Italian Air Force

Keith Jones · Post by **Keith Jones** » 27 Aug 2007, 19:53

I have put together a package for the Italian Air Force. If anyone is interested it is available here:- http://www.btinternet.com/~maddog71/ITAFai.zip

Comments would be most welcome as this is the first package of this type I have put together.

Thanks.

Savage · Post by **Savage** » 27 Aug 2007, 20:10

I've been trying to do my first Ai pack for release of a Croatian Air Force Mig 21 Squadron for a while. But at the moment I'm stalled on all the effort it takes so kudos to you for doing this.

KevinJarvis · Post by **KevinJarvis** » 29 Aug 2007, 17:18

Keith,
I've downloaded and installed your package.
I haven't had a chance to spend a lot of time with it, but from what I've seen it's first rate work.
Thanks and keep it up.
KJ

Keith Jones · Post by **Keith Jones** » 29 Aug 2007, 21:09

Thanks for the kind words. That's the sort of encouragement a lot of us need!

Post by **Greg** » 30 Aug 2007, 15:38

Hi Keith !

First of all I really appreciate it when people take time to produce packages for their fellow simmers, so thank you.

I have one (pretty big) remark though. I don't know how realistic you want things to be, but know that in Europe most airbases have opening hours, and only few bases are open 24/7. I enjoy watching Italian cargo's flying into Belgian bases... but at 4AM everyone's still sleeping here

I can provide the opening hours for Belgian Air Force bases if you want. And if you care for realism, that is

Thanks again.

Greg

sprocky · Post by **sprocky** » 30 Aug 2007, 16:01

Hope you have an Open Day at EBFS. As I am sending Norvenich Tornadoes to that base on Saturday in my upcoming FPs for Norvenich AB. All the others dep/arr weekdays somewhen between 07:00 and 18:00 GMT. Will this be fine, Greg ?

Post by **Greg** » 30 Aug 2007, 17:06

Hi Jan

I guess you can always request a 'waiver' to the Belgian Air Staff

Maybe we could start a seperate thread in which everyone can add information about local bases in a kind of database, but here you have the main bases in Belgium:

EBBE Beauvechain
EBBL Kleine Brogel
EBFS Florennes

-> Flying window:
Mon-Tue 0830L until 2400L (for nightflying during summer time) or 2100L (for nightflying during winter time)
Wed-Fri 0830L until 1730L
Sat-Sun Closed (Except for QRA)

EBFN Koksijde

-> Flying window:
Mon-Fri 0830L until 1730L
Sat-Sun Closed (Except for SAR)

EBBR Brussels / EBMB Melsbroek

-> 24/7

Greg

sprocky · Post by **sprocky** » 30 Aug 2007, 19:38

Greg,

the times you mentioned are locals, arent they ?

Post by **Greg** » 30 Aug 2007, 20:45

sprocky wrote:the times you mentioned are locals, arent they ?

They are indeed. e.g. 0830L

Otherwise I'd have to post two times for each window (winter & summer)

sprocky · Post by **sprocky** » 30 Aug 2007, 22:22

Sorry, I missed the "L"

You are late. 08:30 ? The first a/c took off at 07:30L at our base. Sadly it is closed now

Keith Jones · Post by **Keith Jones** » 30 Aug 2007, 23:03

Tirithon wrote:Hi Keith !

First of all I really appreciate it when people take time to produce packages for their fellow simmers, so thank you.

I have one (pretty big) remark though. I don't know how realistic you want things to be, but know that in Europe most airbases have opening hours, and only few bases are open 24/7. I enjoy watching Italian cargo's flying into Belgian bases... but at 4AM everyone's still sleeping here

I can provide the opening hours for Belgian Air Force bases if you want. And if you care for realism, that is

Thanks again.

Greg

Thanks for your comments. They're appreciated.
I'd like to reiterate that the contents of my package are not my work. I only put everything together

As for realism (regarding the timings), I'm not bothered one bit if an aircraft goes into an airport at a time when in real life it would be closed. But that's just me!

Post by **Greg** » 31 Aug 2007, 10:49

There's the realism thing again... "how far do you want to go?"

Some people (like me) try to simulate real-world traffic within the constraints of FS, others (like you) are happy when they see stuff flying around. Which I respect by the way, we just seem to have different goals.

Greg

Post by **Greg** » 31 Aug 2007, 11:00

sprocky wrote:You are late. 08:30 ? The first a/c took off at 07:30L at our base. Sadly it is closed now

I wouldn't worry too much about being half an hour early