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CArrier Landings
mangold:
--- Quote from: SUBS17 on March 03, 2009, 09:43:19 am ---IMO best F-16 sim is Falcon 4 and the most detailed avionics is the open Falcon mod for Falcon 4. BTW the hook on the F-16 and F-15 is not for CarrierOps it is instead for emergency landings on airfields.
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Correct , F-16 hook only for emergency landings on airfields.
No doubt, Falcon4 f-16 is superb. Flaw is, she does not work with FSX or fs9.
@ SpazSinbad
The aerosoft f16 indexer shows steady green as long you fly center AoA bracket. When drifting off center the AoA V-bars start to indicate accordingly. There is no indexer on/off cycling. I checked that with hook up. I Check hook down next
SpazSinbad:
mangold, thanks then that F-16 looks very useful for practice and something different. I might add that having the AoA indexer cycle ON & OFF for the Accelerator Hornet and Freeware Goshawk is silly (for a sim) even though it may be real world accurate. We know that not everything is modelled in a sim real world accurate so why this? Still and all the above mentioned aircraft are excellent deck landers with the hook down. ;D
mangold:
--- Quote from: SpazSinbad on March 03, 2009, 06:37:48 pm ---mangold, thanks then that F-16 looks very useful for practice and something different. I might add that having the AoA indexer cycle ON & OFF for the Accelerator Hornet and Freeware Goshawk is silly (for a sim) even though it may be real world accurate. We know that not everything is modelled in a sim real world accurate so why this? Still and all the above mentioned aircraft are excellent deck landers with the hook down. ;D
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Ok, not every thing can be modelled in FSX (aerosoft f-16 indexer flashing during approach with hook deployed is not modelled)
No doubt carrier landings with Accelerator F-18 is a challenging practice.
Something different is an intercept (even in solid IMC thank Sim :)
The picture of aerosoft F-16 HUD in AirToAir mode should be selfexplanatory. Never saw that in any other FSX software. Perhaps sometime VRS FSX F-18???
SpazSinbad:
mangold, thanks for screenshot - the F-16 looks impressive.
Not sure if we are saying the same thing here though. I find the 'flashing on/off' AoA indexer in 'Hornet Accelerator with hook up' a stupid choice for the sim. To be fair this is what happens in real world EXCEPT when a 'hook bypass switch' (or whatever it might be called) is made so that with the HOOK UP for FCLP for example the AoA indexer will NOT flash on/off. This 'flashing' is a warning otherwise during carrier landings that the hook is UP - when it ordinarily should be DOWN.
However I would guess most Hornet Accelerator pilots would like to practice landings with the AoA indexer NOT flashing ashore with the HOOK UP. I have to do this with 'the HOOK DOWN ashore' which I guess is no big deal.
I stress that the AoA indexer lights should NOT flash to be usable. Of course the combination of indexer lights will change. However when these lights are 'flashing' the indexer is basically unusable. :-\
SUBS17:
Well the question is does the real F/A-18 AoA flash? If it does then it is doing what it should be doing.
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