Kiowa Kitchen [OH-58 Trainer]

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Version 20241208 (Fog)

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The Kiowa is an agile, capable and fun helicopter that practically begs you to try everything it can do.

"Kiowa's Kitchen" is a fun little training mission for aspiring and proficient Kiowa Warriors alike to sharpen their skills in:

• cold-start
• hover training (stay inside the circle)
• Approach and Landing (land inside the circle placed on the Runway's numbers)
• Naval Ops: Approach and landing on oil rigs and moving ships
• Air-to-Air combat with stinger and cannon (make sure not to engage the civilian flights!)
• APKWS self-lasing
• APKWS drone lasing
• Navigation
• L2MUM 
• Gunship Training 
• Hellfire Training 
• Formation flight: similar, dissimilar and intercept 
• Target spotting and designation for an Apache (requires co-op Apache pilot)
• All of the above, and with fog

All rolled into one little, fun mission. For better training results, unlimited munitions is enabled and enemies endlessly re-spawn.

This mission is fully multiplayer capable.

Details:

Air-to-Air 
There are two RED helicopters, circling above Novorossiysk Bay, just north of the airfield. These helicopters will not return fire 

Air-To-Ground 
There are two enemy groups, with routes set up in your navigation system. You'll find one in Gelendzhik, some 20 km east of Novorossiysk. Your goal is to destroy these vehicles by yourself, or lase them for a friend in their Apache (requires said friend to fly the Apache).
Another group is located in a valley some 20 km west of Novorossiysk. A reaper drone is lasing targets for you, and you can tell the reaper drone to cycle targets. 

Both groups will engage you should they detect you and get too close. The western group is far more dangerous than the eastern. Both groups respawn endlessly. 

Formation Flight / Intercept
Choose which kind of formation fight you want to participate in. After you chose your buddy, they will appear straight in front of you, flying your heading. Close the distance and follow the lead helicopter 

Weather control:
Go to communications->Other and choose the fog setting that you like, or let the mission surprise you

Edited December 8, 2024 by cfrag

[MAXsenna]

Thanks @cfrag

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[cfrag]

Version 20240702 (some polishing)

• Better dissimilar airframe random selection
• Naval Ops: added two Tarawa-based Kiowas
• Some more scenery objects 
• Map has labels for locations 

Enjoy,

-ch

[cfrag]

Version 20240727

• Made Tower GND chatter optional
• Corrected some hot/cold naming and behavior 
• Added code to counteract some of DCS' bugs that were introduced with the Jul-11 and Jul-22 updates

Enjoy,

-ch

 

[cfrag]

Version 20241208 - Fog by the menu!

Added DCS's new fog capabilities to the mission, so you can try your hand at flying in the soup.

Edited December 8, 2024 by cfrag

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

Thank you!