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ACG RAF Wattisham
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Anyone who may be a regular visitor or have visited our forum in the past may recall we started RAF Wattisham a few years ago, but it was eventually scrapped. This is a completely new from scratch version started at the beginning of the year with custom AI phantoms and custom built ground polygons....
dhazelgrove
Charter Member
I hope you won't forget to include 1ACC/TSSU/USST/14SU (all the same place) across the road from Crash Gate 3.
Dave
hschuit
SOH-CM-2024
dhazelgrove
Charter Member
The last few ACG offerings have been for both FS9 and FSX and, given the choice of forum.....
The Phantoms might be the Mike Pearson models or, then again, they might be John Young's own.
The 74 Sqn markings seem to be on an FGR2 model, which suggests a fairly late timescale.
This is all after my time there (1978 - 1983), as the HASs were still under construction when I left.
56 Sqn were still using Hangar 1, with 29/23 Sqn using Hangar 2. Both squadrons still parked on the main pan.
Dave
At the moment we have only worked on the FSX version, hence the post here, but a fs9 version is not out of the question, it's easier to convert FSX models backward to FS9 than it is the other way.
It is based in the early 1990's
The Phantoms are native FSX coded, loving built by John Young. John has also built the majority of the airfield buildings such as those on the HAS sites and 50% of the custom ground.
Stevo
ADE is great for ground polygons and does the job well, however we found the mapping part (applying the texture to the polygon) to be lacking at it current incarnation and found Gmax uvw unwrap to be much better especially around curves which ADE struggled with particularly textures with lines in both direction such as concrete. So all of this polygon was done in gmax.
but ADE and it's ground poly addition is superb and for many reasons the main ones being, having the default runways, taxiways, buildings and the custom ground polys all in one program and no need to use other programs and everything is perfectly aligned.
We compiled the exported Gmax .mdls with model converter x.
Stevo
ASP and Johns AI Phantoms
We have the crash net up on one end of the runway, while at the other end it's down, the pair switching according to wind direction. Rotation of the PAR and ATC van also works on the same principle.
This is the 56/74 Sqn flight line:
John Young also added visiting Phantoms from 19 and 92 Sqns (Widlenwrath Germany), including the two all blue commemorative schemes.
Stevo76
The QRA AI Phantoms are programmed as a pair, departing together, using separate overlay AFCADS (AFX):
All screenshots by John Young
Stevo
