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I am sooooo stoked for this module! C'mon funny feeling!! Thanks for the update Dan.

For some reason I am reminded of that old saw, "How does one eat an elephant? One bite at a time."

With a little imagination, maybe the Falklands map could double for the Aleutions? P-39s, early P-38s and maybe some PBY-5As??

Thanks for your responses guys, much appreciated.

Maybe IvanK can comment on this but I have been given to understand that IRL the legacy Hornet drivers used this "feature" very rarely. Maybe that is because, if true, the ATC didn't work worth a damn ??

Thanks for the reply Cobra. Awesome work on the ship model Your team should be very proud of their work.

Beautiful model of the ship! Just curious though, why throw in a Tilly for that time period and then clutter up the possible parking places for it with static (immovable) fork lifts, tugs and huffers?? Where do your artists expect us mission builders to put it?

same here

It's been my experience in DCS World, that most of the modules are fairly sensitive to high rates of descent upon touching down on the runway (or flight deck) and hopefully the Corsair module will reflect the Navy's requirement for carrier a/c to meet a much higher requirement for surviving a touch down at much higher rates of descents. Having said that, my advice to you is to begin learning to fly your approach around the airfield at about 250 feet, in the landing configuration (gear down and flaps full down and prop RPM at max) and at a speed just about 5 knots above the stall. Keep your pattern in tight - say not much wider than a quarter of a mile mile or so. You will find it necessary to keep the plane in trim at all times to help prevent a stall/spin while in the turn to final. You will see that your altitude during the trip around the pattern is controlled 100% by the throttle. The idea is to get yourself into a position behind the boat, (about 2-3 plane lengths) with wings level and not much more than about 50 feet above the flight deck. Long, straight in approaches will rarely ever work out well. If you can do this behind a carrier under way, with wind sufficient to give you about 30 kts over the deck, you should be in pretty good shape once the Corsair and Essex class carrier show up. One of the hardest aspects of this approach will be to judge the proper time to begin the turn from downwind to final. Keep in mind that there is a wind blowing you away from the boat and the boat is running away from you at whatever speed you have it set to. The Navy instructional diagrams of the 1940's indicate that you should consider being "abeam" (where you should begin the turn to final) once you are even with the island of the carrier. While in the turn, you should be able to keep a pretty good eye on the landing area and judge your altitude, closure rate and line up once you roll out wings level. This is very important since, once you do roll wings level, your view of the landing area will mostly disappear! I recommend that you try all of this in a P-47 with the CVN-70 until the Corsair comes along As Razo+r said, practice is the key. This is not and easy task to perform. I would say that, next to aerial refueling, landing one of these prop planes in DCS is about the next hardest thing to learn to do consistantly well. So don't get discouraged if it doesn't come to you easily. If it were easy, the Air Force pilots would be doing it!

It very much depends on which P-38 they are modeling. The earlier versions had a very slanted intake and the later models had a more pronounced "flat face" intake.

That's awesome Donny! Glad to see you're still with us. Thanks.

Thanks for the info BigNewy

I couldn't possibly agree with you more Hoss but unfortunately, I have this thing about living in reality.......whenever possible, and pining away for an Essex class carrier deckload of mannly blue airplanes to go punish the North Korean communists is way out there in another space/time continuum compared to wishing to be in the cockpit of a module that has been announced as an official project. I'll grant you that I realize I may well be in that other space time continuum by the time this Corsair II arrives but when it comes to expending emotional energy on my wishes, I'll stick with the thing closest to reality.

Lay down their waypoints that would bring them within range of the shore target and then, under "Advanced Waypoint Commands" give them a "Fire at Point" command and drag the pointer over to the target. You can give each ship multiple points to fire on and even adjust their accuracy. Unfortunately, they will not fire on any "targets of opportunity" unless they can see them

What can I say Hoss? It's an addiction I've had for quite some time and I can't say that I even really want to kick it. I get such a warm glow from the thought of being in the SLUF cockpit while rolling into the groove, calling the ball and yelling to myself, "C'mon funny feeling!!!"

Seriously though, I'd sure like to know that Donny is OK. It's going on 2 months since we've heard from him and that's not like him at all. Just check in with a thumbs up is all Bud

This has been on our wish list for quite a while now and ED has acknowledged it as such, a wish. I doubt very seriously that it is very high up on their to do list but at least they are aware of it as a request.

Hey Donny, please tell me you haven't been pinched by the cops for dealing!! I'd curl up and die if my A-7 source got taken out of action. Please let us know you're OK and that you've still got plenty of "product" to pass around.

Glad I could return the favor.

I'm pretty certain that the A-3 flew off the Midway in both roles as a bomber as well as a tanker. So far I haven't seen anything in writing that says the A-5 flew off her but I can't immagine that there would have been any restrictions against it as far as the ship's cats and arresting gear were concerned. The Midway would be an awesome addition to the DCS World!!

I guess I'm going to have to slide down the road and check into ED's Mosquito clinic for some methadone to take care of these shakes and sweats. It's getting really bad now!

I agree, the lighting might attract the wrong sort when steaming around at night looking like a green fire fly! I believe that it's also a safety concern, even in times of peaceful calm, when operating off a boat that is lit up like a Vaudville stage! It can't possibly be good for ones night vision. Thanks for the information regarding the AWLS being removed from the LHA.

Not sure if you'd call this a Bug but I certainly consider it a Problem. That is, the brightness or intensity of the deck edge lighting as well as the island mounted flood lights. They are all so bright that you can barely make out the new approach/landing light array up on the aft end of the island. Is there any way for RAZBAM to tone those lights down a bit? While I'm at it, could I ask about the ICLS for the Tarawa? Is that ever going to be installed aboard ship??

Ramsay, that was awesome! Thank you so very much. I will be sharing this video with my squad mates as well. Thanks again!