±Recent Visitors

Recent Visitors to Com-Central!

±User Info-big


Welcome Anonymous

Nickname
Password

Membership:
Latest: HighestAce
New Today: 0
New Yesterday: 0
Overall: 6648

People Online:
Members: 0
Visitors: 728
Total: 728
Who Is Where:
 Visitors:
01: Photo Gallery
02: Home
03: Downloads
04: Community Forums
05: Downloads
06: Member Screenshots
07: Community Forums
08: Community Forums
09: Home
10: Photo Gallery
11: News Archive
12: Member Screenshots
13: Home
14: Community Forums
15: Community Forums
16: Community Forums
17: Community Forums
18: Photo Gallery
19: Member Screenshots
20: Home
21: News Archive
22: Downloads
23: Member Screenshots
24: Home
25: Home
26: Home
27: Home
28: Home
29: Home
30: Downloads
31: Community Forums
32: Home
33: Photo Gallery
34: Community Forums
35: Photo Gallery
36: Community Forums
37: Photo Gallery
38: Community Forums
39: Home
40: Downloads
41: Community Forums
42: Community Forums
43: Photo Gallery
44: Home
45: Home
46: Community Forums
47: Community Forums
48: Member Screenshots
49: Search
50: Member Screenshots
51: Photo Gallery
52: Photo Gallery
53: Community Forums
54: News Archive
55: Community Forums
56: News Archive
57: Home
58: Home
59: Community Forums
60: Community Forums
61: Member Screenshots
62: Home
63: Home
64: Home
65: Downloads
66: Home
67: Home
68: News Archive
69: Community Forums
70: Community Forums
71: Your Account
72: Photo Gallery
73: Downloads
74: News
75: Community Forums
76: Home
77: Statistics
78: Community Forums
79: Photo Gallery
80: Home
81: Member Screenshots
82: Photo Gallery
83: Member Screenshots
84: Community Forums
85: News
86: Community Forums
87: Member Screenshots
88: Member Screenshots
89: Member Screenshots
90: Community Forums
91: Member Screenshots
92: Community Forums
93: Community Forums
94: Community Forums
95: Community Forums
96: Community Forums
97: Community Forums
98: Community Forums
99: News Archive
100: Photo Gallery
101: Community Forums
102: Home
103: Member Screenshots
104: Home
105: Community Forums
106: Member Screenshots
107: Community Forums
108: Community Forums
109: Community Forums
110: Downloads
111: Downloads
112: Community Forums
113: Downloads
114: Member Screenshots
115: Community Forums
116: Community Forums
117: Community Forums
118: Photo Gallery
119: News Archive
120: Home
121: Community Forums
122: Photo Gallery
123: Member Screenshots
124: Member Screenshots
125: Community Forums
126: Community Forums
127: Home
128: Photo Gallery
129: Home
130: Community Forums
131: News Archive
132: Community Forums
133: Home
134: Community Forums
135: Community Forums
136: Downloads
137: Community Forums
138: Photo Gallery
139: Member Screenshots
140: News Archive
141: Community Forums
142: Home
143: Home
144: Home
145: Community Forums
146: Community Forums
147: Community Forums
148: Home
149: News Archive
150: Member Screenshots
151: Community Forums
152: Photo Gallery
153: Community Forums
154: Community Forums
155: Member Screenshots
156: Community Forums
157: Community Forums
158: Photo Gallery
159: Downloads
160: Member Screenshots
161: Photo Gallery
162: Photo Gallery
163: Community Forums
164: Member Screenshots
165: Community Forums
166: Photo Gallery
167: Community Forums
168: Home
169: News
170: Community Forums
171: Member Screenshots
172: Community Forums
173: Member Screenshots
174: Photo Gallery
175: Home
176: Home
177: Community Forums
178: Community Forums
179: Home
180: Photo Gallery
181: Community Forums
182: Home
183: Home
184: Home
185: Photo Gallery
186: Community Forums
187: Member Screenshots
188: Community Forums
189: Community Forums
190: Community Forums
191: News
192: Statistics
193: Home
194: Home
195: Community Forums
196: Community Forums
197: Your Account
198: Home
199: Community Forums
200: Home
201: Community Forums
202: Downloads
203: Home
204: Community Forums
205: Home
206: Photo Gallery
207: Home
208: News Archive
209: Community Forums
210: Community Forums
211: Home
212: Member Screenshots
213: Photo Gallery
214: Community Forums
215: Community Forums
216: Home
217: Home
218: Photo Gallery
219: News Archive
220: Photo Gallery
221: Community Forums
222: Photo Gallery
223: Community Forums
224: Community Forums
225: Home
226: Community Forums
227: Member Screenshots
228: Community Forums
229: Home
230: News
231: Home
232: Community Forums
233: News Archive
234: Member Screenshots
235: Statistics
236: Community Forums
237: Downloads
238: Community Forums
239: Community Forums
240: Community Forums
241: Home
242: Community Forums
243: Community Forums
244: Photo Gallery
245: Community Forums
246: Community Forums
247: Community Forums
248: Home
249: Community Forums
250: Home
251: Community Forums
252: Photo Gallery
253: Photo Gallery
254: Community Forums
255: Photo Gallery
256: Photo Gallery
257: Community Forums
258: Statistics
259: Community Forums
260: Home
261: Community Forums
262: Photo Gallery
263: Photo Gallery
264: Community Forums
265: Member Screenshots
266: Home
267: Member Screenshots
268: Home
269: Downloads
270: Photo Gallery
271: Photo Gallery
272: Member Screenshots
273: Community Forums
274: Member Screenshots
275: Home
276: Community Forums
277: News Archive
278: Member Screenshots
279: Photo Gallery
280: Member Screenshots
281: Community Forums
282: News Archive
283: Home
284: Member Screenshots
285: Home
286: News Archive
287: Member Screenshots
288: Home
289: News Archive
290: Photo Gallery
291: Photo Gallery
292: Home
293: Community Forums
294: Member Screenshots
295: Community Forums
296: News Archive
297: Community Forums
298: Member Screenshots
299: Photo Gallery
300: Home
301: Your Account
302: Home
303: Home
304: Community Forums
305: Photo Gallery
306: Community Forums
307: Downloads
308: Home
309: Home
310: Home
311: Photo Gallery
312: Member Screenshots
313: Home
314: Community Forums
315: Photo Gallery
316: Member Screenshots
317: Photo Gallery
318: Community Forums
319: Downloads
320: Photo Gallery
321: Photo Gallery
322: Community Forums
323: Community Forums
324: Downloads
325: Community Forums
326: Treasury
327: Photo Gallery
328: Home
329: LinkToUs
330: Community Forums
331: Community Forums
332: Community Forums
333: Home
334: Member Screenshots
335: Community Forums
336: Community Forums
337: Community Forums
338: Community Forums
339: Community Forums
340: Community Forums
341: Downloads
342: Member Screenshots
343: Community Forums
344: Community Forums
345: Community Forums
346: Community Forums
347: Treasury
348: Member Screenshots
349: Home
350: Member Screenshots
351: Community Forums
352: Photo Gallery
353: Downloads
354: Home
355: Home
356: Community Forums
357: Community Forums
358: Photo Gallery
359: Community Forums
360: Community Forums
361: Home
362: Community Forums
363: Photo Gallery
364: News Archive
365: Photo Gallery
366: Your Account
367: Contact
368: Community Forums
369: Community Forums
370: Community Forums
371: Home
372: Member Screenshots
373: News Archive
374: Community Forums
375: Photo Gallery
376: Community Forums
377: Community Forums
378: Community Forums
379: Member Screenshots
380: Member Screenshots
381: Community Forums
382: Photo Gallery
383: Photo Gallery
384: Community Forums
385: Community Forums
386: Community Forums
387: Home
388: Community Forums
389: Home
390: Community Forums
391: Community Forums
392: Community Forums
393: Downloads
394: Home
395: Community Forums
396: Community Forums
397: Home
398: Community Forums
399: Community Forums
400: Photo Gallery
401: Community Forums
402: Community Forums
403: Community Forums
404: Your Account
405: Community Forums
406: Community Forums
407: Home
408: Community Forums
409: Community Forums
410: Community Forums
411: Community Forums
412: Community Forums
413: Member Screenshots
414: Community Forums
415: News
416: Member Screenshots
417: Home
418: Photo Gallery
419: Community Forums
420: Community Forums
421: Home
422: Photo Gallery
423: Community Forums
424: Home
425: Home
426: Home
427: Community Forums
428: Community Forums
429: Member Screenshots
430: Member Screenshots
431: Photo Gallery
432: Photo Gallery
433: Member Screenshots
434: News Archive
435: Member Screenshots
436: Your Account
437: Your Account
438: Statistics
439: Photo Gallery
440: Home
441: Community Forums
442: Member Screenshots
443: News
444: News Archive
445: News
446: Member Screenshots
447: Community Forums
448: News Archive
449: Home
450: Member Screenshots
451: Photo Gallery
452: Home
453: Photo Gallery
454: News Archive
455: Community Forums
456: Community Forums
457: Home
458: Community Forums
459: Downloads
460: News Archive
461: Home
462: Community Forums
463: Member Screenshots
464: News Archive
465: Community Forums
466: Community Forums
467: Photo Gallery
468: News
469: Community Forums
470: Member Screenshots
471: Community Forums
472: Member Screenshots
473: Community Forums
474: News Archive
475: News
476: News Archive
477: Community Forums
478: Community Forums
479: Downloads
480: Community Forums
481: Member Screenshots
482: Photo Gallery
483: Home
484: Photo Gallery
485: Community Forums
486: Home
487: Community Forums
488: Community Forums
489: Home
490: Home
491: News Archive
492: News Archive
493: Statistics
494: Community Forums
495: Home
496: Community Forums
497: Downloads
498: Member Screenshots
499: Community Forums
500: Community Forums
501: Community Forums
502: Home
503: Community Forums
504: Community Forums
505: Community Forums
506: Member Screenshots
507: Member Screenshots
508: Community Forums
509: Photo Gallery
510: Downloads
511: Home
512: Home
513: Member Screenshots
514: Home
515: Member Screenshots
516: Community Forums
517: News
518: Member Screenshots
519: Community Forums
520: Member Screenshots
521: Photo Gallery
522: Photo Gallery
523: Community Forums
524: Member Screenshots
525: Home
526: Community Forums
527: Community Forums
528: Home
529: Member Screenshots
530: Community Forums
531: Community Forums
532: Photo Gallery
533: Community Forums
534: Photo Gallery
535: Community Forums
536: Community Forums
537: Home
538: Community Forums
539: News
540: Community Forums
541: Community Forums
542: Community Forums
543: Downloads
544: Home
545: Member Screenshots
546: Member Screenshots
547: Community Forums
548: Member Screenshots
549: Community Forums
550: News Archive
551: Home
552: Member Screenshots
553: Home
554: Member Screenshots
555: Community Forums
556: Photo Gallery
557: Community Forums
558: Photo Gallery
559: Downloads
560: Community Forums
561: Community Forums
562: Member Screenshots
563: Community Forums
564: Member Screenshots
565: Community Forums
566: Photo Gallery
567: Downloads
568: Community Forums
569: News
570: Community Forums
571: Your Account
572: Home
573: Community Forums
574: Home
575: Member Screenshots
576: Downloads
577: Community Forums
578: Community Forums
579: Community Forums
580: Community Forums
581: Member Screenshots
582: Community Forums
583: Downloads
584: Community Forums
585: Photo Gallery
586: Member Screenshots
587: Member Screenshots
588: Community Forums
589: Community Forums
590: Community Forums
591: Statistics
592: Community Forums
593: News Archive
594: Community Forums
595: Photo Gallery
596: Community Forums
597: Downloads
598: Community Forums
599: Home
600: Community Forums
601: Community Forums
602: Community Forums
603: Community Forums
604: Community Forums
605: Community Forums
606: Your Account
607: Community Forums
608: Photo Gallery
609: Community Forums
610: Home
611: Community Forums
612: Community Forums
613: Community Forums
614: Member Screenshots
615: News Archive
616: News
617: Community Forums
618: Member Screenshots
619: Community Forums
620: Community Forums
621: Member Screenshots
622: Photo Gallery
623: Community Forums
624: Home
625: Photo Gallery
626: Community Forums
627: News Archive
628: Community Forums
629: Community Forums
630: Community Forums
631: Home
632: Member Screenshots
633: Community Forums
634: News Archive
635: Community Forums
636: Community Forums
637: Community Forums
638: Member Screenshots
639: Community Forums
640: Downloads
641: Community Forums
642: Community Forums
643: Member Screenshots
644: Home
645: Statistics
646: Community Forums
647: Member Screenshots
648: Home
649: Community Forums
650: Member Screenshots
651: Downloads
652: Community Forums
653: Downloads
654: Member Screenshots
655: Community Forums
656: Community Forums
657: Community Forums
658: Community Forums
659: Community Forums
660: Member Screenshots
661: Member Screenshots
662: Home
663: Home
664: Home
665: Your Account
666: Community Forums
667: Home
668: Community Forums
669: Home
670: Photo Gallery
671: Community Forums
672: Member Screenshots
673: Community Forums
674: Home
675: News Archive
676: Community Forums
677: Downloads
678: Community Forums
679: Member Screenshots
680: Home
681: Community Forums
682: Home
683: Community Forums
684: Member Screenshots
685: Photo Gallery
686: Home
687: Downloads
688: Community Forums
689: Member Screenshots
690: Community Forums
691: Community Forums
692: Member Screenshots
693: Member Screenshots
694: Member Screenshots
695: Member Screenshots
696: Community Forums
697: Downloads
698: Community Forums
699: Photo Gallery
700: Photo Gallery
701: Community Forums
702: Community Forums
703: Member Screenshots
704: News Archive
705: Community Forums
706: Community Forums
707: Community Forums
708: Member Screenshots
709: Community Forums
710: Photo Gallery
711: Community Forums
712: Community Forums
713: Community Forums
714: Community Forums
715: Member Screenshots
716: Community Forums
717: Community Forums
718: News Archive
719: Downloads
720: Community Forums
721: News Archive
722: Photo Gallery
723: Community Forums
724: Home
725: Community Forums
726: Downloads
727: Community Forums
728: Downloads

Staff Online:

No staff members are online!
Carriers :: Archived
A forum for Microsoft's Flight Simulator X
Post new topic    Revive this topic    Printer Friendly Page     Forum Index ›  FSX

Topic Archived View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
RAF92_BattleHawk
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 12, 2005
Posts: 511
Location: British Columbia, Canada
PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:00 pm
Post subject: Carriers

Just wondering how I get a fully functioning carrier to go with my Tomcat. And do the Carriers that come with the game have cats, arrestor wires?

_________________
'Aut Pugna aut Morere'
Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail Visit poster's website Yahoo Messenger Photo Gallery
RAF92_Moser
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 06, 2005
Posts: 703
Location: Illinois
PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:49 am
Post subject: Re: Carriers

I honestly don't have a clue. I believe there are some payware addons you can look up.

_________________
"Well, I gotta go...Yeh I'm running out of change"

Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail Photo Gallery
Bulldog_02
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Aug 28, 2007
Posts: 10
Location: Western N.Y.
PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:58 pm
Post subject: Re: Carriers

which carriers do you have? And do you have the abacus arrestor cable program which will catapualt and trap you back on board?

and here's some pics of us actually landing... Cool



and just before a 4 aircraft launch...



we even have LHD Class Helicoptor Assault Carriers



or we can go back in time and become Japanese for the day and fly off the Shokaku




or have the latest advanced MV-22




so if your looking to learn about Carrier Operations, my price/hour are reasonable..... Wink

YIKES..i just realized you were taking about fsx...i don't use it because of it's limitations,but some of our members do, i'll get the answers for you and report back...sorry....

_________________
Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail Visit poster's website
JG300_Hunt
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 08, 2006
Posts: 750
Location: WA State
PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:00 am
Post subject: Re: Carriers

Talk about teasin' someone!


_________________
Back to top
View user's profile
Shadow_Bshwackr
Janitor

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 21, 2005
Posts: 7019
Location: Central Illinois, USA
PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:15 am
Post subject: Re: Carriers

ROFLMAO..... great post Bulldog...lol
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:17 am
Post subject: Re: Carriers

Indeed!!! May not be exactly the right sim but what an answer!!!!

Hey Bulldog, I hope you don't mind (and please do share whatever answers you get) but this whole thing made me very curious and I found the following:

First, there's this FSX AI Carrier Package at AvSim that has a WHOLE BUNCH of carrier groups scattered aorund the world....these are actual, moving, landable carriers, so actually finding them is not always so easy because they're roamin' around (with escorts)! Fortunately, the author privides a Google Earth KML file that shows their location and courses, looks like they prowl around in circular routes and one of em is just south of the KORS Pigsty, actually if you depart NAS Whidbey Island (KNUW) and head south-ish then east-ish or west-ish you may find 'em:

library.avsim.net/esea...DLID=96551

On top of that, there's this gauge package for tailhook-enabled aircraft...I haven't tried this but the description has me quite interested:

library.avsim.net/esea...DLID=98408

Not sure what your cup o'tea is but the Alpha Bleu Ciel F4U-7 Corsair by Guy Hulin & Co. absolutely ROCKS in FS2004 and fully compatible with FSX as well!!!

FS2004 ABC F4U-7 Corsair
library.avsim.net/esea...DLID=53725

There's an important update for it and a few extra paints too:

Update for ABC Corsair:
library.avsim.net/esea...DLID=54424

Plus some US repaints and others worth getting:

Repaints for ABC Corsair:
library.avsim.net/esea...DLID=54290

library.avsim.net/esea...DLID=56728

library.avsim.net/esea...DLID=67722

Gotta try the gauge package next to enable arrestor wires but the AI package Carrier group is VERY good! The wake in the photos is real and not just painted water as in FS9 and such. After you land, your plane needs the parking brakes kept on to stay "stuck" to the deck of the moving carrier (one nosegear-equipped aircraft I tried kept "bouncing" back on it's tail due to the unexpected forward movement of the deck, another reason to fly taildragger props), and it's pretty cool to look off to the side and see water and coastlines going by. And if you press the slew key, be prepared for the carrier to keep moving forward on ya....pretty slick!!!











Woulda caught the 3-wire if I'd have had working arrestor cables I betya!



But had to stand on the brakes instead....



Takeoff with a forward wind due to carrier movement was no problemo...


_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 5:57 pm
Post subject: Re: Carriers

Well, not to yammer on about it but I checked out that gauge package at the second link above and I gotta say it's pretty cool!!

The only downside is that (for either FSX or FS9) you have to edit the panel.cfg and aircraft.cfg for each plane you want to use this with, but the instructons are pretty good about telling you exactly what to do.

Even works in FSX although with the moving carriers, the arrestor wires are "global" which means they'll be present whereever your tailhook touches the ground (making it impossible, really, to "bolter"). In FS9 they're placed at specific locations on the static carriers, becuase those don't move.

Even so, it's way wicked, you get great sound effects when you slam the deck, hear the cables tighten, and it pulls you back a little bit. Then the cable is released and it even automatically retracts your tailhook for ya, so you don't forget it & take off with the thing hangin down like I did in my last Corsair shot above...

Here's a shot as I slammed onto the deck ...





The cat shot works great as well (parking break trigers the catapult shoe, then spool up your engines and when they reach power it releases you - BAM!!!!





Also a pretty cool effect included for creating the visible shockwave effect as you pass through Mach 1, with one of the ost impressive "BOOOOM" sounds I've heard.....makes it a ton of fun to go tearing around scaring the locals and timing the sonic boom for right when you pass overhead...





Need me a good F-14 though, since this one I downloaded to try out doesn't have one single gauge that works in FSX......any suggestions on a good (freeware) one??

_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:17 pm
Post subject: Re: Carriers

Well don't everybody start hootin' and hollern' all at once....what, did I talk too much.... again!? Laughing

Tough! Got one more cool thing to show ya's.....go grab yerself this thing right hyarrrrrr....

FSX Driveable Carrier:
library.avsim.net/esea...LID=109192

...and you'll have yourself a driveable aircraft carrier which means....yep, you go into multiplayer, and with your fancy jet aeroplanes with tailhooks or whatever (and the COP3 gauges installed as above)....you go do carrier traps and cat launches in multiplayer! As long as someone is willin' to stay on board and drive that carrier around!

Just be careful if ya spawn in midair.....she's a tad nose-heavy......



Installation is easy - you could say it basically just "drops right in" to FSX (SimObjects/Boats folder)....get it? (snort snort) Get it?? Laughing



..she makes about 30 knots or so, which is plenty for sailin' around, YARRRRRRR.....



Don't handle too good, which means you don't have to worry about her turnin' to tight away from ya on final. Speaking of final, here she is turnin' hard a-starboard to make runway 16 at the Pigsty.....



Rats, missed again!!! Well, makes a nice taxiway extension at least!



HEY ASCOUT!!! I gotta park my boat here for a while until I get the trailer for 'er welded up......don't nobody go near the galley I mean it!!!!




_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
JG300-Hoppa
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 10, 2005
Posts: 583
Location: vernon BC
PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:42 am
Post subject: Re: Carriers

LMFAO......priceless Stoop.......

_________________
_

______________________________________



-----------------------------------------------------
Many thing's in life are dirt cheap.........
"Dirt"
is not one of them.....
Back to top
View user's profile
Shadow_Bshwackr
Janitor

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 21, 2005
Posts: 7019
Location: Central Illinois, USA
PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:09 am
Post subject: Re: Carriers

Gives a new meaning to 'land class'...lol
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
401RCAF_Sly
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 12, 2005
Posts: 223

PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:57 pm
Post subject: Re: Carriers

Interesting stuff

Does the drivable carrier have a cockpit?

Does this mean you could make almost any drivable vehicle?

Could a "vehicle" be a human?

I like the way the carrier is rolling in a hard turn.. does it pitch and roll

New model of "Hornet" needed for another Doolittle raid I think

I asked about humans because I really would like to see the gap between FPS and sims get closer..
Sorta get woken in the barracks and then into the briefing room.. jump in the truck and out to your B17 on the pad... etc etc

Sly
Back to top
View user's profile
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:49 pm
Post subject: Re: Carriers

Those are some spankin' good question. Sly. here's what I know FWIW.....

No cockpit in the carrier, but migod it doesn't seem to need one. Anyway, I bet this is easily fixed by adding a default panel and viewpoint, or even creating a custom view in FSX that should put you on the bridge. Was gonna play with it but couldn't get to it yet.

Driveable vehicles - oh heck yeah, they've been around and even in FS9 there's cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats, ships, tanks, mopeds, even "flyable" flocks of geese and eagles. Stuff that goes underwater is probably not possible, I haven't seen any submarines or whales or other fishes.

I haven't seen a "human" vehicle yet but that's a wicked idea, a scale Elvis with animated arms and legs would be wicked cool. In the Active Camera addon for FS9, they do have an "EXternal Pilot" view option that lets you "walk around" on the ground and investigate all kinds of things, very cool for doing detail work (I use it for repaints) and checking color blends etc on hard-to-see part of the aircraft. You even hear footsteps when you're walking around, it's just that you're invisible.

LOL.....funny you should ask, the first time out with the carrier I tried to see if I could get it to pitch fore and aft, and with certain joystick movements it seems you can, it just has so little "elevator authority" that it's hard to do. Fun way to mess with your buddies trying to land on it in multiplayer, I bet Wink

And I was also gonna look for another few carriers from FS9 (WWII era) to see if they could be adapted in a similar fashion, I'm betting they can. Need something more authentic for that Corsair to operate from.....


_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
401RCAF_Sly
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 12, 2005
Posts: 223

PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:30 pm
Post subject: Re: Carriers

Hi Stoop

Somebody somewhere possibly still has CV8 Hornet that I did for FS9... Its not movable and doesn't pitch or roll... but you can get 12 B25's on deck (and take off)'

Unfortunately I lost all my stuff when my rig was stolen.. Fled, Bush or Kit may have it

Sly
Back to top
View user's profile
JG300-Stoopy
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 05, 2005
Posts: 5840
Location: Group W bench
PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:00 pm
Post subject: Re: Carriers

OK....

THIS, I SWEAR, is the last bit I'll yak about as far as FSX and functional carriers go....in this thread, I mean.......

Check it out: The FSX "Accelleration" add-on release is coming out on Oct 23rd. from Microsoft. Apart from all the stuff you're already hearing about, (Online Air Racing, new planes, missions, performance updates, etc) there's also a vague tidbit buried in the release details about functional carriers (plus, Sling Loads and working Hoists for helos!!!).

So to find out more I went to AVSIM and - yes, in the middle of one of the usually very long and somewhat messy threads - asked about it, and got this response:


- Stoopy
>This is excellent news and thank you. One question if you
>can, I have been trying to confirm Accelleration features (not
>SP2 necessarily) and with specific regard to the functional
>carrier. Does this mean now having arrestor cables for
>tailhook-equipped aircraft *and* a working catapult?
>
>Oddly, just can't find much out there on the web by Googling
>lately. But very stoked about that specific possibility as
>well as the helo slingloads and hoists...for $30 you can't
>beat it!!!!!!



Yes and yes.

I got the opportunity to run the carrier mission with a few real Hornet pilots at Reno, and it's great. Lower the launch bar, attach to the catapult and go, then run the pattern, lower the tailhook, and snag one of the cables.

Of course, it's the hardest thing I've ever done in Flight Sim, but so much fun.


Brian G.
Forum Administrator
Microsoft MVP - PC Games
www.notasenator.com/blog



So - Battlehawk - in addition to the stuff above, there you have a complete answer from the guy who's seen it and done it. At the end of this month all you gotta do is buy "FSX Accelleration" for $30 and you'll get what you wanted plus a TON of cool stuff more PLUS some performance enhancements and fixes. No downloads, no editing .CFG files, just fly and s;am 'er on the deck. I'll wager there's a working ILS to serve as a "meatball" so you can do it at night in a storm.....and I can pick you up with the hoist on the helo if ya go in the drink!

That's like, about a buck a day to save up for, so start tucking away some loose change from your lunch money bud!


_________________
"Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic    Revive this topic    Printer Friendly Page    Forum Index ›  FSX
Page 1 of 1
All times are GMT - 6 Hours

Archive Revive
Username:
This is an archived topic - your reply will not be appended here.
Instead, a new topic will be generated in the active forum.
The new topic will provide a reference link to this archived topic.