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vLSO Beta release
Paddles:
Ok, here's the results of my quick investigation of external lights. The aircraft tested are: the Acceleration/Sludge F18, the FSXBA F18, the F14 and T45 (both Dino's)
LightsF18F18BAF14T45Strobe++++Landing++++Taxi-+++Beacon++-+Nav++++Logo--++Wing--++Recognition ++--
As you can see, there's no uniformity in using the lights and various modelers use them differently.
For example, both F18s use strobe lights as formation lights, whereas both Dino's aircraft use logo lights for this purpose. Both F18s use nav and recognition lights simultaneously (bound to one cockpit switch). The FSXBA F18 toggles both landing and taxi lights when you toggle its landing light switch...
That being said I'll have to check ALL these 8 lights' state to make sure the pilot turned his lights off after a successful night trap.
Now to LSO comments. I guess that (S.LUIC) means "a little settle on lineup in close", not "slow on line up in close", which is something different ;)
SpazSinbad:
OK I follow the 'settle' (S) rather than 'slow' (SLO). I did not check. The 'settle' on 'lineup in close' makes sense in that if a little power is not added (then taken off again and etc.) during the lineup then the aircraft will settle - power is required to allow for the loss of lift due wing waggle on lineup. I'll guess the parentheses are around the entire shorthand (example) including e.g. but whatever. ;D
Paddles:
--- Quote from: GOONIE on February 21, 2014, 08:51:33 pm ---Spaz,
...I noticed when my friend sent me his LSO score, looks like LSO short hand is different then currently implemented in vLSO. Looks like the LSO's grade includes deviations with the approach position all in one blurb, so (HIC), not (H)IC.
Paddles, is it possible to update this shorthand? Not sure if it is even possible.
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I remember we were discussing this back in 2011...
One of the reasons of this current implementation of shorthand is perhaps an excessive verbosity of LSO comments. Something like this H_LUL_(SLO)IM is still possible, that's why IM portion is moved out of () blurb... I'm not happy with this either and I'd like to add more 'brains' to the program, so it would produce more reasonable (NEP)IM or (NEPIM) :)
Paddles:
http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/deptStory.asp?dep=3&id=75777 8)
GOONIE:
--- Quote from: Paddles on February 25, 2014, 06:26:21 am ---Now to LSO comments. I guess that (S.LUIC) means "a little settle on lineup in close", not "slow on line up in close", which is something different ;)
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Paddles,
Roger that on the lights, thanks for checking. I guess you could just check the Nav and Strobe lights (consistent across all aircraft) as a start, better then nothing. I understand the aircraft might still have other lights on, but those are two main ones to check.
Also, my bad on the S.LUIC. That makes more sense, but leads to another question; vLSO calls a lot of "don't settle" on my approaches, but I have never seen a settle note in the debrief shorthand. Is that correct?
GOONIE
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