DCS Mariana Islands Map

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Looks just like my former home!

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A Bit More


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" Rota Island, also known as the Friendly Island is 19km in length and has a population of
3,500 people. It is the southernmost island of the United States Commonwealth of the
Northern Marianas Islands. It has been modelled in extraordinary detail and is close to completion.

We continue to work on the organised, unincorporated territory of the United States in
Micronesia; Guam. This island was captured by the Japanese in 1941 and occupied for
almost 3 years. The American forces recaptured the island on the 21st of July, 1944;
Liberation Day commemorates this victory. Special attention is being given to the
Andersen Air Force Base located approximately 4km northeast of Yigo. Andersen AFB
is one of two critical air bases in the Asia Pacific region. Guam’s almost unrestricted
airspace and it’s close proximity to the Farallon de Medinilla Island, a naval bombing
range 250km north, make it an ideal training environment. Andersen AFB is home to
36th Wing (PACAF), 734th Air Mobility Support Squadron (Air Mobility Command) and
Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Twenty-Five (HSC-25).

We continue to improve the cross balance of colour and gamma between terrain textures
(vegetation and ground), trees and other objects (infrastructure). The water’s fluidity, colour
and transparency have also been tuned for more realistic characteristics.

See screenshots.

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Finally, a new place to crash & burn

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On a more serious level for Viggen owners


I invite your attention to page 93 of the Viggen users manual which clearly states that for the CK-37, both longitude and latitude are six (6) digits, Degrees, Minutes, Seconds - two (2) digest for each.

So evidently the Viggen was never envisioned to operate where Longitude requires 7 digits; i.e. a leading “1”.

While this is good news for the western half of the US (despite some irritating insurance issues in South Dakota) it does provide a bit of a quandary for DCS Viggen users and the new Marianas Map.

A quick glance at a map reveals that the entire Marianas archipelago is well east of the 100 East meridian.

What is one to do? :open_mouth:

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Would a piece of masking tape and a sharpie help?

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Most likely not. This might give heatblur a serious headache. The real plane would have a bug. The simulates one has that bug, because that’s how faithfully its simulated. Now explain it to the “I done pay mah money but mah toy dont work,fix it, whaaaa!” crowd.

Yup its a quandary. Gonna be fun to watch from the sidelines.

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@schurem has driven to the core issue, as usual. The real plane wouldn’t work but since the real plane has been retired
If only Japan or Malaysia had purchased a few, Saab would have had to done a work around that could have been copied


What I do “know” about modern Object Oriented programing (do they still do OO programing?) might suggest that Heatblur could do some “behind the scenes” work - if the plane’s initial longitude > 100Âș E (or if t can “see” that it is on the Arianas Map) then the Nav Object adds a 100 to all the Longitude inputs and calculations.

I defer to my more knowledgable Mudspike colleagues for further conjecture. :slightly_smiling_face:

I’d actually like Heatblur to fix all the problems they still have with their kneeboard time calculations


EDIT: Actually the real plane would work. You would just “tell” it that it was somewhere else when you started it up. Maybe that is all it will take in DCS? The TerrNav obviously wouldn’t work but IIRC that can be turned off. However, I have a feeling that it will be more complicated.

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That was the first solution that came to my mind as well. Just subtract 100 degrees from every waypoint. I don’t think the TERNAV is going to be terribly useful over those relatively tiny islands and the wide open ocean in the first place. It’ll probably be radar and overfy fixes all the way.

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I’m with you on that! If one makes a mission in ME - puts in all the threats, adversaries, friends and whatnot - and saves it with the Viggen jet parked
then takes the same mission and plots the Viggen rout but doesn’t save - just copies down the Lon/Lat altitude of each point
then uses the saved mission in the sim and manually enters the WPs
.:thinking:

It comes down with how the jet gets “initialized” when the sim starts
if it hiccups on the 100+ Long
kind of like the Y2K thing


I guess we will see what happens.

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Is that a floating hose in the shape of a sine wave? It’s like that cigar in the brick wall illusion, my brain just can’t quite comprehend what it’s seeing. :thinking:

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It’s detcord
gonna be a little bird landing in that courtyard in 3
2
1


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Its a wire coil. Some stiff wire, like old coax or something. Nice little detail. I will appreciate it jinking a Ka-50 at breakneck speed while evading angry capitalist pigdogs.

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Whilst I in my Glorious Peoples Mi-8, (that the running doge imperialists disdain with the degrading name of “Hip”) have two brave Soviet aviators to yell “Wires!” as I fly by it! :cccp:

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Mighty eighth shall smite them with thunderous salvoes of C-8 rockets, painting prerty flower patters with craters, wreckage and blood :cccp: hip indeed!

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They tried to push it to the Aussies. That would’ve necessitated a fix.
But they went for the Hornet instead
 :roll_eyes:

Anyways, you’ve got a radar, gyro compass and a pair of eyes. Stop whining and go kill your enemies!

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Whining are we??? This from a guy who’s homeland decided that half of the world wasn’t important enough to add in a few lines of code! :astonished: :laughing:

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What we call the dark side of the planet. We don’t go there.

Hey! Those lines of code had to substitute a whole navigator!

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Reminds me
way back in VF-32
MED Cruise 1987.

From a Fo’c’sle Follies skit by the A-7 squadron (the only single seat squadron in the airwing) - a squadron pilot is talking to his “Nav Bag” (a standard USN navigation bag that they have made into a puppet) 
named “Bag”

Pilot - “Hey Bag, did you go down to the brief in CVIC?”
Bag - “Yes I did
it was weird. There were other bags there, but they all had legs!”

:open_mouth:

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zzzzzzINGggg!

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By The time this map is out i should have many Valuable Flight HRS in my Kiowa Warrior to rain down heavy Rocket Explosives down upon Thee!!! :grin:

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