DC 3 AIRWAYS, The virtual airline dedicated to the venerable DC3 and its larger sister the DC4 is staging the 4th ever recreation of World War Two's
Operation Market Garden. The event is open to all simulation pilots, whether affiliated or not with DCA. Full information can be found at


WWW.DC3AIRWAYS.NET

Our News Release is below.
Sherman Kaplan
PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER
DC3 AIRWAYS
OperationMarket Garden 2020
1stflight - Saturday Feb 1st 2020 19:00z
2ndflight - Saturday Feb 29th 2020 19:00z


ABrief History
OperationMarket Garden, conducted 17-25 September 1944, was an Allied militaryoperation that was fought in the Netherlands and Germany towards theend of World War 2. Led by Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, it wasgenerally considered a failed operation, although the "Market"phase was the largest airborne operation conducted up to that pointin the war. There is a vast amount of information regarding theoperation available, including a study by LTC Jennifer B. Fox dated 8April 1994 of the operation conducted as a thesis for her course workas student at the Air War College, Department of the Air Force.
DC-3Airways Recreation


This will be perhaps the 4th Market Garden event, the first having been staged with 2 other organisations back in October 2002 with 31 participants covering all 3 airborne divisions in their drop zones near Arnhem, Nijmegen and Eindhoven.


September 2019 saw the 75th anniversary of the operation and many events were held across the Netherlands to commemorate the event, with mass paratroop drops, moving commemorations and parades and various historical convoys, one of which I was privileged to be a part of thanks to Piet DCA2480 in his WW2 Dodge weapons carrier.


In the packages offered, we have provided the historical routes,waypoints and drop zones. Included also are short range NDB's to simulate the Eureka beacons that were used in September 1944 to indicate waypoints. Flak effects have also been placed accurately based on 1944 maps of flak concentrations and the eye witness accounts of aircrew, so the location and density of the flak is as accurate as we could make it.


The drop zones have the coloured smoke markers placed by the pathfinders that arrived some 10 to 15 minutes before the main paratroop serials arrived.


Our event in 2020 focuses on just the 82nd airborne and just 2 of the airfields that they used. We will be using RAF Balderton and RAF Cottesmore to deposit our airborne troops on drop zones 'O' and 'N',located to the south and south west of Nijmegen.


All we ask of participants is to fly in formation with their assigned flight leader, maintain the airspeed and altitude assigned for the mission and try to drop their paratroopers on the correct DZ.Therefore we request that participants try to utilise a C47 with a military livery and have the necessary package installed and tested to include the effects for the paratroopers and the necessary changes to their aircraft.cfg within the smoke section, details of which willbe included in the installation instructions.


There is a re-worked C47 package from Aeroworx for X-Plane since we last did a WW2 event.
The best C47 available for P3D is of course the MJ C47 v3.1.6 and there are several military textures available here at Sim-Outhouse and at Flightsim.com. I would recommend 'Whiskey 7' or 'Drag em Oot' or 'Argonia' or 'Thats allbrother'.


Recommended Aircraft
For FSX and P3D, we suggest Manfred Jahn's C-47, any version. Whiskey 7 is highly recommended.


ForX-Plane, we highly recommend downloading Aeroworx' C-47, which is freeware or the V-Sky Labs C-47 (payware). Both are excellent aircraft.


Recommended/required Add-ons
The package is of a small size and includes small scenery, effects and sound files to be installed and activated within your software program.


For FSX users there are additional FSRecorder files if requested that will add formations of Ai traffic and effects that will hugely add to the immersion factor.


Should anyone have any difficulties in installing or activating the package,a couple of sessions will be held in early January to assist and test things out.


The following are very useful sites to get a better understanding of the sequence of events of this operation.


Operation Market Garden


Battle of Arnhem - Both sides of the lines - Market Garden 1944


Operation Market Garden, 17-27 September 1944


Lessons Learned from Operation Market Garden


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