Friar

Salute It has been suggested that with falling GBS numbers and growing DCS take-up we might revise the current flying schedule. Please vote in the attached poll to make your feelings known. You can vote and also leave if a comment in the thread below if you wish. When voting you can select more than one option but please DO NOT select all options, that tells us nothing and does not help.

@Sid - don't know if you have watched the DCS 2024 and beyond video but the corsair and hellcat plus carriers and Japanese planes are coming....at some point @Crash - Sundays are difficult for me at the moment due to real life stuff but if people who do not have DCS wanna try it for free and need a helping hand we could work something out. To anyone who says they have no interest in DCS watch the 2024 and beyond video. I originally did not want to touch it, but I have become a definite convert and do not miss GBS at all, the co-op nights and banter yes, but DCS is growing and we are getting a growing turnout and are starting to get the same sort of vibe.

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/341284-official-news-2024/

Now that's how to do a what's coming video...

@Sid Found this thread on the DCS forums this morning. I know you got your issue resolved by doing a slow repair but the rest might be helpful if it happens again. https://forum.dcs.world/topic/340890-crash-after-loading-multi-player-server/ Delete Saved Games\DCS\fxo and metashaders2 and try again. Next, delete %LOCALAPPDATA%\TEMP\DCS and try again. Next, try renaming Saved Games\DCS to DCS.old and try again.

Pilot Officer Friar reporting for duty. Mossie FB VI Pilot slot please.

Whilst changing my theme in DCS this morning I noticed a setting under the Game Play section. I am wondering if we need to make sure we all it unchecked so that any design the mission builder adds to a mission for us to play gets applied. If I read this correct it means that I can have a setting in my game that will negate a setting the mission designer wanted to have? Please correct me if I am wrong... Edit: It may be just for single player? Edit 2: After a quick bit of googling I found this...https://forum.dcs.world/topic/322783-no-force-from-mission-doesnt-work/ Edit 3: Might be worth doing a test of some sort to check this out.

Having just purchased the Channel Map, @fruitbat challened me to get the Apache landed in Dover Castle, here is my attempt..

@DD_Fenrir, Thanks for that. @wingflyr / @Zukker / @fruitbat or anyone else that knows... I am just working on version 2 for the next time we run this mission (people seemed to enjoyed it so lets go again at some point ) I have plotted way-points to all the planned targets (obviously not the AAA / SAM as we do not know where they are) for all planes to make take-off quicker, now we can load weapons and go, no messing about loading co-ordinates, does this mean I could remove all the LAT LON from the briefing pages as they would be no longer required for F14/F15/F18? I know the F16 can use the steer points to deploy JDAMS but what about the others? For example I have prepared F16 Steer Points 1- Home Base 2- Larak Island 3- Ingress Point 4- Rashid Al-Moonsur Residence 5- Sadiq Al-Moonsur Residence 6- Fazil Al-Moonsur Residence 7- Storage Facility 4 8- Storage Facility 1 9- Storage Facility 3 10- Storage Facility 2 11- HQ Building F15 Way-points 1- Home Base 2- Over Dargahan On Route 3- Ingress Point 4 - Training HQ Building 2 5- Training HQ Building 1 6- HQ Building 7- Storage Facility 2 8- Storage Facility 3 9- Storage Facility 1 10- Storage Facility 4 11- Fazil Al-Moonsur Residence 12- Sadiq Al-Moonsur Residence 13- Rashid Al-Moonsur Residence Mirage Way-points 1- Home Base 2- Ingress Point 3- Qeshm Island Airfield 4- Dayrestan Training Complex 5- Ship Attack Base F5 Waypoints 1- Home Base 2- Ingress Point 3- Ship Attack Base 4- Dayrestan Training Complex 5- Qeshm Island Airfield F14 Way-points 1- Center of Carrier Loop 2- Ship Attack Base 3- Dayrestan Training Base 4- Qeshm Island Airfield 5- Training HQ-2 6- Bul-Hinsur HQ Building 7- Storage Facility-2 8- Storage Facility-3 9- Storage Facility-1 10- Storage Facility-4 11- Fazil Al-Moonsur Residence 12- Sadiq Al-Moonsur Residence 13- Rashid Al-Moonsur Residence F18 Way-points 1- Center of Carrier Loop 2- Ship Attack Base 3- Dayrestan Training Base 4- Qeshm Island Airfield 5- Training HQ-1 6- Bul-Hinsur HQ Building 7- Storage Facility-2 8- Storage Facility-3 9- Storage Facility-1 10- Storage Facility-4 11- Fazil Al-Moonsur Residence 12- Sadiq Al-Moonsur Residence 13- Rashid Al-Moonsur Residence Any advice and guidance as always welcomed. Friar

Thanks guys glad you enjoyed it. We discussed doing it again next week but I am going to leave it for a bit. Lessons Learned for next time Waypoints to targets to save time programming in at the start. Tone down the SA13 and replace with Strella perhaps Have a second emergency airfield available for re-arm and re-fuel. Better direction / instructions about which way to take off..... If you have any comments on the mission or ideas for other scenarios please let me know.

Raise a glass today in order of our founder, Blairgowrie who's Birthday it is today. Taken too soon and sadly missed. Cheers

Just doing some final testing and thought I would post a couple of screen shots to wet your appetite for Thursday Evening (UK time)

Fruitbat was trying to teach me some A2A stuff on Monday and said he was in front of me but my controls said otherwise..... (Fruitbat is the blue dot BEHIND ME.....)

Suggest we run this on Thursday 7th December. I think the mission is ready. The longer I leave it the more I fiddle and tweak... Its not too long so I will have a briefing map up to simulate the day before the attack and then when we are ready roll the mission to the actual morning of the attack.

No problem Bulldog. Hope you and your dad get better soon. Was good talking to you on Thursday afternoon.

Many thanks for your work on this FT, much appreciated.

I don't have the stable version but as they are the same at the moment I guess that does not matter? Anyway, thanks for using your dark arts to try and work something out that stops the server re-starting right in the middle of a flying session.

I am planning to dust off the tank controls this evening (Friday) and have a session with Bulldog, if anyone else wants to join? May not be around till 08:30ish as a client needs a call around 8.

I spent some time with Bulldog this afternoon. He reports that every time he ticks the box to enable mods the game re-starts and the tick box is off again. He runs via STEAM as well.

Hello Bulldog, Sure we can sort you out. What evenings can you be available? That way either I or someone else can arrange to hook up with you.

I have put together a one-off co-op style mission (but if you get killed you could re-spawn) that pulls together all the common assets we fly. Full details are contained in the attached briefing document. No date set yet for running but suggestions welcome. Comments also welcome. Operation Steel Sword Briefing Doc.pdf

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