DCS World Steam Edition Guide

L-39: radio "BUG" fix and weapon charts for DCS World Steam Edition

L-39: radio “BUG” fix and weapon charts

Overview

Featuring WORKING TOWER COMM frequencies.FICTITIOUS TARGET BASE calculation guide.GUNSIGHT REFLECTOR quick reference.

The RADIO BUG

The game manual is surely detailed and exhaustive, and has a nice chart summing up all airfield info you need to set up your nav systems;
unfortunately all tower comm radio frequencies are wrong, aren’t set by default in any R-832M channel and won’t work if set via Mission Editor.
Somehow (???) all manual’s freqs seem to be 50 MHz lower than the correct, working ones.

Here’s a chart with the right ones and default R-832M channels:

Weapons chart


Nothing new, but way less sparse than in the game manual and not so quick-fading as in the training missions. And in confortable kneeboard ratio too!

Very useful to set up gunsight reflector (parameter n°1 in tables)
and to calculate fictitious target base;
for this reason i added bombing distances in meters (2nd value in Iron bombs parameter n°4), wich were omitted in the latest version of the game manual.

Here’s the chart:
Note for us dummies:

i got scared at first too, but the formula on top is not so hard:
you choose a weapon and an attack course, then divide 800 for your * value. Example:

S-5 rockets at 30° = 1200m (see * in chart)
800 / 1200 = 2/3
well it’s 2/3, your real target size (meters) will be 2/3 of your fictitious target base
NOTE: This works smoothly with all 30° attack courses resulting in: 1/2 ratio for bombs and
2/3 ratio for guns and rockets.
Calculations with different attack angles won’t give so even results.

Credits and bonus

Kneeboard and guides

I found very useful to add these charts to the in-game kneeboard, I first learnead how to do this thanks to celkaris’ awesome guide, it explains in easy steps all you need to know.
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Sources and work

I made these files gathering information and tables from various game manuals, and anyway doing major editing work on them. For the paper effect i edited a blank paper image i found on the net, wich didn’t credited anyone.
Similar charts may be out there and better than these, but this is what i did with my own hands and aiding my personal trimtheplane-Alt+Tab-checkthemanual frustration, hope it fits yours too!

Bonus artwork

Here the links to all the “kneeboard artwork” i made so far.
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