Post by StuB on Dec 17, 2020 13:15:28 GMT -5
During a recent test, I was shocked (but also pleasantly surprised at the same time) when A MiG-21 made a head-on pass at me just West of Cat Bi Airbase (Haiphong).
I was testing a Crusader loaded with Zuni rockets and MK-82's so I was kind of caught with my pants down when I first saw the MiG....especially since it wasn't anything I had added to the scenario I had set up with CCP.
I think the MiG was present because I have AI flight plans (that I set up with AIFP a while ago) that have MiG's flying between all of the active MiG bases. So, apparently this MiG-21 was approaching Cat Bi and became lethal due to FSCAI being on and shot me in the face with either a missile or guns....not sure which, since it happened SUPER fast....and somehow the log file didn't get saved for some reason.
SO I started thinking "gee, a "Red Crown" or "Disco" warning notification saying "Blue Bandit, Bullseye, 110 at 45." would have been really nice to have.
So that got me thinking, would it be possible for a bullseye to be set and then have a text based notification of any bandits that are in an altitude of 500 ft to 50,000 ft.
Hopefully it would allow setting the contact descriptions by airplane type. It could be "Bandit" as a generic warning and then be able to set other calls by the VEHICLES.CFG entries?
For example, set "Blue Bandit" to equal the MiG-21 cfg entry, "Red Bandit" to the MiG-17 entry, etc... and if a contact does not have an entry set it is called out simply as "Bandit".
The latitude and longitude coordinates could be found using either CCP or the freeware TCalcX_002 utility.
Anyway, it would really be useful.
I was testing a Crusader loaded with Zuni rockets and MK-82's so I was kind of caught with my pants down when I first saw the MiG....especially since it wasn't anything I had added to the scenario I had set up with CCP.
I think the MiG was present because I have AI flight plans (that I set up with AIFP a while ago) that have MiG's flying between all of the active MiG bases. So, apparently this MiG-21 was approaching Cat Bi and became lethal due to FSCAI being on and shot me in the face with either a missile or guns....not sure which, since it happened SUPER fast....and somehow the log file didn't get saved for some reason.
SO I started thinking "gee, a "Red Crown" or "Disco" warning notification saying "Blue Bandit, Bullseye, 110 at 45." would have been really nice to have.
So that got me thinking, would it be possible for a bullseye to be set and then have a text based notification of any bandits that are in an altitude of 500 ft to 50,000 ft.
Hopefully it would allow setting the contact descriptions by airplane type. It could be "Bandit" as a generic warning and then be able to set other calls by the VEHICLES.CFG entries?
For example, set "Blue Bandit" to equal the MiG-21 cfg entry, "Red Bandit" to the MiG-17 entry, etc... and if a contact does not have an entry set it is called out simply as "Bandit".
The latitude and longitude coordinates could be found using either CCP or the freeware TCalcX_002 utility.
Anyway, it would really be useful.
