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I missed this part earlier. I think the reason navy pilots don't think about this is because this is the duty of the officer of the watch or some officer on the bridge charged with navigating the ship. You mension sealanes and territorial waters. The problem with this as limitation is that those are pretty much all close to the shore. This is where a carrier is vulnerable and any type of attack. Carriers will try to stay at least a few hundred miles off shore letting the planes do the work of reaching the shore to keep the carrier out of harms way. Since the planes nowadays have ranges above 1000 nm, and basically until the pilot can no longer function properly due to fatigue if you take AAR into account, the dangers of being so close to the shore would most likely not be taken by any carrier. In reality I believe (I'm not in any way into this subject beside documantaries) the carrier will always make sure it can turn into the wind and actually do so when launching and recovering planes.

Thanks for your reply, my reply's where a response to WildBillKelsoe about true heading. In case of carrier landings (for some reason I thought we were talking ship navigation) the wind indeed would hardly be a factor for the incoming plane IRL since the ship will be sailing (pretty much) downwind anyway, though the current could certainly play a role in the landing IRL, especailly if the current is around 90 or 270 degrees off the course of the ship. That being said, it will most likely not be a huge difference due to the time it takes for the plane from coming out of the turn and touching down. Because everything you don't know seems pretty tough to understand until you learned how all about it. That being said, for all among us (like myself) who have enough trouble getting the bird anywehere near any of the 4 wires a little tool to help figure out the best course to fly could make things easier.

Still I feel that I've not made my point fully clear. It's most likely not neccesary since it appears to not be modelled , though the prove delivered here indicates more that the person providing the proof missed the clue then proving wether or not it's modelled. See the image below, it's from aircraft perspective but add the factor current the same way the wind is here and you'll understand what I mean.

I mostly fly with Jester, though I do sometimes have a human RIO. I do prefer RIO's with SRS active because I can't type while I fly and especially when the going gets tough I don't get to reading the chat either. Besides, it gets so quite in the Tomcat with a RIO without SRS. Up till now I have always prefered Jester because I got quite firmilair with him in the back seat but maybe this changes when I become more comfortable and in control with the Tomcat and I find someone who flies with me more then just once so we can start to work as a team.

Hello Nealius, You indeed have misunderstood. Wind and current heading are not at all related to the compass heading. Actually, the heading of the wind and the current alone are useless, we need to know the speed as well, just to be able to make an assumption of what the Course Over Ground will be. This is because the wind and the current can move the ship aside. This means that the Course Over Ground is not at all the course the bow is heading towards. The Course Over Ground is merely a fictional figure that determines where you'll end up. We are only talking about compensating the sideslip due to the elements.

Actually I'm just doing something. I found out that waiting to pull the nose up further because I didn't manage to get the AP do what I wanted it to do. I'm not skilled enough to fly to be able to have my attention at doing the exact same thing over and over again.

I've had similar issues with the B, I noticed that going up with over 15 degrees nose up right after takeoff I'll need flaps and a little AB to get there. If I level out more just after takeoff the jet gets that much faster and then easily climbs over 35k without any problems whatsoever.

That is a nice thing to notice, however, only the mag declination is not enough. Current amnd wind also have an effect on the difference between compass course and course over ground. Both off course when their not dead ahead or dead astern. Calculating the mag declination is easy and is a fixed value for every certain area (don't blindly use the same value from the Marianas on the Normandy or South Atlantic maps) but calculating the course correction for current and wind is also depending on the speed of the ship itself and might thus be somewhat difficult for someone not trained for navigation.

Yesterday I decided to give Helios a try. After some trial and error I managed to get CaptZeen's F14 profile working as much as I can test. When I decided to check it out by flying a mission in the F14 I found that I could not get into the cockpit, let alone try to fly. I decided to play DCS so I can fly, not to watch the AI fly itself... Since I was only trying to find it what kind of use I can have for Helios (I don't have the room for a full cockpit setup and need to be able to move my flightsim gear needs to be moved aside in a minute) so I decided to uninstall Helios and stick with what I had already (DCS with ReShade, SRS and VoiceAttack). This proved more challenging then simply clicking Uninstall on both Helios and DCS because apparently that doesn't remove the files that link Helios and it's resolution settings upon uninstalling. In fact, it proved impossible to only remove Helios without also uninstalling DCS and removing all remaining files (including all missions/ controls/ etc.) because DCS holds on to the Helios required resolution for dear life (nice challenge when you have DCS on a 4K 43" monitor and Helios on a Full HD 24" screen, there is always some crucial button beside any of the screens). I know have a clean install of DCS again but it would be nice if Helios would not get in the way of flying and would reset any related files in the DCS folders upon uninstalling or at least have some guide as to which file(-s) to modify and how to make sure DCS gets back to before Helios installation when uninstalling Helios.

Have you tried without binding open the cover? I tried something like that in advance for when I can actually use it (I only have a single throttle atm), I thought it worked as intended though I'm not really sure. Otherwise using an external app you can use a single command to trigger both.

You can off course use auto throttle. I don't know how to put the cat down without it.

That is good to know, then I'll check the Antiskid myself.

Thank you! In this training Antiskid is already turned off I believe. At least the Antiskid is not mentioned in the tutorial. The bit about turning off the DLC is good to know, is this at MIL power or also upon powering up substancially? This might problems I've had with the DLC after having failed at an attempt.

Yesterday I managed a 3-wire! I actually somehow felt so sure about my landing I hardlynull throttled up upon hitting the deck.

It certainly looks cool! I tried again with the new VKB Gladiator with F14 grip. It works great, though I need to learn to fly with it a bit better, though it certainly feels a hole lot better. Like a night and day difference.

That is interesting, though I do know with my shipbuilding background that in English a ship most definitely is female, though I believe there are about 1 or 2 official exceptions to that rule. Thanks for the great explination, this way things start to make more sense, especially the sweeping the wings part.

So she it is then, though it appears to be correct as well. Thanks for the information.

I tried this at the end of my mission this evening with the HOTAS inputs on screen (ctrl enter). Apparently there is quite a lot of trim nose up needed to get the plane on speed, but when I got it right it was so easy to keep it (is that the correct way to refer to a plane? I know ships are referred to as She) on speed and I was able to keep a close eye on the vertical speed meter.

And not afterburner to avoid pulling the wire out and ending up in the ocean

That sounds like a plan, I'll do that.

That is also quite useful indeed. I might use Touch Portal for that and perhaps I'll build a button box myself someday if I feel up to it. I'm building and programming my own transmitter for a radio controlled shipmodel so a button box including rotary knobs shouldn't be much of a challenge for me.

Sticking with English is fine by me. I still live in The Netherlands. I also found that the Orion has much more buttons too, however, the price tag is way to high for me so I'll stick with the Warthog throttle.

Do you have it with the Gunfighter or the Gladiator base? I ordered the Gladiator. I also considered the WinWing Orion but at twice the price tag compared to the Thrustmaster Warthog I'll go for the Thrustmaster. Or have you found a cheaper way to import the Orion? Looking at your nickname I think we come from the same country.

I indeed have rudder pedals, and otherwise I could use the yaw on the stick for the rudder. The only downside to this setup is the risk to move and thereby disconnect the autothrottle. I just ordered the VKB F14 stick, let's see how much better it is then the T. Flight.

The rudder slider on the throttle of my T.Flight HOTAS is also spring loaded, so to all intents and purposes it works the same as the wheel on the F14 stick.