AG-51_Razor

I'll gladly wait for the real deal :thumbup:

During the "Big Hate", carrier operations involved very little, if any, radio communications. This was due to two things; the radios were very unreliable and couldn't be depended on for voice communications early on in the development of carrier aviation so the primary means of communication was either signal flags or Morse code via aldis lamp or radio. Secondly, once in the war, communications security was very important to them. A lot of the procedures that we perform around the boat now in the Hornet or Tomcat were developed back in the late 30's through the late 40's and have served the carrier aviation community well to this day. We fly up alongside the island at 800 feet with the tail hook down, not because it looks cool, but because a long time ago, that was a signal to the carrier that you intended to land and if the carrier was prepared to accept you, they would raise the signal flag for C - Charlie. I have no idea why the Charlie pennant, maybe because it was easily identified from several hundred feet up, anyway, that became the signal that the carrier was ready to begin recoveries. The one thing that I believe that ED could develop is a way to provide visual LSO cues that would be helpful during the landing just like the IFOLS of today. I have no clue as to the best way to go about this but that would be the one thing they could do that would be most useful :pilotfly:

Yeah, it's gonna be a Some Beee ach!! :doh:

I sure hope you are right!! :thumbup:

Thanks Vampire :thumbup:

I am quite sure that you are absolutely correct on that assumption. However that does not mean we should not continue to express our opinions and/or desires here in the WWII forum so that ED will be aware that there is a strong interest in this sublect. And, by the way, carriers and Corsairs operated in theaters other than just the Pacific. :thumbup:

Have you tried Voice Attack?? It really is awesome for those things that are hard to find/deal with in the cockpit when your head and eyes need to be in the boat! :thumbup:

Is it acceptable to post in here a link to that mod??

I went through the last several update logs and saw nothing about fixing anything to do with the lights on the ships. Actually though, that is not the reason for my response here. I am wondering if this is the proper forum for reporting this kind of bug. I have been going through the other forums to see if it has been reported elsewhere but there is just too many to get through! :doh:

Since this last patch, I have noticed that none of the lights on the Strennis or any of the other ships in the screen (Normandy or Perry) are working at night. This mission is set for 2355 and there is 6/10's cloud cover with very high cloud bases and full moon. No deck edge lights, none of the lights up on the bridge or Pri-Fly or the mast head and Nav lights. Totally darken ship. Has anyone else noticed this?

In my experience, if I raise the launch bar and hit the "U" key, the JBD will lower to flush with the deck.

I'm right there with ya Baco!! A straight deck Essex class or maybe a Commencement Bay class CVE would work great for a Corsair, preferably a -4 or better yet, a -4B but any ol'd Hawg will do for me. Like Baco, I'd do just about anything for a Panther, Banshee or best of all, a good old AD-4 and a map of the Korean penninsula. :pilotfly:

Just based on the reception of the Hornet and Tomcat, I would think that it would be pretty clear to the folks at ED that a WWII carrier and some carrier based a/c would be a huge seller :thumbup:

We are seeing similar issues with some clients not appearing on the F10 map or in the F2 view but if they are in the air next to you, they are readily visable.

I do agree that DCS is far superior in every respect except for the total absence of a Pacific theater from WWII. :music_whistling:

As I understand it, the reason you see the jets make a sharp turn immediately after clearing the deck is to minimize the wake turbulence behind them for the next a/c to launch.

I could not possibly agree more with this sentiment but unfortunately, we will be hard pressed to use the CH-53 on board the Tarawa until either RAZBAM or ED fixes the spawn points for helicopters. Having said that and knowing the development cycle for something as complicated as the -53 is going to be a long one, I am very hopeful that the problems with helicopter operations on the Tarawa will be fixed by the time the Super Stalion appears. :thumbup:

The tanker is your friend! :pilotfly:

Thank you ED, for the latest Weekend Update news regarding the carrier module. You guys just keep on raising the bar higher and higher!! I am ONE SATISFIED CUSTOMER!!!

I always thought that the magic number was 31 knots.

The MH-53 would definitely be my first choice for a "big" helicopter! Can't wait to be frustrated by trying to learn to tank from a KC-130!! :joystick:

I'm really interested in the AI A-6 Intruder they have in the pipeline and when that might find it's way out into the daylight. I am also really looking forward to when their Forrestal class CV's will be released. :pilotfly:

Well done! :thumbup:

We see this behavior regardless of whether there is a guy in the RIO's seat or not, so is it because there is a vacancy (slot) there that could be filled?

I agree. The silence is almost as annoying as the bug!!