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vLSO release v.1.0
PhantomTweak:
--- Quote ---I'm guessing that the boneyard is not far away from there for US Aircraft? But they get sealed up tight from all accounts.
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Pretty close by. Over at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. And the sealant they use is commonly referred to as "cocooning". It's a sort of foam they spray the entire plane with that seals it up tighter than a drum with a very durable and UV resistant plastic foam. That's not to say the critters don't burrow into it. Ants, beetles, mice of different sorts, you name it. That stuff is a royal PITA to get off, too.
They brought an A-4 to MCAS Yuma to decocoon it for display at the front gate(It's still there to this day!). It had been with VMFAT-102 back when I was stationed there, so they wouldn't have had to repaint it, at least. Unfortunately, the idiots that cocooned it left, of all things, not only fuel in the tanks, but a charged LOX converter in it! Friggen dangerous as hell. At least they had pulled the seat, so that wasn't a problem, but that LOX converter...shudder.
I actually saw my second, or current, wife for the first time when she was one of the civvies that was decocooning it. She was straddling the nose, forward of the windscreen, working on the cocooning around the windscreen. All I saw of her was her tushie, and a truly fine one it is! I was working at VMFAT-401 at the time. The E-Shop I was in was responsible for the O2 systems, including refilling them. We used a tug to pull the O2 cylinders on a trailer to the various planes that needed it. I must have pulled that trailer past the A-4 a dozen times, just to have a chance at seeing the girl decocooning it. ;D
Lowery, check Paddles blog page, where you DL the vLSO from. Over on the right side, down a bit. I believe he has several FCLP fields that will work. AND are vLSO enabled.
Worth a look. Otherwise, there are a number of them. There is NAS Pensacola which has a field laid out on one of the runways, just as El Centro in California does. There's MCAS Miriamar, they have a field are laid out on a side area. And OLF Coupeville, very near NAS Whidbey Island is specifically for FCLP, and the list goes on.
I personally use either OLF Coupeville, or El Centro, which I lived close to for nearly 30 years. Handy for going to watch the Blue Angels practise :D
Hope that helps a little...
Pat☺
SpazSinbad:
Nice story Phantom - now we know what the TWEAK is all about (tushie related?). :-) Those interested in my NavAv PDFs or videos can always find them via the FAAAA page/URL under my icon on this forum (I don't have photos in my flight gear as at the time taking photos was verboten <sigh> those were the times). Nice head shot Roger. ::) As mentioned in many of my posts - first starting with FCLP by day then at least some FCLP at dusk (so there is some ground viz) or if confident NIGHT FCLP is really helpful before going to the carrier. Going straight to the carrier as a new deck lander in the sim can really breed bad habits or disappointment. Anything goes in a sim - to be seen on some youtube videos. :-)
Paddles:
Guys,
Another vLSO 1.0.7.0 update is here.
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