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To the middle photo. I found a photo of a MiG-21SPS of the East German Air Force in my archiv, which is similar to the Soviet MiG-21PFM. Some instruments are on a different location, but this do not matter. The top botton or switch has the label пуск ускорит , what means in german: Startbeschleunigung and in english: start of the accelerator. Also SPRD or in english RATO system. Below the red button is a lable with сброс цели, what menas in german: Ziel zurücksetzen and in english: reset target. So i think it has something to do with the radar. Whether it is illuminated, i think so, but I'm not sure.

In the first and in the last photos it are lamps with different meaning, like warning lights, but i dont know which is which. It would be nice if you had a better resulution photo so that we can read the cyrillic written words. In the middle photo. The top button is for activating the SPRD system (rocket assisted take off) and for drop the rockets when they are burned out. For the red button i have no idea.

Original photo vs in game screenshot.

If you are chasing a MiG ... you should not forget, that the MiG may have a buddy. If so, shit happens.

The taxiways are not stock. They already have a dark "concrete" texture. The texture file has a size of 64x64 pixels. I replaced them with a 256x256 pixel texture and i got the strange flickering. So it looks in game: The texture of the taxiways and the additional parts are basically the same. The only difference is that the first are tga, the later jpg. Could it be, that the tga cause the flickering?

A small attempt to make stock airfield2 to look more like the real Gia Lam Airfield. As a next step i wanted to use for the stock taxiways the same texture which i use for the new taxiways. But unfortunately with the new texture the stock taxiways started to flickering in game. Weird!

Do you mean the NATO style emergency arresting cables at the end of the runway to prevent planes to overrun the runway?

Da Nang East Airfield alias Marble Mountain Airfield. A bigger USMC base east of Da Nang Airbase. It is a beginning. There are still a lot of barracks to be placed on this target area. Da Nang AB in the foreground, in the background you see the USMC base.

Somewhere over North Vietnam.

As in real life during Vietnam War the USAF has in DRV 2.1 to attack very high value targets, like some oil barrels, which are hidden in towns or woodland. And sometimes you get the task to attack the command post of Hilton Hanoi POW Camp. If you are not carefull you will not only bomb the Vietnamese, but also kill american colleges, which are POW in Hilton Hanoi. That's not so good for the missions score!

Somewhere in South Vietnam.

Tornados, german nickname "Tony".

Light Flak is shooting.

Somewhere over North Vietnam.

I'm working now on the traffic lines for Armed Recon missions. Armed Recon is, in my eyes, one of the most boring missions. You have to find a line of 16 trucks which are driving slowly in a straight way. The only challenge is to adjust the course of your plane with the course of the trucks and then dive down and strafe them with guns, unguided rockets or drop some clusters about them. Thats all. Maybe, that it becomes a little bit more challenging, when MiG's appear. But mostly it is a boring job. I thought i should make it a little bit more challenging. So i have concentrated all truck traffic in the Vinh area of DRV terrain. And then i added SAM and Flak cover to this area. This is more or less realistic, since each village in North Vietnam had a militia, which was armed with guns, machine guns, sometimes assault rifles or 20 mm Flak. They shot on all, what was flying and had had some success. the biggest prey was a F-111, which was downed by concentrated fire from old german 98k carabines. So if you fly a Armed Recon mission in the next update, then you can enjoy a certain amount of ground fire. And by the way, while test flying the Flak downed me a couple of times, something, that never had happen before in Armed Recon.

Hun. Waiting for the next mission.

Here an other airbase made by Wrench: Nakhon Phanom RTAFB I have simplyfied it a little bit because of my old computers performance. If Wrench makes an add on to DRV 2.1 he will surely include the original base. In the last days i was working on truck routes. I have located all of them in the Vinh area and placed some Flak in that area. So Armoured Recon missions are not as boring as usual anymore.

The LASUR indicator not only shows the flightpath to intercept the target. Left of the indicator you have 3 lamps which shows the distance to target in kilometers. The "x" lamp on the right signals the order to finish the interception and break away. The lamps above and below have something to do with target position and the use of the weapons. There should be a signal lamp to give the order to attack the target and a second lamp which gives the order to activate the radar. With this informations it was possible to bring a MiG-21 into a perfect fire position without to warn the RWR of the enemy plane.

20 Ampermeter 21 Bremsdruckanzeige 22 Staurohrheizung 23 Einstellung für Warnhöhenvorwähler RW-UM des Funkhöhenmesser >>>>>> Altitude warning system switch for radio altimeter 24 Helligkeit Flutlicht 26 Notabwurf Rumpfanhängung

Nothing. It is simply an outdated mod, which does not work properly anymore.

Nothing. It is simply an outdated mod, which does not work properly anymore.

I sunk a Sampan! I made the stock vSampan2 to an groundobject. Gave it NVietnam as nation and it worked properly. More or less. The only small problem is, that the Sampan is moving sidewards on the sea.

I have deleted all parked aircrafts and helicopters. Perhaps they were the reason for the slideshow experience, which i had on my old computer. I think it would be a good idea, if you would make some addons for DRV terrain with more detailed airfields. Let me first finish the terrain and then you may start with improvements. At the moment i rework the last target areas and check for mistakes, like Flak hidden in houses. And i'm still looking for the "potholes" in the heightfield and fill them up to terrain level. (Needs more time as expected.) Finally i will rework the DRV-movements.ini. And perhaps i get it working that the stock Sampans will act as moving ships on shipping routes. Maybe. I hope that i can finish my work on DRV 2.0 terrain in the third week of August.

Some days ago Wrench send me the files for Udorn RTAFB. I had to simplify it a little bit, because my old computer had the tendency to make a slide show, when i tried a final landing approach. But now it works as it should. And i hope the differences to the original is not to big. It is a very big base. In the background you see the old Udorn RTAB, which was simply a stock airfield. The differences are enormous.

To say it with the words from the movie "Good Morning Vietnam!" Da Da Da Nang!!