The Interesting Missions Generator

[emolina]

DCS has by FAR the most accurate aircraft and environment that I've seen.

[emolina]

Anyway, speaking of super-detailed aircraft, I made the missions for the A-10C today:

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=2899712#post2899712

[Yurgon]

This missions generator sounds like a very good way to sell them on DCS!

 

I think you have a point there. On the other hand, DCS has often been called a "sandbox", and as such, it's really up to the players what types of missions they want to fly. FSX and X-Plane don't offer combat, but DCS sure offers free flight/civilian flight without any use of weapons, so I'd say it should be very appealing to every flight sim enthusiast, whereas the strictly civilian ones aren't too interesting IMO because I really want to kill some pixels every now and then. :D

 

In any case, I agree that these missions could very well help make DCS more interesting to those who don't care about combat, but who like a good challenge. :thumbup:

[emolina]

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Hi everyone, today I uploaded 500 missions for the L-39 (both models) and the C-101:

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=174143

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=174142

 

Thank you all for your help getting these ready.

 

I've only got three more fixed wing aircraft to go before I start on the helicopters:

• MiG-21 (mission file already provided).
  
• M-2000 (mission file already provided).
  
• F-5E (no mission file yet).
  

 

Can I please ask someone that owns the F-5E to make up a mission file like I've described here ? https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2894456&postcount=33 It doesn't take too long and I would really appreciate it. I'm a bit of a completionist!

Edited September 16, 2016 by emolina

[emolina]

I've just fixed the issue where the L-39 flight plan used imperial units. Sorry about that!

[Midnight]

Thanks for this.

[emolina]

My pleasure!

Edited September 17, 2016 by emolina

[feefifofum]

Indeed, really nice project and I think we all really appreciate you making the effort to include even modules you don't fly!

[Grafit164DK]

Are you maybe planning to release missions for free TF-51?

[shagrat]

Are you maybe planning to release missions for free TF-51?

Wow, a fantastic idea!!! A real treat for newcomers who are undecided about DCS, to see what you can do with the "Sandbox"... Basically it is the P-51D without weapons. :)

[emolina]

I think it's a fantastic idea too, I'll get it done in the next couple of days.

Edited September 18, 2016 by emolina

[emolina]

Today I added the TF-51D to the list of planes.

 

I also fixed some radio frequency display issues on both variants of the L-39.

[emolina]

I've added the MiG-21 and Mirage 2000!

 

That is the last of the fixed wing aircraft I have templates for.

 

The only one left now is the F-5E, I would appreciate it if any owners of the module could make up a template file for me, it doesn't take long, instructions are in this post:

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2894456&postcount=33

 

If I could get that last template I would have 'Interesting Missions' for all the fixed wing modules.

[feefifofum]

On it. :)

 

EDIT: Here you go. Left cruising speed/altitude at 450 kts/32,000, seemed reasonable.

 

Not sure if you wanted max cruise, but if you did the interwebs say it's M0.97 (around 647kts) at 36000. If you need me to change it let me know.

f-5e.miz

Edited September 20, 2016 by feefifofum

[Ziggy123]

F-5e.miz

 

F-5E Short range cruise 100nm

 

275gal tank 2 x AIM-9

 

Cruising speed/altitude at 0.86M 420 KTAS /18,000 ft.

 

Imperial

f-5e.miz

Edited September 21, 2016 by Ziggy123
Updated mission file

[emolina]

Thank you Ziggy! that all sounds perfect.

[emolina]

Hi everyone, today I've uploaded the missions for the F-5E!

 

Which means all the fixed wing aircraft are done, thank you all very much for your help.

 

I also updated the Mirage 2000 missions, there was an issue where some of the more complicated failure modes weren't working. Fixed now.

[Ziggy123]

F-5E load out error

 

There appears to be an issue with the load out on all F-5 missions.

[emolina]

Ha! Yes, ahem, the dangers of making missions for modules you don't own!

 

I will have a look at it over the next couple of days. Thank you very much for letting me know.

[emolina]

Ok, I've (hopefully) fixed the F-5 load out error.

 

The fixed missions are ready for download.

[emolina]

Ok everyone, I've started to do another update to these, I will roll them out over the next week or two as I get them generated. It takes a couple of hours to do them for each plane so I can't do them all at once.

 

I was unsatisfied with the weather in the earlier batch. I originally intended the weather to be much more of a 'character' in these missions, but I've found myself not really considering it much during the preparation for a flight.

 

The only real concern I ever had with it earlier was that if I took off from a low-lying airfield, my destination airfield would often be under cloud cover so I could just not go. I tend to fly the Sabre around and without SOME visibility on approach I can't land.

 

I don't think a flight abort due to weather is much fun at all, I want to have to consider the weather, but if the only thing it adds is a cloud base check at the start of a mission then I've failed in making the weather interesting.

 

My aim in this update is to increase the amount of instrument flights, provide more challenging take-off and landings and increase the amount of icing you may experience.

 

The main difference is that from difficulty level 5 you will start to get many more days with complete, or almost complete cloud cover. The cloud layer can also be a lot thicker but the cloud base is normally higher.

 

I hope this will equate to us spending more time on instruments, and even if the cloud layer is not thicker, the higher amount of coverage will force us to do more radio or DR navigation.

 

Temperatures are now more likely to be lower from difficultly 7 and onwards, which combined with thicker cloud cover should get us thinking more about icing.

 

Mission start times have changed too. I noticed that in the middle of the day there really isn't much of a difference in the mission if it starts a a few hours earlier or later. So I've reduced the amount of missions in that time and added more at the start and end of the day where the lighting conditions are changing. The amount of full-night missions should remain about the same.

 

There is an increase in the wind speed from difficulty level five onwards, I've not tested it much yet, I think it may still need some more.

 

I've also doubled the turbulence you may get from about difficulty level 3.

 

In other changes, I've added Maykop-Khanskaya to the airports list and allowed flights to be around 50 kilometres longer. Those two changes have greatly increased the flight plans you may get.

 

Take-off time for all aircraft is now at least 15 minutes.

 

The increased wind was having a big effect on ground tracks so I've made it so that the data you get from the 'Flight Plan' radio menu also tells you your ground track.

 

I've also loosened the timing restrictions so that you'll get a perfect score if you are within 10 seconds of the take-off time and 40 seconds of the landing time.

 

The aircraft that have the updated missions so far are:

 

- Sabre

- Both variants of the L-39

- Both variants of the P-51

- Hawk

- BF-109

- FW-190

- MiG-15

- F-5E

 

Thank you all for your support in getting all the aircraft into the generator!

 

I hope you enjoy the new missions.

 

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Edited October 2, 2016 by emolina

[Yurgon]

Sounds like a lot of great changes, thanks a lot for your continued hard work! :thumbup:

[emolina]

Thanks Yurgon!

 

I run into a bit of an issue last night, the higher winds are having too much of an effect on dead reckoning. It's not easy to compensate for wind drift so I'm going to try and incorporate a course indicator in the little info block that you can ask for in-mission.

[emolina]

Hi everyone, the higher winds were being a bit of an issue with following the flight plan unless we did wind correction too but I thought that was a bit too much.

 

So I've added a ground track readout in the 'Flight Plan' radio menu.

 

I've also loosened the timing restrictions so that you'll get a perfect score if you are within 10 seconds of the take-off time and 40 seconds of the landing time.

[emolina]

Updated the F-5E missions to include the stuff in post #96.