FL Briefing Board

The briefing whiteboard for DCS World squadrons

Drop aircraft and threats on real theatre maps, link the altitude profile to your route, show your flight what their radar will see, then take it all to the kneeboard or into your F/A-18C DTC.

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Free · in your browser · nothing to install · open source

The board: a strike route in the Caucasus on a topographic map, a tanker on its racetrack, an SA-11 threat, and the route's altitude profile below

What it does

Profile

Your route's altitude, under the map

The profile follows the waypoints of the top view in number order, with terrain and surface-to-air threat ceilings. Move a point on the map and the profile follows; drag it in the profile to change its altitude.

Attack phase: pop-up to the target under an SA-11 ceiling, seen on the map and in the profile
Radar

What your module's radar sees

Pick a radar carrier: every aircraft on the map becomes a contact on the F/A-18C or F-16C radar page, with range, bearing, aspect and closure share. Turn the carrier or move a target and the display follows.

Intercept: three bandits on the map and where they sit on the F/A-18C radar page, computed from the top view
Radar kit

Radar symbology, ready to drop

F/A-18C and F-16C display templates and symbols, drawn from each module's manual, to teach how to read the radar page on the same board as the manoeuvre.

F/A-18C RDR ATTK page and F-16C FCR page in TWS, with their tracks

Your DCS mission, imported

Drop the .miz: your flight's route, bullseye, air defences, ships, tankers and AWACS with their orbit, TACAN and frequency. Then send the route back into the F/A-18C DTC.

Theatre maps

All 14 DCS theatres in topographic, satellite or road map, with automatic scale. True or magnetic headings, with computed declination or your mission's.

28 aviation symbols

Fighters, tankers, AWACS, threats, waypoints, bullseye… rotate, resize, recolour. Attach a tanker to its racetrack and it stays aligned at any zoom.

Run the briefing

Full screen for screen sharing, animated transitions between phases, laser pointer. Then a kneeboard, a PNG image or a briefing file for the whole flight.

It complements your mission planner

Your planning tool computes fuel, loadouts and cards. FL Briefing Board is for explaining: who goes where, at what altitude, where the threat comes from, and what the radar will show when it is time to shoot.

Questions

Is it free?

Yes. The code is open source under the MIT licence. The project is backed by LK Studio and by community supporters.

Is the interface in English?

The interface is in French for now; an English interface is being prepared. The user guide is fully in English, and the board's symbols and maps speak for themselves.

Do I need to install anything?

No: a recent desktop browser is enough. Map backgrounds need an Internet connection.

Where does my data go?

Nowhere: the board keeps your work in your browser, and an imported mission is read on your machine. Only map tiles are loaded, from public servers (OpenTopoMap, OpenStreetMap, Esri).

How do I share a briefing with my flight?

“⇩ Briefing” saves a file, with its phases and images, that anyone reopens with “⇧ Ouvrir”. For the cockpit: the kneeboard or a PNG image.

Which aircraft are supported?

The board works for any aircraft. The radar view and its kit cover the F/A-18C and F-16C; exporting the route to the DTC, the F/A-18C.

The user guide covers every gesture and shortcut.