Weegie Posted January 5, 2018 Posted January 5, 2018 (edited) I'm working on this on & off Not sure if anybody else is interested. As I'm hopeless at remembering where all the fields are, have only a single monitor and excellent as Lino's map is, it's just a bit too complex for a quick "on the fly" look at where the fields are relative to each other So I'm making this, the lines will have distance and headings, possibly runway headings too. The idea is to make something really simple that can be either printed to an A3 sheet or just looked at quickly to give basic info If anybody has any ideas, criticisms, suggestions or amendments please speak up. If its a success I'll possibly try something similar with Normandy and Nevada So for those who don't want to trawl through finding the download (and I cannot blame you) Here is the link to finding it in the downloads section https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3133796/ Edited January 29, 2018 by Weegie Added download link 3
funkyfranky Posted January 5, 2018 Posted January 5, 2018 Looks interesting and very useful :) A warrior's mission is to foster the success of others. i9-12900K | RTX 4090 | 128 GB Ram 3200 MHz DDR-4 | Quest 3 RAT - On the Range - Rescue Helo - Recovery Tanker - Warehouse - Airboss
Buckeye Posted January 5, 2018 Posted January 5, 2018 If it can be made into portrait, this would make for a very useful Kneeboard page (assuming F10 is turned off) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Rig: SimLab P1X Chassis | Tianhang Base PRO + Tianhang F-16 Grip w/ OTTO Buttons | Custom Throttletek F/A-18C Throttle w/ Hall Sensors + OTTO switches and buttons | Slaw Device RX Viper Pedals w/ Damper Tactile: G-Belt | 2x BK LFE + 1x BK Concert | 2x TST-429 | 1x BST-300EX | 2x BST-1 | 6x 40W Exciters | 2x NX3000D | 2x EPQ304 PC/VR: Somnium VR1 Visionary | 4090 | 12700K
funkyfranky Posted January 5, 2018 Posted January 5, 2018 Yeah, I would also love this for the kneeboard in VR actually. Don't know if all info will fit in but would be great. A warrior's mission is to foster the success of others. i9-12900K | RTX 4090 | 128 GB Ram 3200 MHz DDR-4 | Quest 3 RAT - On the Range - Rescue Helo - Recovery Tanker - Warehouse - Airboss
Weegie Posted January 5, 2018 Author Posted January 5, 2018 If it can be made into portrait, this would make for a very useful Kneeboard page (assuming F10 is turned off) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Yeah that is a good idea and the initial idea was for it to be a kneeboard sheet option. I hate the way I have to constantly page all over the kneeboard to get information on geography. At the moment it's to scale, the fields were taken from Lino's map and then the map was deleted leaving only the field location. I'll use the Mission editor to get headings and distances. It should be easy to make both an imperial and metric version to suit on the aircraft you're flying Once I have the current version complete then I can abandon the scale and simply have the drawing as a schematic where the distance between the fields are not representative of true distance, but still retain some semblance of how they are related to each other with goal of a kneeboard page in mind Just reading Franky's last reply too, if I can't get into a page then I'd split it over several, but finding a way to squeeze all that info onto a page is a challenge. Might need to use field codes etc: to reduce clutter. I'll keep you guys posted it's simple stuff compared with what most of you do, but if it's going to help I'm willing to persevere and spend a bit of time on it
Emmy Posted January 5, 2018 Posted January 5, 2018 ATC Freq, Relative bearings, distances between, coordinates, runway orientations (just XX/XX) and field elevations at each would be cool. Great idea! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] http://www.476vfightergroup.com/content.php High Quality Aviation Photography For Personal Enjoyment And Editorial Use. www.crosswindimages.com
Emmy Posted January 6, 2018 Posted January 6, 2018 If it can be made into portrait, this would make for a very useful Kneeboard page (assuming F10 is turned off) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Split it in half and make an East page and a West page. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] http://www.476vfightergroup.com/content.php High Quality Aviation Photography For Personal Enjoyment And Editorial Use. www.crosswindimages.com
Weegie Posted January 7, 2018 Author Posted January 7, 2018 (edited) So here is the first complete attempt. There are probably mistakes, the distances & bearings were taken from Mission Editor so I'm ASS-uming True North. The distances are in Km and all airport info metric for now (until I compile a version in Imperial, Nautical Miles, Ft etc) So the idea is if flying from one field to another the first bearing read from the departure to the destination is the bearing you fly eg: Anapa to Krymsk you fly 091 Runways have elevations & headings, below that dimensions This was just to see if anybody had other ideas or wanted something changed Edited January 7, 2018 by Weegie Changed Image & Added more expalnation 3
sobe Posted January 16, 2018 Posted January 16, 2018 yes Trackir4 using the latest Trackir 5 software, Win10 Pro [Creator Update] updated from Win7Pro Pro 64Bit, Intel® Core™ i5-2500 3.30 GHz 6M Intel Smart Cache LGA115 , GigaByte GA-Z68XP-UD4 Intel Z68 Chipset DDR3 16GB Ram, GTX MSI Gaming 1060 [6 GB] Video Card, Main Monitor 1 on left 1920x1080 Touchscreen Monitor 2 on right 1920x1080 .
Weegie Posted January 17, 2018 Author Posted January 17, 2018 Ok you've convinced me I'll get to work on the Imperial version and put it up in the Downloads section Give me a few days I'll update the first post with a link when/if Ed deems it good enough If not I'll just put up a link in the first post to a Dropbox Thanks for letting me know John
Charly_Owl Posted January 17, 2018 Posted January 17, 2018 Very nice and useful initiative! Personally, I would use the distance in both km and nautical miles since most western aircraft use the imperial system (with the exception of the Viggen which uses swedish miles) and most russian aircraft use the metric system. Chuck's DCS Tutorial Library Chuck's Guides on Mudspike Chuck's Youtube Channel Chuck's Patreon
Cibit Posted January 17, 2018 Posted January 17, 2018 Great initiative cheers :) i5 8600k@5.2Ghz, Asus Prime A Z370, 32Gb DDR4 3000, GTX1080 SC, Oculus Rift CV1, Modded TM Warthog Modded X52 Collective, Jetseat, W10 Pro 64 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Adding JTAC Guide //My Vid's//229th AHB
MikeMikeJuliet Posted January 17, 2018 Posted January 17, 2018 Looks good. Something I would like to see as well is a similar map, but using only the given radio-navigation-aids for navigation. So if an airfield does not have any it either wouldn't be on the map, or is pointed to with the closest navaid. This would help a lot in navigating to each airfield "properly" using older aircraft. Regards, MikeMikeJuliet DCS Finland | SF squadron
Weegie Posted January 17, 2018 Author Posted January 17, 2018 You guys are starting to embarrass me Swedish mile = 10kliks I think so that means it could use the metric version Charly Owl (how are you & thank you for all the guides) I could certainly put the nautical miles and the Km on the map for distances so the metric version covers both (to an extent) but runway lengths, widths elevations will only be in metric, otherwise it will end being crowded and I'm trying to avoid that The imperial version will have imperial only and all elevations lengths etc: in feet MikeMikeJuliet I could have a crack at it later or if it's beyond me somebody else can take the Excel Sheet with the airports and butcher it to your requirements, I agree it's a very good idea. If your willing to give me some pointers I'll give it a go though John
Weegie Posted January 20, 2018 Author Posted January 20, 2018 Ok with nautical miles now in brackets Better quality version here https://www.dropbox.com/s/mj7k24px5rju4t3/Caucasus%20Schematic.jpg?dl=0 If anybody finds mistakes or goof ups just shout up :doh: Now to crack on with Imperial!!!!
Weegie Posted January 28, 2018 Author Posted January 28, 2018 (edited) Now submitted to Downloads section with some minor changes Should anybody want to incorporate into another document please let me know and I'll pass on the Excel file it was written in https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3133796/ Edited January 29, 2018 by Weegie Inserted link to download
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