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Geez eightball. You said you would never print that picture of me trying to break dance! seabat

My experience was I did a crash and burn on a practice trap. Looked at the track replay and saw for some reason the starboard gear was not down and wondered what I did wrong during the approach. Then I remembered that my landing did not have a wing down skid when I was smacking into the island Went and hit fly again and this time I missed the wires and plowed into the static planes on the bow with no dragging wing. Looked at the track and one gear was not down. Another try same end result but during the down wind went F2 after gear down and all were down. Reviewed the track and video showed one up. Went to exit program, re- entered and could not reproduce. Second and third time I also double checked the gear indicators were all showing down. No reflection on anyone else’s procedures or flights. Only saying I believe my gear was down and locked but track was not capturing the whole picture. seabat

I dropped wind speed on the Mariana WW2 map down to 4 knots and was able to taxi fine on land. Have not moved wind speed up in increments to see if there is a "Not gonna happen" wind speed other than the 10 knts. Ran into the same issue using the Nevada map, no turn into or away from the wind at 10 knts. seabat

For what is worth you can rotate turrets using custom arguments in a livery description lua seabat

I can't find my notes, have not had a chance to ask Hawkeye, and have been unsuccessful in a forum search so...... Is the orientation of turrets a model function, a lua function, or some other function such as a mod conflict? Attached picture is of one of the IJN ships in the Japanese Naval Assets and the stern turrets are defaulting to a 180 degree rotation in the wrong direction. seabat

Here you go. seabat

T, I tried it out. Skyraider lands fine. Take off is another story. I did not find any catapult option for a launch so I guess it defaults to a rolling start. Loaded (100% fuel, rockets and wing tanks) the plane does not get enough speed to get airborne and hits the water. At same externals and internal fuel dropped to about 30% fuel the landing gear was "inches" off the water before it climbed for altitude. No wind across the deck. Just a quick test. seabat

Holllywood, Check your PM seabat

Let see, issues with systems, glitches being identified, tracked down and squashed, delays in a fully functional carrier. Funny how this thread almost reads like reports of the real USS Ford in the newspapers over the past few years. Who says DCS does not offer the most realistic simulation of weapons ever! Beldin, your work on the Ford as well as other carriers has been, still is, and will be much appreciated. seabat

Geschirre, I looked at the texture folder that came with Bronya's second download. The files were not in a zip file so I zipped them, labeled as Louisiana, and the missing textures in ME were no longer an issue. At least it worked for me. seabat

Yes, big guns need big visuals. Was playing around with some older WW2 mods and thought the big guns were too similar to the smaller guns and was wondering if I could double the size of the visual. Will follow up with Hawkeye and see what I can convince him to do seabat

Just curious but are muzzle blasts a function of lua codes? In other words is there a way to increase or decrease the blast and smoke size by lua code? If so, can someone point me to the section in the lua where the codes might be? seabat

Carlo, For what it is worth 1. The mod has worked for me after the Dec 24 update to DCS 2. I have never tried to install manually, I only used OVGME. 3. Control and bindings are the same as the F/A-18C but I seem to remember I had to re-enter the bindings for the D the first time I loaded it. I have not done it for a while but I do know that any controls I use (I have not used everything) are the same for both the C and D. seabat

I meant that I did a quick paint job of the texture and if you zoomed in on the texture it would look like a cartoon not a photo. perhaps I should not have used the word realistic. seabat