16:9 Menu maps and Bingo charts for SF2 series 2.1.0

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                                                PLANNING MAP MOD v2.1 for SF2 series

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            (Install to the main folder of whatever SF2 version you want. Backup own files first!)

What it does:

    -16/9 ratio for all vanilla maps (no more rectangular maps!)* with a better contrast
    -every POI, navpoints and so on placed accordingly, with smaller recolored icons so you see exactly where to strike (pretty accurate for static targets like oil, fuel, hangars, com, generators...)
    -Simplified bingo sheets for most vanilla planes (SEE Usage and "Concrete example" in sections below)
    -ruler to convert speed to distance
    -distance scales on each zoom level
    -actual military map icons for units, smaller for ease to read their positions

How to use:

    I. KNOW THE DISTANCE
    1. After you chose your plane, well, go to planning map screen.
    2. Point the TARGET waypoint with your mouse to see how many minutes is the full ingress leg from homeplate.
    3. Do the same to your ingress route waypoints so you know the average cruise speed. (Note the altitude, too)
    4. Now on the bottom ruler, see how many Nautical Miles per minutes corresponds to said speed above.
    5. Multiply this value to the number of minutes to TARGET.
    6. The result is the estimated range in NM from homeplate to target.
    
    II. QUICK BINGO ESTIMATION
    1. Look the board and simply find the estimated range (ONE leg, egress or ingress) and altitude in last steps for your aircraft.
    2. Be advised, some planes are given their bingo values in METRIC (liters and/or kilograms, conversion table included) value
    3. WATCH your gauges while you're engaged around the target area since there is no Joker/Bingo alarm in your pit.
    4. Given values should provide you enough** for egress route in normal conditions as planned in the briefing, plus a safety margin
    amount to simulate the need for a divert,a go around, or a missed approach.

    III. TOTAL MISSION FUEL ESTIMATION
   -v2 is now including raw rates per min / per NM on each aircraft. Took the highest values only to have rounded up values,
    but keep in mind these are measurements on aircrafts with no external loadout. Also, takeoffs are fuel hungry.
    A good figure to estimate the TOTAL mission fuel would be to multiply rates by 1.3 (to estimate additional drag factors) by one leg distance in NM plus the Bingo value , the exception being the F-14s: their consumption rates already reflects a heavy AA loadout with a high cruise speed. Did that because this very plane gave me troubles with the bingo calculation method employed (see below for details), but here is a:

   IV. CONCRETE EXAMPLE
   - Say we have a pair of F-100As, tasked for a strike near Haiphong, Vietnam. Homeplate is Chu Lai. TOT is 34min after TO. Planned cruise is 360knots.
   - On the ruler, 360knots is 6 NM/min; 6x34min = 204 NM (distance from homeplate to target)
   - according to the tables, our bingo for a F-100 would be 3000 lbs for a 200NM leg at low altitudes, push it to 3100 for the few nautical miles above.
   - Our proposed loadout includes 4880 lbs of internal fuel, plus 3990 lbs with drop tanks. We will consider, based on weapondata.ini, that for most FTs about 90% of their weight is actual fuel.
   - So our estimed max fuel loadout would be: 4880+ (0.9 x 3990)=8471 lbs

   - First empiric method: take that total, minus 2x bingo: 8471 - 6200 = 2271 lbs estimated fuel for playtime, at a rate of 59 lbs/min(x1.3): that would be about 29.5 minutes. 
   You don't need that much time for a strike. Say, 10 minutes with a margin, since we only want to do a single pass, thats 2271/3=757, make it 800 lbs. 
   So with this method 7000 lbs should be more than enough. Let's say 75% of internal fuel, plus the DTs: 3660+ (0.9x3990)= 7251 lbs. 
   That gives us a Joker of: (Bingo+ (7251-7000)): 3100+251=3351 lbs. So Joker here is 3351 lbs and Bingo is 3100

   - Second method: rate per NM x 1.3(drag factor) x one leg distance: 8x1.3x204 = 2122 lbs a leg. 
   Add Bingo: 5222 lbs, plus our playtime: 10min x rate per min x 1.3 = 10x59x1.3 = 767 lbs, 
   plus a full AB full loaded take off of 1000 lbs (generic value, some planes take less but let's round up). 
   Thats 5222+767+1000 = 6989 lbs estimated total mission fuel, including 3100 bingo.

   Both methods have pretty much same values. In both cases, I would take 7251 lbs of fuel loadout with me since we can vary the internal payload by 25% increments. 
   That would improve slightly the performance of my F-100 with less total weight (28410 lbs instead of 29600lbs), but more importantly, whatever happens there around the target area, 
   I know I for sure that I must leave it as soon as I'm reading near 3100 lbs remaining fuel on my gauge since it's Bingo. 
   Better do that with the Joker value though, that would give us a bit of room if we need to perform a few evasive actions against SAMs or MiGs... You got the picture now!

   IN GAME TEST: Following the planned cruise and altitude, i'm on time on target with 3825 lbs remaining the moment my wingman and I drop the bombs. Target hit, we have no reasons to stay there any longer. We leave the area, only dodging a few AAAs but no SAMs nor MiGs (we caught them their pants down it seems!). We are RTB with no more troubles, Zebra 1-2 landing with 1454 lbs remaining in their plane, and as for myself, 1406 lbs still aboard. If we would have left with Bingo instead of 3825, that would have been 1406-725 lbs: 681 lbs, aka 8-9 minutes of room if I had to do an other approach. But with that buffer I actually have, that's an other 10 minutes or so, or seconds with full afterburner in case of emergency. So we have quite the margin, despite not cruising at higher altitudes after our egress point. Also maybe next time I won't forget to jettison my empty tanks instead of dragging them all the way back home for glory. So yeah, human factor is to be considered, too, as an additional safety margin lol. But we can see here that the method proved itself pretty well with AI too, provided I had to send him RTB before he starts to think about running guns at each and every AAA piece around the place. As a side note, we can measure the real fuel taken for our return leg: 3825-1406=2419 lbs, chosen bingo being 3100, so our calculations weren't that bad. While Bingo is ok, we notice that our range consumption estimation of 2122 lbs is short of nearly 300 lbs from what our plane actually eat for that leg. That's the sum of all them small inaccuracies and estimations in our calculations, weather changes, pilot's clumsiness... but that's why we round up above and take margins.

/!\ Both take off fuel, and drag coefficient are to be changed according to your results: I suggest you to measure your take off consumption from ready for departure to your planned altitude and cruise speed. Also if you find your estimations a bit short, try a drag factor up to 1.45 and see how it plays for you.

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*To add custom maps, find their 3planning map picture files and stretch them 3 respectively with a picture editor (MSPaint does it well) to:
512x640; 1024x1280; 2048x2560. Or else not only they will be stretched but every POI would be displayed offset!

**Each provided values corresponds to measurements made at 3 conditions: 420TAS @10kft, .8 Mach @20kft, .8 Mach @30kft (except for slower lanes like A10 or Meteor: same altitudes but 300TAS)
-I chose this method since this is the one used by Rocket Mission Work's Fuel Planning Guide for DCS, 
so I could easily convert the Strike Fighters 2 rates I 've timed with a sample mission, ideal conditions, no loadouts, for each planes.
I took the values from Debug mode fuel quantity and made several per minute timings while at said cruise speed.
-Did 66 flights for measures in total,3 per 22 planes, not counting the duds I had to do again...
-Then for each one I did Strike/recon missions with maximum loadout to see if these values are safe. Most of them allows for
a safe return with 8 to 20% margin even with the bare Bingo without additional Joker or buffer, even without dropping ordnance, 
and while remaining at low altitudes where the plane has a poor fuel efficiency.
So provided you don't have too much emergencies such as evading manoeuvers full AB while egressing, and/or interceptors on your tail.
(And If you are new to flight sims, try to be consistent with your speed/throotle to manage your fuel efficiently, 
and your timings too, such as RDVs with packages, strike time and so on!:)

a) Rocket's tables add a coefficient for planes with a loadout, for downgraded performances because of drag/weight increase.
b) To simplify for Strike Fighters 2, I used 50NM as a generic value for a divert airbase, 
   and lowered the fuel required for taxi since we can't start at the parking in this game.

Values are what they are, somewhat realistic or not per planes, but the important 
part here is that we have a consistency with the values IN GAME not IRL so we still can manage the fuel for gameplay sake and a bit of immersion.

Well this took me some time to do, but it was great fun to be back to SF2 like the good ol' days.

Hope you find this little mod useful and that I did the maths correct lol

Fly safe and happy huntings @all!

--
Ryder Sept (fr)

PS: thanks to Rocketman for his tool, here is the link for this:

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3333906/

And their YT channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@RocketMissionWorks

Unfortunately I wasn't able to join him, so I won't provide SF2 modified sheets without his permission, 
but here's the link above to the original so you can try and mess around with your own/modded planes and all.