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"HornetFCS.dll" file for P3Dv4??

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PhantomTweak:

--- Quote ---You speak better Spanish than me. I was reading your comment with a smile on my face and enjoyed it very much.
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After nearly 30 years in Yuma, Az., with my house less than a 1/4 from the Mexican, to the North, and California, to the East, borders (you figure it out. Screwy place!  :P ), I've managed to pick up a little. Down here, we call it Spanglish. They just mix the two languages indiscriminately. But I learned :D

It helped that my mother was born and raised in Panama, in the Canal Zone, so she's pretty bilingual. I knew I was in real trouble when she'd break into Spanish to yell at me  ;D
By the way, she was born in Panama, but was French Canadian. My grandfather was Army Corps of Engineers, in the Canal Zone. He, and my grandmother, were originally from somewhere "up there", and when he retired it was to California. Mom became Naturalized, and went to work for Pan Am as a stew. One of the old Pan Am Glamour Gals.
So, she's French Canadian, yet speaks very fluent Spanish. Especially when I was about to get a spanking. Deservedly, as a general rule :D

Anywho, back to the sim!

--- Quote ---Just one of the same problems I am having during instrument flying. Do we have to look for something else than just .dll??
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No. Remember, and I was going to put this on the Jimi's thread, this plane is made for handflying. The "autopilot" is actually called a Pilot Relief System. It'll hold the plane for a few minutes so the pilot can stretch, grab some water out of his vest, read the NATOPS pocket Emergency Procedures, something like that. Not really "fly" the plane for any length of time. The only exception is on approach to the boat. And then, only when the ACLS is actually working properly, which is pretty seldom. The pilot always ghosts the stick and throttle when using the ACLS, ready to grab them, and either land it himself, or go around for a manual try.
The radios and AP on the v18.3 have some indication troubles with the carriers. They are known, and under repair even as we speak. About the only part of the Ap that really works well around the boat is the autothrottle system. But I believe you need to use SHFT+R to properly activate it, especially in PA mode.
The ILS needles should work correctly for the boats, assuming you have the correct freq dialed in, and ILS selected on the HSI screen, or the HUD Control panel. Remember they only indicate within certain dimensions around the ILS beam. 15° either side of the runway centerline, 2000' AGL.
I seem to recall the TACAN needle on the HUD does work properly though, and will guide you to the boat properly. I never had any trouble that I remember with it, anyway.
I'm busy testing some of the updates Jimi and the team are working on, so I just don't have time to re-install the v18.3 to really test it. I am sorry.


--- Quote ---I couldn't find any Hornet.dll in there at all but the bird performed beautifully. How is that possible?
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I seem to recall that the HornetFCS.dll didn't exist yet. The F18.dll was the only .dll it needed. It was basically just the beginning of this long road of upgrades Jimi and the Team are doing so well.
Remember, Jimi and the Team were the ones who originally created the F/A-18C for FSX Acceleration in the first place. The v12.xxx was just the first update of that, essentially so they could use it during their FSX Blue Angels air shows in multiplayer. They didn't expect it to, pardon the pun, take off the way it has  :D
Does that answer that question?


--- Quote ---Thanks again for your help, Amigo
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No es problemas, mi Amigo  ;D  :D
I'm glad I could be of a little help. I wish you great pleasure of this plane. And vLSO, AICarriers, etc etc.  ::)
Pat☺

Amigo:
Hi Pat;
Thank you very much for your interesting narrative about family history as well as Hornet history. I enjoyed the way you presented the story very much, and I mean it.
Years back I passed through Yuma, AZ on the way to San Diego where we (my wife and I) had a superb and very interesting tour on USS Kitty Hawk. "Permission to come aboard, Sir"; and we were escorted by "our private" sailor through the carrier. Incredible! We had a great time on the boat and the memory is still there, also of the Silver Beach.
Now, talking about simulators, I understand that the F-18 is a tactical fighter plane and not an airliner. But, to be a little pregnant is not possible. So, if you provide a little bit of an A/P it has to be reliable as a real one. When I started with the F-18 on the sim years ago, A/P worked absolutely reliable like one of the Boeing's. My Flight Simulator Look Book Editor shows 4904 Airports used, meaning: landings on 4904 different airports within the US. All of them I have approached with the F-18, some of them just for a touch and go because of the rwy length, some of them VFR, and a lot of them IFR night-weather which is my favored. I am a wx-hawk. So the old F-18 generation performed very well in weather situations down to the minima in A/P mode. Why would an updated version, which I understand is normally an improvement, perform less than before?
I understand the concept of the F-18, a fighter plane being mostly hand flown, as you said, over the sea and around the boat. A know some more similar fighter birds in a similar category. I did a lot of simulator F-18 hand flying around the boat and I think hundreds of missions I must have done just by chasing the default carrier from Everett to SFO, to LAX to San Diego and around Norfolk and Hawaii. Details show my post of July o6, 2012 "Rendezvous with moving carriers". Occasionally I still do some missions in the Bay of San Francisco where the carrier gets stuck on the cliff. Kind of funny but not good enough for a simulator in second generation as v3 is. I haven't checked on v4 yet.
All this being said, I don't think a PRS (Pilot Relief System) as you call it, is expected if the button is named A/P. 
But this is my philosophy and I also understand that there is much more in the world than just pure logic.
Pat, I thank you very much for our conversations and I hope you may be available for questions coming up in the future.
Have a great time home in Yuma, AZ and I wish I could be visiting that area I enjoyed years ago.
Hasta la vista, Amigo
 

PhantomTweak:

--- Quote ---Years back I passed through Yuma, AZ
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You lucky devil! I wish I could have "passed through", but I spent nearly 30 years there. Ten in the Corps, well 7 there and 3 other bases for training on various things, and the rest because when I got out I got a couple of very good jobs. First, with the Israelis in VMFAT-401, an agresspr squadron for the Navy and Marines to fly against, and then with the, originally, US Customs Aerostat site, later, taken over by the Air Force, and, sadly, given to Lockheed to man. But the pay was nearly worth it!

--- Quote ---Have a great time home in Yuma, AZ and I wish I could be visiting that area I enjoyed years ago.
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I had a family to raise, and had bought a nearly 3 acre parcel to live on. But when it got to the point I couldn't walk out my front door without a side-arm, at the very least, it was time to leave. I had a stream or illegals trying to camp on my property, and a few even spoke Spanish. Most spoke a Middle Eastern dialects. They got held at gun-point until the cops got there.
My neighbors were running the biggest chop-shop in Arizona, and we found a car at the end of my access road one morning, burnt to a shell. 4 bodies in it.
Nice dog fighting ring going too. Some of the dogs would get loose once in a while and come over to visit. They weren't very friendly, though. Some even survived our meetings.
Now you understand the side-arm being a requirement. Bad days, it was a rifle.
My family was grown and gone, all 5 of the little critters (3 girls, 2 boys, at least the ones by my ex-wife), and I had had to retire for medical reasons. I left Yuma behind, and never looked back. Not once, not even a little.
Now I live in a very quiet, pleasant, small town in Oregon. Supposedly the single, longest continuously inhabited, town in America. Supposedly 11,000 years continuous inhabitation. That's the claim, and oral history told by, the local Native Americans. I am 1/8 Nez-Perce, so we fit in nicely. Place named Chiloquin. 1 Main street, no lights, a couple stop signs here and there. I love it.

Anywho, as to the Hornet: The AP problems in this, and not the original, are because the AP is NOW integrated into the HornetFCS.dll. The original, Acceleration plane, uses a fairly standard FSX AP. That's the biggest trouble now. The problems are known, and are in work for fixing. It's annoying, I understand, but since I almost never use the AP for anything other than a quick potty break (Try THAT super duper pro military pilots!), I don't pay it much attention during my testing. I hope you understand.


--- Quote ---Pat, I thank you very much for our conversations and I hope you may be available for questions coming up in the future.
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It's been my pleasure, and as far as I can see, I will be around for a while yet :D

Have fun, and feel free to ask anything, anytime. I can't promise I can solve all problems, but I'll try like heck.
Talk to ya later!
Pat☺

Amigo:
Pat;
Have you ever thought writing a book? What I was reading in your last posts would be worth trying.
It crossed my mind already some time ago, reading one of your posts to someone else, where you talked about your bike accident in a very amusing way. I see a talent of a writer not easy to find.
Let me go back to sim business. I hope you have been home March 16, 2017 when my F-18 rocked your town. No damage done, just one touch and go at your home airfield.The attachment shows the mission profile around Klamath Falls, one of the many missions for my
4904 paved airfields collection of the US. I enjoy this add on Look Book Editor I am using because it's counting all airports but summarizing each of them only once. Out of these info's I prepared some kind of an airfield collection where I rated the places by rwy length etc. for my future spontaneous planning.  Airfield 2S7 got the rating "good". Nice area you are living in, a bit too cold for me I guess.
And here is another curiosity driven question, please.
Why is the update FSXBA_FA-18_Hornet_v17.1.31 done as an installer (run as administrator),
while update FA-18C_FSXBA_BA_18.3.00FSX and P3D are just copy and paste process?
What is the difference of the internal computer process. Thanks, Amigo

PhantomTweak:

--- Quote ---Why is the update FSXBA_FA-18_Hornet_v17.1.31 done as an installer (run as administrator),
while update FA-18C_FSXBA_BA_18.3.00FSX and P3D are just copy and paste process?
What is the difference of the internal computer process. Thanks, Amigo
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Hiyas Amigo!
Only difference is Jimi's work. He just didn't bother to make the v18.3 auto-installer, because he was very busy, and figured people could handle it themselves. If it becomes REALLY necessary, I can do it. But Jimi's mostly too busy at the moment. He did tell me the next update (v18.4, basically) will have the autoinstaller. The next update will be coming out as soon as he gets it done. End of September, maybe?

The biggest thing he working on at the moment is getting the TacPack integration taken care of. This next update will have a much better TP integration included. But it's not an easy process, and he's learning this stuff as he goes, with help from one of the main TP developers.
All I can say is that it'll really rock the TP add-on.
He's also working on all the little niggling details still to be done to the radios, displays, HUD, and so on. His to-do list is a lot longer than you might think.  ;)
Also, he's still active duty military, and his duties, and the TAD's he keeps getting sent on, all takes a fair percentage of his time, along with his family.
Rightfully so, this project is down his list of priorities.

Does all that babbling satisfy the curiosity bug?  :D
Have fun!

By the way, I'm no writer, I just try to be of help. Honestly, I'm a lousy instructor. I tend to focus too much on the small details, instead of starting with the big picture and  working down. My lovely wife, however, IS slowly writing a book, or series of books. She hasn't decided yet. Military Fiction. Really very good.

Ok, gotta go. Lunch, and chores, call :D
Enjoy!
Pat☺

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