Thoughts about awacs screen and kneemaps.

[Red Dog]

While doing the ODS kneemap and awacs screen, I was thinking about some things:

I suppose that the awacs operator gives vector to other pilots during a Lan.
Now, woudn't it be great to have common references on the pilot's kneemap and on the awacs screen?

That way, the awacs operator can give location also according to these common references.
I'm thinking about FIRs boundaries or even ADIZ lines, but we could even make some killboxes (ODS) common to both maps. The only thing needing to be kept in mind is that the kneemap is not zommable.

So far, here are the references on each:
Awacs/Kneemap
Country Borders/Country Borders
Airbase (dot only)/Airbase (Dot-names-tacan-ils)
ADIZ/ - (on ODS, some are present)
Fir boundaries/ -


For ODS, I'm planning to add killboxes in kuwait and Iraq both on the awacs screen and on the kneemap, according to HotDogone's documents.

Thoughts?
Cheers
RD

[ccc]

i like kill box idea. there should be some along the highway to Barsa? and anther route to Jordan, the death highway i think.
as for western part of iraq, maybe some Scud hunting areas.

[Red Dog]

Good points on the Scud hunting.
Check the ODS forum, I posted some "rather large" previews.
Cheers
RD

[T_Rex]

I think those are great ideas. Perhaps a printable map - or more than one depending on which area is covered? For instance, the Iraq-Kuwait border would certainly be one area. The area around Baghdad would be another. Possibly the border with Turkey would be another. I'm thinking that "in the real world" when the pilot got his briefing, he would either have, or be able to print, a map with his specific flight plan on it - he wouldn't necessarily care what the killboxes were in the rest of the theater.

Anyway, this idea and the stuff in the ODS forum look GREAT!