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Thank you for the response fellas. I used the code 129 for the Gammon radar in setting up the HARM and it silenced the SA-5 battery so that must be the one

Thank you very much for this tremendously helpful and vital information but I have a question for you regarding the SA-5 radars. Is the "Gammon" the Tracking radar and the "Tin Shield" the Search radar or are they both Search radars??

It most likely stems from how DCS "sees" the Harrier as just another helicopter. AI or Human flown, it spawns where a helo would, even on the SC.

I mention this with the complete understanding that it is still a WIP but I hope that someone in ED realizes that the wind over the deck is blowing from front to back and reverses the curves of the barrier straps before that makes it to release

You do realize though, that this is also a problem for the Tarawa, right? The Tarawa and the SC are completely different modules and have nothing to do with each other. The Forrestal does not suffer from this problem, nor does the Stenis. Very strange.

Go to YouTube and search for this: Flight Deck Crews: Landing & Re-Spotting World War 2 Aircraft Carrier Planes I would've just copy and pasted the link to the video but I'm not sure if that is kosher. Anyway, there are several glimpses of the barriers and how they are operated. And Mogster, you are exactly correct about the barriers!.

Well Mogster, I've certainly never been accused of being any kind of a wordsmith but I thought that that is exactly what I put down above. Reread it and see if it makes any more sense.

Well, before you go making that kind of pronouncement, make sure that you understand what it is we're talking about here. The barriers we're talking about are not at all like the one you are probably referring to that you'd find on a modern day angeled deck carrier. These are basically an arresting wire that is lifted about 3-4 feet off the deck that were intended to "trip" a plane that missed the arresting wires before it could crash into the pack of planes that were parked forward. These barriers were always rigged (erected) whenever the ship was taking aircraft aboard. The barrier you are probably thinking of is a large net-like afair that is strung across the arresting area on the angled deck to snag a plane that may have broken its arresting hook, damaged its landing gear or any number of other problems that would prevent a normal arrested landing.....and where a suitable land base was beyond the range of the stricken plane to make.

Yeah, I noticed that too. I wonder if they have even thought of trying to simulate that? You know that IRL, sailors were stationed in the catwalk next to the 3 barriers and would lower their particular barrier if the landing plane had caught a wire but looked as though it would run into his barrier? They were individually operated by these sailors and I am not sure how that would be simulated in the DCS World. Maybe a proximity to the barrier and a hooked wire would cause the barrier to lower? Once the plane was stopped in the arresting wires, the sailors would all lower their barriers so he could taxi out of the arresting wires and they would go back up again for the next plane in the groove. That would be pretty tough to simulate in this world of knuckleheads we deal with in MP servers!!

Thanks RoGaR, I never knew that was available in the ME.

That's very interesting indeed Tengu. Thank you for posting those pictures..I have never seen much less was I ever aware of the Corsair using JATO bottles!

<DOH>!!! I found it! It's in the Documents within the DCS Root folder.

Looking for some help here. I seem to recall seeing a post quite some time ago (years) with a list of TACAN stations on each map - Persian Gulf and Caucus at the time I believe. I have tried using the search function with no help. Does anyone remember seeing this list?

That is a real black and white photo of a Corsair begining his takeoff run from a CVE using JATO bottles. My guess is it's a test of the system as it's the first time I have ever seen a photo of them in use on a Corsair.

very impressive!

I wonder, does that Hornet mod have functioning arresting gear? i.e. would the Corsair be able to make an arrested landing on it?

Once you've figured out how to turn the radios on, next you need to be sure to select the right radio with the ICS transmit switch. It's that panel just below the UHF radio. I'm not familiar enough with the mod to tell you which number coresponds with which radio. The little toggle switches allow you to monitor various radios while the rotary knob selects which one you are going to transmit on.

Rumor monger!!

The "sled" you're referring to was nothing more than a large net with a wooden pole attached to the leading edge. The pontoon had a hook on the forward part of the keel and once the plane has taxied up over the net, the pilot would back off the throttle to allow the hook to catch the net. It seems to me that as a float plane pilot back then, you had to be almost as much a seaman as a pilot in order to survive!

....or they could just model the cockpit and make it a single player a/c and to heck with all the grognards and rivet counters!!

I just spooooged all over my keyboard!! You guys are amazing!

I believe that the issue could be 2 fold, 1) the path that you use from the IFOLS is straight out behind the arresting area and the path that we would probably be flying in the Corsair would be more of a curved approach and 2) I see a problem with being able to see the LSO if he is modeled to scale. Sure, one could zoom in on him enough to see him and what he is doing with his arms and legs but possibly/probably to the detriment of continuing to accurately control your approach, which could be hazardous when close in. I'm not saying it can't be done, I just think that there will be some interesting challenges associated with it. I can't wait to see what you all come up with. The depiction of the IFOLS on the screen when the Super Carrier first came out was really interesting and I hope you give the armchair aviator the flexibility to choose to use your solution or not. I am so looking forward to seeing how/if you do this!!

While I appreciate that this is indeed an interesting discussion, it ocurrs to me that it really is straying way off the path of the subject of this thread, Proposed ED Carrier, not to mention the subject of this whole subsection of the forum, WWII Pacific Theater.

Progress!

As am I. I too am quite interested in whether or not M3 has given any thought to attempting to develop some type of LSO for the carrier. I have seen a few different styles in the past and none of them really helped much - which is not hard to understand given the limitations of our hardware at home. In any case, I am really looking forward to this particular module.