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"Since this is my first campaign any feedback is more then welcome." Berlin crisis is a great idea! But the information given so far does not make me want to download it. Most modders include in the download description what the plot (story) is and when it is taking place...is it in the 1970's-1980s or 1990s. Please just edit your description and provide the plot and the time it is occuring. Thanks for your hard work.

Hmmm, maybe I am wrong, but I recently (last month or so) read on a defense forum that BVR is almost useless in reality because of friendly fire concerns. In the opening salvo of a war where you know it's only enemy "over there" it usually works (unless neutral or friendly neighboring countries might have enemy aircraft types). However after the war starts, it gets almost impossible to know and coordinate where all your friendlies are including Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine air units and Allies, helicopter, observation, recce, drone, close support, transport, all over the place. The defense forum stated that even recently in Iraq with the most advanced military and AWACS systems on the planet and complete air superiority, the USA was still killing its own air units by other friendly air units. Maybe the IFF breaks down on a single aircraft/helicopter. Maybe there is combat damage that disables the IFF. Maybe an emergency rescue mission is needed or a sudden fire support mission is needed to stop a base overrun as in Viet Nam, etc. Maybe the best trained AWACS operator in the world screws up (like in Iraq) and you got a friendly fire incident that actually happened in Iraq. Another concern is emission radar identification missile technologies. In it, the seeker warhead can detect the emissions of a certain aircraft based on shape, engine waves, etc, a SU-27 for example. Your Allies or neighboring countries might have the same aircraft types. India has SU-27s. Australia is contemplating getting Russian SUs also. It increases doubt of a friendly fire incident if you fire BVR. So the defense forum stated that in reality, unless you are the nutty Chinese or Russian empires and don't care about friendly fire incidents ("the whole is more important than the individual") ...it just won't happen in reality very much. So we are back to visual range rules in most cases in present and future combat. Just a thought.

Wow, what an achievement! It is beautiful!

Thanks for suggestions!

F9F Panther cockpit almost finished-based on the Thirdwire scooter cockpit.

Nice, I've always liked this sim!

Version 2.0- Added eight round amber and red warning lights to the vertical windscreen braces as per photos.

View File Dassault Super Mystere B.2 Early-Mid life cockpit Ver2.0 (From CA_Stary's) This is mostly CA_STARY's work and you should quote him as the main author. All I did was add eighteen or so items/working features to his already brilliant cockpit. I used several Super Mystere color cockpit photos to bring it to better represent an early to mid-life Super Mystere B.2 cockpit. It has a round working afterburner warning light, a photorealistic lower instrument panel and the more standard WW2-type artificial horizon among other items listed in the readme. Thanks CA_Stary!!!! Super Mystere B.2 cockpit (based on Thirdwire F-100D's) for Wings Over Israel YOU NEED ONE of these games to be able to use it! SFP1/SFP1Gold/WoV/WoE 3D .LOD file not included! This is a modification and repaint of Thirdwire's F-100D cockpit and CA_Stary's cockpit to better represent an early to mid-life Super Mystere B.2 cockpit. The Super Mystere was of the same generation/class as the supersonic F-100, but was smaller. Over Saykal, Israeli Super Mysteres encountered a pair of Syrian MiG-21s and although outclassed by the MiGs, shot both of them down. By the end of the first day of 1967 Six Days War hositilities, Super Mysteres had destroyed 5 aircraft in the air. http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2848/smbd.htm In 1975, Israel sold 12 complete airframes and 6 sets of spares to Honduras. The aircraft were involved in numerous border skirmishes with Nicaragua and were finally withdrawn from service in 1996. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Super_Myst%C3%A8re Ver2.0- Added eight amber and red warning lights to vertical windscreen braces as per photos. Credits in the Readme Submitter ordway Submitted 07/05/2008 Category Jet Cockpits

Yikes That's nice!!!

Thanks, I remember well reading those in Tours!

Thanks Mk 2! This site is literally one of the wonders of the Internet!

Thanks! I lived in Paris for a year and fell in love with the Dassault aircraft family. When training in French in the United States, one of our required courses, was to listen every night to French audio tapes about an espionionage story about Dassault fighters and factories...and then we read the French aircraft series Tanguy et Laverdure...high times!

I just did my part...and added a new cockpit!

It's released now. http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;showfile=6890 Final release photo

Dassault Super Mystere B.2 cockpit early-to-mid series production version almost ready. This is based on CA_Starys beautiful cockpit with his kind permission. It is taken from three color photos, has tremendous detail and includes the more normal earlier black artificial horizon. It has a working round afterburner indicator lamp. In many ways, it was an evolutionary cockpit derived from the Mystere IV cockpit. It was France's equivalent of the supersonic F-100 Super Sabre, but smaller. The Super Mystere saw much combat with the Israelis. The aircraft saw action in the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. They reportedly shot down two Mig-21s as well as least five other Arab aircraft.

View File Dassault Mystere IVA Cockpit A Cockpit mod of the Thirdwire Scooter's cockpit, to create the Israeli-modified Dassault Mystere IVA cockpit for use with Ajunaidr's incredible Mystere IVA (Available at the Combatace site at): http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...mp;showfile=784 Referenced from eight color cockpit photographs. Instruments and placards moved, eliminated and repainted. Individual instruments and placards in either French or English, as they were historically. Yes, Those are actual radios in the instrument panel... It includes a lead computing gunsight as per Wikipedia. The Dassault Mystere IVA was the French equivalent of the American F-86 Sabre. The Mystere was credited with at least six Vampire, Mig-15 and Mig-17 gun kills in Israel's wars. -The Mystere IVA also saw combat with the Indian Airforce airforce and reportedly shot down a Pakastani F-104. It participated in the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Mod by Richard "Pitts2A" Ordway, Thanks also to Frank Safrenek and Michel Gerard of Mirage Aircraft of Flightsimulator.com and to Thinus Pretorius for their invaluable numerous pics and emails about the Mystere IVA cockpits and images. For SFP1/WOV/WOE/WOI. Complete credits and history in readme. Instructions: 1-Backup your files! 2. This zip contains cockpits for two separate aircraft: Ajunaidr's Mystere IVA and secondly for the Thirdwire's Mystere IV aricraft in Wings over Israel. 3. Unzip the zipped folder"MystereIVTwoCockpits" 4. You will see two folders now: "MystereIVCockpitAjunaidr's" and "MystereIVCockpitThirdwire". 5. Choose which aircraft you are going to add the new cockpit to. 6. Dump the entire contents in either cockpit folder into the desired cockpit folder. 7. When prompted, overwrite the files. 8. It is generally located in ...\SFP1\Objects\Aircraft\dm-4a\cockpit. 9. Just ask at this Combatace forum if you have questions. Enjoy! Submitter ordway Submitted 06/28/2008 Category Jet Cockpits

Very nice, please finish it...the more cockpits the better!

Israeli Mystere IVA cockpit almost finished from the Thirdwire scooter cockpit: From multiple color photos. The sucessful Dassault Mystere IVAs saw combat in the Middle East with the Israelis and scored kills. It was France's answer to the American F-86 Sabre. It had two internal DEFA 30MM cannons.

Yes, if someone wants to detune the engines toward a more realistic lower power, please tell me about or post it. I have multiple color cockpit photos of the Cutlass. Wrench's F-4 cockpit is a good stand in. In reality, photos show that it has just a black instrument panel and not the F-4 gray color. Someday, if I am not busy with something else, I might rework it to a black color and do some other cockpit changes....but nice job Kevin.

The right grip was used to fly the aircraft. The left grip was used to work the radar and moved independently of the right grip. "(The stick) occupied the traditional center location, but was later moved to the side at USAF insistence in order to ensure an unrestricted view of the Horizontal Situation Indicator. This arrangement turned out not to be viable, and the control column was later moved back to the center and provided with a two-handed grip for both radar and aircraft control. "There were further problems with the MA-1 fire control system and with the cockpit layout. Originally, the control column had occupied the traditional center location, but was later moved to the side at USAF insistence in order to ensure an unrestricted view of the Horizontal Situation Indicator. This arrangement turned out not to be viable, and the control column was later moved back to the center and provided with a two-handed grip for both radar and aircraft control. The right-hand grip was used for control of the aircraft and the left-hand grip was used for operation of the radar. A button in the middle of the yoke gave the pilot control of the radar antenna, and another button on the left grip enabled the pilot to put the pipper on the target by following directions on the radar scope. The pilot selected the missiles to be fired by using a switch on the left console, with the trigger that was used to launch the missiles being on the right hand grip." http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/f106_1.html

I think I see USAF markings at the front and USAF tail markings. So it's not Russian?

Good job Lexx. The F-102 had an optical sight according to the pilot's manual: So If I moved the gunsight, would it disappear altogether so that one could not be used at all? If you, or anyone else, have any more suggestions, please inform me. I would love to take the two moving map rings and move them down out of the way. I did move them and got them to just show gray now...but I would like even the gray rings gone so I can put switches down.

That's correct, there isn't a F-102 out yet. I am waiting too. However, if someone wants to come out with an even more accurate F-102 cockpit, that is fine with me.