emolina Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Hi everyone, long story short I made a thing that made 500 missions for the Mustang. The long story is here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=172869 This could be an interesting flight! The 'Interesting Flights' system is a generator of sort-of-random missions aimed at making sure you never have to fly the same mission twice. They are interesting because you don't know what's going to happen in them. Every mission is different. The flight plan for each mission is generated just for that mission. There is no combat but there IS scoring. The flight plan is complete, well annotated, and can be found on your kneeboard. Below you will find the download link, there are 100 missions in the 'annotated' directory. Their filename gives you some clues about what will happen during the mission (format explained in the post linked above). There are 400 missions in the 'interesting' directory, they don't tell you anything except their difficulty. The message linked above explains the system, its goals, and what you will find in each mission. It's fairly long! I hope you enjoy it. Mission Briefing Look at the weather forecast on your kneeboard, then checkout the flight plan details. The aim of these missions is to get the aircraft safely back on the ground, sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's hard, sometimes you shouldn't even fly. You'll get a higher score if you meet the take off and landing times shown in your flight plan. Down to the second. Make sure there isn't anything wrong with your aircraft during startup. You are not supposed to complete all the 'Interesting Flights', for many, you shouldn't even take off! A lot of the higher numbered flights are just not safe. Make sure the weather and your aircraft are suitable. If not, download another flight. Or download a bunch of them in the first place so you can go trough them quickly. There are plenty there, no reason to ever fly one twice. So don't, they are a lot more fun if you don't know what's going to happen. During the flight you can use the 'F10' radio menu to find out: Your score for the mission so far. What you are expected to do next. Get a helping hand by seeing your ground speed and the elapsed mission time down to the second. You will not experience or see any combat during this flight. 'Interesting Flights' uses the MOOSE scripting framework and Open Maps. WHERE TO GET THE MISSIONS FROM Please read the thread linked above if you don't know what this is all about! You can download the missions from a shared DropBox folder here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mzic1uoxnyofgm3/AADJTks7pN0nmj1CqpmqUy5oa?dl=0 1 My 'Interesting Missions' Generator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emolina Posted September 9, 2016 Author Share Posted September 9, 2016 (edited) Hi everyone, I'm not an expert on the P-51, please let me know if I've gotten anything wrong. Things like cruising altitude, speeds or the way the radio is set up. Carrying out the plan In the Mustang you'll need to use some honest-to-goodness dead reckoning navigation. Thankfully your flight plan is accurate, you can get your TAS (well, ground speed, which is what the flight plan uses) from your radio menu and the Mustang has a clock. So if you stick to the speed on the flight plan, the timings will be accurate. If you use the clock to time your flight legs you should get fairly close to your destination. I haven't taken wind into account so far. Most of these flights are short (mission start to landing should take 40 minutes on average) so you can guesstimate a wind correction if you want to get more accurate. In the 'Interesting Missions' generator wind gets stronger and more easterly with altitude. The flight time is calculated to be the transit time if you follow the waypoints exactly, PLUS ten minutes. So a typical flight profile would look like this: Spend ten minutes getting the aircraft ready, tested, and at the threshold. Five minutes in-flight getting some altitude and getting the speed up to cruising speed. Follow the flight plan speeds to get to the destination, typically around 20 minutes. Five minutes getting the aircraft slowed down, configured for landing, and on the runway. On the final leg you should get the tower talking to you so you can home in on their signal. Edited September 9, 2016 by emolina My 'Interesting Missions' Generator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emolina Posted September 19, 2016 Author Share Posted September 19, 2016 I've added missions for the TF-51D too. They can be found in the same place as the P-51 missions. My 'Interesting Missions' Generator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emolina Posted September 30, 2016 Author Share Posted September 30, 2016 Hi everyone, I've updated the missions with more interesting weather, more navigation help, another airport and less strict scoring. Details here : https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2912677&postcount=96 My 'Interesting Missions' Generator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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