on many positions on the map.

Good news is that I’m on vacation from Monday so I will have plenty of time to “have fun” with redrawing and stuff like that. ;)

Still I’m very happy that your support for this project is HUGE so thank you all!!!

Salute!

Patience, patience guys! :)

 

I’m intensively working on it. Now I’m redrawing all the roads since they are important visual reference and hardly visible when printed. You can just imagine how slow and boring process it is! I think that I’ve draw at least 40000km in last couple of days. :bored:

 

After that I’m thinking on redrawing power-lines and railroads, possibly bridges too.

 

Beside that I’m still waiting for confirmation of precision of the MGRS grid, and testing geodetic grid precision on many positions on the map.

 

Good news is that I’m on vacation from Monday so I will have plenty of time to “have fun” with redrawing and stuff like that. ;)

 

 

Still I’m very happy that your support for this project is HUGE so thank you all!!!

 

Salute!

You're a better man than me, I'd have given up in a fit of throw keyboards and mice within minutes of starting such a project. I'll certainly buy a couple whatever the price given the work you've put into it. I'm glad there are people with your patience around to do such things.

Here's looking forward to the end result.

Since there was a long time since my last update of how are the things with the map going, I want to give you few information regarding to the progress of the map.

When I printed a small segment of the map to see how it would look like, I discovered a problem because roads, bridges, power-lines and railroads were so thin that were hardly visible. Having in mind that they are important references I’ve decided to redraw them completely, and it took SOME of my time to do it. Maybe it looks easy, but let me just say that there are more than 1300 bridges on the map, and don’t even let me start talking about roads… so it was very time-consuming. Now it is finished, and I’m sending you a segment to see the result. As you can see, power lines and railroads have new symbology now.

In the mean time (while waiting for the confirmation of MGRS grid precision) I plan to add antennas (which I will have to search visually), add many more altitudes of peaks, and few more things in the legend, and of course, to make a cover for the folded map.

So if everything goes as planned, I hope that the map will be finished in max 2 weeks from now.

I’m sending you also low res picture of roads and bridges layer only. See, there are more of them than you can imagine!:D

Salute!

Sample:

Bridges:

Roads:

thanks for the effort you are putting into this!

cheers

Peter

good work.