Bitburg Air Base Project

[Ghostrida9]

Came to check out Bitburg Airbase.. layout seems to be ok.. far from perfect but ok, of course most building are inaccurate, wrong or missing as usual.

What i hope so far is that 3 things will be fixed for now.

1: There're 2 huge Hangars at a spot where 4 Concrete Shelters should be. I can pinpoint that later.

2: The whole Bunker area is completely missing ?!! (Picture bellow)

3: Please add "Windows" to the Main Tower 

But now... lets start with the first building.. Model is work in progress of course.

"Roether Memorial Zulu Alert Facility" 

[Rick Mave]

Very nice!
If you are looking for yet another airfield to take on after Bitburg, may I recommend the Fliegerhorst Pferdsfeld?
There are lots of very interesting buildings missing completely or incorrect building types placed in their stead.
Have a look here: 

Loving what you are doing with Gütersloh and now this!
 

[TheBigTatanka]

What do you think about the trees at Bitburg?  My dad flew F-100s there in the 1950s, and I have photos of him taxiing out with big conifer trees in the background. Everything on the cold war map in this area seems to be deciduous.  

[Ghostrida9]

@Rick Mave Thx Rick.. long story short, u already figured that almost every building is wrong, they should stick to a correct layout and let "us" do the job, a lot of time will pass before i can even think about to finish Gütersloh and maybe Bitburg. I looked at Pferdsfeld ones... even the layout is wrong so Pferdsfeld is a nogo for me until they fixed the layout. I saw they started to post Phase II stuff.. why?? Phase 1 is far from beeing a Cold war Germany map, at best it's a fictional Germany Map, and yes i live here and i'm born here so i know how it looks first hand. 

@TheBigTatanka I think trees is the least problem this map has so far.. but i get what u mean, it's a problem with all DCS maps, most Trees are still to big, or a bit wrong. MSFS handled this problem beautifully

Back to Bitburg.. so back then the Base looked like a US AB right.. with storage facilitys and all that. you get what i mean in this shot.. still today you can see most of the buildings on Google maps..

Now DCS.. some old WW2 factorys placed at the spot of the Storage facilitys...Ouch..

Here my model with some textures so far..

[Rick Mave]

9 hours ago, Ghostrida9 said:

@Rick Mave Thx Rick.. long story short, u already figured that almost every building is wrong, they should stick to a correct layout and let "us" do the job, a lot of time will pass before i can even think about to finish Gütersloh and maybe Bitburg. I looked at Pferdsfeld ones... even the layout is wrong so Pferdsfeld is a nogo for me until they fixed the layout. I saw they started to post Phase II stuff.. why?? Phase 1 is far from beeing a Cold war Germany map, at best it's a fictional Germany Map, and yes i live here and i'm born here so i know how it looks first hand. 

Yeah you are absolutely right. The biggest problem I have with all of the airbases at the moment is that they are all flat as a board.

And I believe that the upcoming update is still part of Phase 1, I have not seen them mentioning that this is part of Phase 2. Just fyi in case you missed it.

[TheBigTatanka]

I looked all over the base for the 22nd squadron ops building to no avail.  I have some squadron home movies from Bitburg on DVD that I need to see about uploading to YouTube.  If I'm able to (need to buy an external DVD reader) then I can link it here.   It's a base with such great heritage. 

 

And @Rick Mave -- I'd like to link up with you and get in on a Reforger event sometime, I can bring a flight of Phantoms most likely, or Eagles with sparrow.  Get in touch with me if you can -- you're doing good work. 

[Rick Mave]

10 hours ago, TheBigTatanka said:

And @Rick Mave -- I'd like to link up with you and get in on a Reforger event sometime, I can bring a flight of Phantoms most likely, or Eagles with sparrow.  Get in touch with me if you can -- you're doing good work. 

Thank you for the kind words. I will be in touch.

[Ghostrida9]

@Rick Mave yea you right, flat is also a problem, that makes Pferdsfeld also a nogo for me so far, it's those things that i could never fix, I would need to get access to the terrain editing tools they use. Elevation and all that can only be changed by UGRA, and ED can only fix the problem to make AI Aircraft less scared when you place something above them for a ramp start. So far when you create lets say a new Shelter, even without a collision model the Aircraft will automatically be moved to the next parking spot, something i really hope ED fixes cause it's annoying. Thanks @TheBigTatanka that would be nice, maybe you can also take a look into the last sentence i wrote since you with the closed Beta testers team, maybe you can adress this problem.

Another Update. Textures added, small changes need to be done from this stage on.. Next shoots will be ingame footage

 

[CarloVecchi]

Great progress Ghostrida9! 

Looking forward to this (and to Gütersloh).