Welcome to the completely reworked Fighter Weapons School training campaign for the Aerges Mirage F1 -- Version 2023
In this 23 mission training campaign you will learn/practise every aspect of weapons delivery in the Mirage F1.
Tasks range from simple navigation using TACAN offsets or INS waypoints to low level bombing to more advanced techniques like toss bombing or pop up attacks.
Overall there are 12 air to ground missions, 6 air to air missions, 3 AAR tasks and 2 naviagation exercises.
Each mission is described in the accompanying manual, providing the player with all necessary attack parameters, gunsight depressions, sight pictures and if needed cockpit switches.
Moreover the manual covers basics like cold start, radio handling, creating own waypoints using TACAN offsets, INS alignment and creating INS waypoints.
Required are the Syria map and the Aerges Mirage F1.
List of missions:
Basic phase:
#B01: T-Scramble!
#B02: TACAN Offset
#B03: Rockets and guns
#B04: Low level bombing
#B05: Dive bombing
#B06: Anti runway (Durandals)
#B07: Toss bombing (Belougas)
#B08: Pop up attack
#B09: Laser guided bombs
#B10: Anti shipping
#B11: Intercept (easy)
#B12: Intercept (medium)
#B13: Intercept (hard)
Advanced phase:
#A01: INS navigation
#A02: aerial refueling (easy)
#A03: aerial refueling (medium)
#A04: aerial refueling (hard)
#A05: High altitude dive bombing
#A06: Air to Air situational awareness
Exam
#E01: Close air support
#E02: SEAD
#E03: A-Scramble!
Graduation:
G01: Long range strike
Except for the three "exam" and one graduation tasks, the player is provided with all relevant data, like waypoint data, target QFE, attack parameters, depressions and a sight pictures. In addition he can request a smoke marker via the F10 communication menu or disable/enable enemy defensive fire.
For the maritime strike he can choose between three different ship types as the target.
Please make sure to have the 40 page manual in PDF format at hand, when flying the missions.
Kneeboard pages with all relevant navigation and communication data, as well as a pictorial cold start guide are included.
Copy the folder from the ZIP file into your local saved games/DCS/missions/campaigns/en folder.
Enjoy!
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This is the completely reworked version of my 2022 training campaign for the Mirage F1.
Changes compared to the old campaign are:
- reworked strukture, by dividing the campaign in basic, advanced, exam and graduaiton segments
- correction of all sight depression values
- Replaced the F1CE by the F1BE for the basic phase training
- Inclusion of the F1EE for the advanced and graduation phase
- Choise to select the F1CE or F1EE for the exam phase
- inclusion of new weapons (e.g. S.530F or Mk 83 bombs)
- inclusion of AAR tasks for the F1EE
- added appendices for INS alignment and INS waypoint creation in the manual
- 40 page instead of 28 page manual
The old version of the campaign had 1700+ downloads.
+++ update 06.01.2024 +++
corrected mismatching lasercodes in mission B09 JTAC/GBU
