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I still have a pretty good condition copy of Falcon Gold. The actual boxed version includes 3 additional manuales (Mig, Hornet, and the Add on disc's). Plus it has a full map for each campaign (which was cool if not overly useful). Are there any plans to add these back to the extra's section?
Got those as well, and don't forget the reference cards that were included for each plane.

I've been trying to work out how I can actually scan the extra documents if GOG doesn't have access to them.
I know that the documents you are talking about are pretty rare, basically unavailable online, maybe that's why they aren't included with the GOG release.

Please GOG, work with the community and include the missing documents!
Really rare? Hmm, Anyone able to ship them to GOG for scanning and preservation?
I still have all of the original docs from my Falcon GOLD box and I could easily scan the quick reference card for the Mig29 and Hornet expansions but I have no idea how I could tackle something like the fold out maps with just a flat bed scanner. I suppose I could scan it piece by piece and then upload the images for a Photoshop pro to stitch them together.

In all honesty though, the maps are overkill for Falcon 3.0 The terrain is just nowhere near as detailed and the maps themselves look like they're from a VFR sectional. You could easily use Skyvector.com as an alternative in a separate window.

The manuals for Hornet Naval Strike Fighter and Mig-29 Deadly Adversary are about 100 to 150 pages long respectively. I don't know how GoG scans their manuals. Do they destroy them by cutting each page out for scanning or do they have a fancy robotic scanner to do all of the work without destroying the source material?
I scanned the reference cards and sent them to GOG. Now I just hope they get through the approvals process.
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blakstar: I scanned the reference cards and sent them to GOG. Now I just hope they get through the approvals process.
They did :)
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mechan9: Do they destroy them by cutting each page out for scanning or do they have a fancy robotic scanner to do all of the work without destroying the source material?
We make sure to NOT destroy source material and, sadly, we don't have a robotic scanner :/
Post edited November 07, 2015 by JudasIscariot
I offered below in another thread to loan my copy to GOG for preservation. However, the shipping (from the USA to Poland) is rather expensive and GOG will not pay for it. Would anyone be willing to help me pay for shipping?
Are there any manuals for the oldest Falcon and Flacon A.T.?
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blakstar: I scanned the reference cards and sent them to GOG. Now I just hope they get through the approvals process.
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JudasIscariot: They did :)
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mechan9: Do they destroy them by cutting each page out for scanning or do they have a fancy robotic scanner to do all of the work without destroying the source material?
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JudasIscariot: We make sure to NOT destroy source material and, sadly, we don't have a robotic scanner :/
There are still no Flight Manuals for the Falcon 3.0 expansions. Operation Fighting Tiger, Hornet: Naval Strike Fighter and MiG-29 Deadly Adversary of Falcon 3.0 had each their own Flight Manual alongside the Reference Cards which are available at GOG. Also there were awesome sectional maps for each theatre which are missing.

I attach some of the pictures with contents of the Falcon 3.0 Gold release.
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Post edited November 27, 2016 by damson
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damson: I know that the documents you are talking about are pretty rare, basically unavailable online, maybe that's why they aren't included with the GOG release.

Please GOG, work with the community and include the missing documents!
They are not that rare. A quick search on ebay, yield quite a few results.
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damson: I know that the documents you are talking about are pretty rare, basically unavailable online, maybe that's why they aren't included with the GOG release.

Please GOG, work with the community and include the missing documents!
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peterako1989: They are not that rare. A quick search on ebay, yield quite a few results.
I know, the pictures I posted are from eBay auction, I ment they are rare to find in digital form. You could easily find the Falcon 3 manual online, even long before GOG release, but I never found Flight Manuals for the expansions. That's why I hoped GOG would include them with Falcon Gold release.
Post edited November 30, 2016 by damson
Here is everything I have compiled so far for the entire Falcon collection (including the Hornet manuals)... Still looking for MiG-29 manual and the original IBM manuals for Falcon and Falcon AT.

archive.org/details/falcon-collection-documentation
Used my phone to scan the Operation: Fighting Tiger manual and converted to pdf, would you gog guys like a copy?

And the MiG-29 manual as well?
Post edited April 19, 2025 by darkenedroom