Mission 03: info about departure rejoin? KB CAS maps?

[GumidekCZ]

I was told to do CASE I departure with 1minute separation. --- No info about rejoin, which altitude, speed and formation like briefed in MSN04 (" We’re
taking off behind Blade and Psycho, and let’s join on the 040 at 20, angels 5.")

I have in my KB WP1 as 20k feet, so I fly this and #2 went RTB because I didnt joined him. Why? Because he was flying down at 5k 10nm in front of me.
Why he didnt made a climb to 20k, because mission editor WP is set to 5k! We are supposed to conserve fuel, no burn it fast at low alt, me trying to catch SMOKE at his 350KTS, me burning fuel at 0.9 Mach. Also Question is, why the 1 minute separation betwen flight members cat launch?

BTW I so sad that even today at 2023, the DCS AI still cant do proper CASE I departure (climb and turn only after 7nm from carrier)

Also, every CAS, CAP, .. whatever mission the pilot have, he will have good maps in his KB of to AO area. We have only the VERY poor ones - high scale, poor resolution DCS maps! Would be nice to have some better ones in mission KB made by @baltic_dragon. On top of that, the DCS ground textures there at IRAQ are so washed, so you can barelly recognize any road, so instructing CAS flight by JTAC with roads talkon, is here not very lucky idea! I would expect some better way of pointing at target location on these DCS map washed outskirts.

CAS mission always requires FULL catridge of Flares. In mission we have only 28 from awaylable 60.

Oh, and the last patch messed with Hornet skin Lua, so now the Raven look like this:        - someone from Baltic team will have to fix Lua for Hornets skins. FLIPs skin Lua file edited by me and attached to this post.

At the end, the mission was good. Ingress and egress is quite boring if you have not at least some music with you. I recommend to players to prepare some mp3 before mission and enjoy it! Adding battle damage checks and Fence-out checks by Baltic into mission would be nice - to spend some time on boring egress.

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Edited April 21, 2023 by GumidekCZ
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[baltic_dragon]

Hey! 

As for the area, I had to put the action there to be able to recreate this iconic mission from the Raven One book - and had to build the city there from scratch using the statics. I know this is not perfect and I had a lot of doubts whether I should go ahead with it, but in the end decided the sortie is worth it. 

As for the maps - I can use what we have in DCS, I am not capable of producing additional maps. Or maybe I could but it would take a crazy amount of time which I don't really have (I am struggling to fix bugs / work on new content in 2-3h I have a day for DCS already).

 

As for rejoin - if it is added to the briefing it is mostly for flavour, because DCS AI will do its own thing anyway. The only difference is if you are to join up at a specific waypoint, but normally you have to treat it lightly...