Radio commands

[=IL2AU=ToknMurican]

I didn't want to necro a 2 year old thread on the subject.   I recently installed PWCG and it seems like it can pretty much cover my needs for single player in a flight sim.   I prefer to fly at lower ranks.. and have no radio commands whatsoever which is understandable since I took the lower rank.. but I ran into a problem on a particularly cloudy mission where all of Stalingrad basically had a cloud ceiling that started at somewhere between 3000/3500m, popping out of them at about 4100m.

 

 

Anyway my flight of yaks which I was on the tail end of hit these clouds as I was trying to catch up with them in the climb after takeoff.. and I lost site of them.  I also mistakenly kept climbing while I was looking for them.  In the time that I was climbing above the flight plan altitude, they continued down the flight path.   I flew along the flight path checking above and below the clouds unable to find them..but there I was getting radio messages from them about enemy fighter planes.

 

 

I found myself wishing I could communicate back to them but with some very specific requsts.. like "Flight Location?" "Flight speed?"   "Request Pattern hold"  "Request nav lights".. 

 

something along those lines.. as ww2 pilots with access to radios probably did have the benefit of communicating locations to each other. 

 

It would nice to be able to at least get a heading in degrees from me to them somehow someway.  I don't know if the mission editor already allows for custom radio messages.. which if the case maybe I should be making the suggestion to Pat Wilson?  

 

Unless something like this can be added I feel like the only real way to play PWCG is in normal mode imagining the marks in the sky as clear communication between pilots and ground forces.. or never ever get separated from your flight to begin with.. but that happens. 

Edited March 8, 2017 by headwarp