cfrag Posted June 3 Posted June 3 (edited) Version 2025611 - Longest RWY length now shown in info Download here (ED User Files) Do you know that feeling? When you can't be bothered, and you just want to FLY! This mission scratches that itch. Any plane, anywhere, hot or cold, any livery. Just jump into that cockpit and take off into the wild blue yonder. Fly that aircraft from one location to another and have a blast. Switch to any other plane that you own at a moment's notice. Enjoy yourself! And if you *can* be bothered, this mission can suggest some location to fly to, and maybe even navigate to a beacon on the way. Of course it allows you to choose any airfield on the map as destination. And yeah, the mission will look up frequencies and other stuff for you. Because it knows that you can't be bothered otherwise, and you simply want to have fun. This mission is so simple and so much fun, I'm surprised that I had to create it. So here it is - slightly embellished with some bells and whistles like civil air traffic, fog, etc. to keep you interested. For example, it can keep a log of your achievements, per type and a total: IMPORTANT NOTE Due to the way that DCS works, this mission can only grant access to all your aircraft if it is run as "multiplayer" even if you are flying all alone. That "Freebie Plane"? It's only there to mock you in single player. So, press "LAUNCH MULTIPLAYER SERVER" to start this mission for real, join BLUE, and then click on DYNAMIC SLOTS to gain access to ALL airfields, stocked with ALL aircraft that you own. And yeah, the mission does support multiplayer. I never tested it with more than 40 concurrent players, but it should support even more if your server can take the load. NOTE In order to persist your achievements (and to share them with other Ferry missions) you must de-sanitize DCS Edited June 11 by cfrag
cfrag Posted June 4 Author Posted June 4 20250604 - QoL update OK, that was fast. I hadn't fully posted the announcement of "Ferry" yet, when messages started to arrive suggesting that I make all airfields available for planned trip. And so, now, there are. And so I spent the evening wrestling DCS's menu system (it hates me), and put this idea into practice. So, here you are: all airfields, sorted by distance and sorted alphabetically, all at your fingertips. So you can finally explore all airfields on your map. And yes, that indeed makes it a much better mission, so thank you all for your feedback! There were also many messages requesting that I bring this mission to Syria. We'll see. First, I'll share this little flask of Ribera del Duero with a friend of mine, then I'll see what I can do.
cfrag Posted June 8 Author Posted June 8 20250608 - Accomplishments, share them with other Ferry missions On the heels of the last update people started reminding me of the modules that are available for DML, on which Ferry is based, and requested I add some of them since I could get their additional abilities almost for free. So here is another update: Ferry no accumulates your achievements (total distance travelled, per type data etc), and if you persist this data, it is also shared with the other "Ferry" missions (at this time, Germany and Syria). Enjoy, -ch
buceador Posted June 8 Posted June 8 Thank you for all your hard work! Players should note that some of the destinations turn out to be ultra short runways and sometimes grass strips, my Viper wasn't happy on a couple of occasions!
cfrag Posted June 8 Author Posted June 8 1 minute ago, buceador said: Players should note that some of the destinations turn out to be ultra short runways That's a great point! I see if I can include it (length of longest rw) in the destination info. 1
cfrag Posted June 11 Author Posted June 11 Update 20250611 - Show runway length I took @buceador's advice and now include the length of the longest runway in the target airfield choice menu and description text of your goal. I'm trying to control feature creep, so thank you to all who are suggesting further enhancements, please bear with me if I do not immediately respond or add a feature to "Free Flight". The other Free Flight missions have received the same features. Cheers, -ch 1
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