Community effort requested
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I’m retired now, and I am determined to learn this fantastic simulation, whether my head hurts for the effort or not.
So many people have problems with military acronyms. Looking for their definitions here and there just simply breaks the flow of learning. Too, some of the acronyms used simply aren’t defined in the documentation anywhere. So for those, like me, who want to take the effort to learn this complex simulator, it is a confusing and difficult task.
I started out by just searching these forums for the term “acronyms.” That resulted in 32 entries on my last try.
However, I am not a complainer, I am a doer. And plenty of people have been doing a lot with Falcon, so we can enjoy this latest iteration.
I want to make an unsolicited contribution, and, in turn, I ask for the Falcon community’s support. With the occasional help of many knowledgeable players, this part of studying BMS 4.33 can be quickly reduced to a single source of information.
So I offer this:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HOiNIoc3DU5pW7V8YW22Mxnc7OU8BkqXUGdQnGVJpd0/edit?usp=sharing
This leads to an editable Google Document; anyone who can click on this link has edit privileges and can add their bits of knowledge to the store of Falcon lore.
Please add what you like to this, and feel free to correct or embellish what you find here. You should, by all means, add your name to the end of any row that you create, so that your authorship can be displayed.
Please do not do so for entries made by others, though.
All I ask is that you do not “sort” this data unless you really know what you are doing. If the columns are disassociated in error, the knowledge will be lost.
I’ve done the first ~100 entries. I will continue to add to this as my study of Falcon BMS 4.33 continues.
Who knows? Maybe this can become a single glossary for all of the simulation manuals.
I give this freely, in return for what so many others have given freely to me.
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Here is my parsed brevity dictionary used in an app I made (I’m swamped with work and interviews, I’m still working on it and there will be updates ‘soon’) http://educ.jmu.edu/~evansmj/bms/brevity_dictionary.txt.
It comes from the “Joint Brevity Words Publication” APP-07E.pdf in the docs folder. Maybe there is a way to script all of these to be added automatically to your google doc, maybe I can try later but right now I got to study.
There are other acronym dictionaries out there I got to add eventually, these are mostly words though so not sure if it fits ‘acronym.’
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Thank you sir.
I’m retired now
And thank you for service of course
Who knows? Maybe this can become a single glossary for all of the simulation manuals.
Could deserve a real place indeed. (In fact I was about to start the same task on my side! )
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However, I am not a complainer, I am a doer. And plenty of people have been doing a lot with Falcon, so we can enjoy this latest iteration.
We need more people like you
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Ditto
We love doer !!