Air Force Bases of CloD - Printable cards

[VO101_Tom]

AFBs of CloD 2 is available here:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=35074

I fly a lot in the game. It has always bothered me that if I create a plane at any airfield, I get almost no information about where I am, where is the runway, how long it is and which directions I can take off in. I don’t know where the obstacles are, buildings and taxiways. I do not know if a bomber will have enough space to take off or not? These things in a real flight - for very clear reasons - are not a problem. The lack of information was the reason for accidents during the Storm Of War Campaigns: Battle of Britain multi-squadron event that some of us played recently...

So, the idea was born, we have to collect the data! It was relatively easy, I made screenshots in the FMB and collected information on the layout and heading of runways. I could save the nearby areas of the airports, and the layouts too. Then I just had to create the maps. It was harder to figure out as a design, and what would be on it, and what would not. (The design based on the old maps, the modern ICAO standard maps, and Jeppesen cards)

To say the obvious, they are not copies of old maps, these maps made ​​specifically for the game. The old maps provided very little information, compared to the modern ICAO standard maps, so I have used the modern solutions. But the design, the colors – as far as possible – I used the old solutions. For example, I use ICAO codes for all AFB. If the AFB exist today, the ICAO code is valid. If it no longer exists I looked for letters which are not in use.

The magnetic declination in reality are curved lines which always change and also varies according to geographical location. In the game they are straight lines because the declination is a constant -10 deg on the whole map. Therefore I am unable to use the old German map-grid because the base of the game is the 10x10km grid, the germans used the 1 degree latitude and longitude coordinates, which are completely different.

I plan to add the other airfields in a similar manner however it is meticulous and long winded work. If anyone knows Adobe Illustrator, and you like it, I welcome any help.

And – of course – if anyone finds a bug, or have a proposal, just tell me, and i will fix it (two weeks be sure!).
Special thanks to 5./JG27.Farber, No.501_Robo. and SC/JG_IvanK, who helped in the creation of a document with suggestions, opinions and data.

North-France and East-England .pdf
Download v4.3 08.24.2012. First public release
The fixed v4.4 version is available! 08.24.2012. fixed the bugs, which Bongodriver mentioned in #03
The fixed v4.5 versions is available! 08.25.2012. fixed the bugs, which Kodoss mentioned in #21

Who make missions, they know, the "battle-area" is changable in FMB. I dont know the benefits, but it have a huge disadvantage, the map coordinates also changed.
We have an initiative with Farber: It would be superb, if every online map uses same, standardized coordinates. This document also contains these values​​. I link here an empty mission file, with the standard battle-area settings. Please, use it in all online server. Fullgrid mission

[5./JG27.Farber]

Great work VO101_Tom! This really are great even if you only look at them! They could really enhance a flight and add allot of immersion, where can I get a hard copy?

Storm of War Campaigns Server maps support the grid used in these documents, check them out!

[senseispcc]

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Nice work; thanks a lot!

Hawkinge airfield left me with a little strange felling I do not see a runway in any direction at all, is there one? In any case it is very dificult to follow.

[310_cibule]

Fantastic! Thanks a lot.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Superb work Tom.

Thanks to all involved.

[Matze81]

Awesome! Thanks a lot!

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by senseispcc

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Nice work; thanks a lot!

Hawkinge airfield left me with a little strange felling I do not see a runway in any direction at all, is there one? In any case it is very dificult to follow.

Hawkinge was a grass airfield and as far as I know never had defined runways, just an old fashined propper airfield which is sadly rare these days, nothing better for taildragging than always being able to land into wind.

[VO101_Tom]

The fixed v4.4 version is available! Same link, I fixed the bugs, which Bongodriver mentioned in #3

[bw_wolverine]

These are great!

Could you please do the ones for:

Gravesend
Biggin Hill
Kenley
Croydon
Northolt

Actually, I would definitely paypal you a small donation if you pretty much did every available RAF field

[VO101_Tom]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

Hawkinge was a grass airfield and as far as I know never had defined runways, just an old fashined propper airfield which is sadly rare these days, nothing better for taildragging than always being able to land into wind.

There are AFBs which is a huge grass field only, no paved or grass runaway, but I marked off the assumed take off or landing directions.
(If anyone have addition information from books, combat reports, or anything, please share it.)