DCS SK60 Announcement (mod)

paging Dr @Troll, paging Dr Troll to the flight line…

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Best of luck to the devs!

EDIT: specified. :wink:

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well it ain’t MY mod, but yah I wish these guys all the best, should be a fun addition to the Viggen bases.

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Corrected- We do need MOAR Swedish birds!

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Nice to see that they are this far along!
The SK60 is a really nice light attack aircraft. I actually got to fly in the B version, four seat without ejectionseats.

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sweating key and peele GIF

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It’s perfectly safe as long as the pilot isn’t the only one with a chute and/or bang seat. :wink:

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You never want to fly with a pilot that’s braver than you are! :smile:

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There’s a lot of wisdom going on here! :smiley:

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  1. Release is Dec 24.
  2. SkywardFM has posted a (p)review of the mod.

I think releasing anything (even no-guarantees freeware) the day before Christmas is brave and I expect lots of issues over the holidays.

The quality seems to be of a really high level though so I am looking forward to using this for virtual flying lessons in a few weeks!

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Really excited about this!

With the release of this module and the long awaited 1/48 plastic model kit, by Pilot Replicas, 2022 turns out to be the year of the SAAB 105/Sk 60.

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This mod looks pretty slick! I still need to check out the OV-10, I just don’t want to deal with the Discord and paid (free?) site login.

And it’s out!

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Now, if I just could figure out how to install it…

At the bottom of the paged link there are:
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Pick your preferred compression format, and download. Then uncompress the file and copy the top directory “DCS-SK60-Mod-1.0.0” into your DCS/Mods/Aircrafts directory and you are gold.

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I thought it went to the root DCS directory.
I have avoided DCS mods for risk of screwing with the install, but I must have this one…! :wink:

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I just dropped it to corresponding folder under saved games. I could fly for a while, but then DCS crashed. Need to check instructions if this is the correct folder.

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The BAAS SK 60 mod has been updated

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Yesterday I visited Novelair in Gävle, Sweden. My good friend Johan runs a Viggen and a Draken simulator, made from real aircraft hardware, with dome projector graphics. Last year he got the hardware to build a SAAB SK 60 simulator and that was my focus for the day. As there is no room for dome projection because he’s making the simulator portable, he started experimenting with mixed reality using two networking computers using a Quest 3 each. The sim is still WIP but is almost 100% functional. Since the hardware comes from a real aircraft, he built an artificial atmosphere as input for the air data computations, instead of making new instrument with stepper motors.

It was an incredible experience, flying with Johan as my Navigator. Here’s a short movie on his Novelair facebook page, where I bag a SU-24 with my trusty 30mm AKAN guns.

https://fb.watch/IT_9_98PUR/?fs=e

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Here’s how the cockpit looks in real reality :wink:

This is now the basis for the DCS SK 60 mod cockpit as well.

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