French Mirage 2000 from MAIW

[fsafranek]

Nick Black wrote me last week to say that he is working on releasing all the Mirage 2000s
of the Armée de l'Air. He will be doing this working with the scenery designers, AFCAD and
AI programmers, and beta testers at MAIW. He is releasing the project base-by-base in
seven seperate packages.

The seven packages will include the following airbases:
1) Dijon-Longvic and Al-Dhafra
2) Cambrai-Epinoy
3) Orange-Caritat
4) Nancy-Ochey
5) Luxeuil-St Sauveur
6) Istres-Le Tube
7) Mont de Marsan, Cazaux, and Djibouti

Well, the first package was released today for Dijon-Longvic and Al-Dhafra.
You can download it from the main page at Military AI Works (http://www.militaryaiworks.com/).

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[Wing_Z]

Talk about hot off the press...the MAIW site updated with the new Mirages about 2 minutes after I went looking.
Off to France, then!
Merci, mon ami :salute:

I am very much awaiting Istres, too...

[Flyboy208]

Absolutely fantastic news Frank! I have been waiting patiently for these Mirage 2000 ai packages for some time now. Made my day! Mike :wiggle:

[Felixthreeone]

It is always a pleasure to see you guys enjoying our stuff; Nick is great to work with and I really am lucky to be a beta tester for the MAIW team; There are more cool packages on the way soon!

[Clarke123]

It is always a pleasure to see you guys enjoying our stuff; Nick is great to work with and I really am lucky to be a beta tester for the MAIW team; There are more cool packages on the way soon!
RN Seakings, I pray :engel016:

[Felixthreeone]

RN Seakings, I pray :engel016:

......Oh...I'll never tell....:d

[Clarke123]

I've seen pictures :jump:

[Felixthreeone]

I've seen pictures :jump:

..Well the image rotator on the homepage is certainly a good indicator of what is in the pipeline...:mixedsmi:

[Sundog]

I need some clarification; Do these packages include the bases, are they just for use with the MS standard bases, or do we have to DL those elsewhere?

[Clarke123]

..Well the image rotator on the homepage is certainly a good indicator of what is in the pipeline...:mixedsmi:
yay....just merlins and lynxes and then I'll be happy.......almost. Keep up the fantastic work. We appreciate it.

[Felixthreeone]

I need some clarification; Do these packages include the bases, are they just for use with the MS standard bases, or do we have to DL those elsewhere?

...Sundog, are you referring to the Mirages? If so, the custom scenery is included as part of the package....

[Sundog]

...Sundog, are you referring to the Mirages? If so, the custom scenery is included as part of the package....

Yes, and thanks. I'll be installing it today. :)

[Wing_Z]

Thanks guys, been waiting for these...

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h200/CHARL_photos/SOH/M2000.jpg

I just love the way Nick Black makes them taxi with the canopy cracked open!

[MIKE JG]

I just love the way Nick Black makes them taxi with the canopy cracked open!

Nick only made the F1's, not the M2000's. That would be Fernando Martinez. I think we might get Nick to admit that he got the idea for the F1's from looking at the M2000's.

[Daube]

I have just finished installing this package in my FSX Acceleration in DirectX9 mode.

I'm very pleased with the result.:jump:

Due to the late time here, I could not spend enough time in the sim so I haven't seen any plane flying around. However, I could see that the Dijon airbase displays perfectly.

The one and only visual problem I could see so far is the canopies of the planes on the ground. Typical FSX problem with FS9 planes, but it can be solved easilly.

HUGE thanks to the MAIW guys responsible for this package and the future releases. :ernae:

[MIKE JG]

Second part is now available, Cambrai-Epinoy. Enjoy.

www.militaryaiworks.com (http://www.militaryaiworks.com)

EDIT: Forgot to mention that Martin Gossmann, "gsnde" on most forums, has released a tool for you FSX users that will fix the canopy transparency issue in FSX for the FMAI M2000 model if you haven't done so already.

You can download this neat little utility at his site at the bottom of the menu on this page:

http://www.interkultur.de/gossmann/fsx/download.php

[Flyboy208]

Great news once more. Cheers! Mike :wiggle:

[Daube]

Excellent ! Thank a lot :) :ernae:

[Felixthreeone]

:ernae:

[Wing_Z]

Thanks for the HU! :ernae:
And Daube didn't even need to ask! :d (Sorry Daube, couldn't resist)

[Flyboy208]

Thanks again MAIW Team! Mike :salute:

[ZsoltB]

Great shots!

Thank you!


Regards,

Zsolt

[Daube]

Small question from my side:
When are those Mirage flying ?
On the Dijon airbase, depending on the day I can clearly see a variation in the number of planes on the parkings, but I can never find one flying.
I tried looking into the flight plans but that's not really clear for me...

(Note that I'm also using the MAIW Osan AB package, and the AI traffic works perfectly there, I can usually find some F-16 flying around :) )

[Flyboy208]

Thanks very much Zsolt.

Daube, I started my flight at Cambrai/Epinoy at 6:33 PM - Spring - April .

The ai seemed to come to life right around that time ...

Cheers ! Mike :salute:

[Daube]

Thanks Mike, I'll try that :) :ernae:

[Flyboy208]

No problem Mate, you might wanna try March with the same settings as well ...

Mike :wiggle:

[Wing_Z]

.. a whole lot of Mirages!
:applause::applause::applause:
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I am wondering who it is, that qualifies for the nice shelters ;)

[Daube]

Found them finally :jump:
At Longvic AB (Dijon), the first flight is scheduled for 08:56 in the morning... but I forgot that times where specified in GMT !
08:56 GMT = 10:56 local, something like that... and suddently, I had something to follow :)

http://sapdaube.free.fr/fsx/daube_image1040.jpg

[Felixthreeone]

I had similar experiences while beta testing the Mirage packs....I was never looking at the right times, and had to refer to the raw flightplans often to make sure all the ducks were in order lol

[fsafranek]

Nick Black and MAIW have released the third in their series of French Armée de l'Air Mirage 2000 equipped air bases. This release covers EC 02.005 'Ile de France' stationed at Orange-Caritat Air Base (LFMO).

http://www.militaryaiworks.com/

Outstanding work as always.
:ernae:

[Wing_Z]

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h200/CHARL_photos/SOH/M2000-1.jpg

[MIKE JG]

Part 4 is now available covering EC01.003, EC02.003 and EC 03.003 based at BA 133 Nancy-Ochey (LFSO).

[Wing_Z]

Thanks!
MAIW is having a lot of fun - I picked up NAF Atsugi while I was there, also.

[Flyboy208]

Another great AI package! Found alot of traffic comes alive around 12:04 PM local time at Nancy-Ochey - Winter, Feb 1st 2010 ...

Lots of Mirages abound here ...

Mike :salute:

[Daube]

Looks great !
I will download this new package asap. Thanks for the info :)

[MIKE JG]

And part 5 is now available.

[Wing_Z]

Thanks, again.


Nick only made the F1's, not the M2000's. That would be Fernando Martinez. I think we might get Nick to admit that he got the idea for the F1's from looking at the M2000's.

Sorry, Fernando.
Good to see the lads building on each other's strengths ;)

[MIKE JG]

Part six of seven now available.

[Wing_Z]

:ernae: Always good to see a new post in this thread - never more so! :ernae:

[Flyboy208]

Yay !!!

Mike :applause:

[Daube]

Part 6 already ? I've installed only the first two so far !!
Thanks a lot :ernae:

[Wing_Z]

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h200/CHARL_photos/SOH/MPair1.jpg

[Ian Warren]

Don,t no bout you Charl , but Mike 'Flyboy208' has really nailed a line up there :) dang that screen looks impressive .

[Wing_Z]

:salute:
Yup MAIW have done themselves proud - France is full of gorgeous Mirage aircraft!
And, if you have the right gear...you can find them!

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h200/CHARL_photos/SOH/MPair2a.jpg

And just one more: these are great AI models, I'd be your wingman anytime...

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h200/CHARL_photos/SOH/MPair3.jpg

[Felixthreeone]

Great screenshots!

[Fauville]

Part 7 ( Cazaux, Mont de Marsan and Djibouti) is out on MAIW, AND French Hercs and Transalls pack also !!:jump:

[Wing_Z]

Wow! well spotted and thanks for the HU.
Off we go then...