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I was wondering if anyone edits their flightplans to reflect semi-permanent deployments, especially for US assets.

For instance, the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing is currently deployed in Southwest Asia. It consists of:

12th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron (RQ-4s from Beale)
99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron (U-2s from Beale)
908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (KC-10s)
968th Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron (E-3s)

At that same base, the French Air Force has Rafales, a C-135, an E-3F, and an Atlantique II stationed there.

Do you take a few jets from each unit and assign them to another field? Do you keep them at the home field and "deploy" them for a couple of days or so? Or do you not even worry about it?

I usually just create new traffic files for the deployed locations. That way I have jets at home station and overseas. Truth be told, the USAF on my machine probably has 5 times the aircraft that the really USAF has.

I simulate deployments for jets at NAS Lemoore, otherwise I will have too many aircraft on the ground and in patterns.

Keith

That was my next step, since the Euro TSP has come into effect (DM A-10s recently). In years past all my USN/USMC squadrons are separate, I can pull them out when they deploy using info from the gonavy.jp site. Helps flying into Lemoore or Oceana with the framerates.

No I don't. I don't know who is deployed and where, so it is not going to happen in my sim.

flyerkg wrote:I simulate deployments for jets at NAS Lemoore, otherwise I will have too many aircraft on the ground and in patterns.

That's EXACTLY why I do deployments. While I'm still working out how to simulate aircraft carrier deployments, I do sent aircraft overseas and fly from some of those areas where I know we have a presence (not hard to find, but I'm an OPSEC kind of guy). In many instances, I generally just pull a couple of aircraft from each squadron (i.e. F-15Es from Seymour Johnson, Mountain Home, and maybe Lakenheath to form an expeditionary fighter squadron at a deployed location) instead of a full squadron since we can really only simulate one week's worth at a time.

Thanks to all for letting me know how you do it (or if you do it at all). My ADD's kicking in, so I'm updating a lot of fields with all of these squadron movements and expeditionary units, so forgive me if some of my projects are on hold. I'll get some of 'em out once I get a feel for some of these movements, many having to do with the F-35 coming online.

I created a traffic file For bagram AB consisting of f16s and f15s and other transport units