For initial CQ I think it would be great if Dino's T-45 was mandatory for this portion.
For undergraduate CQ, any aircraft would be fine.
Sorry, I'm not sure that the order of CQs is correct
According to NATOPS:
Undergraduate CQ
Pilot's first day carrier qualifications prior to designation as a Naval Aviator.
Initial CQ
Pilot's first day or day/night carrier qualification as a designated Naval Aviator.
That means they can only fly Undergraduate CQ in the T-45...
However, since there will be no limit to the number of passes used to obtain your minimum number of day/night traps, a way to still increase the challenge would be to have vLSO reject any passes that were flown with ATC APP enaged (or the equivalent autothrottle modes of other aircraft types). I'm not sure that this is even physically possible to implement, or that anyone else would be interested in such a feature. It would be great for realism though as ATC APP is not to be used during any CQ event.
By default, in the Hornet (and in other aircrfat) you can toggle
Autopilot airspeed hold mode, which was previously discussed
here at the FSDT forums.
I have tested that Ctrl-R and it really worked!
Did a couple of passes with ATC engaged (see the attached images) - it was real fun and I think I'll have to add this feature to the program. (A) for APC/Auto is a standard LSO notation.
Also I will need some 'ball, auto' and 'roger ball, auto' calls to implement it.
Thanks for this great idea, Pyro!
PS. Oh yeah, I had to add the ATC indication to Neutrino's HUD.