Hayrake YE-ZB

When you know that you are clear of the stern, chop power to idle, drop nose slightly, then pull the nose back up just before you hit the deck to set the hook. Both moves are slight, a degree or two of pitch. If you’re too fast, it won’t work. Try turning at the bow and pointing the nose at the stern in a curving turn the whole way. The carrier’s movement will put you where you need to be.

When you make a throttle change large enough to change propellor rpm, there is also a corresponding pitch change due to the gyroscopic forces involved (90º offset rule). That may be part of what you are seeing, especially in the landing configuration. If you keep at it, you will learn to anticipate the yaw caused by power changes, which will also reduce the pitch changes that are giving you fits. We all have different controllers, but for now, I’ve got heavy springs in my stick base and started with a 25 pitch curve and 30 rudder curve with lots of control authority at high speeds. It will take time to tune some of that out.

A small reminder that the WWII carrier pattern is much lower and closer than the jet pattern that we are used to flying. The long nosed birds flew a curved pattern all the way to the stern. Don’t forget to get the ship moving and/or add some natural wind so you have 30 knots of wind over the deck.

All of the dry lakes on the map are too dark in colour, as if the desert has experienced a week of rain. The real world lakes are very light tan, which makes visual navigation and orientation much easier. They stand out and define the region. A quick peek at any of the mapping apps reveal the truth.

Finally returned from a long trip and had a go. Must agree, it’s better than expected and worth the wait.

The stab has a bellows in the trim system that causes that. It’s normal.

Autopilot off? Two AFCS switches on left console under AUG switches.

Are you on the ground? The trim doesn’t move the stab on the ground in the F4, go fly, if mapped correctly, trim will work.

Everyone happy now?

In a little while, the Phantom will drop, this wailing will end, and this will be forgotten by all but a handful of the saddest people on earth. None of this will matter a year from now. The saddest lesson on these pages is how vindictive people have become towards others. It’s a broken world. Some of you would demand that a children’s lemonade stand be shut down if you don’t receive a cookie with your beverage. You would rage on the national lemonade stand forums that the kids be “cancelled” and sent to reform school and the kid’s parents thrown in jail, because you are a “customer” and deserve perfection for the quid you paid at the tiny little enterprise. Of course the same people demanding perfection of a small software gaming business do not apply the same standard to their own conduct or performance. I don’t see any geniuses around here. The only talent seems to be a passion for blind criticism.

You aren’t in The Fleet anymore.

Nonsense. It’s not a “disaster”. Only someone very young or very immature, living vicariously staring at screens all day would say something like that, especially after ED has taken responsibility for it. It’s not “normal” behavior to melt down over entertainment, which comes from a strange groupthink dynamic that feeds on itself. The longer you subscribe to it, the more miserable you will be.

One learns a lot about a person’s character when they are under duress, but this? It is a trivial annoyance at most. I get the sense that a lot of these people struggle to deal with the ebb and flow of normal life. There certainly is a lack of perspective.

Winter’s over!

We would be wise to not get this topic closed. Think about the logic here. The developers must be making some progress, or ED would have pulled the plug on the project and either offered it to someone else, or taken it over themselves. Badgering between players won’t make the Corsair arrive one second quicker, it’s just venting frustration over different personal expectations. There is nothing that we can do about it.