DCS MiG-29 released

[Vonrd]

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/changelog/release/2.9.20.15010/

[Klaiber]

Had to make room on my hard drive.  DCS has gotten large.

[Vonrd]

In case anyone is wondering, porting over your controls from the FC version doesn't work. You have to do complete set-up. 

[Klaiber]

2 minutes ago, Vonrd said:

In case anyone is wondering, porting over your controls from the FC version doesn't work. You have to do complete set-up. 

I had a feeling that was the case.

 

[Vonrd]

Also, there's no manual at all yet. Not sure where and what the controls do. You'd think that they'd have a rudimentary manual at least.

EDIT: I stand corrected: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/documentation/filter/aircraft-is-mig-29/apply/

[Flyboy]

I put the new Mig-29A Fulcrum aircraft in my Multi Training map, v2.045. You have both hot/cold ground starts and airstarts over Kras Center for dogfight practice (with diff loadouts, though may try the R60's first to get a feel for close in dogfighting?). Also have Kobuleti bombing range cold starts. 

I'll be out on a trip until Tuesday. 

[Gus]

Hi @Flyboy,

would you be interested at some point in creating a Multi Training scenario on base of the Cold War Germany map to be used on the server?

To be more particular, I´d like to point to Holzdorf Airbase as a homebase for any activity, as it was the original home of JG1 Fritz Schmenkel.

If this is something you would enjoy spending time with, I would also like to suggest having flyable MiG-21, MiG-29, Hips and Hinds as well as assets on the Airbase for creating it more lively.

Don´t want to bother, just asking if you got time and enjoyment in recreating the historically accurate JG1 home base in DCS.

Wishing you a nice trip!

Here some links with regard to Holzdorf Airbase, which may be of interest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holzdorf_Air_Base

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/375493-holzdorf-ab-bugs-issues/

P.S. unfortunately I got never into the DCS Missioneditor so far and have no clue how to work with it - that´s why I´m asking.

 

 

 

[Flyboy]

7 hours ago, Gus said:

Hi @Flyboy,

would you be interested at some point in creating a Multi Training scenario on base of the Cold War Germany map to be used on the server?

To be more particular, I´d like to point to Holzdorf Airbase as a homebase for any activity, as it was the original home of JG1 Fritz Schmenkel.

If this is something you would enjoy spending time with, I would also like to suggest having flyable MiG-21, MiG-29, Hips and Hinds as well as assets on the Airbase for creating it more lively.

Don´t want to bother, just asking if you got time and enjoyment in recreating the historically accurate JG1 home base in DCS.

Wishing you a nice trip!

Here some links with regard to Holzdorf Airbase, which may be of interest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holzdorf_Air_Base

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/375493-holzdorf-ab-bugs-issues/

P.S. unfortunately I got never into the DCS Missioneditor so far and have no clue how to work with it - that´s why I´m asking.

 

 

 

Thats a great idea and thanks for the info. I can start working on that maybe next week

[Gus]

+++ the Central Commitee of the SED forward with pleasure a thank you to comrade Flyboy +++ the Chairman of the State Council of the GDR, Erich Honecker has wet his pants out of joy for the new upcoming Aerodrome +++ with highest honor the commitee nominated comrade Flyboy for the Karl-Marx-Order accompanied with the honorable title "Hero of the GDR" +++  

[Flyboy]

On 9/17/2025 at 8:01 PM, Vonrd said:

Also, there's no manual at all yet. Not sure where and what the controls do. You'd think that they'd have a rudimentary manual at least.

EDIT: I stand corrected: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/documentation/filter/aircraft-is-mig-29/apply/

That appears to be the FC3 Mig29 manual. 
 

After some searching I found this for the Mig-29A Fulcrum (Early Access):

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/upload/iblock/aa2/ulzl67k42kj99ushy9m29hlvmtk0y2tg/DCS MiG-29A Early Access Manual EN.pdf

[Vonrd]

4 hours ago, Flyboy said:

That appears to be the FC3 Mig29 manual.

No, that link has both the FC and the Early Access (along with Russian language versions). The Early Access is second from the left. Doesn't matter since your link is also the correct one. I hope that Chuck's will be out soon.

[Flyboy]

On 9/19/2025 at 6:41 AM, Gus said:

Hi @Flyboy,

would you be interested at some point in creating a Multi Training scenario on base of the Cold War Germany map to be used on the server?

To be more particular, I´d like to point to Holzdorf Airbase as a homebase for any activity, as it was the original home of JG1 Fritz Schmenkel.

If this is something you would enjoy spending time with, I would also like to suggest having flyable MiG-21, MiG-29, Hips and Hinds as well as assets on the Airbase for creating it more lively.

Don´t want to bother, just asking if you got time and enjoyment in recreating the historically accurate JG1 home base in DCS.

Wishing you a nice trip!

Here some links with regard to Holzdorf Airbase, which may be of interest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holzdorf_Air_Base

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/375493-holzdorf-ab-bugs-issues/

P.S. unfortunately I got never into the DCS Missioneditor so far and have no clue how to work with it - that´s why I´m asking.

 

 

 

Do you know anything about the editor? What would really help me is if you could draw the boundary between east and west and put maybe one airplane at the airbase? From there I could put in all the rest including AI spawns etc. 

[Gus]

14 hours ago, Flyboy said:

Do you know anything about the editor? What would really help me is if you could draw the boundary between east and west and put maybe one airplane at the airbase? From there I could put in all the rest including AI spawns etc. 

Never touched the editor so far. Recently I had a look at the new quick action editor, then downloaded some missions from user download files of the DCS store webside.

There should be a wall with watchtowers as a landmark already on the Germany Cold War, which separates East-Germany from West-Germany. Holzdorf Airbase is on the East Germany side in the middle of the triangle between Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig.

I´ll try to have a look into the Missioneditor in the next days to see, how to put aircrafts on it, save the map and how to transfer it. 

[Flyboy]

3 hours ago, Gus said:

Never touched the editor so far. Recently I had a look at the new quick action editor, then downloaded some missions from user download files of the DCS store webside.

There should be a wall with watchtowers as a landmark already on the Germany Cold War, which separates East-Germany from West-Germany. Holzdorf Airbase is on the East Germany side in the middle of the triangle between Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig.

I´ll try to have a look into the Missioneditor in the next days to see, how to put aircrafts on it, save the map and how to transfer it. 

If the DCS map has the wall depicted I’ll find and use it

[Gus]

Made some first steps into the Missioneditor and setup a mission file. I´ve opened a thread for the mission file in the Fritz Schmenkel section of the forum to work on it together --> 

At least there are some aircrafts to jump in, but I did not yet figured out, how to connect the flyable aircrafts to the spawn-points on the ground, like in the hangar. Need some practice and maybe watching a tutorial on the missioneditor.
Actually I got some concept in mind, like having the spawn-point hangars to the bottom right in the picture reserved for MiG-21s and MiG-29s. There´s also an apron for Helicopter, which would be nice to have the 6 spawn points there reserved for Mi-24.

[Gus]

Here´s a depiction of the course of the wall, which separated West-Germany ( Federal Republic of Germany with Bonn as the capital) from East-Germany ( German Democratic Republic with East Berlin as the capital). Berlin itself was also divided into half with a wall separating east- from west-Berlin, which made west-Berlin like an isle in the territory of the GDR.