JTAnimal

i agree, been seeing the same problem. Just learning carrier landings and I can be low and find myself blowing over the whole deck with minimal throttle, and just a quick burst. Should I try half flaps? I thought I had landings down and moved on to ground attack, came bac to do a few landings and problems. This is one hard sim, not that that’s a bad thing. Sorry didn’t mean to get off point..

I was just looking at the Grim Reapers You Tube video. Says ATC works for approach, keeps you at 8%. So I’m just asking what was already on the internet. I’m not sure why this was moved to wish list, I’m asking about the F18C here. Whatever. Thanks anyway...

That was my result, tried to kill me.. I haven’t tried a land base yet

Just curious does the ATC work for landing on the Super Carrier? I watched a video on it, flying at an air base and I thought he said it works on carrier. But I wanted to try it and on the down leg, I would have crashed if I didn’t take control. Then I made the final turn and set it again, got a solid ATC on the HUD but it wasn’t controlling anything

Anti skid was off. I also had no breaks on land base. I did have to revise the rudder but I didn’t try reversing the breaks. The funny thing about rudder, the rudder pedals movement in game, was moving correct but the searing was wrong direction, That’s confusing. The breaks were moving in controls axis setup page. I will have to look at it more tomorrow, work early tomorrow. I do appreciate the help! Thanks all..

Ok so in DCS we are flying F14 in today’s real world time? That doesn’t make any sense, the Navy is no longer using the F14 on carrier operations. But hay guys I’m not making a big deal about this, I was just having problems making sure I had the correct settings. but now I’m using chucks guide and that helps. So that problem is a dead issue. Thanks to all for your replies, I don’t mean to make an issue here, it’s all good. Love the plane, brings back memories. I am having another problem, the breaks don’t seem to be working, I just ran over a yellow shirt and drove off the deck, Jester was not happy!! I’m using a ThrustMaster rudder, I have the breaks setup the same as on the F18, Left & Right. Is there something I may be missing?

I meant no insult, real good sim, you can tell lots of hard work went into this module. As a ground crew member, we took real good care of the planes. Those switches, dials, cockpit components are all removable. A problem came up, they would take out the whole section send it out to be reworked and put in a reworked component. That was my point! Sorry if I touched a nerve.

The sim looks real good but I think they went a little over the top on the aging look. I have a unique perspective as I was stationed at Miramar back in 1980, along with 2 west pac’s, I was an AME (ejection seats and liquid oxygen) so I sat in many Tomcats and I don’t remember them looking this warn. Still it’s a good sim and DCS is awesome.

Ok thanks guys.

My wife bought the F14 module for me for Christmas. I’m new to DCS and still learning the F18 So I had not looked into buying this bird yet, but who doesn’t love the Tomcat! Trying to learn startup is a bit difficult with the aged look and the wearing of letters on switches in the cockpit. Is there any mods to adjust it or am I stuck and deal with it? Thanks..

9 landings today, I think I finally have it down. They said lots of practice but it seemed like I would never get that good landing. I wanted to thank you all again and special thanks to Harker, that throttle tip helped out a lot. I also toned down the stick in the settings so I made finer movements. On to air refueling ✌????????

I had to post it here I finally did it. A perfect landing, gradeA #3 wire followed all the rules. Not an easy job, Navy pilots have big ones, hanging! Thanks for your help!

Thanks I will work on that

It’s funny I watched this You Tube video from Reapers on case 1 landing. This guy was all over the place, long aft of the boat, too high, just lots wrong and at the last he pulled it together and landed. For me it’s opposite, I am in control until the last second, and I loose it. Sorry for the vent, I will keep working on it. Lost our late football game so I have lots of time. I’m going to get this. Thanks guys.

AoA - I can fly the plane for as long as it has fuel in AoA. The second part is probably my problem, I’m just not getting the proper approach vector. I've been using ILS, thought that would help. Funny thing is I was in a F14 squad for 4 years back in the 80’s. Those pilots always made it look easy. I was on the flight deck watching them land, AME so I armed before launch and disarmed the ejection seats after they landed.

yes between the throttle and lineup it seems I fall apart seconds from touchdown. I’m getting sick’s of hearing wave off! It seemed like rudder was not helping. Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving to all. Thought I would get some stick time. I’m still working on landings, I drift left or right a lot when getting close to the carrier. Is it best to use rudder to keep you on track?

I watched the video and it was a good lesson, the guy knows the stuff, and it was one of the reasons I wasn’t going to post the original question. My question has no true answer, and I knew that, it’s a fluid situation. What I should have asked is what is the best speed to try and keep an F18 at during turn? A guy sent me a PM and said 300 is a good number to try and stay at. Do you guys, that have flown for a while, agree with that? So yes energy management, what’s the magic number for optimum turns keeping energy to fight. I keep spending all my energy trying to get inside an AI that has unlimited turn. I feel stupid, but having fun!

“Not answering your question here but asking an important question in the first place - is your opponent AI or human? The AI uses a simplified flight model and thus he's not losing energy from high G turns and climbs et.“ only flying against AI for the moment, multiplayer looks cool buy I want to get a bit more experience before I try on line. So your saying the computer is cheating :cry: I have been doing the missions, and it seemed I had limitations but the AI did not. Maybe I should go on line :smartass: thanks all

It is a large universe out there and you would have to believe there are other “something” out there. But travel must be as hard for them as it would be for anything. If they can travel here I hope they are friendly, if not we are in a world of trouble. Until I see some concrete evidence I remain skeptical.

Forgive me for the question I’m new and have a lot more to learn but. I’m looking for the best thing to do when in a dogfight and loosing speed in the F18. Do I drop altitude or do I fly straight. Or a combo of both. It seems some of the lighter jets don’t suffer from the same problem as much as the F18. I know it’s a complicated question, and it depends on what the other plane is doing. Is there a simple answer to this problem, that will help me stay in the fight?

I finally got a warthog. I had one on order for 6 weeks. When I stopped looking for it, that’s when it showed up on my door step. They didn’t even email me to say, hay we got one for you and were shipping it. It just showed up. Funny huh? It is way better flying with this and head track. Now I’m having fun! Thanks..

Thank you I would not have found it. Wasn’t even looking there, I had it in the F18 so I didn’t think about options. Thank you!

I just got the A10 seems like this should be simple but the stick is gone and I can’t make it come back. In the F18 I can mouse over the boot, at the base, and make the stick go away and come back, but that does not work on the A10. Is there a key, I did look through the keys but did not see it. Did some search’s also but no luck.