104 WW Training Script

Standalone training scripts for DCS World, built on the native scripting engine only (no MOOSE / MIST / CTLD). Five independent feature scripts, load any or all of them, in any order.

Script	What it does
TrainingRange.lua	F10 range: bombing, dogfight (immortal + scoring), SEAD (radar + IR/AAA presets), carrier ops, air-to-air refuelling
TRAINING_Intercept.lua	Scramble-intercept trainer with a radio menu, random target launch and boundary despawn
TRAINING_GCA.lua	Text Ground Controlled Approach, auto-detects the runway under the zone
TRAINING_AirCombat.lua	Air-to-air arenas vs RED: dogfight, BVR, and a mixed group that scales to player count
JTAC.lua	Menu-spawned invisible spotter (MQ-9 UAV or ground JTAC) that lases RED targets; laser code and radio frequency changeable from the menu

In-game text and code comments are in English.

Installation

1. Copy the .lua files you want into your mission folder (or keep them on disk).
2. In the Mission Editor create the Circle zones listed below, using the exact names.
3. Add one trigger per script: MISSION START, DO SCRIPT FILE, <file>.lua. The scripts are independent, so the load order does not matter.

Almost everything keys off zones, so there is very little to type by hand. The only manual values are the GCA runway (heading and threshold). Each script checks its zones at load and shows a visible message if any are missing.

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Mission Editor reference

TrainingRange.lua

Zones (type: Circle, radius is a suggestion):

Zones are Circle, except the two tanker zones which may also be Quad.

Zone name	Module	Suggested radius
TR_BOMBING	Unarmoured targets (Ural) spawn inside	~3000 m
TR_ARMOR_LIGHT	Light armour (BTR-80) spawns inside	~3000 m
TR_ARMOR_HEAVY	Heavy armour (T-90) spawns inside	~3000 m
TR_DOGFIGHT	Dogfight arena	~15000 m
TR_SEAD_RADAR	Radar SAM (spawns at a random point inside)	~8000 m
TR_SEAD_IR	IR / AAA (spawns at a random point inside)	~5000 m
TR_CARRIER	Carrier strike group spawns here at mission start	~2000 m
TR_REFUEL_BASKET	Basket tanker racetrack (fits inside, circle or quad)	~10000 m
TR_REFUEL_BOOM	Boom tanker racetrack (fits inside, circle or quad)	~10000 m

The carrier is on station from mission start as a full group (carrier plus a cruiser, two destroyers and a plane-guard frigate) in formation. From the Carrier Ops menu you set the group speed and its ROE (Engage, or Defend only so it does not fire on ground units it passes). Tanker speed is selectable (Mach 0.3 to 0.6) from the Refueling menu. Bombing targets are weapon-hold. Escorts are configurable in TR_Config.carrier.escorts. No coordinates to fill in for any of these.

TRAINING_Intercept.lua

Zones (type: Circle):

Zone name	Purpose
INTERCEPT_PLAYER_ZONE	Arming area, the F10 menu appears only while a player is inside
INTERCEPT_LIMIT_ZONE	Play box: targets spawn here and despawn if they leave it
INTERCEPT_OBJ_1	Objective waypoint (target flies toward the zone centre)
INTERCEPT_OBJ_2	Objective waypoint
INTERCEPT_OBJ_3	Objective waypoint

No coordinates to fill in. Tunables (scramble delay, spawn geometry, grace period, target-size presets) live in the script's CFG.

TRAINING_GCA.lua

Zone (type: Circle):

Zone name	Purpose
GCA_ACTIVE_ZONE	Coverage area, placed over the airfield. The talkdown runs while a player is inside

By default (CFG.auto = true) the script finds the airfield under the zone, reads its runways and picks the active one (most into the wind, longest as a tiebreaker), deriving the heading and threshold automatically when you start the approach. To set the runway by hand instead, use CFG.auto = false and fill in runway_heading and threshold_point. glideslope_angle (default 3.0) is used in both modes.

TRAINING_AirCombat.lua

Zones (type: Circle):

Zone name	Purpose
TR_DOGFIGHT_RED	Dogfight arena, the menu and the bandit appear while a player is inside
TR_BVR_RED	BVR arena, same engine with a radar-missile loadout
TR_BVR_MIXED	Mixed group arena, a package scaled to the number of players inside

In the dogfight and BVR arenas you pick a type (L-39ZA, MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-29, Su-27, F-16, F-18) and one bandit spawns ahead of you at the far edge of the zone, same altitude. Only one is up at a time, extra requests queue, and Auto brings up a fresh one a few seconds after each kill. The mixed arena spawns a package whose threat budget is players x difficulty (Easy/Even/Hard). Leaving a zone despawns its bandits.

Loadouts are guns only by default so the dogfight works out of the box. To arm the bandits with missiles, fill the LOADOUTS table at the top of the script with the weapon CLSIDs from your DCS version (they are version-specific, so they are not hardcoded). A bad CLSID falls back to guns automatically.

JTAC.lua

Standalone (usable in any mission). Zones (type: Circle, create whichever you use):

Zone name	Purpose
JTAC_GROUND_ZONE	The ground JTAC sits at its centre (give it line of sight to the targets)
JTAC_UAV_ZONE	The UAV orbits its centre

From the F10 menu you spawn a UAV spotter (MQ-9 Reaper orbiting the zone, best line of sight) or a ground JTAC (a vehicle at the zone centre). The spotter is friendly (BLUE) and made invisible to enemy AI so it is not engaged, and it lases the nearest visible RED target. The lasing is driven by the script (Spot.createLaser), so the laser code and the radio frequency are both changeable live from the menu (default 1688 and 251.0 AM). Change the frequency to deconflict with other assets; set your pod/bomb to the laser code. One spotter is up at a time.

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Notes

• The five scripts share no state and can be used à la carte.
• Dogfight and SEAD zones in TrainingRange.lua make players immortal while inside (training, no real losses).
• Requires a reasonably recent DCS build. A couple of unit type strings and the TACAN beacon parameters can vary by version, so check the in-game messages if a spawn fails.