OK, here’s the timeline:

2004: I was contracted by Fighter Ops (remember them??) to develop a realistic model for g-forces on the human body. I worked with an aviation medic who had done studies in that area, and together we wrote a really good simulation of G-LOC and vision/muscle impairment. Probably the most detailed such simulation that’s ever been written for a desktop sim. We all know what happened to Fighter Ops, though.

2010: I figured I shouldn’t let my hard work go to waste, so I offered up the research (but not the code) to the Falcon BMS team. The forum post went mostly unnoticed…

2012: @Dee-Jay contacted me asking for the link to the research, which had expired by that point. I never noticed this chat message.

2021: Falcon BMS gets new forums, and the chat messages are migrated over. I finally notice his post!

So, Dee-Jay, and anyone else on the team who’s interested, here is the correspondence between myself and the aviation medic, including some charts and tables. It’s not all there, some of it is gone forever now, but hopefully what is there helps you guys out.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b2uocw0lfkir526/AADzQTJMHx-57ez9CGc6Wqzva?dl=0

Campaign mission under 4.36, dropped two GBU-54s on two SA-2 launchers; the third one was intended for the radar, but it crashed the moment I pressed the pickle button.

https://we.tl/t-02e3vNMttr

OK, here’s the timeline:

2004: I was contracted by Fighter Ops (remember them??) to develop a realistic model for g-forces on the human body. I worked with an aviation medic who had done studies in that area, and together we wrote a really good simulation of G-LOC and vision/muscle impairment. Probably the most detailed such simulation that’s ever been written for a desktop sim. We all know what happened to Fighter Ops, though.

2010: I figured I shouldn’t let my hard work go to waste, so I offered up the research (but not the code) to the Falcon BMS team. The forum post went mostly unnoticed…

2012: @Dee-Jay contacted me asking for the link to the research, which had expired by that point. I never noticed this chat message.

2021: Falcon BMS gets new forums, and the chat messages are migrated over. I finally notice his post!

So, Dee-Jay, and anyone else on the team who’s interested, here is the correspondence between myself and the aviation medic, including some charts and tables. It’s not all there, some of it is gone forever now, but hopefully what is there helps you guys out.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b2uocw0lfkir526/AADzQTJMHx-57ez9CGc6Wqzva?dl=0

Glad I could help track down the bug. My spidey-sense told me it would be pretty obvious once you guys got a look at the stack trace.

Well Dee-Jay, as you can see, I attached the campaign and the logs in this thread. Everything you need is here. I certainly did make an effort to provide everything you need to reproduce and debug the issue. If you want it in the specific format you linked, I will rehash the thread in that format:

Version
4.34.0 (x64)

Build
19631

Detailed Description
Crash in DigitalBrain::GetMaxAAMissileRange()

Pictures
none

Example files
Campaign: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MKt9sb2-HPLJiSeMoa6Ol3Zwj35l02Ir/view

Crash logs

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eR…TPSz94HmHjQT7i

Reproducibility Procedure
1. Download the campaign: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MK…6Ol3Zwj35l02Ir
2. Take the dash-1 seat in Jackal1 (package 3167)
3. Take off, and get established in the CAP
4. Wait. About 10-20 minutes in, the crash will happen.

Expected Behavior
No crash

OK, this crash is totally reproducible.

1. Download the campaign: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MKt9sb2-HPLJiSeMoa6Ol3Zwj35l02Ir

2. Take the dash-1 seat in Jackal1 (package 3167)

3. Take off, and get established in the CAP

4. Wait. About 10-20 minutes in, the crash will happen.

Unfortunately this means my campaign is unplayable

Yep, you’re right. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eRmg3J0X248fhIX6iVTPSz94HmHjQT7i (2 MB)

Here it is, all 130 MB of it: https://drive.google.com/open?id=15R2xPsKQibA4hGqK8UdvuSwubwdNomNq

Was flying a BARCAP campaign mission in the block 40 -CM, wasn’t doing anything in particular, but got this crash:

[font]0033:000000004028B416 Falcon BMS.exe, DigitalBrain::GetMaxAAMissileRange()+6 byte(s), e:\wip\bms\svn\source\rel-4.34\sim\digi\mengage.cpp, line 657, Parameters(0x0000000000000000 0x000000001D15F2C0 0x0000000040000000 0x00000000D5E9A2B0)
0033:00000000402566A8 Falcon BMS.exe, DigitalBrain::ChoiceProfile()+424 byte(s), e:\wip\bms\svn\source\rel-4.34\sim\digi\bvrengage.cpp, line 730+31 byte(s), Parameters(0x00000000D5E9A2B0 0x000000001D15F2C0 0x00000000D2383870 0x00000000D5E9A2B0)
0033:000000004025641C Falcon BMS.exe, DigitalBrain::BvrChooseTactic()+236 byte(s), e:\wip\bms\svn\source\rel-4.34\sim\digi\bvrengage.cpp, line 612, Parameters(0x00000000D5E9A2B0 0x0000000040000000 0x00000000D5E9A2B0 0x000000004028AF3B)
0033:000000004025605A Falcon BMS.exe, DigitalBrain::BvrEngage()+586 byte(s), e:\wip\bms\svn\source\rel-4.34\sim\digi\bvrengage.cpp, line 253, Parameters(0x00000000D5E9A2B0 0x0000000000000000 0x000000007338F640 0x0000000000000000)
0033:000000004027FE67 Falcon BMS.exe, DigitalBrain::Actions()+1639 byte(s), e:\wip\bms\svn\source\rel-4.34\sim\digi\actions.cpp, line 276, Parameters(0x00000000D5E9A2B0 0x0000000000000000 0x00000000C1EC10E0 0x0000000000000016)
[/font]

Updated video to address the factual errors all y’all brought up:

https://youtu.be/8V1n1d5c3v0

Hey y’all! I’ve created a video tutorial for everything new in Falcon BMS 4.34. I cover the new IFF system, the new comms procedures, the new ramp start procedure and pitfalls, and a bunch of other miscellaneous changes.

https://youtu.be/8V1n1d5c3v0

It’s a 30-minute video but you can skip to the portions you want to learn about:

Ramp Start - 0:18
New Comms Procedures - 4:21
IFF - 14:52
Everything else - 27:45

The comms and IFF sections are especially important to understand. I put a quick IFF theory course in there. Let me know if there are any errors or omissions and I will make the changes. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy it!