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SpazSinbad:
Have been looking for an equivalent diagram for the Hornet in NATOPS but none found. This Goshawk diagram shows the correlation between the cockpit AoA Indexer and the approach lights. The approach light indicator is more coarse allowing a more steady light for the LSO to see. He is not really looking at the lights but at the all over aspect of the aircraft otherwise with the approach lights only as a rough distant guide and of course for the hook down/up problem. Even with this indication I have read about carrier pilots landing hook up when they meant to have hook down (at night).

Also in the search discovered in the Hornet NATOPS PCL (Pocket Check List) a diagram showing in text format the Approach Airspeed / AoA so this has been added to the main NATOPS graph as shown.

Paddles:
Spaz, we are saying the same thing  :)
The Accel Hornet AoA indexer flashes (as IRL) when the hook is up, but unfortunately there's no way to change anything in this AoA behaviour. When talking about the hook bypass feasibility I meant first of all flashing/steady feature of approach lights, not AoA.

Now, down to correlation between the AoA indexer and the ALA. My ALA gauge currently implements the same light switching scheme as the AoA indexer does, i.e. there are 5 lights combinations: green, green+amber, amber, amber+red, red. You could see this on my short video. Perhaps this is wrong and I should get rid of two-lights combinations... No problem ;)

The only way to have always-steady AoA is to use the 2D HUD version. But I think it needs some corrections in that the AoA indexer shouldn't be visible when the aircraft is on the ground. IMHO.

The Betty. I've used two empty and meaningless (in the Hornet) sound.cfg slots - cabin Seatbelts and No smoking alerts, which are now used for Power and Altitude alerts respectively. Using these gives me the ability to control the Betty in-flight. All I have to do now is to develop a visual gauge like the HUD Control or so...  :)

Sludge, I'll send you my current gauges as-is (perhaps I'll put 'em into a single .cab). Right now my biggest concern is approach lights in MP and nighttime. You do know the FSX has some awful glitches displaying light effects in such conditions...  

SpazSinbad:
fsxnavypilot, bad luck about the AoA indexer. I'll look for information online about behaviour of Hornet Approach Lights compared to AoA Indexer, but given the correlation seen of the Goshawk and Skyhawk, I'll imagine the Hornet Approach Lights mimic the Goshawk graphic (seen here) for the same reason. The LSO is not really looking at these lights except from the far distance when he cannot see the other lights and aspect of the aircraft on glideslope to gauge what is going on. Yes the flashing behaviour is important to show that the hook is not down otherwise. I'll have a look at other NATOPS to see if these have this 'goshawk AoA/Approach light graphic'.

Paddles:
Ok, I'll remove two-light combinations from ALA logic.

SpazSinbad:
Are you going to follow the logic of the Goshawk graphic? Note the colours indicating combinations in it. Is that what you are going to do? For the rest of this evening (here) I'm stuck reprinting a large PDF to make a smaller PDF and in the meantime cannot look at any other PDFs....

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