Practice Mission - A-20B Havoc (A 'Quick Mission' Alternative) **UPDATED**

[GSHWK_Houndstone_Hawk]

Practice Mission - A-20B Havoc

 

**NOTE** Completely overhauled and updated. Delete old version of this mission.

 

Overview:
I fly Allied, predominantly RAF and I fly in VR. As incredible and immersive as VR is, it does obviously have its downsides. Reading notes, watching tutorials etc all have to be done 'outside' of Virtual Reality. But not any more. Now I finally have practice missions where all the reference material and tutorials are in-game, inflight, in-headset.
I've aimed to create aircraft specific Sandbox-like Training Missions that are aimed to be a seen as a massive improvement over the default in-game 'Quick Mission'
Designed to either help you get used to the specific aircraft or as a simple refresher. Each training mission will include a primary objective as well as numerous secondary objectives will will be in the form of both ground AND air.
A wingman or flight will usually fly alongside you (and as you will be 'flight lead', this will give you practice in issuing orders, formations etc).

Each aircraft-specific mission will also have another flight with their own mission, giving you the option to formate on them and help them out as well as completing the on-map objectives in your time and order.

Each mission contains specifically created colour tutorials which are narrated by 'REQUIEM' and taken from his excellent and informative 'Air Combat Tutorial Library' YouTube videos.
These tutorial presentations have been designed to activate from a flare fired in the cockpit, when the pilot has taxied to a specifically instructed point.

Onscreen messages will frequently appear, informing you of the status of fellow pilots etc.

Music audio clips have been included at various stages to help heighten atmosphere and ambience.

Important Take Off checklist and Aircraft Limitation plates will briefly appear as you line up on the runway, waiting for your wingman, flight and in most cases, the Aircraft Limitations plate have been made into a DDS file, giving you the option to use it in-cockpit in-place of the default cockpit photo. Take off and Landing Checklists as well as Pilots Notes and Aircraft Limitation information can also be found on the inflight map screen ('M')

Whilst these missions have been designed and created for VR, they do work perfectly well in 2D.

 

This Mission:

Practice Mission - A-20B Havoc
Welcome to the DB-7 Boston (A-20B Havoc) Training Mission. Primary and secondary ground objectives are available, as well as air to air skirmishes with the Luftwaffe. You are call signed as 'Hydro Leader'. 'Hydro' 2 and 3 make up your 3-ship flight.
Your primary objective is a trio of German Armed Cargo Tankers that have been spotted making a break up the Sound, for the safety of the North Sea. Using low mast height skip bombing attacks to avoid shoreline and shipping flak, sink these Tankers.
Secondary objectives include an Armoured column, Artillery teams and a supply Convoy. Air threats will be numerous.
Tennis Flight are readying up to leave at mission start, on a bombing run of a German Fighter/Bomber Airfield 20 miles to the south. Put their main runway (north of the airbase) out of action and expect heavy flak as well as fighter aircraft scrambling to meet your attack.
4 Spitfire Mk.V's of 'Suncup' Flight will be your fighter support and they'll be circling you at 'Angels 6' when your flight get airborne.
Dotted strategically around the airbase are parking points which, when entered, will trigger a series of helpful A-20B specific tutorials when a flare is fired.
Tutorials available are - Cockpit Familiarisation, Level Bombing, Skip Bombing and Level Bombing (detailed).
Refuelling/Rearming/Repairing is available on base. The trucks are parked in near the control tower but the rearm/refuel radius is large enough to encompass 'most' of the base. Remember to switch engine off first.

 

To Install:

Once unpacked, Place the 'HSHawk SP Missions' Folder into your default 'Missions' folder.
An example of the correct path
IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles > data > Missions > HSHawk SP Missions > Rheinland Map > Practice Mission - A-20B Havoc

If you'd like to use the custom cockpit notes photo, place the 'custom_photo_dds' here: IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles -> data -> graphics -> Planes -> A20B -> Textures

Requirements:

Battle of Bodenplatte (map)
Battle of Kuban (A-20B Havoc)
Ensure the Hud is enabled ('H') for onscreen plates and messages. Make sure that the 'Show HUD by default' box is 'checked' in Flight Interface settings in-game.

 

Advisories and known issues:
*When viewing the tutorial presentations with audio, close the canopy and if the engine is already running, turn down the radio volume (Left Alt + Numpad Subtract)
*Bear in mind that the A.I. in IL-2 is woeful so if another flight is taxiing out, wait for them to go. If not they will be constantly crashing into your wingman/flight.

*Regardless of the 'Delete after Death' box being 'unchecked', IL-2 will delete a fellow pilot once it has landed and parked and when deleting it, it's then curiously regarded as a casualty and so after you receive an in-game custom message that your comrade has landed, you'll then shortly receive the '... has been lost' message.

*Press 'H' (Show/Hide HUD) if you no longer wish to have the tutorial plates obstructing your view but remember to turn the HUD back on to receive onscreen messages etc. 

 

Credits:

Mission Design, Custom Plates & Cockpit photo - Houndstone Hawk
Narration & Tutorial Info - 'Requiem' of Air Combat Tutorial Library
A-20B Level Bombing Tutorial - Heliflyr67

 

Download Here:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gv6pfqhipwtjgpj/Practice Mission - A-20B Havoc.rar?dl=0
  

 

Edited September 9, 2021 by GSHWK_Houndstone_Hawk
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[Na-zdorovie]

loved the "cane one, and love the havoc so yep, thanks a lot again, you need to make a big pack of these

[GSHWK_Houndstone_Hawk]

9 hours ago, Na-zdorovie said:

loved the "cane one, and love the havoc so yep, thanks a lot again, you need to make a big pack of these

Thank you buddy ?