Topgun505 Training Pack

[Topgun505]

EDIT (1/21/2012): I've added a new file along with the existing training pack (as a separate file). This file is a training mission that includes both A-10C and Black Shark 2 and supports up to 33 aircraft at once. This mission incorporates pretty much ALL weapons and air to ground and air to air roles you can expect to face (including air to air refueling).

 

Me and some of my squadron have been working on a set of training missions for a little bit now and I figured maybe the rest of the community might get some use out of them as well. These are fairly short missions which you can go through pretty quickly and most are very focused so you can concentrate on one particular aspect until you are ready for a more general mission. All of these missions are made as multiplayer so you can either play on your own server as a multiplayer solo, or fly with friends.

 

Included are:

 

Takeoff and landing - Up to 12 aircraft are supported. Here there are 2 sets of aircraft. One set ready to takeoff from the runway (so you don't have to worry about startup), and one set as air-start. In each of those groups 2 aircraft are nearly at 100% combat weight, 2 are at about 50% and 2 are clean and near empty so you can practice takeoffs and landings under various weight/aerodynamic configurations so you can get used to how the aircraft handles in all conditions.

 

Weapons training missions. In each of these there are several target groups of static targets including soft and hard vehicles, as well as light and heavy structures which will take varying degrees of accuracy to ensure a kill. The following weapons are covered:

 

Iron bombs: (low drag and high drag for CCIP and CCRP employment).

 

Cluster bombs: General purpose, anti-armor, wind corrected general purpose, and wind corrected anti-armor employment.

 

JDAM bombs: GBU-31 and 38 employment.

 

LGB bombs: LGB 10 and 12 employment.

 

Maverick missiles: Covers employment of light weight versions of the IR and electro-optical models.

 

Maverick missiles 2: Covers employment of the heavy-penetrator versions of the IR and electro-optical models.

 

Rockets: Covers employment of the Mk1 High Explosive, Mk5 Anti Tank, M151 Anti Personnel, M156 White Phosphorous smoke

 

Once you have mastered the basics you can move on to the Mixed Training mission. There the aircraft are ramp start so you can practice cold starting the aircraft and are armed with a wide mix of weapons. There are a wide variety of targets (and a LOT of them so there will be plenty of targets even if you have a number of people in the mission). There are also moving groups that spawn when you enter certain areas. There are also air units which spawn which vary from unarmed helicopters all the way up to top of the line air superiority fighters depending on various conditions. There are also groups of air defenses to practice against including AAA, IR SAMs and Radar guided SAMs as well as naval units.

 

I have provided 4 versions of the mixed mission.

 

Day LoDif (Day time, low difficulty). All external views enabled and all units showing on the map to ease new pilots in finding targets.

 

Night LoDif (Night time, low difficulty). All external views enabled and all units showing on the map to ease new pilots in finding targets. A-10s are also armed with a pod of illumination rockets for practice of illuminating an area.

 

Day HiDif (Day time, high difficulty). All external views disabled and all hostile units are hidden.

 

Night HiDif (Night time, high difficulty). All external views disabled and all hostile units are hidden. A-10s are also armed with a pod of illumination rockets for practice of illuminating an area.

 

This is still a WIP and not every missions has been exhaustively tested as of yet. Will post updates if there is interest.

Topgun505 Training Pack 1-6.zip

Training Mixed Weapons A10C BS2 LoDif Day.miz

Edited January 21, 2012 by Topgun505

[Bahger]

Topgun505, you have obviously put a lot of work into this mission pack and it's generous of you to share it with the rest of us. Downloading, rep inbound, looking forward to test-flying these missions. Thanks!

[andysim]

thanks!!

[shu77]

Nice contribution, top stuff

[Mirtma]

Tnx Topgun +1. Can be played as single player?

[Bahger]

Tnx Topgun +1. Can be played as single player?

Good point, I put them in my SP missions file, please advise...

[ScEBlack1]

Can we fly these as sp similiar to Dragons pack were we go to Multiplayer and use in LAN instead of online?

[Topgun505]

Since this was developed as a squadron tool it was developed with multi-player in mind. However, it can effectively be played solo by running it as a multi-player. Just choose New Server from the menu at the bottom of the screen when you run the Multi-player client. Since you are just playing it as a single player you don't even care if you have the right ports open or forwarded correctly on your router, nor care what your internal IP is, since nobody else will be connecting. Really doesn't take any longer to do that than to run a SP mission.

 

But, if you really want to run as a SP then run A-10 as SP, go to the Mission Editor from the main menu, open the mission you want to convert, and choose the Player 1 aircraft and change it from Client to Player and save. Done.

 

If you find any problems with the existing missions or have suggestions for additional missions let me know.

 

At some point I will be looking in to making a more realistic mission which includes JTAC and dynamic target assignments. And probably an air refueling mission (although I will probably wait on that since it sounds like the KC-135 AI logic is still pretty buggy).

 

EDIT: Yes, Jessi1, I'm sure you could run them that way as well.

Edited March 12, 2011 by Topgun505

[Steel Jaw]

We use a custom training range but your missions are a welcome addition for training as well. Thanx Topgun.

[Wayc00lio]

Thanks TopGun :-)

[wtfisgoingon]

Thanks muchly! :)

[Bahger]

I'm going to make a /DCS A-10/Missions/ folder for this mission pack, put them in it and play them with LAN settings in MP.

[dne48]

Great stuff. Thanks for the contribution. Another rep inbound from here.

[Succellus]

Very NICE rep in.

[Bruins]

Thanks very much for sharing.

[ravenone]

Great share... +1

 

~Rave

[CADelta]

Sounds like a solid training pack, great job Topgun505 :thumbup:

Downloading and will check em out soon.

 

Thank you Sir.

 

 

/Krycek

[Topgun505]

Thanks all. I will probably do a mod to the maverick missions in the near future. Will probably add a moving convoy which is composed of some APCs, ZSUs and a few other targets. The intention is so you can get practice selecting out a specific target and hitting it from range before you get within the threat envelope of the defending units. Will post them as additional attachments as they are completed.

 

EDIT: Ok, here it is. I only modded the first Maverick mission, simply because those aircraft are armed with 6 Mavericks each whereas the ones in Mav 2 only have 2 each so really just don't have enough Mavs to pick apart the convoy.

Training Maverick.miz

Edited March 13, 2011 by Topgun505

[Topgun505]

Some of the external views were not set in some missions. Corrected. Also added a low amount of Civ traffic and birds.

 

Added additional logic to the first Maverick mission as well as a little easter egg.

 

Added a 2nd takeoff and landing mission with dynamic weather.

[Topgun505]

Oops

 

My apologies to anyone who flew the Maverick mission before the release of the 1-3 version ... as you probably got surprised by the easter eggs ... which were supposed to be static targets and were NOT meant to take off. :) That's been fixed.

[ttaylor0024]

I tried the JDAM training mission last night and couldn't get it to work... You wouldn't spawn.

[Topgun505]

As mentioned at the beginning of the thread, you must launch this as a multi-player ... not single.

 

Since a lot of people seem to be having trouble with this I will go ahead and add an additional aircraft to each mission as a Player aircraft so these can be run from the single player client as well. Hopefully will have it done later today.

[Cowboy10uk]

This looks great Thanks for you and your sqns effort Topgun505, Just one question, at work at mo so cant download to check myself. I know you have said on the takeoff and landing mission, that neither of the sets of aircraft are ramp starts, But can you confim if we can ramp start on the weapons training missions.

 

My flight are in dire need of some great training missions, Mainly because im useless at making them, But we do try to ramp start every time if we can.

 

Thankyou for your time again, these will be very useful.

 

Cowboy10uk

[Topgun505]

The weapons training missions are exactly that, weapons training only. Starting up and getting all the systems up and running takes a good 5-10 minutes. I didn't want a new pilot having to worry about getting all the systems set up correctly when they are just trying to get the hang of weapons employment. The weapon missions are meant to be quick missions that focus strictly on weapons employment only. As such, all aircraft are runway start so you don't have to go through engine startup.

 

The Mixed Training missions (all 4 versions), however, DO have a set of aircraft which are ramp start, so you get to practice everything from start to finish.

[Topgun505]

ALL Missions now also have at least 1 aircraft set up as Player so you should be able to launch these missions from the Single Player client of A-10 as well. The current version is 1-4. If you previously downloaded the Training Pack zip you will want to delete those and download the new set (the old zip in the original post has been removed and replaced with the updated pack).

 

I did these mods in a bit of a hurry, so there might be some errors, but if you find any issues please let me know.

 

Enjoy!

Edited March 19, 2011 by Topgun505