Announcement - new A-10C DLC training campaign

[MirabelleBenou]

Hello !

 

Any news for this one ? :)

 

Thanks !

Have a nice day.

[overalien]

++bump. I am also very keen on some new challenges.

 

 

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[Yurgon]

I hope it's okay to post this here; this update was posted just the other day on Baltic Dragon's Discord.

 

This training campaign is called "Iron Flag".

 

[BuzzU]

It looks like some waiting is left. Q2 2020 for first 10 missions. Q1 2021 for the last 10 missions.

[FullMetalJacket]

I just wanted to chime in and say I registered here specifically to comment on how excited I am for this. I'm new to DCS and really enjoying the A10C.

 

I cant wait to see this released! I hope it is still going along on schedule.

[sze5003]

Eagerly waiting for this ever since I've heard of it. I just wish the new cockpit textures also arrive by then.

[Eaglewings]

I am curious, is this released already? Bought some A-10C campaigns few hours ago and just found this thread. I cannot seems to find this campaign in Ed's shop list.

Looks like one that would ease my re-entry into the A-10C again with the gorgeously looking new cockpit which is at this stage a work in progress.

[tintifaxl]

It's not released yet.

[flyingscotsman]

I need retraining having been away from the A-10C for ages as new aircraft have come along. Happy to fork out for this

[Eaglewings]

I need retraining having been away from the A-10C for ages as new aircraft have come along. Happy to fork out for this

Maple basic flight training for A-10C has been putting me on the edge each time I am to get my flight rating.

It has been a good learning campaign. Doing the Startup, emergency landing, flying traffic pattern and precision landing has been very rewarding.

 

Long absence from the A-10C made passing startup mission and proper shutdown very frustrating. The FE was very unforgiving but I got the whole process memorized now without using a displayed checklist.

Edited December 27, 2019 by Eaglewings

[sze5003]

Maple basic flight training for A-10C has been putting me on the edge each time I am to get my flight rating.

It has been a good learning campaign. Doing the Startup, emergency landing, flying traffic pattern and precision landing has been very rewarding.

 

Long absence from the A-10C made passing startup mission and proper shutdown was very quite frustrating. The FE was very unforgiving but I got the whole process is memorized now without using a displayed checklist.

I have those campaigns too and was waiting for these missions to be out while doing maple flag missions. I got all the way to the tactical training campaign and stopped there a long time ago. I remember the emergency landing mission when I had to do it there was a bug where the jet became completely unresponsive with only left hydraulic failure. I think that's been fixed though by now.

 

I remember testing out the missions Baltic made for this training and they are top notch; the instructions are clear, concise and the instructor is super accommodating. So I can't wait for them to be out as well. With all the modules that have come out I miss being in the hog. Definitely need a refresher so I can continue the enemy within 3.0 too.

[Eaglewings]

I remember the emergency landing mission when I had to do it there was a bug where the jet became completely unresponsive with only left hydraulic failure.

 

I remember testing out the missions Baltic made for this training and they are top notch; the instructions are clear, concise and the instructor is super accommodating. So I can't wait for them to be out as well. With all the modules that have come out I miss being in the hog. Definitely need a refresher so I can continue the enemy within 3.0 too.

 

I am not sure of the hydraulic pressure bug.

When I put off my right engine as instructed, my aircraft became lopsided. I thought this was normal, had to use lots of roll trim to compensate to land successfully. Watched Recon Stewart video of same mission and noticed the APU & APU gen was switched on after right engine turned off. This may have helped in him getting a relatively stable landing.

 

 

This would be an absolutely good time to have Baltic training mission for the A-10C released. Hoping we could get a sniff of what the state is with that campaign.

[sze5003]

That mission where u gotta make an emergency landing at the abandoned airfield? You have to set FLT CONT switch to MAN REVERSION. That way you get back some control.

 

 

Furthermore, you can bail out at any time and still win the mission.

 

 

I had a bit of a hard time with that one, too.

I remember setting it to MAN Reversion but I had a very difficult time with control on the way down. Even people in recon Stewart's YouTube video comments mentioned the same.

 

I had no idea that you could bail out and still win.

[NC-Boomer]

Newbie question...I looked around and couldn't find this campaign. Can one of you veterans point to where I need to go to download it?

 

 

Thanks

[Eaglewings]

That mission where u gotta make an emergency landing at the abandoned airfield? You have to set FLT CONT switch to MAN REVERSION. That way you get back some control.

 

 

Furthermore, you can bail out at any time and still win the mission.

 

 

I had a bit of a hard time with that one, too.

 

Oh the MAN REVERSION would be interesting to try.

Was the instruction to land on an abandoned airfield? In my case I made it back to Batumi airbase where I got my mostly Q minus rating.

Perhaps the mission have since been updated.

The Baltic Training mission would really be amazingly detailed. I flew the first mission demo, took almost one hours to get system setup and bird rolling.

Happy this is done for the NTTR map and wish Ed's ATC upgrade for the airfield is ready so one can do proper atc approach and departure procedure mission.

[Eaglewings]

Didn't try it tbh, but FE was like 'you may also eject'. Flight controls were indeed extremely difficult, but I managed to do it after a couple of times.

I get the mission you are talking about now.

Presently on it and not easy so far.

Man Reversion on seems make the aircraft wobbles unconttollably. Have flew the mission twice now and in the first I cannot deploy my speedbreak to get to landing speed, moreso that airfield is rather too short.

Second mission did not trigger the part where I am instructed to shutdown the engines and I strayed in military zone while waiting for that to happen.

Looks like I would just eject next time since I am given that route.

[sze5003]

Hi,

 

 

I've been talking about the 'Practice Emergencies' mission, I guess it was mission 8. That landing with all the system failures was brutal, took me A LOT of trys.

 

After I was done, I realized that I could just have ejected. At least I think so, but might be worth a try.

Yes someone also told me that you can still pass the mission if you eject.

[Eaglewings]

Yes someone also told me that you can still pass the mission if you eject.

I eject once, and I got "You damaged the aircraft" message from the the FE.

That rated me unqualified.

I landed overshooting the runway, barged into the perimeter fence and damaged the front strut with fire on the broken wings. This gave "You managed to get the bird on the ground" message and I passed.

On my first landing and running off the runway, the aircraft blew up, got a bad rating in that instance.

 

The instruction was you can eject if you cannot perform the emergency landing but did not seem to work except there are other conditions that has to be met when ejecting.

Edited January 10, 2020 by Eaglewings

[Yurgon]

Err, guys, I'm sure there's a better place to discuss that mission than a thread for an as of yet unreleased campaign by an entirely different author. ;)

[Rudel_chw]

Err, guys, I'm sure there's a better place to discuss that mission than a thread for an as of yet unreleased campaign by an entirely different author. ;)

 

 

+1 yes, it is very rude of them to hijack the OP thread.

 

 

Unfortunately it's been a fairly common attitude lately on this Forum. Not much one can do about it, other than adding such people to the ignore list :(

[Eaglewings]

Attention drawn. Wao, guilty as charged here.

I must admit I have completely lost track of the topic here. Rudeness is honestly not intended,

I am current doing those maple missions and was easy to forget the topic of the open post.

 

Apologies fellows

 

In the spirit of staying on topic, any idea what is the state of this campaign? I know Baltic Dragon would have his hands filled with Raven One for the Hornet at the moment.

 

The demo mission of this campaign was really quite detailed and close to what I would imagine is obtainable in the real world scenerio.

[Chaz]

Any updates on Iron Flag Training? Will it be compatible for A-10C II?

Edited September 19, 2020 by Chaz

[tintifaxl]

The A-10C II will surely raise interest for such a campaign. It would be common business sense to use the new version in it. But there is only one mission from 2016 and then nothing for 4.5 years - sadly it looks pretty much abadoned, atm.

[Yurgon]

[...] sadly it looks pretty much abadoned, atm.

 

There's a discussion going on on Baltic Dragon's discord about how A-10C II will affect this campaign. Sounds like development is still very much active and ongoing. ;)

[sze5003]

I remember testing quite a few of these missions back then but of course with the new A-10C-II there's probably several things that most likely will have to be tweaked and updated to fit the new model. BD has never let us down, saying it's abandoned is far fetched. It may take longer but remember in the end it will be all worth it..assuming ED patches don't break stuff as soon as it's out lol.