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Carrier landing sucessful!
SUBS17:
Yeah that was a fun mission to beat certainly difficult since there is no ILS.
Razgriz:
--- Quote from: SUBS17 on August 16, 2009, 03:34:48 am ---Yeah that was a fun mission to beat certainly difficult since there is no ILS.
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Yeah, its tough in the storm. I did it first time though.
skimmer:
Its most likely setting are to high and plane jumps around a lot but when you get them right its a bit more real.Then when you get your 5 landings be sure to have the radar set to 40 miles and find the airborne refueler. You can refuel ;)
Doum76:
--- Quote from: skimmer on August 16, 2009, 04:45:45 am ---Its most likely setting are to high and plane jumps around a lot but when you get them right its a bit more real.Then when you get your 5 landings be sure to have the radar set to 40 miles and find the airborne refueler. You can refuel ;)
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Got any advice on settings, i'm having a kinda hard time to understand Trim, when use it or not, for exemple, in the mission at night in formation with your lead, would it be used to fly with or not, specialy the last part, when reaching 600 fts, and when droping for the final, i don't why, in this mission i land easier with out trim, and on some other mission better with it, maybe i set trim too high so when i give a bit too much thrust the nose raise too much and skrew up my glideslope. :(
SpazSinbad:
Perhaps a 'rule of thumb' will help with controlling the Hornet. "You control the aircraft, the aircraft does not control you." Especially on approach to the carrier you must be in total control, anticipating what is required to stay on an OK approach. Nothing else will do. Similarly in flight the trim must be as close as possible to the conditions being flown; so that there are minimal forces required to stay in any steady state of flight.
Only formation teams like the Blue Angels are allowed to fly 'out of trim' for the special circumstances they fly under. Usually this means they fly with a lot of nose down trim requiring them to 'pull towards' i.e. a positive pull UP to stay in formation - so they fly smoother that way.
A carrier pilot may fly an approach with a notch (a very small amount of nose down trim for similar reasons - for smoothness) but I reckon that is not required - because a carrier approach is never smooth. :-) It is never smooth because it must be accurate all the way, every deviation from ideal must be corrected ASAP.
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