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Mirage F.1CG Hellenic Air Force
On 16 June 1974 the contract
for 40 Mirage F.1CG.s was signed and the deliveries
were scheduled to last from 1977 until 1979. Because
of the invasion of Cyprus by Turkey, in July 1974,
the Mirages delivered on 5 August 1975. The Greek
F.1CGs aircraft entered service with the 342 Mira,
which at the time was still using the F-102A Delta
Dart as an all-weather interceptor. The last Delta
Daggers in HAF service would be retired in 1977 when
all 40 F.1CGs were delivered. Unfortunately the
Hellenic Air Force Staff did not buy any of the
French AA missiles to equip the new fighters and so
these had to be armed with US-supplied AIM-9Js
instead. In 1984 the KETA (Center for Research and
Aviation Technology) stared to develop the wiring
for the 2 outboard underwing pylons, in order to
make F.1Cgs able to carry 4 AAM instead of 2. This
happened with Dassault's help by 1985 and ever since
the PA Mirage tooth four AIM-9P-2. After the arrival
of more modern types in PA service, the Mirage
E.1CG's started to become secondary in PA planning
and air operations. In 2000 344 Mira disbanded and
all it’s aircraft and personnel passed on to 342
Mira. After almost 28 years of service, on 30 June
2003 the remaining 24 F.1CG's were retired at
Tanagra AB. In total, the PA logged no less but
160.000+ flying hours with its F.1CGs, which means
5500-6000 per airframe - and many of these - over
3.500+ hours - in "live" interceptions over the
Aegean Sea, under combat-similar conditions.
Features: panel, Virtual Cockpit, four Textures,
Sounds, msonic boom effect, reworked and more
accurate flight dynamics.
Thanasis Delizisis, Panagiotis Delizisis, Kirk
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Added on: Jun-26-2007
MIRAGE F.1CG HELLENIC AIR FORCE
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Thank you for your download. In this package you can fly the
Greek Mirage F.1CG in Mirage/Aegean Blue, Aegean Ghost colours
and also in two Anniversary, from the 334th Talos and 342th
Sparti squadrons. To create this we use the marvelous Mirage of
the craziest aircraft designer Kirk Olsson. Features: panel,
Virtual Cockpit, four Textures, Sounds, sonic boom effect , many
goodies and reworked flight dynamics.
Model: Kirk Olsson
Origianl Panel: Kirk Olsson
Modified Panel for the FSX: Panagiotis Delizisis
Reworked Flight Dynamics: Panagiotis Delizisis
Textures: Thanasis Delizisis & Panagiotis Delizisis
Sounds: Kirk Olsson
Special thanks: First to Kirk Olsson for his model and willness
to help us to solve some problems. Also Ivan Kostic for his help
with the flight dynamics and our friends Ilias, Dimitris.
About thek Mirage F.1CG
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(from www.acig.org)
(by Nicholas Tselepidis)
In June 1967 many things changed in the way air wars were
conducted worldwide. One of these changes was that a non-US
fighter achieving a great combat record that made it famous all
over the world: the Dassault Mirage III. As Staff Officers in
different parts of the globe started to study the Six Day War, a
few kilometres on the northwest of the battlefield, another
crisis was starting to develop. On September 9, 1967 the then
Turkish Prime Minister Suleiman Demirel stated "Any action
against the peace and safety of our community in Cyprus will
find Turkey opposed". Obviously the Turkish Generals thought the
Greek Colonels and their Junta in the Athens were 'easy prey'.
Rauf Denktash is being arrested by a 1st Higher Command patrol
after coming ashore at night in a Turkish SF operation North of
Famagusta, on Cyprus, on the night of the 31st of October and
the tension between Greece and Turkey rapidly rose. St.
Michael's day, November 8 1967, is the traditional open day for
all Greek Air Force (Polemiki Aeroporia - shortened: "(E)PA")
bases. Fighter aircraft are dispersed in all bases and the
families and aviation enthusiasts visit them. That day at 10:30h
for the FIRST time after the Lausanne Treaty of 1923, Turkish
fighters in battle formations flew east over the Greek National
Airspace from Samothrace to Rhodes! The then 28ATAF CO, Air Vice
Marshall I. Anagnostopoulos after notifying the PA leadership
and failing to reach 6ATAF CO Lt. Gen. Tipton, finally broke
through the Airsouth CO in Naples and gave him 12 hours to
recall the Turkish fighters. After that limit PA interceptors
would be sent with orders to implement ROEs as per international
law.
Since that time THK fighters did not attempt such a move - that
is, until July 1974. This mini crisis showed to PA the
vulnerability of its spare parts supply: any time the US wanted
to cut the readiness factor of PA QRA aircraft, it would find
excuses like "port worker strikes" to cause delays of - for
example - tyres and JATO rockets for PA F-84's. This is exactly
what happened in November 1967 and prompted 28th ATAF Chief of
Operations, then Brigadier Edmund Laitmer, to request from the
then dictator-Prime Minister - and Minister of Defence - G.
Papadopoulos to buy a non-US fighter aircraft for the PA to be
able to maintain a level of readiness without having to think
about political implications. The Mirage III was suggested at
that meeting.
In the summer of 1968, the PA sent 4 officers (Brigadier Laitmer,
and Lt. Cols - as per NATO terminology - I. Hantziris (F-5A and
F-86D pilot), and E. Tsamousopoulos (F-84 and F-104G pilot) plus
one mechanics) to evaluate the MirageIIIB. From July 2 until
July 4, the Dassault invited them from Merignac to Istres were
they flew the brand new Mirage IIIRD (s/n 304). For pilots
having flown and taught according to the USAF manuals and
procedures, this was a surprise, nevertheless, already during
the second flight with the one-seater a combat profile was flown!
A second PA detachment went to France in 1971 in order to
evaluate this time the brand-new Mirage F.1. The 335 CO E.
Kampiotis (an F-84/86/104G pilot and trained at Nellis AFB, in
the USA, as an F-4C Instructor in 1966-67) and later PA chief of
staff and Undersecretary of Defence, N. Kouris both flew the
Mirage F.1-03 after only one day of ground school, with emphasis
on the emergency procedures. The "-1 manual" was a mixture of
handwritten notes in French and English, written by Dassault's
test pilots and the cockpit panel was of course written in
French.
After the Nixon administration had lifted the arms embargo, in
1972, the Greek administration opted for the F-4E instead,
because it was two-seater and had better range than the F.1.
Even after Dassault offered a 20% participation and a production
line in Greece in order to secure the deal the PA chose to go
American by ordering F-4E's A-7H's and C-130's instead. This was
a major step for PA and meant that money should be spent not
only in purchasing a/c but also in training personnel, building
infrastructure (runways, taxiways, hangars, depots etc.) and
keeping the current mission under NATO and National operational
requirements. Negotiations restarted in early 1974, but by then
the co-production deal was gone and the aircraft had to be paid
in cash with no loans or other FMS-like procedures. On 16 June
1974 the contract for 40 Mirage F.1CG.s was signed and the
deliveries were scheduled to last from 1977 until 1979.
The invasion of Cyprus by Turkey, in July 1974, changed many
things in Greece. First of all was the fall of the military
dictatorship and the return of free democratic rule. In military
matters, the "Warsaw Pact Dogma" that the Greek Armed Forces
used in their training and contingency plans was replaced by the
threat from the East - the Turkey. This meant that the F.1CG's
were crucial to the PA planning and so after a personal request
from then Greek PM C. Karamanlis to his close friend the French
President V.G D'Estaign, Dassault initiated deliveries of the
new interceptors already on 5 August 1975, by diverting aircraft
destined for the French Air Force to Greece: on that day, Major
Alexander Mamais landed F.1CG "101" at Tanagra. Greece thus
became the first export customer for the type.
The Greek F.1CGs entered service with the 342 Mira, which at the
time was still using the F-102A Delta Dart as an all-weather
interceptor. The last Delta Daggers in PA service would be
retired in 1977 when all 40 F.1CGs were delivered. Unfortunately
the PA Staff did not buy any of the French AA missiles to equip
the new fighters and so these had to be armed with US-supplied
AIM-9Js instead. In 1984 the KETA (Center for Research and
Aviation Technology) stared to develop the wiring for the 2
outboard underwing pylons, in order to make F.1Cgs able to carry
4 AAM instead of 2. This happened with Dassault's help by 1985
and ever since the PA Mirage tooth four AIM-9P-2.
The French trained the Greek pilots in horizontal interceptions,
using the medium range Matra 530's, but the Greek pilots were
much more used to WVR tactics and procedures. On the other side
of the Aegean Turkey had bought 40 F-104S's from Italy in order
to use them as interceptors, but these were never armed with
anything else than Sidewinders over the Aegean, despite Italian
claims that the Sparrow could be carried also. So the balance in
armament between Greece and Turkey regarding their specialized
interceptors was there, albeit the Greek F.1CG's were much more
maneuverable and flexible in operations than the Starfighters.
The only part of the flight envelope that the Starfighter was
better was the climb rate. In fact the Mirage F.1CG's had better
sustained and instantaneous turn ratio than any THK or PA
fighter in service, until the arrival of the F-16 - this was an
exceptionally important point in a situation where the PA and
the THK were encountering each other almost on a daily basis in
mock-up dogfights over the Aegean Sea. Considering the small
size and the slim silhouette, as well as the smoke-less engine
of the F.1CG, and then the Cyrano IV radar that could track
targets in realistic interception conditions over the Aegean at
45-50 miles out, the Mirage 'supremacy' became legendary already
at the time. The type was considered by PA pilots an honour to
be chosen to train on and fly, and until 1982 only the most
experienced fliers were transferred to the two units serving
with it, the 342 or 334 Mira.
That not all the "engagements" between Greek and Turkish
fighters in the air over the Aegean Sea (but frequently also
down to the levels of only two or three meters) went without
shooting illustrates also the inscription on this photograph:
"To Turkey, with Love!" (courtesy: Savvas Vlassis, via Nicholas
Tselepidis)
After that year also pilots fresh out from the "Sholi Ikaron"
(the HAF Academy) - and thus having only previous training on
T-2 Buckeyes - were accepted to fly the F.1CGs, all of which
were single-seaters. However, any such candidate has got
exhaustive simulator training, so that his instructors could be
1000% sure that the student was able to fly the aircraft in all
conceivable scenarios before clearing him for his first - solo -
flight with the Mirage.
One anecdote of the first night interception of a THK a/c by a
PA Mirage F.1CG is well known: when the Greek pilot came close
from the THK F-4E's 4 o'clock position and turned on the
interception light, the THK Phantom pilot was recorded yelling
in the emergency frequency "UFO, UFO!".
The Mirage F.1CG proved to be a very solid and safe aircraft to
fly and operate. Ever since 1989, when 334 Mira moved to
Heraklion AB, where the runway and shelters are a few meters
from the sea, there has never been a structural or corrosion
problem - contrary to the aircraft supplied from the USA.
Together with arduous efforts of the maintenance personnel and
the Hellenic Aerospace LTD., where general overhauls are
performed, this helped the type to be held for hours on QRA in
the hangar and still have a good turnout rate for any kind of
missions. After 1990 the F.1CG was used against THK F-16s in
interceptions and during one of these - on 18th of June 1992 -
Lt. Sialmas was killed when his a/c stalled and crashed on the
Aegean while chasing an F-16. This was the only - definitively
confirmed - loss of a PA F.1CG during an interception of Turkish
fighters, although there are serious rumours about another being
shot down by THK F-16s some times later. In exchange on 8th of
February 1995 a THK F-16 crashed near Rhodes as it was returning
home after being intercepted by F.1CG's: the official cause was
stated to have been the pilot which supposedly, "forgot to
switch the engine feed from the drop tanks to the main fuel
tanks". The THK flier was then rescued by a 358 Mira AB.205A-1
and was flown to Rhodes Hospital before being flown by the same
SAR Huey from Rhodes back to Turkey.
After the arrival of more modern types in PA service, the Mirage
E.1CG's started to become secondary in PA planning and air
operations. In 2000 344 Mira disbanded and all it’s aircraft and
personnel passed on to 342 Mira. After almost 28 years of
service, on 30 June 2003 the remaining 24 F.1CG's were retired
at Tanagra AB.
The Mirage F,1CG's were influentia1 in another way as well.
Their "Mirage bleu" or "Aegean Blue" colour scheme (consisting
of FS 35164 applied to upper surfaces, and silver-grey on lower
surfaces) proved to be very effective over the Aegean, so in the
early 80's all PA a/c that were tasked with interception duties
were painted in the same colour. In early 2001 two F.1CGs were
painted in the "Ghost" scheme and this proved very effective as
well, but it came too late in their career to be applied in all
of the surviving aircraft.
In total, the PA logged no less but 160.000+ flying hours with
its F.1CGs, which means 5500-6000 per airframe - and many of
these - over 3.500+ hours - in "live" interceptions over the
Aegean Sea, under combat-similar conditions.
Notes:
1) Information about the PA's evaluation of Mirage F.1CGs came
from article by D. Stergiou, in the Cockpit magazine, volume
July 2003;
2) HUD photo of the THK F-16 is courtesy 342 Mira
3) Photograph of the AIM-9P Sidewinder is courtesy of 342 Mira
via Savvas Vlassis.
INSTALLATION
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The only thing you have to do is to extract it, into the main
folder of your MS Flight Simulator X. For example into the
location: "C:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesFlight Simulator X".
If you want to fly it in the FS2004, then you need the origianl
panel witch you can find it into the “FS2004 panel”. Also move
the "Mirage F.1CG Hellenic Air Force" folder into the main
FS2004 aircraft folder.
LIMITATIONS
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This work is FREEWARE, that means that 1) you don’t PAY to use
it and 2) don’t MAKE MONEY with it. Of course you are allowed to
copy it, on a CD or DVD, BUT ONLY for personal use. Also, don’t
upload it an any site, as yours. In case you want to upload it
or make a source with the original characteristics, first send
us an e-mail thanpan@in.gr, with the name of the site. Of course
this file is forbidden to be uploaded in www.fsplanet.com
because in this site they upload files without any permission.
To download them you have two options 1) to pay if you want to
download with high speed or 2) to download them with some Bytes
per second!!! Just to be in law…
Feel free to send us an e-mail to tell us if you like it or not,
or whatever you want.
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Authors: Delizisis Panagiotis, Delizisis Thanasis e-mail:
thanpandel=google.com
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