Beta Sokol

This award is just called отличный самолёт, otlichnij samolyot, excellent aircraft, very seldom to see, but i can remember some aircrafts an even some helicopters in the GDR carrying this until the final withdrawal in 1994 (even on 29's). There are some similarities with the blue Q carried on east german planes - Flugzeug der ausgezeichneten Qualität- one plane had three stars within the Q, meaning an repetition of the award for another three years. The awards are gone, sometimes i wish them back if i see all the scrappy, dirty oily planes that i'm working on today. But that's it, socialistic aircraft maintenance and todays maintenance are different things -most of our customers won't pay for two hours additional work cleaning their planes and they don't have the time for it (piston engine stuff like Piper, Cessna ,Beech and so on). If you're interested 16va.be has a good photogallery... https://16va.be/galeries_vvs/mig-29/imgcol/index.html - 31.GvIAP MiG 29 9-12 red 12 had such an badge and the guards badge on the nose, but you will find more- Hope that helps !

Hi, that's an airframe with exellent maintenance quality award. Within the regiments, squadrons etc. there was a competition between maintenance crews keeping planes in a good condition in time. That means everything at 100%, cleanliness, no leakages, no leftovers from locking wire and cotter pins, no faults and failures and so on (you know what i mean). Only one airframe wihin the regiment get the award for one year...

Sorry guys, i just don't want discussions about necessity of things, details are important. DCS lacks of so many assets, it's EMPTY and BORING. They throw out module after module, yeah another grey plane, deal with it ! NO ! For instance, can you imagine Sperenberg airbase without the An 12, ok there is a mod, but just too simple (nice smokelayer!!!), the scrappy washed out greyish Il 20 -missing-, we have the An 26 but not the RTR, An 24 -missing-, Gross Dölln (Templin) airbase without an up to date 3D model of the Su 17, every plane in unique camo, Großenhain the same with MiG 27, Where is all the ground equipment, all the special trucks driving around on an airfield. We need asset packs or modders for this cold war era for WarPac... Play with your grey plane and throw AMRAAMS and have fun !

@Maestro so hello, i'm so impressesd by the videos, awesome ! BUT there is a little detail which isn't correct. In some videos an elecrolocomotive is driving around, the map represents the late 80's, the locomtive is clearly a BR250 the so called Energiecontainer and belongs to Deutsche Reichsbahn and has the wrong colors for the time period (and it's driving in the wrong -imperialistic- part of gemany)-just for fun-... All (or the most) locomotives of DR had beside of the older green ones this much nicer and darker bordeaux-red instead of traffic-red or orient-red which came later after reunification and the merge between DR and DB mostly after overhauls or retofits.It's hard to find any pictures, but there are still some original paintet loco's around.Here is an example of an model showing the correct color scheme. btw this model costs more then 300 Euros !!! Please correct this, many thanks ! Maybe you can keep the other other paint and make some kind of liveries...

Yes, it's possible, you need to learn about creating hardlinks or hardjunctions. For instance my saved games folder is on drive D and within the screenshot folder is on drive F. Because i'm not a programmer or an expert i can't explain in detail but you need the console command mklink (with /j you create a junction). At the end it looks like mklink /j "C:\Users\Benutzer X\Saved Games\ScreenShots" "F:\DCS\ScreenShots". There are some threads about here in the forums, google and youtube are also helpful. After fiddling around sometime i finally managed to get it to work.

Hello Eduardo, forget this mod, isn't working anymore since a very long time. Checked my screenshots, it was around 2012 with FC2.

So if you look into your mods\aircraft\F-4E folder, there is a separate liveries folder for the cockpit called Cockpit_F-4E, make your own one, create your "orange suit" folder, place your description.lua there with the dds textures you need, and the Cockpit_F-4E folder goes into saved games\mods\liveries, you have to choose your cockpit via mission editor (if you own Mirage F1 or MB339, these ones are nice examples about the folder structure). Haven't done liveries for a while but it worked for me with some redfor planes (single player). Just leave the diffuse files . My attached description.lua is the whole extracted file for the cockpit.edm, only pick the files you really need, set them to false. Shouldn't break IC. Not sure, if it's possible to merge both (aircraft and cockpit) liveries without choosing a separate cockpit. If anyone has another idea or knows an easy way please reply! Always stay healthy...

Hi, keep in mind, that the cockpit edm needs a separate liveries file (Cockpit_F-4E in mods folder, not in core mods). Have a nice X-mas. description.lua

Now, at the end of 2024 still nothing...

Hello cyclists, i see all this fast and brutal stuff here, what about the cult from the east - SIMSON S 51 ... 50 ccm, 3,7 HP, one cylinder two stroke, makes 65 kph, hill down up to 85 kph, not tuned, just standard - Enduro conversion - the preowners dit it so kind of. Nearly complete rebuilt -every screw personally- plus engine overhaul, reworked the whole electrics- for the coming winter a repaint in original colors, matching decals, new wheels, the tank needs a rust protection from inside and so on. It's running, ideal for city traffic, overland too, doesn't need much fuel (oil mix 1:50). Simsons are very expensive now, remember in the 90's, nobody wantet these anymore, they were all going for japanese stuff. Generations of kids worked on these so called Mopeds or Mokicks. Now its mine and i'm happy with it. The location is a former soviet fuel depot near Bernsdorf located between Kamenz and Hoyerswerda Saxony/Germany near the polish border (not really).

Found one, ok, it's a simple model, needs some work, more liveries, hope, the community can help with this.

24 years for me, playing this since Flanker 2.0. My first computer was on Windows ME, 1,7 Ghz and 60 GB harddrive... ( what a long time and still not bored of playing )

The position lights are a problem since ever in general, it has someting to do with the core light emitter model in DCS. I think its possible to make a complete new standard one day, an emitter what emitts light in certain angles only, look at the rotating beacons - there it works.

Hello ! It's because the are on the same frequency of 112.4 MHz. They are paired. If you are interested, read the attachment. VOR_TACAN_Conversion.pdf

They are...

Just asking a stupid question, are there any news on the promised afghanistan map ?

Long time since the last Ka 52 disappeared... Many thanks and carry on !

Hier ist der Link im Forum, einige Objekte haben nicht mehr so gewollt als ob, jemand hat da etwas herumprobiert. Diese Datei muß man dann einfach in den Mod hereinkopieren. https://forum.dcs.world/showpost.php?p=3959911&postcount=275 Dort nach posts von Voc suchen, auf einer Seite gibt es einen Link zu Google Drive.

Hallo, wie wäre es denn mit VPC-airfield equipment, diesen Mod gibt es schon ewig, funktioniert nach wie vor, allerdings braucht man jetzt einen Patch. Sollte aber über Google und hier im Forum gefunden werden. Nachtbeleuchtung ab ca. 20:00 Uhr automatisch und auch viele verschiedene Lichtmasten usw. dabei. Viel Spaß damit !

Sorry isn´t working anymore... tried different maps...

So, it´s easy with a little trick, think about the altitude of this placed object. Place your object near the shelter or whatever and push it in (drag it) so it has the same altitude as the surrounding ground. Placing an object on top of the shelter ends up on top of the shelter. Try it out.

OK, many thanks !

Hello, had a nice late evening approach on Ramat David runway 33, i had problems spotting the runway lights, the lightspots are visible from aside only. Please see the pictures...

Hallo, schau Dir doch mal die Trackdatei an. Halte die Triebwerks- und Tragschraubendrehzahl in den Limits (gelbe Markierungen)... Mi24 Drehzahl.trk

So maybe the ED team can fulfill me a special wish, it´s possible to change the bort number in game, why not the ability to change the color of that number (for all red star carrying airframes ((liveries)) like Mi8, Mi24, L39, Su25/27, MiG15/17/19/21/23/29, the hopefully upcoming famous Su17...and so on). Standard where red, blue, yellow, white, neutral (just white outlined),black, handmixed field available paints, different styles like stenciled, full painted, hand applied, even the outlines differed. Templates are in the files. What do you think ???