MACC (Military Air Command & Control)

Capabilities

What it handles

How to use it

Getting started

1. Place the Military Air Component CommanderPlace Military Air Component Commander on or near the airfield it should fly from: it takes the airfield nearest to itself inside its airspace, and one dropped on a carrier deck makes the ship its base. Then set its faction (default OPF_F).
2. Draw an airspace marker and name it on the moduleThe commander operates inside the airspace you draw; leave Airspace Markers blank and it uses the whole map. If there's no airfield, helipad or other military site inside that airspace, also draw a marker where you want the aircraft held and name it in the module's Ingress Marker setting; it's only used when none of those, and no carrier, is found.
3. Decide whether the commander supplies its own aircraftPlace Air Assets is off by default, so the commander flies whatever aircraft are already in your mission. Switch it on to have it add aircraft of its own. A commander with no airfield, flying from an ingress marker, always creates its aircraft.
4. Switch on Place Drones if you want one addedDrones already in the mission are crewed and tasked either way. To have the commander add one of its own, switch Place Drones on and leave Use Drones at Yes. It doesn't need Place Air Assets and it doesn't need an airfield, so an air component can be drones alone. A base gets one drone.
5. Cap the offensive workload if you want toMaximum Concurrent Offensive Sorties limits how many offensive sorties (SEAD, strikes, close air support, reconnaissance and offensive counter-air) the commander can have running at once. Combat air patrols and defensive counter-air are never limited. Leave it blank for no limit.
6. Add a Military Logistics module for servicing on the standWith a Military Logistics module in the mission, a support truck drives out to a returned aircraft to refuel, rearm and repair it. Without one, the aircraft is serviced where it parked. Either way it goes back out with a full tank.
7. Choose how aircraft are serviced and whether players can use themSet Show Support Trucks to No to skip the truck and service aircraft where they stand. Under Player Interaction, Players Can Use ATO Aircraft set to No locks every aircraft of this commander to players. Return To ATO After (s) sets how long an aircraft a player has left on the ground waits before the commander takes it back; blank uses the Virtual AI System's wait, 5 minutes by default.
8. Let players call for close air supportNothing to set up: with the module in the mission, players get Request CAS in the tablet's C2ISTAR menu. They open it and click the target on the map, and a red marker shows their side where they asked. CAS must be ticked in Available ATOs. If you'd rather the AI Commander didn't send aircraft onto players' positions, set Keep Commander CAS Away From Players under Player Interaction.

Settings

Every setting, and what it does

These settings decide which aircraft the air commander takes charge of, where it flies from and which air missions it'll accept from other commanders. They also control what players can do with its aircraft, what it tells them over the radio, and a few fallbacks for terrains with awkward or missing airfields.

Presets that use this module: Air war: NATO and CSAT fight for the sky. Place one in the editor to see it set up.

Quick setups

Overhaul

What changed

• Players can request CAS from the tabletOpen the tablet's C2ISTAR menu, pick Request CAS and click the target on the map. The request goes to your side's Air Component Commander (or an allied one if yours has none) and is taken as a sortie straight away if it has an aircraft free. The side hears the answer on the radio.
• Keep Commander CAS Away From PlayersA new setting under Player Interaction. Set 500 m, 1 km, 2 km or 5 km and the AI Commander's own CAS requests are turned down while a friendly player is that close to the target, so players working quietly or running their own JTAC aren't joined by aircraft they didn't ask for. A player's own request always goes through. Off by default.
• Choose the aircraft and the airspaceAircraft Types and Excluded Aircraft say which helicopters and planes the commander places (drones too, for the exclusions), and Drone Types picks which drones it may add. Airspace Blacklist cuts areas out of the airspace, so "the whole map except that airfield" is one marker.
• Fighters hold their height and see enemy aircraftFighters on combat air patrol and defensive counter-air fly to their station and loiter at 1,500 m instead of climbing as high as the engine takes them. On station they are told about every enemy aircraft within 8 km as it turns up, and pick their own target.
• Air defence is live near the commander's aircraft, and SEAD is tidierEnemy anti-air close to the commander's aircraft is spawned so it can shoot back, even with no player nearby (the Virtual AI System's Air Defence Spawning). Players are offered one SEAD task per air defence site rather than one for each launcher and radar.
• Parked aircraft are hidden rather than despawnedThe old commander's parked aircraft were despawned by the profile system when nobody was near. Now they stay on their stands, hidden and frozen, so the map and Zeus keep showing their icons even when you can't see them on the airfield. That's expected, not a bug: they're still there, and the game has no way to hide a single object's icon.

Status

Where it stands

Testing

How you can help

Place a Military Air Component Commander, give it a faction and draw an airspace marker over a map with an airfield, and put a few of that faction's aircraft on the field. Leave Place Air Assets off unless you want the commander to add aircraft of its own. Run the mission and watch what it does with what is standing there: planes should be inside hangars where one fits, helicopters on free pads, and anything left over on open ground clear of the taxiway and facing along the runway. Then let it task a sortie and follow one airframe all the way round, from a crew boarding to the aircraft back on the stand it started from. Worth knowing what you will see at the end of a sortie: with nobody within a kilometre of its base or of the aircraft itself, the aircraft is put straight onto its stand from the air rather than landing, which looks abrupt and is deliberate. Things worth reporting: an aircraft given a sortie it cannot fly, an airframe that never comes home, a crew walking away from an aircraft that is still flying, anything parked where it blocks ground traffic, a VTOL that does not come down on its own stand, and a jet that stops where its taxi route meets the runway and is then put into the air by its launch deadline, which is known and being looked into.

Worth knowing about parked aircraft. Go more than about 2 km from the airfield and they vanish from their stands; head back and they should be there before the field's in view. After a teleport they can take up to 10 seconds to appear. The map and Zeus keep showing them while they're hidden, which is expected. Worth reporting: an empty stand you can see from within about 1.5 km, or an aircraft appearing while you're looking at it.

Changelog

Updates to this page

• 2026-11-01
  A MACC now also counts the airports a terrain declares in its own config, where no indexed runway is within 1.5 km. On Sumava a MACC by Nalzovske Hory bases at the Plasy strip instead of the central airbase.
• 2026-11-01
  New setting Always Fly From Ingress Marker: Yes flies the commander from its Ingress Marker even when it finds an airfield. Off by default.
• 2026-10-31
  A player's own air requests show on the tablet's Air tab, and the player who asked can cancel one. The aircraft on it are told.
• 2026-10-31
  The Air Tasking Order holds with an AI Commander set to Hold Until Go, and plans no sorties until an admin starts the war.
• 2026-10-31
  An AI Commander's recce flight now tells the commander when it's accepted, turned down and over the objective, and what the aircraft sees there goes into the commander's picture.
• 2026-10-29
  Clicking the map after Request CAS now leaves a red marker on the spot, named for the player who asked. Only their side sees it.
• 2026-10-29
  The CAS marker goes when the strike is over, cancelled or turned down. A request that never becomes a strike clears after 2 minutes, and none stays up past 45.
• 2026-10-29
  Aircraft spawning and the airside checks treat the paved aprons of Stratis, Malden and Tanoa as ground again, so aircraft can park there. This morning's Field HQ fix had counted them as runway.
• 2026-10-27
  In Eden this module's settings now sit under shorter headers, at most 8 settings in a group, and the Settings section here follows the same headers. Every setting keeps its name and default, so saved missions load as before.
• 2026-10-26
  The commander can fly from a USS Nimitz deck (the Steam Workshop mod) as it does from the USS Freedom. Drop the module on the Nimitz deck: aircraft park there facing the bow, are towed onto one of its 4 catapults and launched, and a jet coming home catches the Nimitz wires and stops on the deck. The FA-18E from the Super Hornet mod launches but doesn't land on the Nimitz yet; it circles.
• 2026-10-25
  With Drongo's Air Operations loaded, its tablet lists its aircraft again. The MACC kept Drongo's mod off its own planes by putting each plane and its group on the mod's ignore list, but the tablet only expects class names there, so it threw an error and opened empty. The MACC now marks its planes as already seen by the mod instead: the mod still leaves them alone and they stay off its tablet (Eric on Discord).
• 2026-10-23
  New setting Leave Players' Sites to Players decides whether the SEAD jets keep off a site players have a Destroy AA task for. Yes, the default, keeps them off.
• 2026-10-23
  An aircraft that crashes within 2 minutes of an enemy hit is now put down to whoever fired, instead of its own pilot, in the RPT's loss line and for a Destroy AA task.
• 2026-10-23
  The air commander's SEAD jets keep off an air defence site, and anything within 500 m of it, while players have a Destroy AA task for it.
• 2026-10-23
  Aircraft on the USS Freedom now park facing the bow and launch off the bow catapults. They used to face aft and run down the deck and off the stern. Jets saved on the deck before this still face aft after loading that save.
• 2026-10-22
  Players can ask the Air Component Commander for CAS from the tablet, from A. Ares and Javen: C2ISTAR menu -> Request CAS, then click the target on the map. It goes to your side's commander (or an allied one) with CAS in its Available ATOs, and the side hears it acknowledged on the radio.
• 2026-10-21
  New setting Keep Commander CAS Away From Players (Player Interaction): with a distance set, the AI Commander's CAS requests are turned down, without a radio call, while a friendly player is that close to the target. A player's own CAS always goes through, and CAS carries on everywhere else (#1093).
• 2026-10-21
  An airfield with only an approach recorded and no runway pieces keeps a runway again: the survey tries its stand-in strip both ways along the approach, then 600 m either side of the touchdown point. Kujari, Isla Pera, Staszow and 9 other workshop terrains had lost theirs since 20 Oct, which left ground placements and parked aircraft nothing to keep them off the strip.
• 2026-10-20
  On Chernarus the north-west airfield's runway is marked where it really is, not down the hangar row 240 m away, so garrisons and parked aircraft keep off the right strip. Fields with no runway pieces get a strip laid back along the runway from the approach.
• 2026-10-20
  With nothing to fly, the AI Commander's repeated requests no longer fill the radio with "has requested" and "denied": a commander's requests are read out at most once in five minutes for each kind of sortie. A player's own requests are always read out.
• 2026-10-17
  Fighters on CAP and DCA fly to their station and loiter at 1,500 m, and on station are told about every enemy aircraft in the air within 8 km as it turns up, picking their own target.
• 2026-10-17
  Players get one SEAD task for an air defence site, not one for each of its launchers and radar; once the offered target is destroyed the rest of the site can come up next.
• 2026-10-17
  Enemy anti-air near your commander's aircraft is now spawned so it can shoot at them, even with no player near (the Virtual AI System's Air Defence Spawning, on by default).
• 2026-10-15
  An aircraft jammed against a hangar wall after landing is now put back on its stand, up to 3 tries. A test A-10 was put back 0 times before and 3 times after.
• 2026-10-15
  The Air Commander fills the hangars across its whole airfield, not just the cluster its base stands on: StartisTest went from 4 aircraft to 9 or 10.
• 2026-10-14
  Aircraft the Air Commander takes over now park at its airfield, not where placement left them: a Blackfish gets a helipad or clear ground 55 to 110 m from the base instead of dirt by a camp. A bush no longer blocks a parking spot.
• 2026-10-14
  A helicopter set down from flight keeps its main rotor: damage stays off until the rotor has stopped, then it is repaired again.
• 2026-10-14
  A saved aircraft the Air Commander can no longer fly, for example after a faction change, is retired when the mission loads instead of sitting on its stand for good.
• 2026-10-14
  New Airspace Blacklist setting: markers the Air Commander leaves out of its airspace. It won't base on, take aircraft from or fly sorties into them (#1084).
• 2026-10-11
  An aircraft with nobody in it gets its supply truck: it used to ask under no side, and no logistics module answered.
• 2026-10-11
  A save from before the rewrite now gives an air commander the aircraft of every friendly faction its synced AI Commanders run, not only its own. Before, the other factions' aircraft stayed behind in the old store.
• 2026-10-11
  Dirt airstrips with no runway objects, such as the five on Altis, now get a runway line from the map's own airport data.
• 2026-10-11
  A helicopter waits on its stand while a manned vehicle is under its rotors, other than the truck coming to service it, and starts up once it has gone (or when its launch time runs out).
• 2026-10-10
  When an air commander aircraft is lost, players on the sides hostile to it now get an Air Picture report.
• 2026-10-10
  A SEAD pair now heads home once the radar it was sent for is down, instead of strafing the launcher.
• 2026-10-09
  New Aircraft Types and Excluded Aircraft settings choose which aircraft the air commander places, from any faction.
• 2026-10-09
  A parked aircraft's crew no longer decides who holds an airfield while the aircraft is virtual, so base-game pilots can't hand an area to the wrong faction.
• 2026-10-09
  A persistent air commander waits for the Data module's save name before loading, so its aircraft are restored rather than started fresh.
• 2026-10-09
  An autosave or Save and Exit that lands while the air commander is taking over an aircraft keeps that aircraft.
• 2026-10-09
  Two air commanders starting together no longer log registry errors at mission start.
• 2026-10-09
  Aircraft are no longer parked on top of a wreck: a helipad, apron or patch of ground with a wreck on it counts as occupied.
• 2026-10-09
  An air base at an airfield with one hangar gets a plane: if the first plane fits no stand there, up to four of the faction's other planes are tried.
• 2026-10-09
  A replacement aircraft that was on order when the mission was saved still arrives after a reload. Before, that aircraft was never replaced.
• 2026-10-09
  The air commander says in the RPT why Objective Objects aren't placed at sea or at an ingress point.
• 2026-10-09
  Aircraft can park on apron paving and helipads again. The Stratis tower apron went from no spots to 2 to 8, and Malden airport from 4 to 50 spots for a UAV and 2 to 40 for a light helicopter, none of them next to a low obstacle.
• 2026-10-06
  The air commander no longer raises a rescue task for every aircraft it loses. One comes only when a pilot ejects and lands alive, and its rescue chance still decides it.
• 2026-09-28
  With Persistent on, the local autosave now saves the air commander along with the AI forces. Only Save and Exit did, so a server kept going by autosaves lost its aircraft changes.
• 2026-09-28
  Pilot Ready Room is gone from the editor. Crews are built straight into their aircraft, so nothing used it, and a mission that saved a building there still loads.
• 2026-09-28
  An aircraft stranded off its stand with players within a kilometre is no longer put back in front of them after 10 minutes; it waits until none of them can see it, and a nearby Zeus camera always counts as watching. One blocking a runway or taxiway still goes at 10 minutes, and any other 20 minutes after that.
• 2026-09-26
  Place Air Assets now gives a base fighters and attack jets in turn, fighter first, so NATO and CSAT bases fly their patrols and interceptions. One old-build test stocked 5 A-164s and every sortie was refused.
• 2026-09-26
  Aircraft held at an Ingress Marker are picked the same way: planes and helicopters take turns, and the planes alternate fighter and attack jet.
• 2026-09-26
  The Place Air Assets and Ingress Aircraft tooltips now say how many planes a base gets and in what order.
• 2026-09-25
  Spawn Objective Units is now Objective Objects Count. 14 settings, including Minimum Aircraft For Offensive Missions, Place Air Assets and Persistent, have tooltips that now say what they really do.
• 2026-09-25
  In a hosted game, the air tasking radio calls now reach every player on that side once, instead of repeating on the host.
• 2026-09-24
  The air commander's save now carries the map, so a copy of the mission on another map starts its own air roster.
• 2026-09-24
  A persistent air commander's roster now survives a save and restart; until now every restart rebuilt it from scratch. Worth retesting a persistent commander across a save and restart.
• 2026-09-24
  Parked aircraft now vanish from their stands while nobody's within the spawn distance, and they're back before you arrive. Watch for an empty stand in view, or an aircraft appearing while you look at it.
• 2026-09-24
  The map and Zeus still show a parked aircraft's icon while it's hidden. That's expected: it's hidden and frozen on its stand, not despawned.
• 2026-09-23
  A shot-down aircraft now falls and crashes where it was hit, instead of vanishing from the air and reappearing on its stand.
• 2026-09-23
  Its wreck stays where it fell, burning, until the Garbage Collector clears it once nobody's within 1.7 km.
• 2026-09-23
  An aircraft heading home is only put back on its stand when nobody's within 1 km of it as well as its airfield.
• 2026-09-23
  The air commander now flies SEAD. A jet carrying anti-radar missiles is sent at the air defences it has found; no vanilla jet carries them by default, so fit HARMs or Kh-58s in Eden. Watch for low gun passes once the radar is down.
• 2026-09-19
  Place Drones works on its own now: with Place Air Assets off you still get the drone, and a base that already has one never gets a second. A Blackfish comes back on the exact spot it was parked on instead of drifting.
• 2026-09-19
  Jets take off down the runway instead of driving along the ground toward their target, and they wait on their stand while the way out is blocked.
• 2026-09-19
  VTOLs come home to their own stand and land on it in VTOL mode, staying off the runway. A plane that touches down stays down instead of taking off again.
• 2026-09-19
  A sortie whose target dies on the way turns back, and one whose target is already dead stands down on its stand. Crews leave parked aircraft with the engine off, and a serviced aircraft goes out with a full tank.
• 2026-09-19
  Three new settings: Show Support Trucks, plus Players Can Use Aircraft and Return To ATO After in a new Player Interaction section. Watch for a jet that stops where its taxi route meets the runway.
• 2026-09-19
  Helicopters land on their pad instead of circling it, and a plane isn't dropped from the air by its landing deadline. A job with no suitable aircraft waits for one: the A-10 is no longer picked as a fighter, and the Blackfish only scouts.
• 2026-09-19
  A landed aircraft is never moved while anyone, Zeus cameras included, is within a kilometre, and nothing is put down on top of a vehicle. Drongo's Air Operations no longer takes over the commander's aircraft.
• 2026-09-18
  Helicopters look across the whole airfield for a free pad, and nothing parks with a building wall inside its reach. A launch is called off for an aircraft that can't fly, which is put back and repaired while another takes the job.
• 2026-09-18
  Every landing is serviced now, not just an aircraft's first, and the supply truck gets three minutes to reach it instead of as little as 27 seconds.
• 2026-09-18
  A landed jet taxis off the runway before it goes back to its stand. A Blackfish or other VTOL doesn't take the runway at all: it lands straight onto its own stand.
• 2026-09-18
  Anything up to 120 metres ahead of a launching jet is moved aside, so a van on the taxiway no longer keeps it on the ground. In testing a Bradley and two MRAPs were shifted about 70 metres and both jets took off.
• 2026-09-18
  Helicopters no longer wait for the runway in either direction. One that couldn't get down used to hold the runway through five minutes of hovering while a jet behind it ran out of time.
• 2026-09-18
  Patrols stay on station instead of turning for home seconds after arriving, and a crew that's been stood down can't climb back aboard and fly off. That's how a gunship lost its pilot at 104 metres and crashed.
• 2026-09-18
  Jets taxi out to the runway themselves rather than stalling in a hangar doorway. Five jets launched this way were airborne 67 to 100 seconds later, and a jet waiting its turn is held on its stand so it can't creep forward.
• 2026-09-18
  The MACC briefing is now a full module page, built like every other module in the collection, with its roadmap of planned work included. The old address still sends you here.
• 2026-09-17
  A wreck on a parking spot no longer sends the arriving aircraft somewhere else: it waits for the spot, and the log names what's holding it.
• 2026-09-17
  Combat air patrol and defensive counter-air go to fixed wing only, so no more gunships loitering over the airbase. Helicopters still fly close air support and reconnaissance.
• 2026-09-17
  Planes park in the hangars again, with a fit test so an airframe too big for the bay stays out. Every aircraft also parks at its own airfield instead of being sent hundreds of metres away.
• 2026-09-16
  A commander whose airfield is overrun stops rebuilding aircraft into the enemy position. It used to rebuild them there for the rest of the mission, spending the logistics pool with them.
• 2026-09-16
  The aircraft stays on the books instead, and is replaced once the ground is clear.
• 2026-09-16
  An airfield reports who holds it at the point it becomes an objective for the ground commanders.
• 2026-09-16
  A commander can still base on an enemy-held field in the first place, because a base is chosen long before anyone can know who holds it. The log says so and names the setting to reach for.
• 2026-09-16
  The runway check every module shares now knows where the runway actually is. Worth a look if you see an aircraft placed somewhere on an airfield it has no business being.
• 2026-09-16
  Whether your own side holds an airfield is measured across the whole airfield, which can run 700 m across, rather than a 300 m circle, so an enemy-held field no longer reports as yours.
• 2026-09-16
  A small objective still asks across 300 m as a floor, and the log names the distance it used. With four hostiles standing 500 m out, the same objective answers held at 300 m and not held at 700 m.
• 2026-09-16
  The ground commander actually goes and takes the airfield, instead of leaving it a target on paper.
• 2026-09-16
  A persistent campaign no longer stacks up an extra objective and capture task on the same ground with every reload; it reuses the one already there.
• 2026-09-16
  Worth knowing the airfield now sits ahead of other unassigned targets, so the commander will go after the field before things it might otherwise have picked.
• 2026-09-16
  The same ground may already be an objective under a different name, with its centre some way off: 249 m on Stratis.
• 2026-09-15
  A commander flying from an ingress marker creates its aircraft whatever Place Air Assets is set to. Naming a marker on a fresh mission used to leave you with no aircraft and a radio call saying the airbase wasn't established.
• 2026-09-15
  The advice printed when a commander ends up with no aircraft no longer sends you hunting through airspace markers for a commander that has no airfield.
• 2026-09-15
  A marker commander reloaded from a save no longer holds one more aircraft than Ingress Aircraft asked for.
• 2026-09-15
  Worth knowing if you build invasion missions: the air commander doesn't ask who holds an airfield. It takes the nearest usable one inside its airspace, and will build its headquarters there, post guards and fly from it.
• 2026-09-15
  The controls are yours: the airspace marker decides which airfields are eligible, the module's own position decides which of those wins because the nearest is taken, and naming an Ingress Marker gives the commander a point to fly from instead.
• 2026-09-15
  Where the enemy has a drawn TAOR over the field it takes, the log names the faction and tells you which of those to reach for.
• 2026-09-15
  This page has been corrected against the code. Suppression of enemy air defences isn't delivered: they're found and recorded, but nothing is sent against them, and the player task needs the C2ISTAR module, Generate Player Tasks and Generate SEAD Tasks all switched on together.
• 2026-09-15
  Place Air Assets is off by default, so a commander placed on an empty airfield adds no aircraft of its own and flies only what's already in your mission.
• 2026-09-15
  Nothing taxis: an aircraft is launched from its stand and set back down on it, and with nobody within a kilometre it's put onto its stand from the air. A plane that fits nowhere isn't swapped for a VTOL.
• 2026-09-15
  The servicing truck comes from a Logistics Commander, and without one an aircraft is serviced where it stands. Drone placement needs two settings rather than one, and the default sortie clock is twenty five minutes, not an hour.
• 2026-09-14
  The air commander has been rebuilt end to end, and the rebuild is what's in your build now. A sortie can no longer be sent to where an aircraft is not: what each one is doing is measured from the aircraft itself every few seconds.
• 2026-09-14
  An aircraft flies a whole sortie on its own, from a crew scrambling aboard to the airframe parked back on its own stand with its crew deleted straight from their seats, and it comes home when its fuel, its bombs, its targets or its time run out.
• 2026-09-14
  An aircraft out of bombs is recognised as empty, and a sortie holding over targets somebody else has already destroyed comes home instead of circling out its clock, twenty five minutes by default.
• 2026-09-14
  A returned aircraft is rearmed as well as refuelled, by a support truck that drives out to where it parked. Nothing is parked on a runway, and a commander covering two factions keeps its whole fleet across a save.
• 2026-09-14
  Air support works on a terrain with no airstrip: draw a marker, name it in the module's airfield overrides, and the commander flies its aircraft from there. A loss is replaced within seconds. Aircraft can also be based on a carrier deck, helicopters included.
• 2026-09-02
  Fighters on patrol can be turned onto an intercept again. This was also the single unexplained script error per mission on dedicated servers and LAN hosts.
• 2026-08-24
  A plane that won't fit anywhere on a field is replaced with a VTOL rather than quietly dropped, so a faction whose airfield is too small still gets air support.
• 2026-08-24
  Helicopters stop abandoning a proper helipad for a stray marker pad.
• 2026-08-19
  An aircraft's home parking slot no longer drifts sideways every time it returns, so over a long mission it no longer walks across the apron into whatever is beside it.
• 2026-08-19
  A saved mission reloaded with no aircraft left no longer has the air commander tasking sorties nothing can fly.
• 2026-08-19
  One turned-off drone no longer stops the rest of the aircraft being taken on.
• 2026-08-18
  Helicopters returning from a task no longer shuffle sideways and spin on the spot as they land. One that sets itself down within thirty metres of its own slot is left exactly where it landed.
• 2026-08-18
  A runway you draw on the module is now known to the rest of the mod, not just the air side, so clearing an airfield, routing a convoy around one and placing aircraft all see it.
• 2026-08-18
  A script error no longer appears on screen the first time aircraft use an airfield, and the sortie no longer stops there.
• 2026-08-16
  Parked aircraft face along the runway instead of all pointing north.
• 2026-08-16
  That affected very nearly every field on very nearly every mission; only fields marked up by hand in the editor pointed the right way. The heading comes from the terrain's own approach data where it has any.
• 2026-08-16
  The air commander waits fifteen minutes for the AI Commander instead of two, matching the span the loading screen allows. On a dedicated server, a large mission used to abandon its commander on every single run and warn about it every time.
• 2026-08-16
  Worth knowing this is a change in behaviour and not just a quieter log: on a big mission the air side will genuinely wait, where before it went ahead detached from the commander it exists to serve.
• 2026-08-13
  The air commander now starts in seconds rather than minutes: three and a half minutes down to about four on the mission this was measured against. Worth confirming aircraft are still adopted and tasked normally.
• 2026-08-10
  A landing that hasn't finished is no longer closed out while the aircraft is still flying. One was at 324 metres and 224 km/h when the timer fired and was destroyed; it's now told to land again and given another five minutes.
• 2026-08-07
  Aircraft fly a sortie from end to end: one has been watched landing, taxiing in, parking on its own spot and its pilot walking to the hangar. Three faults were fixed together.
• 2026-08-07
  A plane placed with its own crew used to take off with nobody aboard, take no orders, and fly into the ground shortly after.
• 2026-08-07
  Crews are no longer removed from aircraft flying at speed, and an aircraft is no longer taken three seconds into its landing run and put back in the sky at three hundred metres.
• 2026-08-07
  A landing now counts as a landing, instead of a five minute timer giving up and parking the plane from wherever it happened to be, sometimes still airborne.
• 2026-08-05
  An aircraft that goes missing part way through landing no longer holds its runway shut for the rest of the mission. Loading a mission on a map with several airfields also no longer freezes the game for twenty seconds at a time.
• 2026-08-03
  Aircraft on a crowded field no longer spawn on top of each other and explode: the commander caps how many it places and keeps them spaced apart.
• 2026-08-03
  Aircraft stay where the air commander parks them instead of sliding across the airfield moments later. One case dragged a gunship into a tent hangar where it destroyed itself, the hangar and a parked plane.
• 2026-08-03
  Helicopters keep the helipads they're given instead of ending up a hundred metres away on open ground. A wide aircraft that fits no hangar or apron goes on clear open ground near its hangar rather than on a taxiway.
• 2026-08-02
  Delivered drones no longer arrive with no operator and crash on the way in, and a replacement aircraft no longer lands on the wreck of the one it's replacing.
• 2026-07-31
  New designate-the-target task: when the commander sends a strike against a building, players on that side get a task to mark it with a laser designator, with a radio call back when the mark is good.
• 2026-07-31
  New setting caps how many offensive sorties (strikes, SEAD, close air support and recce) can be airborne at once; leave it blank for no limit. Finished strike aircraft and their ground targets are tidied away when no players are close by.
• 2026-07-30
  Helicopters take real helipads, large VTOLs park on open ground clear of runways, taxiways and roads instead of blocking them, and aircraft flying in no longer collide on spawn.
• 2026-07-29
  Crew on demand is now live: aircraft park without aircrew and a crew is raised only when a sortie launches, then stood down when it returns.