Drafted — not technically validated
Record revision 1 · The official BMS Hellenic theatre: Greece, Turkey and the Aegean.
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Falcon BMS: Hellenic
- Simulator
- Falcon BMS
- Made by
- HTO team (Malc, Manos and Mystic), as an official add-on theatre
- Setting
- Present day: No period is stated; its forces are modern, such as Hellenic Air Force F-16C Block 30s that carry SPICE 1000 and 2000 guided bombs in the air-to-ground role [1]
- Area
- Greece, Turkey and the Aegean, with airfields from Souda and Kasteli on Crete to Çorlu and Balıkesir, and neighbouring fields such as Bezmer, Krumovo, Kukës, Kuçova and Ohrid [1]
- Real-world theatre
- Europe
- 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
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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
Hellenic Theater Operations (HTO) is one of the official Falcon BMS theatres, installed separately from the base game. [2] Version 1.0.3, for BMS 4.38.1.1, lists work on Greek airfields such as Souda, Kasteli, Kozani, Kastoria and Almyros, Turkish ones such as Çorlu, Balıkesir, Uşak and Yenişehir, and fields in neighbouring countries such as Bezmer, Krumovo, Kukës, Kuçova and Ohrid. Some airbases are fully rendered with physically based materials, and it adds Greek liveries for the AH-64, OH-58 and P-3C. [1]
Sources
- [Released] Hellenic Theater Operations - HTO v1.0.3. Falcon BMS forum (release announcement). https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/32506 (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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