How do you start on the ground??

[LouP73]

I liked the old tool much better.  Can't start at an airport now.

[RogueSqdn]

Edit your flight group. There will be an option for ground starts. 

[LouP73]

Not seeing how to do that.  When I open the mission editor, a lot of options are not available.

[LouP73]

If I do it at the start by pressing the "edit" button next to "Allied Groups", the only option available to me is "air"

[RogueSqdn]

What aircraft are you using?  I used the F-16 and have Air, runway, parking from hot and cold. 

[LouP73]

I don't have the f-16, I was trying it out with the F15C and the P51.  Neither would work for me.  Can't put the thing on the ground.  I tried dragging it to an airport on the map and that didn't work, either.  This is not good.

Don't become another MSFS, I thought I got away from that mess.

OK, just tried again with the P51 and it worked.  I think I borked my dcs trying so hard to get it to work.

[LouP73]

Just test the FW190A8 and that works, also.  I'll go back and try the F15C again to see if it works better now.

[LouP73]

I think it's the mission type that's driving this as it doesn't work with the f15 and there are only air battle missions available for that aircraft.  Doing some more testing.  BTW, thanks for the help.

[NineLine]

Yes, it is the mission type that decides this, in order to make a quick dogfight mission having the player start from the ground would not be ideal for example.

With a stationary target such as for ground attack, it makes more sense. Because the F-15C doesn't have any sort of ground capabilities, it has no mission for ground start.

[western_JPN]

Start from the ground is not suitable for "Dogfight" or "BVR" missions, I see.

How about "Bomber Intercept" ?
No CAP air forces scramble to coming enemy bombers from HAS near the runway end.

[BluesRocket]

I really like the concept improvement from Quick Mission. But I think giving a uniform approach to missions equally across the modules would have been nice. As indicated above, bomber intercept on scramble makes perfect sense for the F-15C. Let the USER decide the mission. Why write code to limit this?

Still, I like using the QAG to create missions when learning a new airframe, so it will get a LOT of use from me...

[NineLine]

8 hours ago, western_JPN said:

Start from the ground is not suitable for "Dogfight" or "BVR" missions, I see.

How about "Bomber Intercept" ?
No CAP air forces scramble to coming enemy bombers from HAS near the runway end.

I agree a 'Scramble' type intercept makes a lot of sense. That I will suggest.

[LouP73]

I think all that is needed is another category like "free flight" so you can load any aircraft from any start point for practice or just cruising.

LouP

[NineLine]

4 hours ago, LouP73 said:

I think all that is needed is another category like "free flight" so you can load any aircraft from any start point for practice or just cruising.

LouP

Most aircraft come with free flight missions on most maps, they are also incredibly easy to create, I don't think a Mission Generator is needed for such a mission. 

Also, you can do this with the Generator in most cases by deleting the targets, for example:
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