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[Vampire_pilot]

Imagine. It's the wild 1930s and you are an airline pilot. Flying the most advanced machines with their well paying human cargo all around the world.
See places, meet people - while battling the elements in unpressurized cabins with your bare hands while wearing a fancy hat! 




I have once in a while the urge to go pretend-interwar-airliner-pilot and I want to bring a bit more structure into all my assorted missions... so here is a thread that will probably grow with more missions over time.

-The missions have dioramas at the two airports and come with some skins.
-Random weather and changing weather
-Complicated missions will have a navigator or beacons

Try to fly as realistic as you can, no waypoints, just the map and a general course to navigate. Trim the plane and let her glide with a just an occasional flick of the wrist while you sip on a coffee...




I start out with a 3 mission pack for Luft Hansa Ju-52, taken from their summer schedule of 1936, with correct departure times (and fairly accurate arrivals if you stick to the plan). Maps are La Chute and zip's Alpen Map.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/gqrlu77mx0hke7g/Civil1.zip/file

Berlin - Cologne
Munchen - Zurich
Munchen - Venice  (for those of you daredevils willing to cross the alps)




new connection!

Imperial Airways  HP.42   London-Paris, 1932 (1933...)

The HP.42 series was exclusively built to spec for Imperial. It was huge and the definition of luxury in the air at the time. It's speed was... a majestic 100 mph tops. But it could land on the smallest and roughest airstrips along the route.

Imperial Airways connected the European hubs and had connections from Alexandrian into Africa and towards India. The passengers would disembark in Paris and travel to Brindisi by train and to Alexandria by liking seaplanes.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/hx819mtk55qz35u/Civil2.zip/file

[cgagan]

Splendid idea, time for something different! Many thanks for creating and sharing, 

[larschance]

Interesting idea. How about a Flying Doctor Service in the outback, delivering supplies and picking up patients. Or a mail plane battling South American weather storms across the mountains.

[Frankiek]

Nice Idea and can I suggest missions for Latécoère postal services to Dakar? I think we have all the needed maps

[Vampire_pilot]

Thanks for all the kind comments!
And by all means, suggest or share your own.

Frankiek, you have the advantage of having this really nice plane before many others. But nice idea. We will also get a Dewoitine 333 which also was around in these parts.

[vonofterdingen]

I agree with the others that this is a great idea, and a lot of fun.

For the suggestion bin, I would recommend taking a look at Howard Hawks' classic film "Only Angles have Wings," starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur. It has the skeleton of a nice plot for a campaign like this.

[stoney69]

What a great idea!

[Seppel]

This seems to be another very different Il-2 experience! :-)

Any Mods needed? Uhm ... I guess you would have written, would you?

[Ta183Huckebein]

Lovely stuff! Thanks for sharing!

You've really made me appreciate the strength that an engaging narrative can have on immersion for missions, especially ones that involve no combat. Some of my recent favorite missions/campaigns have been stuff similar, like your WASP campaign, the Jennies campaign, and the first (and most of the second) Macon campaign

[Vampire_pilot]

Any Mods needed? Uhm ... I guess you would have written, would you?

We are in the BAT TGA mission section --- take your best guess

Some of my recent favorite missions/campaigns have been stuff similar, like your WASP campaign, the Jennies campaign, and the first (and most of the second) Macon campaign

Makes my day

Not that these stand alone missions have a lot of narrative as they are. But  I see some of you have Inspiration already and once I am through with the technical stuff related to BAT 4.3, I will get around again to do these kind of things.

The package will contain new civil airliners too, so that will be a showcase to make them fly.

[TOMMYGUNN1488]

THAT  sounds like some fun 

[KingTiger503]

I really Love to Flying the Ju-52,, if I go low on the Mountains... It will be fun..



Best Regards KT503