drPhibes Posted September 25, 2020 Posted September 25, 2020 (edited) As a follow-up to my old Persian Gulf beacon mod, I have started working on a similar mod for the Syria map. The planned features (so far) are: ICLS beacons for all runways that currently have ILS TACANs colocated witht the GP beacons, giving distance to the touchdown point. The TACAN channel will be paired with the LOC freq. All VOR-DME beacons will be converted to VORTAC. Are there any known ILS sites that are missing from the map? I'm open to user requests, so if there's something you would like added I'll look into it when the points mentioned above are finished. Here's a quick preview, with an ICLS approach to Beirut RWY 16: Download here: https://github.com/adler357/DCS-Syria Edited September 28, 2020 by drPhibes added DL url 1
JagHond Posted September 26, 2020 Posted September 26, 2020 :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: Thanks a lot in advance! With best regards.
drPhibes Posted September 27, 2020 Author Posted September 27, 2020 Progress report: All ICLS beacons have ben added. 6 out of the 11 beacons have been tested. Here's a screenshot of a test flight at Khmeimim/Bassel Al-Assad, RWY 17R:
fagulha Posted September 27, 2020 Posted September 27, 2020 Thank you in advance! eager to try. Best regards, F. About carrier ops: "The younger pilots are still quite capable of holding their heads forward against the forces. The older ones have been doing this too long and know better; sore necks make for poor sleep.' PC: 14th I7 14700KF 5.6ghz | 64GB RAM DDR5 5200 CL40 XMP | Gigabyte RTX 4080 Super Aero OC 16 GB RAM GDDR6X | Thermalright Notte 360 RGB | PSU Thermaltake Though Power GF A3 Snow 1050W ATX 3.0 PCIE 5.0 / 1 WD SN770 1TB M.2 NVME + 1 SSD M.2 2TB + 2x SSD SATA 500GB + 1 Samsung 990 PRO 4TB M.2 NVME (DCS only) | Valve Index| Andre´s JeatSeat.
rrohde Posted September 28, 2020 Posted September 28, 2020 Awesome - thank you :thumbup: PC: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X | MSI Suprim GeForce 3090 TI | ASUS Prime X570-P | 128GB DDR4 3600 RAM | 2TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD | Win10 Pro 64bit Gear: HP Reverb G2 | JetPad FSE | VKB Gunfighter Pro Mk.III w/ MCG Ultimate VKBcontrollers.com
davidp57 Posted September 29, 2020 Posted September 29, 2020 (edited) Good idea ! Is it a lot of work ? I'd love to see this in the Caucasus, too... Edited September 29, 2020 by davidp57 Zip - VEAF :pilotfly: If you want to learn, talk and fly with french-speaking friends, the Virtual European Air Force is here for you ! Meet us on our Discord and our forum If you're a mission creator, you may want to check the VEAF Mission Creation Tools (and its GitHub repository) a set of open-source scripts and tools that make creating a dynamic mission a breeze !
fagulha Posted September 29, 2020 Posted September 29, 2020 Thank you! :) About carrier ops: "The younger pilots are still quite capable of holding their heads forward against the forces. The older ones have been doing this too long and know better; sore necks make for poor sleep.' PC: 14th I7 14700KF 5.6ghz | 64GB RAM DDR5 5200 CL40 XMP | Gigabyte RTX 4080 Super Aero OC 16 GB RAM GDDR6X | Thermalright Notte 360 RGB | PSU Thermaltake Though Power GF A3 Snow 1050W ATX 3.0 PCIE 5.0 / 1 WD SN770 1TB M.2 NVME + 1 SSD M.2 2TB + 2x SSD SATA 500GB + 1 Samsung 990 PRO 4TB M.2 NVME (DCS only) | Valve Index| Andre´s JeatSeat.
drPhibes Posted September 30, 2020 Author Posted September 30, 2020 Good idea ! Is it a lot of work ? I'd love to see this in the Caucasus, too... If there is ILS at a site it's easy to add ICLS, since the coordinates of the beacons are already given in beacons.lua. Once the coordinates are known, all you need to do is to define a channel and frequency. Actually, I haven't checked if both a channel and frequency is necessary. The reason why I'm not sure of this is that the function for calculating calculating channel frequencies in DCS is 15415000000 + 30000000 * ((channel - 1) % 10), which wraps around after channel 10 (given by the modulo operator), giving the same frequency for channel 1 and 11, 2 and 12 etc. Adding a cmpletely new beacon requires more work, as described here. The process is the same for all landing aids (ILS, PRMG, ICLS): https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4490548&postcount=46 TonyG has made a similar mod for the Caucasus map: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=227653
davidp57 Posted September 30, 2020 Posted September 30, 2020 Cool, thanks a lot for all the info ! Take care ! Zip - VEAF :pilotfly: If you want to learn, talk and fly with french-speaking friends, the Virtual European Air Force is here for you ! Meet us on our Discord and our forum If you're a mission creator, you may want to check the VEAF Mission Creation Tools (and its GitHub repository) a set of open-source scripts and tools that make creating a dynamic mission a breeze !
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