[Archie-Calvert]

How hard would it be to simulate?

[duffys tavern]

Yea, what a great idea. I believe that at some airfields flares were used to signal takeoff. I believe that some bombers coming home would fire a flare to indicate wounded on board.

[aviatorsneah]

i know that US bombers would also drop different colored flares to aid in forming up in formation after takeoff. it was mass confusion with hundreds of b17s or b24s taking off for a morning mission as numerous lancasters were returning from a night raid. each segment of the formation dropped a different color flare. if u were supposed to be in that segment, you followed that color. i'll have to find the link again to where i read this. it was pretty interesting. the skies would be so full of airplanes, returning lancasters would be literally flying through the 17 or 24 formation as they departed and tried to form up.

[Bearcat]

That would be great to mark targets as well. You could use a smoke object.. if you could get it to act as ordinance and change the color..

[aviatorsneah]

That would be great to mark targets as well. You could use a smoke object.. if you could get it to act as ordinance and change the color..

well one of the mosquitoes (at least if not other a/c i havnt tried) already has this in-game....its really a matter of making it a loadout for other aircraft...so that it can be used for certain other applications. i do think it would be cool though to have ground launched flares for takeoff/landing instructions instead of the horrendous radio instructions "go around" type stuff. that's the real trick.

[Guest]

to a para flare and it could float down over a battlefield ect. all kinds of options.

pd

[chanklaus]

YES, I would definitively support this idea. I started a thread asking for such a mod (in my case for ground objects) some while ago:

Mod request: flares as ground object
http://allaircraftsimulations.com/forum/...php?t=9105

[GatoNegro]

Ask him.



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