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Released: Multiplayer Carrier Ops - Nimitz

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Paco:
Orion,

  Paco will be unable. Sorry. You guys have fun.

Paco

Sludge:
Paco...

Sorry to hear that.  Catch ya next time.

Later
Sludge

neutrino:
I'll fly :)

Sucotash:
I found this tutorial on YouTube and most of you guys don't need it. I, on the other hand, well you know I need it. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkuWnYFGJU

DJ Don

SpazSinbad:
dfiler, thanks for link to video. If you are unsure about 'how to carrier land' there are other, better videos out there but the one you mention was good for the TACAN info for sure. The Virtual Blue Angels video about carrier landing is excellent. Link is on other threads. Here it is again "OK,3":

Several things about the video under discussion would be the talk about airspeed and other details which are for practical purposes irrelevant and make it seem that figuring those details out for evey approach appear impossible.

Naval aircraft use the Angle of Attack Indexer and the HUD bracket to show the aircraft 'on speed' at the Optimum Angle of Attack. There are plenty of threads on this forum that explain this actual and practical method of carrier landing - therefore no need to know or calculate airspeed. For sure there is a maximum AUW All Up Weight which the Hornet must be below to carrier land successfully. There are many other good points in the video about being on centreline etc.

I was smiling when at the end the fuel state is revealed to be 600lbs! Wow - this guy should be on deck somewhere with fuel below the BINGO fuel (minimum fuel to be on deck / runway). I don't know what a Hornet BINGO fuel is but considering A-4 Skyhawk minimum fuel to be on deck/runway was 500lbs you can see what I'm suggesting I hope. Looks like there are other videos related to carrier landings from that page also.

BTW I'm cannot be certain that the outside views are the same as the first inside view. Anyway looking at the first inside view of the carrier landing again please note that 'in close' and 'at the ramp' the aircraft goes low. Having crossed the ramp the ball goes RED! Maybe some 'deck spotting' was happening at the last few seconds of approach - or the power was reduced too much - difficult to say but have a look at the video again. I watched the highest quality video which became a 155Mb .MP4 file in the Internet Explorer Cache, where it is saveable to the file system. Other lesser quality versions of video will be smaller and probably .FLV videos.

Have a look around on this forum for good advice on carrier landing technique - it is a precision approach requiring proper technique. Just now looking for the FSX Blue Angels excellent tutorial video I see one thread on their forum which will add to all the excellent info on this 'dream' forum. FSX Blues: http://fsxproblueangels.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=224

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