Drafted — not technically validated
Record revision 1 · The official BMS Falklands theatre: East and West Falkland and RAF Mount Pleasant.
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Falcon BMS: Falklands
- Simulator
- Falcon BMS
- Made by
- Falcon BMS community (released by Ranger822), as an official add-on theatre
- Setting
- Present day: No period is stated; its aircraft range from the Canberra, Buccaneer and Super Étendard to F-16s in Argentine markings and a retro-version Eurofighter [1]
- Area
- East and West Falkland, including RAF Mount Pleasant [1]
- Real-world theatre
- The South Atlantic
- Purchase
- Falcon BMSFalcon BMS, with this add-on theatre by Benchmark Sims and the theatre teamFree, but Falcon BMS only installs over a bought copy of Falcon 4.0; the theatre is a free add-onFalcon BMSFalcon 4.0 on SteamFalcon Collection on GOG
Store pages checked 2026-10-28. Prices and availability change.
Airfield coverage
No airfield in this encyclopedia has been checked against this map yet.
Each airfield's page cites the sources for its entry. Airfields not listed have not been checked against this map.
Other differences from reality
- ATC frequencies: All airbase ATC frequencies are UHF only, to avoid splitting every frequency between VHF and UHF; towers keep an old VHF placeholder that pilots are told to ignore, and only the ATIS is on VHF. [3]
- Approach and departure: Approach and departure share one frequency at every airbase, although the ATC menu has separate pages for each. [3]
- Read-back: There is no mandatory read-back of instructions; AI controllers often give the next instruction straight away, so a read-back is likely to be stepped on. [3]
- Navaids: BMS models only TACANs and ILS. Real civil VOR-DMEs appear as TACANs, and unlike in real life no ILS has its own DME: distance in TCN/ILS mode is to the TACAN, which can be 1 or 2 nm or more from the runway threshold. [3]
Coverage
The Falklands theatre, for Falcon BMS 4.38.1, is marked official on the BMS theatre list. [2] It comes with 4K photographic terrain tiles, and a 16K set is available separately; with procedural vegetation turned off it gives the sparse cover of East and West Falkland most faithfully. A planned update is to improve the Canberra, Buccaneer and Argentine F-16, add a late-model Super Étendard in Argentine markings and fix the Harrier GR.9’s flight model for ski-jump take-offs. [1]
Sources
- Falklands Add-On. Falcon BMS forum (release announcement). https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/33296 (accessed 2026-10-28).
- BMS 4.38 Theater List. Falcon BMS forum (official list of add-on theatres). https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/30687 (accessed 2026-10-28).
- BMS Comms & Nav Book 4.38.1. Benchmark Sims (official documentation). https://cdn.falcon-bms.com/docs/4.38/BMS-Comms-Nav-Book.pdf (accessed 2026-10-28). Sections 1.1 (Airbase comm plan) and 1.3.5 (Departure), the read-back rules, and the navigation chapters on tacans and ILS.
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