132nd-vWing/TRM

No homing capability on Kutaisi

Looney1976 opened this issue · 8 comments

Although there is a TACAN at Kutaisi, there are no NDBs or Markers so homing in with the Mi-8 is impossible.
Requets to add either a NDB or ARC-9/ARC-UD beacon transmitting on one of the 6 preset frequencies in order to allow the Mi8 to find the airport in IFR conditions.

There used to be a beacon @ 477kHz or 845kHz but it's not listed on the F10 map anymore, I'll do some more checks on friday.

copy, happy to do that. While Im at it, any more beacons or just this one?

for example at the farps?

I'm in the process of making a doppler table which will allow the Mi8 pilots to go from any important place in the TRMT to any other using the doppler system only.

For Kutaisi homing beacon, I used an online morse generator to make a WAV file which spells KUT in morse code. Perhaps we can use this as a sound file if needed.

morse KUT.zip

we already have beacon.ogg Im not in favor of adding other sounds as this will jsut expand the mission filesize. It should not matter what the sound file is, as long as there is any sound file we can tune into

if you however really prefer the morse over the beacons, I can put them in but please convert them to *.ogg and use as high compression and minimal filesize as possible

suggest to continue the discussion on the forums

http://www.132virtualwing.org/index.php/page/forum_thread?id=24331

new: added ARK-UD beacon for FARP Kutaisi preset 1
new: added ARK-UD beacon for FARP London preset 2 (Range R2B)

added, since no more suggestions for more beacons came up, Im closing this