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    Decay's Tools, Lapboards and Maps

    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/
    Last edited by Decay; Mar-29-2015 at 20:41. Reason: Added More files.
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    Re: Decay's Tools, Lapboards and Maps

    Great work. Respect!
    Esp. the mission targets PDFs.

    THANK YOU, SIR!

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    Re: Decay's Tools, Lapboards and Maps

    Thank you for sharing your terrific work Decay.


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    Re: Decay's Tools, Lapboards and Maps

    Excellent work. Glad you decided to post them.


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    Re: Decay's Tools, Lapboards and Maps

    Congrats for all this, Decay!!!


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    Re: Decay's Tools, Lapboards and Maps

    Just adding this here since it is a great map resource thread and is stickied:

    DUI's beginner map with landmark names:

    http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.co...ead.php?t=6722

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    Re: Decay's Tools, Lapboards and Maps

    Good call Marmus!

    I printed those for a mate who I was trying to get into CLOD (he just started Alien Isolation so I don't think we'll be seeing much of him for a while - I don't know how many underpants he owns and I think you go through quite a few playing that thing.)
    I've linked to the thread in the original post.

    I might have to do a re-arrange of the post. The RAF bombing calculator is probably the least useful.
    I'll have a think about how to make it more complete and more inviting for the noob.
    "Here's this awesome game that requires you to really put in and meet the challenge to get the most out of it."
    - And here's all the bits and pieces.
    and put them together in the sequence that you need them:

    1) Steam > CLOD > TF Updates.
    2) Beginners Maps > In game Maps > Toms AFB Books > Vintage Maps.
    3) Teamspeak versions compatible with the WW2 plugin.
    3) Stutter Stickies.
    4) Flight manuals, Checklists, VFE settings etc.
    5) Protractors, rulers, E6Bs, stopwatches, navigation books.
    6) Bomber manuals > LOTFE> RAF Calculator.

    Project for the future.
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    Re: Decay's Tools, Lapboards and Maps

    A suggestion....maybe link to ATAG_Lewis's great thread on installing and starting in Clod....he cover a lot of that stuff. Then maybe his post can link to this one to cover maps and navigation, etc.

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    Re: Decay's Tools, Lapboards and Maps

    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.

    I worked out the numbers at standard temperate and IAS=450. The results are in the following table.
    The difference is <1.3% up to 6,000m and <4.2% at 10,000m. I am using a set of formulas from NASA to calculate Temp, pressure, density and TAS based on Altitude and Temp.
    The spreadsheet can be found http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.co...ad.php?t=21246
    IAS and Temp can be adjusted in the "Settings" tab and the results will be in the "Atmospheric Data" tab.

    TAS-Table.png

    Altitude (m) Temperature ( C⁰ ) Pressure(p) Density(ρ) TAS TABLE Delta IAS=450 Corrected
    10,000 -49.9 26.49 0.41 774 742 -4.18% 95.82% 742
    9,000 -43.4 30.80 0.47 729 705 -3.23% 96.77% 705
    8,000 -36.9 35.66 0.53 687 670 -2.42% 97.58% 670
    7,000 -30.4 41.12 0.59 648 637 -1.71% 98.29% 637
    6,000 -23.9 47.23 0.66 613 605 -1.26% 98.74% 605
    5,000 -17.5 54.07 0.74 580 576 -0.70% 99.30% 576
    4,000 -11.0 61.68 0.82 550 547 -0.54% 99.46% 547
    3,000 -4.5 70.15 0.91 522 520 -0.39% 99.61% 520
    2,000 2.0 79.52 1.01 496 495 -0.24% 99.76% 495
    1,000 8.5 89.89 1.11 472 472 -0.04% 99.96% 472
    Hope this helps.
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    Scans of 1938 RAF Pilot's Maps.

    Hi All,

    Just adding this link:

    http://www.shockwaveproductions.com/store/raf_maps/

    The scans on this site are excellent quality. However they are not free - $18.99 for a 60mb download. I have them myself and recommend them.

    I am not affiliated in any way to Shockwave Productions.

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    Last edited by RedToo; Mar-11-2016 at 02:48.

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    Re: Decay's Tools, Lapboards and Maps

    Thanks, especially for the maps.
    I resently came back to simming from a long leave and the change of Sim, sure made my map and toolbox thin


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    Re: Decay's Tools, Lapboards and Maps

    Gentlemen,

    Here is one option to create large maps or posters.

    http://rasterbator.net/

    Upload the file, select the size, print, trim and paste pages together.

    I was able to print a map on 6 pages, but haven't had time to put it all together.

    The next step is to put a protective coat on the paper to preserve it and make it into a writable surface.

    Suggestions are welcome.

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    ~S~ Very nice work Decay, This will be very useful for the 71st and others in the community .

    Thanks Sir


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    Hello, i was wondering if there is any way of putting the grid onto the terrain map? If so, how how is it done?

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    Re: Decay's Tools, Lapboards and Maps

    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

    Any chance of a re-up please, links are broken.

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