Hi all,
I'm starting a thread to put up the things that I use, whether I made or found them.
Sort of a one stop thread. Hopefully you will find these tools useful. So here goes:
Mission Objectives and Flight Plans:
These fit into the Jeppensen and ASA kneeboards Tri Fold Kneeboard
The Lapboard Planner sheets are designed for the clipboard in the center, and meant to be printed on paper.
The Mission Objective lapboard inserts are designed for the transparent panel on the right and to print on card stock.
RAF Bombing Flight Plans:
Lapboard Planner Flight Plan Blanks for planning your own route to target:LapBoardPlannerBlanks.pdf
Worked Bombing Flight Plans with distances and headings for a selection of targets:
Clip Board Centre - Planner.pdf
Mission :: Objective/Target
Relinquish. :: Bridge SW of Rouen
Relinquish. :: Dam SE of Le Havre with escape route to SE over land.
Kanal Kampf. :: Freya Radar at Fecamp
Kanal Kampf. :: Quequeville airfield. (involves 17 minute channel crossing on autopilot - cup of tea anyone?)
Sealion :: Command Bunker at Cap Gris Nes but sneaking in from the landward side.
RAF Mission Objective Lapboard Inserts:
RAF Blanks, fill them in at briefing time yourself: LapBoardMissionsBlanks.pdf
RAF Mission Objectives with the following RAF ATAG Server 1 Mission Objectives and target details:
Kanal Kampf, Dynamo, Hellfire Corner, Sealion, Relinquish, Fall Rot, London Ruft, and Raiders. (Raiders incomplete at time of posting)
Clip Board Right - RAF Missions.pdf
The "M O S T . S E C R E T" letters get neatly obscured by the cloth frame of the transparent panel of the Tri Fold Kneeboard
AXIS Bombing Flight Plans:
Flight plans coming soon (eventually)
AXIS Mission Objective Lapboard Inserts:
AXIS Mission Blanks: AxisMissionBlanks.pdf
AXIS Mission Objectives with the AXIS ATAG Mission Objectives, target details and with Maps on the reverse. (thanks to Sw1vel for the maps and data)
Clip Board Right -Blue Missions.pdf
RAF Bombing Calculator: RAF Bomb Calculator.xlsx
This does quite a bit of calculation, but the True Air Speed formula doesn't match the TAS table from the IL2 Manual.
I'm using the Rule of Thumb: TAS = IAS +2%of IAS per 1000 feet,
If anyone can help me with the formula that CLOD actually uses in game i would be grateful.
Other People's Content:
These files have been made by other folks, but I find them so valuable I'm linking to them again:
Bristol Blenheim IV Altitude Bombing Guide v2 by 71st AH_Chuck and Ivank.
This was the most useful read to get me going as an RAF Bomber. On page one it made me realise that I needed a lapboard with Headings, Distances and Timings.
Once I had the Flight Planner Blanks, I found there is a fun section of the game played entirely away from the computer. With a Map, Protractor and a scale ruler, plan your route to target.
Look for a landmark on the map that lines up with a runway heading on your target airfield. If you turn on to target when you are over the landmark you can crater the whole runway in one bombing pass.
Look for routes that bypass the usual patrol routes of The Hun. eg from Hornchurch I might fly a long way north of Dunkirque, then SE over land, and finally approach Cap Gris Nes from the East where the 109s aren't looking.
The LOTFE:
This is the Luftwaffe's tool for Bombing Mission Planning.
All the data is metric, so you need to convert meters into feet ( feet = meters x 3.28084 ).
One day If I figure out how they are pulling the elevations, I'll make a similar tool for the RAF, based on the formulae in my bombing calculator.
LOTFE-7
Russian Flight Planner in HTML
This is the online version of marking up a section of the map with all the physical thing I do.
Its even got the stopwatch I use
http://kg40.ru/Maps/html/map/Clod_channel.html
And The Large Files:
Only grab these versions if you're actually going to print them.
Tom's Vintage CLOD Map.
By Tom: VO101_Tom over on the Banana Board
Decay's "Fresh Print Look" of Tom's vintage CLOD map:
Warning 40 Meg: "Fresh Print Look" of Tom's Vintage CLOD Map
"Fresh Print Look" PDF Version scaled correct for A3 (cut and glue yourself) 6 pages.
Warning 193 Meg CLOD Big Map 6 Pages A3 -no scaling gives 1:500,000.pdf
Tom's Original Vintage CLOD Map
WARNING 32 Meg: Tom's Original Vintage CLOD Map
Tom's two hi-res books "Air Force Bases of Cliffs of Dover" version 5
WARNING - 229 Meg Tom's CLOD AFBs of England
WARNING - 267 Meg Tom's CLOD AFBs of England
A terrain map that comes straight out of the in-game map system.
Apologies for insufficient crediting and linking to authors, I will add those when I find where I got these things from.
WARNING - 92 Meg Terrain.
Do you love maps?
You can stock up on Scale Rulers, Square Protractors, and E6B flight computers through AirServices Australia: www.airservicesaustralia.com/store
Also Bob Tait's Commercial Pilot's License Navigation Study Guide is worth having.
More Maps!
Maps for Noobs.
This thread has three great maps that print nicely as A4 and they have the key landmarks that you'll hear everyone talking about on Teamspeak. When you're new and you hear "I'm feet wet at Deal" that doesn't mean a lot, and finding Deal on a big maps can be a pain (If you're not from the UK you wonder where do I start looking?). So the maps in this thread have reduced clutter and are great to get you going.
http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.co...ead.php?t=6722
Tidy Launcher for Cliffs of Dover.
Modify the following into a text file and change the extension to CMD.
EG mine is called: CLOD_ATAG.cmd and I have to run it with Admin Priviliges
rem only display outputs in the CMD prompt
@echo off
Rem Change to my D: drive where all my bulk data is located
D:
rem park in a garbage directory
cd "D:\Null"
rem each ping waits one second so you can use 2 pings of the home IP piped to a null file to make the script wait one second
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1>null
rem delete the Cliffs of Dover Cache and any subdirectories and don't ask for a prompt
rmdir /S /Q "D:\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover - MOD\cache"
rem wait one second
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1>null
rem rotate through the six dashpics I have made and then list that directory briefly (debugging)
CD "D:\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover - MOD\DashPics\Selected"
rename "D:\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover - MOD\DashPics\Selected\1.tga" 6.bak
rename "D:\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover - MOD\DashPics\Selected\2.tga" 1.tga
rename "D:\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover - MOD\DashPics\Selected\3.tga" 2.tga
rename "D:\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover - MOD\DashPics\Selected\4.tga" 3.tga
rename "D:\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover - MOD\DashPics\Selected\5.tga" 4.tga
rename "D:\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover - MOD\DashPics\Selected\6.tga" 5.tga
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1>null
rename "D:\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover - MOD\DashPics\Selected\6.bak" 6.tga
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1>null
dir /b "D:\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover - MOD\DashPics\Selected\"
rem I found running the executable for track IR was flakey, so I make a call to the link.
start "" "C:Users\Public\Public Desktop\TrackIRv5.lnk"
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1>null
rem open the ATAG teamspeak server - modify this for your preferred place, but ATAG is always busy so
start ts3server://216.52.148.29?port=9987
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1>null
rem VC.lnk is the name of my shortcut to Virtual Cockpit
start "" D:\Desktop\VC.lnk
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1>null
rem I got this link off the ATAG website, it should drop you straight in to the ATAG server 127
start steam://connect/216.52.148.29:27016
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1>null
Chain Home and other Radio Information
Tab > 4 > 1 To get Chain Home contacts reporting. (pick a dispatch controller station and esc back out)
Tab > 7 > 2 This will give you a vector back to the base.
Tab > 7 > 3 This will give you Wind Direction.
Mod Mic
If you have nice headphones, and don't want to re-invest in a gaming headset, try this:
www.modmic.com
WW2 Training films:
http://www.ww2f.com/topic/49334-raf-training-films/
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