DD_Fenrir

Hi Col, sorry I couldn't get to a machine to check and answer this sooner. If the ststic pilot is definable as a group, then the action you need is 'Group Deactivate'. If not, that's something we can look into. Should be doable.

A small hotfix patch for DCS OpenBeta available peeps:

22/02/45 Maj. Ken Shear Mission: Attack Dusseldorf Rail Yards. Result: Heavy damage. The successfully squadron dive bombed the target, three large buildings destroyed/heavily damaged and several rail cars destroyed. Red 1 engaged AAA guns immediate SW of target destroying both. Proceeded South down the Rhine looking for targets of opportunity. Much heavy flak South of Cologne. Red 1 slightly damaged. South of Bonn the squadron spotted and engaged a 5+ Me 109s heading west below and ahead. Squadron bounced the e/a and shot down 7 in total. Good cross cover and call outs. 1 friendly aircraft force landed damaged near Euskichen. Personal tally: Air: 3x Bf 109G Ground: 2x Light Flak

Another resource for you fellas:

19/02/45 Maj. Ken Shear Mission: Attack Enemy Artillery position. Result: Artillery position wiped out. The squadron spotted and engaged a pair of s/e e/a just as we crossed the lines; however on setting up to bounce this formation a second group of 3x E/A were spotted closing on White Flight. White Flight ordered to continue pressing the attack on the first formation and Red flight instructed to reverse heading and attack the new formation. Red Leader was jumped by a 6th unseen a/c and took damage to his empennage but a/c was still controllable and fightable. Red Leader ordered all bombs jettissoned and a general melee ensued. All s/e e/a were eventually destroyed, with note being made of the heroic actions of White 1, Lt Barry Cuda; he destroyed 2 e/a before tragically colliding with a 3rd. Red 3 & 4 pursued a bandit to the SE and downed it, but on attempting to rejoin were engaged by a single twin-engined type identified as an ME-410. This was swiftly dispatched, however not before damaging Red 3s port motor and forcing him to abort the mission with Red 4 covering. Reds 1 & 2 and White 2 pressed on to target and strafed successfully. White 2 was hit by machine gun fire whilst attacking and was leaking coolant form the port radiator; despite this he pressed home the attack on 3 more occasions. With target destoyed and two of the 3 aircraft damaged the remainder of the formation set out for home. Red 4's adventures continued when he engaged a group of e/a alone over the airfields NW of Volkel, damaging an Ar 234 before suffering heavy damage at the hands of their escort. He however force landed safely on a single engine at Volkel - though his one good engine expired as he crossed the threshold! 2 friendly aircraft force landed damaged Volkel, 2 friendly aircraft force landed damaged Venlo, 1 friendly aircraft landed undamaged Venlo ; 1 friendly aircraft destroyed. Personal tally: Air: 1x Bf 109G Ground: 1x Heavy Flak 5x Artillery 1x Truck

Noonononono - I still wanna go!

Here's what I've been getting up to with the other group I moonlight with....

18/02/45 Maj. Ken Shear Mission: Attack Enemy Fortification. Result: Fortification heavily damaged. Secondary Artillery target also struck and wiped out. The squadron engaged multiple groups of single or 2-3 E/A prior to, and after striking primary, and after attacking secondary. All destroyed. 1 friendly aircraft crash landed in friendly lines; 3 others damaged. Personal tally: Air: 1x Fw 190A 2x Bf 109G Ground: 1x Machine Gun 3x Artillery 2x Heavy Flak 3x Light Flak

HELLO PILOTS Welcome to Digital Train Simulator We paid attention to the production of railway lines - this is not accidental, because railways are an important part of the infrastructure. During the war, the railroad accounted for most of the cargo turnover of the participating countries. Railway stations are important targets, landmarks, and train stations in London and Paris are real architectural treasures. London Victoria London Waterloo London Liverpool Street Paris-Est Paris-Nord Paris-Saint-Lazare Paris-Montparnasse

SOLD!

Another Hotfix patch has landed me laddies:

Hi Dave, 1) As for your system specs: CPU = Great! Especially with the recent multi-threading release. RAM = Below average. 16GB is a sub-optimal. DCS prefers 32GB and is happiest on 64GB. GPU = Below average. It'll run but you'll have to dial back the eye-candy. If you have the facilities to get hold of even a sound 2nd hand 1080ti then that'd be better. DCS is free to download so you can try it out before committing any funds; I would say get it just to see how well it will run on your system. 2) Covered by the others, but I'll add that most days we utilise the DDz server dynamic dogfight mission; lots of target options to suit various aircraft and skill levels. We occasionally run a co-op but generating a mission of that ilk to cover all the varied aircraft types/capabilities etc can be a tricky and time consuming for the builder so they can be few and far between. However, what you often end up doing on the DF map is several different pilots choose a particular target and attempt to us the various capabilities of their chosen mount to run a coordinated strike package; one group take out or reduce the enemy ground air defences, whilst another group attempt to keep the enemy interceptors at bay as yet another group go for the main ground target. It becomes a mini-coop in a DF server. F-86 is a good choice but an F-5 might be a better choice to play more competitively with the big jet boys. As Crash says the A-4E mod is a great lead in aeroplane with systems not much more complicated than WW2 era, but still a potent little ground attacker with the ability to carry a few Sidewinders for shits and giggles - plus, it's free! You'd need it to install it to join us on server anyhow, so... 3) Single Player varies greatly depending on the module. All come with a variety of tutorial missions, many with a decent selection of instant action and a number of single missions. Campaign availability varies more; some come with 12-15 mission campaigns to fly bundled with the module (F-15C, A-10C), some even have two (F-14), some only have campaigns available as payware ($12-$15) DLC additions (Spitfire, Mustang, P-47) and some have no campaigns at all. However, Eagle Dynamics are working on a Dynamic Campaign Generator engine that will hopefully cater to many or all of the available modules, though the ETA for the release of this is yet to be confirmed. There is also a vast repository of user made missions (including campaigns) available for download, for free, from EDs website where they host User Files, which also includes skins, mods and useful documentation; there are gems and there is dross there though so it's worth taking time to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Changelog has landed!

@Sweper - thought you might appreciate this:

Brand new CVN camouflage effort. 😛 We're in Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) phase - training a load of noobs how to Tomcat properly and VF-103 are land based for the moment replicating the 'at shore' period they have between deployments on a carrier.

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17/02/45 Maj. Ken Shear Air: 1x Me 410A 1x Bf 109G Ground: 6x Train Wagon

For those wondering what kind of performance gains we can expect when DCS finally is able to push their multi-threading engine update: IronMike (of Heatblur, developers of the Viggen and F-14) has his grubby mits on developer version of the engine; he stated on Discord:

As if DCS wasn't complicated enough... Ran into an issue with Colin t'other night when he was beetling around in his tank calling out target positions and lasing for me to deliver 1,000lb high-explosive gift baskets. Some connected but some did not despite confirmation and reconfirmation of the given coordinates. So... Turns out there are at least 4 different ways of representing Lat Long coordinates. 1. Degrees, Minutes and Seconds (DMS) HDDD° MM' SS" : N 43° 40' 56" x W 116° 17' 14" a more precise version of this is Degrees, Minutes and Decimal Seconds (DMDS) HDDD° MM' SS.ss" : N 43° 40' 55.87" x W 116° 17' 14.12" 2. Degrees & Decimal Minutes (DDM) HDDD° MM.mmm' : N 43° 40.931' x W 116° 17.235' 3. Decimal Degrees (DD) HDDD.ddddd° : N 43.68216° x W 116.28725° 4. UTM/UPS 11T 0557442m E 4836621 N The format of the coordinates can be cycled in the F-10 map by pressing, by default, [LALT]+[Y]. The default format can be selected in the Options menu (more information in the DCS manual, page 46). The following are the available coordinate formats in DCS: Precise Lat/Long: very precise representation of the coordinates, up to 1/100 of second by reporting decimal seconds as well; LatLong DMS: discussed above; Metric: absolute X/Y coordinates; LatLong DDM: discussed above; NATO MRGS: acronym for Military Grid Reference System. Depending on what airframe/vehicle you are in/talking to will define which need to be used. F-14 crews want DMS (DD°MM'SS") F/A-18C crews want DMDS (DD°MM'SS.ss") F-16 crews want DDM (DD°MM.mm') Mirage 2000 crews want DD (DD.ddddd°) A-10Cs have the ability to choose IIRC and are therefore the most flexible. There are conversions but I have to go now so will talk about them later. For now just be aware the target coordinates you give/take may not be the ideal format for your/their system to handle.

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Hi chaps, If historical accuracy is important to you in regards to the Normandy 2.0 map please read the linked post and if you agree, like the post as the more likes/thanks the post gets the more likely it is they’ll address the issues: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/310823-dcs-normandy-20-preview/?do=findComment&comment=5161446

From Maestro on the ED Forums: Hi Today we will see what airfields we have and how many there are in total, we will take a close look at British airfields and fly over some of them. Airfields in France A1 Saint Pierre du Mont A2 Cricqueville-en-Bessin B17 Carpiquet A12 Lignerolles A14 Cretteville A15 Maupertus A16 Brucheville A20 Lessay - оригинальны A3 Cardonville A4 Deux Jumeaux A5 Chippelle A7 Azeville B9 Lantheuil A17 Meautis A21 Sainte-Laurent-sur-Mer A24 Biniville A6 Beuzeville A8 Picauville A9 Le Molay B11 Longues-sur-Mer B2 Bazenville B3 Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer B4 Beny-sur-Mer B7 Rucqueville B8 Sommervieu Beauvais-Tille Cormeilles-en-Vexin Dinan-Trelivan Fecamp_Benouville Evreux Guyancourt Villacoublay Saint-Andre de l Eure Orly Amiens_Glisy Argentan Avranches Le Val-Saint-Pere Barville Conches Creil Deauville Essay Flers Goulet Hauterive Lonrai Poix Ronai Rouen-Boos Saint-Aubin Triqueville Vrigny Broglie Beaumont-le-Roger Bernay Saint Martin Airfields in UK Chailey Farnborough Ford Funtington Gravesend Heathrow Kenley Needs Oar Point Tangmere West Malling Deanland Friston Lymington Odiham Stoney Cross Chailey Farnborough Ford Friston Funtington Gravesend Kenley Needs Oar Point Tangmere West Malling