Mission: Potsdam Castle

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by Cryptic Phant0m

This is my first attempt at creating a mission that is just for fun, that can be played in a CTA game.
Everyone is on the same side.

Mission Log: Cecilenhof Raid
Location: Germany, Berlin

Mission Breif:
You are to take off from the "Neukolin Airfield" at 0700 hrs and are to proceed to the town of "Potsdam", there just NW of the town you will find "Cecilenhofe" located in a wooded area.
You are to make a single pass, bombing the castle. You are then to proceed back to "Neukolin Airfield" and land.

Allied Planes: P-47, B-17 or P-51

Target Information: "Cecilenhof" is located in a wooded area, is white in color.

Airfield Instructions:
Beginning: Land your planes facing West, group up and then proceed to take off keeping a tight formation.
Ending: Land your planes facing East to finsh the mission.

Flight Formation: Planes should be formed in a stacked formation, left side being the lower side.

Flight Headings:
Heading A. Take off heading South, 11 degrees to the town of "Britz"
Heading B. Turn to the bearings of 23 degrees, South to head for the town of "Heinersdorf".
Heading C. Turn to the bearings of 28 degrees, West to the town of "Stahnsdorf".
Heading D. Continue on this heading 28 degrees, West until you reach the town of "Potsdam".
Heading E. Target, is "Cecilenhof" located just NW of "Potsdam" in a wooded area.
Heading F. Head North, 1 degree to the town of "Falndand"
Heading G. Head East, 11 degrees to head for the Neukolin Airfield.
Heading H. Approaching from the west, you are to land facing the east side of the airfield.

We need some help with this...

A squadron of Hurricanes attempted this tonight on the 360...... and failed miserably.We had to stop almost immediately to ask for direction.

Our first issue was the home airfield.... where is it? The only one we could find was slightly south of Berlin.

We then got confused with "Britz, and Heinersdorf", Britz being below Berlin and Heinersdorf being above it, (we had to resort to google earth).

We ultimately found the target, but only because of the use of google earth.

The instructions seem detailed enough, so its clearly a mistake on our part. We just struggled with the headings and airfield.


Does anyone have the locations marked on a Berlin map?

We will try this again tomorrow night.


Cheers fella's.

[Robotic Pope]

Was that another race to post Foz? I won this time

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by Robotic Pope

Was that another race to post Foz? I won this time

All night to post something and you leave it until 2:14?? The same time i just happen to post the same post... 3 hours after our flight? haha.

I'll give you this one. Thats 1-1.


We should retry the flight path tomorrow, get our bearings back.

[Cryptic Phant0m]

I wrote the coordinates wrong, will fix, srry!

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by Cryptic Phant0m

I wrote the coordinates wrong, will fix, srry!

Its not just the co-ordinates. You can't go south-west from Blitz and get to Heinersburg. Heinersburg is way off in the North of Berlin, North of the Tempelhof airfield.

[FOZ_1983]

Here's a map i was given, I've added to it a little.

RED shows where i believe we were meant to go? I think thats right.

BLUE shows where we actually went haha.

Uopn reaching North of Berlin instead of South, thats when we gathered we were lost so cheated somewhat and summoned google earth to assist us

[JtD]

For the culturally interested:
Potdam has no castle, it has a load of palaces, parks and gardens, though.
Cecilienhof is where the Potsdam conference took place, it was a residence for the last German Kaiser.
The palace in the picture is not Cecilienhof, it is the Belvedere on the Pfingstberg, a smaller royal recreational residence on a hill, very close to Cecilienhof. Belvedere from the French good view, because you get an awesome view over the Havel river, islands and hills as well as the palaces and gardens of Postdam and south-west Berlin.

Neither palace was disabled by bombs, don't think they actually were targeted. Cecilienhof, only a couple of dozen meters away from the Berlin wall, was kept in good condition all the time, with lots of tourists coming for a visit, but the Belvedere was closed to the public and left to rot up to 1989, because it did not only give a good view of the landscape, but also of a Soviet military component harbouring thousands of Soviet soldiers, ready to attack the West / defend the East in case the Cold War got hot. It was reconstructed after 1989 and is open to the public now.

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by FOZ_1983

Here's a map i was given, I've added to it a little.

RED shows where i believe we were meant to go? I think thats right.

BLUE shows where we actually went haha.

Uopn reaching North of Berlin instead of South, thats when we gathered we were lost so cheated somewhat and summoned google earth to assist us

lol That blue line is nothing like as squigly as it should be. In the begining I was looking for the airfield at Tegel (where the road E26 is on the map and just south of that small lake that is called flughafensee). I didn't know that it was built in 1948. Thats why we couldn't find it.

[wikipedia] During World War II, the area served as a military training area, mostly for Flak troops. It was destroyed in Allied air raids.

I'm going to check it out next time i'm over berlin.