Weapon Delivery Planner released
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I have Win7/64. installed WDP2.6. Want to upgrade to 3.2, but can’t uninstall 2.6?? Tried CP uninstall, but it get “hung up”? can I just delete the folders/files. Any reg ent that might need to be removed? Hidden files???
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Hi Pop,
I have already replied to your email.
Gr Falcas
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you always need to un-install it and reinstall when new version come in.
Unless I’m mistaken you have to uninstall with each version-specific setup.exe. This is a little bit awkward. Is it / will it be possible to uninstall a previous version using the current setup.exe? For example, uninstalling 3.0 using the 3.1 installer.
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I just saw this:
Please… Rename them…
There is no such thing… As Macedonia Aegean Country and Skopje airport.
Skopje ain’t Greek and Macedonia is Greek.
You mean F.Y.R.O.M. ?
Also Aegean sea has nothing to do with Skopje…Thanx in advance.
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No, no need to rename them.
This means that the country Macedonia belongs to the Aegean theater.
Is the result of overlapping theaters and using the same airports in those theaters.
But those theaters all have different data, so WDP needs to have this.Has been explained before
Gr Falcas
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No, no need to rename them.
This means that the country Macedonia belongs to the Aegean theater.
Is the result of overlapping theaters and using the same airports in those theaters.
But those theaters all have different data, so WDP needs to have this.Has been explained before
Gr Falcas
Falcas there is no country with name Macedonia the name is FYROM please change it …. thanks in advance !!!
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Yes there is no country with the name Macedonia. It’s name is F.Y.R.O.M. .
Macedonia is an area in Greece where Alexander the Great was born. -
Keep politics out of bms.
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Two more things Falcas:
- If I open a TE and then I open another TE (from open mission button in Datacard) without closing WDP, this last TE.ini is not loaded corectly. If I check in DTC-> MAIN->TE Mission Data, it looks like everything is OK (Green Data Loaded Flag appears) BUT I think is not correctly loaded because if you go to DTC->STPT (or Lines, or PPT) now, you can see that in TE appears the last TE.ini. (TE button is in red)
Is necessary to go to DTC->MAIN->TE Mission Data and push “Open TE.ini File” to load again (although it seems it’s OK). If you don’t push this load button and you want to save DTC, all things are saved to the prior TE.ini.
- In “Coordination Card” second Bullseye coordinate is’nt in the right field. Look at the next pic:
When you print this, all is OK.
And I think that these bullseye values are not correctly showed. If you change and save Bullseye in Map, these coordinates keep the same. Is needed to be refreshed.
Thanks Falcas!!!
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Falcas,
are there any videos which provide instruction on using the WDP? -
Does the WDP automatically calculate the Bingo fuel setting or does the pilot need to do that? If the pilot needs to do it, what’s the method?
Is it the fuel needed to take your directly back to the home plate or via the nav points? If the latter I guess you should be able to work out bingo fuel as the amount of fuel listed in the WDP planner from the strike nav point (providing that’s the furthest point from home) to the home plate to leave you with 1000lbs of fuel.
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Does the WDP automatically calculate the Bingo fuel setting or does the pilot need to do that? If the pilot needs to do it, what’s the method?
WDP give you an idea of the minimum fuel required to go back to home via waypoint using a standard conf at medium altitude (15lbs/Nm)
But you can (should) optimise the bingo by computing it yourself.
Is it the fuel needed to take your directly back to the home plate or via the nav points? If the latter I guess you should be able to work out bingo fuel as the amount of fuel listed in the WDP planner from the strike nav point (providing that’s the furthest point from home) to the home plate to leave you with 1000lbs of fuel.
It up tu YOU… depending on tactical situation. If you can egress at high alt going direct to home plate … do it. If a risk exists to encounter air defences (SAM / AAA) by performing a direct to fence out point, maybe you will have to follow the planed track at low level.
It is a tactical decision that you will have to take.
Something working fine to consider
Low level = 20lbs/Nm
Medium altitude = 15lbs/Nm
High altitude = 10lbs/NmAdd 1000lbs minimum fuel on ground and fuel for divert.
You may take a look here, it has been discussed: https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?8195-AI-ATO-fuel-calculation-amp-drop-tanks&highlight=fuel+waste
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Many thanks. I’ll have a read.
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WDP give you an idea of the minimum fuel required to go back to home via waypoint using a standard conf at medium altitude (15lbs/Nm)
But you can (should) optimise the bingo by computing it yourself.
It up tu YOU… depending on tactical situation. If you can egress at high alt going direct to home plate … do it. If a risk exists to encounter air defences (SAM / AAA) by performing a direct to fence out point, maybe you will have to follow the planed track at low level.
It is a tactical decision that you will have to take.
Something working fine to consider
Low level = 20lbs/Nm
Medium altitude = 15lbs/Nm
High altitude = 10lbs/NmAdd 1000lbs minimum fuel on ground and fuel for divert.
You may take a look here, it has been discussed: https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?8195-AI-ATO-fuel-calculation-amp-drop-tanks&highlight=fuel+waste
Hi,
Close dj ;-), but WDP does it a bit more accurate than using only 1 value.
Actually WDP calculates it with different values for low, medium and high level.
The values are as Dee-jay mentioned 20, 15 and 10 lbs/nm.Gr Falcas
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Falcas,
are there any videos which provide instruction on using the WDP?Hi Miggci,
I did come to making any move that explains how to use WDP.
But actually it is not that difficult at all and WDP does a lot of things automatically.
Just start WDP and open a mission. Select your flight and have a look what WDP will supply you with
The use of the DTC isn’t that hard. Just have a look around and most of the things you will understand right away.There are 2 manuals that will explain you most of the software.
“Mission planning with WDP” and “Working with the DTC”
http://www.weapondeliveryplanner.nl/download/index.htmlGr Falcas
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Hi,
Close dj ;-), but WDP does it a bit more accurate than using only 1 value.
Actually WDP calculates it with different values for low, medium and high level.
The values are as Dee-jay mentioned 20, 15 and 10 lbs/nm.Gr Falcas
So does WDP calculate bingo correctly or do I need to do it myself?
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Hi,
Close dj , but WDP does it a bit more accurate than using only 1 value.
Actually WDP calculates it with different values for low, medium and high level.
The values are as Dee-jay mentioned 20, 15 and 10 lbs/nm.Gr Falcas
Oky ! Sorry Falcas. I thought that you didn’t implement different fuel rate!
Sorry, missed that or didn’t remember … Great work M8 !
So does WDP calculate bingo correctly or do I need to do it myself?
As Falcas said … WDP are using 10, 15 & 20lbs/Nm depending on alt. This is for a standard configuration. It means that if your configuration is with a very high or low drag factor, computation is no longer 100% valid. So that, you may have to compute a Bingo yourself using more accurate fuel rate …
But WDP is quite good! … and in most of the cases I use WDP one. (Valid for F-16 only!)
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Hello,
Can I somehow use WDP for planning campaign missions?
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Hi Sparks,
That depends on what you mean with plan…
WDP will not change your saved campaign file and it is not possible to create a new flight.
But it will help you plan the mission as it will create a datacard with all the important data for the mission.
It also creates cutouts of the map that is important for the flight.
It is more about the management of the mission
So it is planning what WDP will do for you ��Just download the manual “Mission planning with WDP” and you will get a good idea what the program does for you.
Only takes you a couple of min to quickly go through the manual.Gr Falcas