DCS World Tools

The Briefing Builder compiles briefings in the JATF format starting from the real mission: create the briefing, load the .miz, and the application fills in what the file actually contains. Every field declares where it came from (extracted, assigned or hand-written), and a field you edit is never overwritten by a later reimport. Whatever genuinely lives in the .miz (radio, TACAN, ICLS) gets validated and flagged rather than rewritten, so a kneeboard can never print a frequency that does not exist in the cockpit. Out come a single PDF for the package and a 1536x2048 PNG kneeboard for every flight, one per flight because the INTRAFLIGHT differs each time.

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The control tower of the application: tower strips split by flight state, an approach scope with a tile map underneath, and for each of 120 airports its card and its charts. Frequencies, ILS, navaids and runway thresholds come from real data rather than estimates, and the active runway is decided by the wind exactly as a real tower would. Carrier control has its own view with PLAT and the deck seen from above, and airport and circuit charts export as SVG or as a PNG kneeboard.

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The joint terminal attack controller's station, from the JP 3-09.3 formats: flight check-in with position and altitude taken from the feed, game plan, a keyhole on the map that generates the IP, and a 9-line with magnetic heading, MGRS coordinates, target elevation from the terrain, threats within 15 miles and danger close. A flight stack in the ATC's manner, a brief to the clipboard or a PNG kneeboard, and a quick guide that explains any field on a click.

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The Mission Tracker is a debriefing dashboard built to analyse the ACMI recordings generated by Tacview during DCS World sessions. By uploading a mission's telemetry file, the tool processes the data and returns a detailed report including: individual per-pilot stats (kills, deaths, weapons used), flight routes shown on a map, a timeline of relevant events (engagements, launches, losses) and a final sortie ranking. The goal is to turn every flight into a concrete analysis opportunity, to improve tactics and document missions over time.

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The Live Tracker lets you view the state of the ongoing DCS mission in real time. Through a small export script installed on the DCS server, all data is transmitted over UDP and shown on the map: unit positions by coalition, flight routes being built, an event feed (spawns, kills, takeoffs) and BLU/RED counters updated every second. Ideal for the briefing room during operations and for monitoring the mission from the outside.

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A GCI-style radar scope simulator (Ground Controlled Intercept) with two modes: Cold War with green-phosphor CRT aesthetics, a rotating sweep and decaying blips, and Modern with coalition-coloured tracks, data blocks (FL, speed, heading), speed leader lines and an interactive BRAA panel. Built for historical Cold War missions and modern operations, with realistic sweep times (10-12s for a full rotation).

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The E-2C Hawkeye operator console, rebuilt from the only public screenshots of a display of its kind: rectangular PPI, grey land on black sea, fan sweep, yellow hooks and a CRO readout. The station works on its own sensor, so range, horizon and terrain really mask and a return becomes a track only after two antenna turns; the datalink and the IFF from SRS arrive separately, as they do on board. Real land from Natural Earth for all thirteen theatres, and the SRS radio on the same bridge as the GCI.

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