Mirage F1 Fighter Weapons School - training campaign 2023 +++ updated +++

[MAXsenna]

18 minutes ago, Don Rudi said:

That raises a question - currently the air to ground targets are spread over the island and are more or less real opponents.

If I turned it into a "real" training and created a range, like a mini version of Deci from Sardinia, with "artificial" targets - would that be still interesting? 

Additionally you mean? Yeah, that could be cool!

EDIT: I really admire all of you with mission making skills. I am slowly dabbering into it myself. Have you seen the "Sidekick" videos with the F1? He's using some type of script of how accurate you are. That would fit right in on a static target range. 

Edited August 30, 2022 by MAXsenna

[Don Rudi]

1 hour ago, MAXsenna said:

Additionally you mean? Yeah, that could be cool!

EDIT: I really admire all of you with mission making skills. I am slowly dabbering into it myself. Have you seen the "Sidekick" videos with the F1? He's using some type of script of how accurate you are. That would fit right in on a static target range. 

 

I have a similar script, though somewhat simpler, but good enough for the purpose.

Actually his first video is what triggered me to create this training series. He used a trial and error method and stated the F1 was good enough for area targets only. I had to "defend" the honour of my favourite plane  

[Morskoul]

Thanks @Don Rudi!

 

[MAXsenna]

I have a similar script, though somewhat simpler, but good enough for the purpose.
Actually his first video is what triggered me to create this training series. He used a trial and error method and stated the F1 was good enough for area targets only. I had to "defend" the honour of my favourite plane  

Haha! That's awesome!

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[Don Rudi]

13 hours ago, MAXsenna said:

I also had some issues with the dive bombing mission, got hits but ended up with a tie.

I changed the scoring system and included it in the uploaded hotfix in the file library. Meanwhile you can grab this miz file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q2OJXCT2GvaTg1cBOrVs8pUvi0PbmYMa/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for pointing out the problem!

[clanitho]

On 8/31/2022 at 8:17 AM, Don Rudi said:

I changed the scoring system and included it in the uploaded hotfix in the file library. Meanwhile you can grab this miz file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q2OJXCT2GvaTg1cBOrVs8pUvi0PbmYMa/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for pointing out the problem!

Hello, do you think to update also the no campaign ? https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3325430/ (slot 05 and 11)

[Don Rudi]

51 minutes ago, clanitho said:

Hello, do you think to update also the no campaign ? https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3325430/ (slot 05 and 11)

The intercept Easy task slot is not affected, as in the mission set the PDF excerpt is not displayed. That was a new function for the campaign.

I can adapt the dive bombing scoring, though it has no impact on the mission set. I will have a look tomorrow morning

[clanitho]

4 hours ago, Don Rudi said:

The intercept Easy task slot is not affected, as in the mission set the PDF excerpt is not displayed. That was a new function for the campaign.

I can adapt the dive bombing scoring, though it has no impact on the mission set. I will have a look tomorrow morning

Thank you, merci

Edited September 1, 2022 by clanitho

[Apple]

Fantastic! I'll give it a shot. Small hint: Bogeys don't reside on Angels, only friendlies do. Either just feet or flight level ....

 

[Don Rudi]

On 9/22/2022 at 1:35 PM, Apple said:

Fantastic! I'll give it a shot. Small hint: Bogeys don't reside on Angels, only friendlies do. Either just feet or flight level ....

 

Thanks for the hint, I will keep it in mind when I update the campaign

There was a small bug in mission #9 - Laser guided bombs with JTAC. The drone would fly some weird patterns, though it kept lasing correctly.

It now flies a correct orbit as it should be.

I updated the campaign download file, but also uploaded a fix, incase you just want to exchange the single miz file:

Fix Mission #9

 

[BuzzLine]

Pfew ! Just finished the campaign and am now apparently "combat ready" !! 

Excellent work, I really enjoyed it. Being "forced" to employ various attack modes was really good for practice. I was surprised at how precise(-ish) the toss bombing was, given how crude are the tools we have. Also (not news) : I suck at air-to-air combat.  
I also struggled at times with the bombsight settings but I guess I'll just spend some more time on the range and find what works for me. (Sidekick made me discover the joys of iron bombing )
The "exam" missions were great, challenging at times (I had to refly a couple of times) but had that feel of passing a higher bar than the trainings, well done.

So great job @Don Rudi ! And many thanks for providing good entertainment and valuable experience. 

 

[Don Rudi]

@BuzzLine thank you so much for the kind words and feedback, I really appreciate it

I will expand the campaign "soon", to include the S530F and the new features of the EE, like aerial refueling and the INS. 

[lemoen]

Anyone else have terrible fps at the airfield? I had to remove the non-player stationary Mirage F1's from the mission which fixed the issue. It was drawing 25-50M triangles with those planes in the mission, without them about 4M

[Don Rudi]

1 hour ago, lemoen said:

Anyone else have terrible fps at the airfield? I had to remove the non-player stationary Mirage F1's from the mission which fixed the issue. It was drawing 25-50M triangles with those planes in the mission, without them about 4M

Thanks for the info. I will keep it in mind when I update the campaign for the EE version. In general the performance of the Syria map seems to have decreased recently

[lemoen]

4 minutes ago, Don Rudi said:

Thanks for the info. I will keep it in mind when I update the campaign for the EE version. In general the performance of the Syria map seems to have decreased recently

I'm in VR, away from the airfield it goes to 72fps on my quest2 and stays there mostly as I would expect given the graphical settings I have, but when I'm at the airfield or looking at it like when I come to land, it'll drop to 18fps. I think it has something to do with the shadows bug that is in the current version of DCS, those 6 or 7 planes really shouldn't have that big an effect on the performance.

[ak22]

Thank you for this

[xavnl]

Hi,

Nice campaign. Very useful while learning the Mirage F1.

Mission#2, it looks like the last zone, landing at Akrotiri is missing.

Image attached.

[Don Rudi]

On 9/14/2023 at 11:19 AM, xavnl said:

Hi,

Nice campaign. Very useful while learning the Mirage F1.

Mission#2, it looks like the last zone, landing at Akrotiri is missing.

Image attached.

Thanks for the hint, I will have a look.

Edited November 15, 2023 by Don Rudi

[Don Rudi]

Please see first post - I completely overhauled the campaign:

Changes compared to the old campaign are:
- reworked strukture, by dividing the campaign in basic, advanced, exam and graduaiton segments
- correction of all sight depression values
- Replaced the F1CE by the F1BE for the basic phase training
- Inclusion of the F1EE for the advanced and graduation phase
- Choise to select the F1CE or F1EE for the exam phase
- inclusion of new weapons (e.g. S.530F or Mk 83 bombs)
- inclusion of AAR tasks for the F1EE
- added appendices for INS alignment and INS waypoint creation in the manual
- 40 page instead of 28 page manual

The old version of the campaign had 1700+ downloads.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3334349/

[MAXsenna]

Thank you @Don Rudi! Much appreciated!  

[Don Rudi]

8 hours ago, MAXsenna said:

Thank you @Don Rudi! Much appreciated!  

Thanks
I have to apologise to the F1 community for taking so long. I promised to include the EE much earlier, but sometimes real life work takes over. It won't take this long when the F1M drops 

[Don Rudi]

Hello everybody,

I was notifyed that a bug slipped into my training campaign - in mission "basic 09 - JTAC/GBU" the lasercode of the bomb did not match the code used by the JTAC.
Both codes are now set to 1588.

I uploaded the mission as a fix, just paste it into your existing campaign folder. Sooy for the inconvenience.

--> https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3335244/

[TasDozer]

Fantastic campaign! Thanks very much

I marathoned through as far as the toss-bombing mission, which I skipped after five or six attempts... a technique like that, I need an airstart / infinite ammo scenario to practice with, and tbh I'm not likely to do it "in real life" (on ECW) so happy to let that particular skill slide...

Something I did not expect was to be setting up HOTAS binds to adjust the TACAN projected waypoint position - but it's very handy to have an in-cockpit view of your distance and direction from a calculated point. I'll be using TACANs a lot more as a result of this campaign!

Something which tripped me up on the first mission (only) - it wasn't obvious that you press Space to hide the popup of the mission briefing. Perhaps this could be included on the popup if they're ever revised? Not worth fixing by itself but just if they're changed for any other reason.

Thanks again - this is excellent quality!

PS - actually I'm also confused by how to make the targets fire back - the radio menu has "ROE Red" and "ROE Green" but which one lets them fire back? Is it Green=Go or Green=Safe?

edit: ROE Red means they'll shoot back

Edited April 7 by TasDozer

[TasDozer]

There's a bit of an issue with the LGB mission - the JTAC voice is very loud and distorted: