Berlin, june 1980.
Berlin is a divided city at the height of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall separates communist East Berlin, controlled by the GDR and the Soviet Union, fr om democratic West Berlin, aligned with West Germany and supported by the Western Allies. Movement between the two sides is heavily restricted, and families and friends are often split by the border.
West Berlin functions as an isolated enclave with a vibrant counterculture, political activism, and growing tension around left-wing extremism, including the Red Army Faction. East Berlin is tightly controlled by the state, with the Stasi maintaining surveillance and enforcing ideological conformity.
Daily life differs starkly between the two halves of the city, symbolizing the ideological conflict between East and West during the Cold War.
No. 7 Flight Army Air Corps was re-formed in 1970, at RAF Gatow in Berlin, wh ere it from 1977 operated Westland Gazelle AH.1 helicopters. (SA342 made under license by Aérospatiale)
Changelog
18 December 2025
- Minor fixes and improvements
14 December 2025 - update 2 - hotfix
- Fixed a bug regarding Glienicke Bridge
14 December 2025
- Added a bit more variety of blue AI planes
- Replaced the units to pick up from Ground Unit to Static Object (random of 8 plausible personnel types)
- Player will get a ping sound whenever the co-pilot can tell something about the place he's flying over
12 December 2025
- Added Glienicke Bridge (The bridge of Spies) as a possible destination/drop off point, with voice over guide.
10 December 2025
- Added two hospitals you may get deliveries to
- Corrected some misspellings.
8 December 2025
- Added a few more locations (Potsdamer Platz Crossing, Invalidenstrasse Crossing and Hammarskjöldplatz).
7 December 2025 - update 2
- Plugged some holes in West Berlin (the player got message he was in GDR when he in fact wasn't)
7 December 2025
- Fixed it so the ROE of the spawned troops are se t to return fire (so they don't start attacking potentially GDR choppers from the border)
6 December 2025
- Bug fixes
- Added total flight time in mission briefing
- Added 3 more locations (Oranienburger Chaussee, Stolpe and Griebnitzsee)
5 December 2025
-Quick update, added mission/passenger counter
5 December 2025
-Initial release
Please use this forum thread if you have any questions:
https://forum.dcs.world/topic/382652-vip-transport-west-berlin-1980-gazelle-explore-west-berlin-with-over-50-unique-random-pickups-and-destinations-plenty-of-voice-overs-and-custom-kneeboards/
If you like to not die of manpads/MiGs/Hinds, keep yourself within the walls of West Berlin.
Your co-pilot knows A LOT about Berlin, and he will gladly tell you about specific locations you fly over if you want him to.
Installation :
Copy Gazelle_VIP_transport.miz into %homepath%\Saved Games\DCS\Missions\
Requirements:
-SA342 Gazelle
-Cold War Germany map
Inspirations :
-Cold War Conversations - BAAC helicopter co-pilot in Cold War Germany - https://open.spotify.com/episode/1DZshW2SxL40jTW6RoXEbV?si=f1c2e792286e483e
-Fat Electrician - Biggest Logistical Flex Of All Time - Berlin Airlift - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwYtYWXPbhI
-Fat Electrician - The Berlin Wall: How Communism Turned East Germany into a Prison State - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLFJzOM7zt4
-TED-Ed - The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall - Konrad H. Jarausch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9fQPzZ1-hg
-David S. Mitchell - History Of Berlin Wall - Amazing Documentary TV - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myW1Padwxqk
-neo - How the Berlin Wall Worked - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoJ0Pih0Ssc
-Anna Funder - Stasiland - https://www.amazon.com/Stasiland-Anna-Funder/dp/1459662237
-Lucas Pope - Papers, Please - https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/
-Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - The Life of Others - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs6GEM7uuyM
