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Very, very beautifull! I once have build the Tamiya F14A Tomcat (scale 1:32) and it still stands next to my flightsim seat :) Unnecessary to explain, why I see much forward to your F14 release :) Edit: is it possible, that you tell us something (pictures) about the carrier :smartass:?

Can live with that quite comfortable :)

See forward to the new carriers of DCS (next for the Kuznetsov also for the F14, F18 and Harrier): hope, they will have (maybe optional) paying quality and I will be glad to pay for these! :)

Like the ATAR with the SU 33 a lot: straitforward and not difficult (but is it possible made too easy in relation to the real thing?).

No problem with carrier landings (using 1.5.7).

Nice!! I know: by reading the books, you get all information but in practice, when I did not fly an aircraft for some time, the first thing I do when I retry that aircraft is not re-reading the books but do some exercises in interactive tutorials :)

It may depend from which perspective the story is written: I can imagine that: - the Americans didn't like the story of Clostermann (R.A.F.): reason: the famous Patton needed support of the Brittish after all...??? - the Germans didn't like the Story: reason: their Tigers were so vulnarable to these Typhoons and they had no adequate assistance (anti aircraft defence) in time.......????? These may lead to different stories / nummers of casualties. to rel4y: sure not 1 fighter, but several wings :) The statement, that I wanted to make was: these Typhoons / Tempests were more adequate for battling the German tanks then the Spitfires :)

Clostermann describes it very to the point with data and squandron nrs. on page 157: "During the course of 8 August alone, Patton lost sixty tanks. Next morning, the American High Command sent an SOS to the R.A.F. requesting a massive and immediate intervention by the Typhoons. 21 Wing at once dispatched No's 174 and 181; 124 Wing followed and notably 123, which comprised two famous squadrons: 609, which had been absorbed by the Belgians and 198, commanded by a Frenchman,the celebrated Major Ezzano, who later attained the rank equivalent to Air Chief Marshal. By the evening of 7 August, eighty-four German heavy tanks had been knocked out and countly vehicles abandoned by crews cowering under the fury of the attacks" These are facts !

For that, we need the Typhoon or Tempest (with rockets). In "The Big Show" of Pierre Clostermann, I read, that the Typhoons were the star of the R.A.F. during the Normandy landings. They even rescued Patton and his 3th army with Sherman tanks from slaughtering by the German Tiger tanks. The Typhoons had an enormous firepower of 20 mm cannons and until 12 heavy rockets armed with hollow charges for piercing armor.

Also my experience: after realizing this fact and managing accordingly, take off went pretty well :)

Thanks! :thumbup: hope there will be an interactive JTAC tutorial included (miss that in the A10C)

Just read the books "Carrier Pilot" of Norman Hanson and "On and off The Flight Deck" of Henri 'Hank' Adlam which tells (mostly; but also Hellcats) the stories of the Corsairs flown from carriers in WW2: that kind of flying in these times was sure not for the fainthearthed and extremely dangerous. Would very much like the release in DCS of the Corsair (with an appropriate carrier) :)

Really?........: great! and maybe with a nice carrier added.......

And then carrier landings: only the best could manage....... :noexpression:

Very, very nice :)

Ehh: how did you experience that?: mine is analog and I can exactly adjust the speedbrake with this lever....:)

Just read the book "Carrier Pilot" by Norman Hanson: posted to the South Pacific aboard HMS Illustrious, Hanson and his squadron of Corsairs took the fight to the Japanese. The Corsair (called bye the Japanese "whistling death") was very fast, rugged and demanding to fly but in the hands of competent pilots she proved to be a lethal weapon! Would be a marvellous simulator aircraft and sure together with the carrier and to be able to fly missions against the Japanese!

I have to wait until she is on "Steam"

I read recently a lot of books of the Spitfire pilots in WW2 but the only thing about overheating the engine (what I read) was while taxiing (and waiting for take off) and not while dogfighting: this I never read.... but maybe this overheating was esspecially in this type Spit and not in the others?: then this type was not very much fit for dogfighting..??

Yes, on the Thrustmaster Hotas throttle, it is the slider on the right: with this one, I can exactly adjust the braking power (for landing): I adjust it to about 3.5 on the brake indicator of the Spit. What I said: not everyone agrees that this is the just method in the real Spitfire, but in this simulation it works just fine! and all my landings are pretty good. An alternative could also be: making short braking bursts with the braking lever on the stick (the Thrustmaster Wartog Hotas has exactly the same lever as in the Spitfire) but here you must be carefull not to make a "head loop".

I now manage with 2% rudder assist and the brake assistance at landing and everything functions fine; in the coming time trying to manage without assist completely and without the brake assistance: only using short "brake bursts" Edit 10-21-2017: now managing take off with 0% rudder assist (and doiing that not too badly :)) the error which I made was overreacting the rudder by which I made kind of slidings and by that contacting the concrete with the wings :( now, being more carefull with the rudder and not over compensating, take off goes pretty well..

For braking while taxiing and using the rudder pedals, I use the lever at the stick to make short "brake bursts"; for braking after landing and to be able to use the rudder pedals after landing and to come to a fast stop, I use the lever on the throttle and set the brakes to a bit less as 4 (not everyone agrees with this); For using: gun: gunbutton; canon: canonbutton; gun and canon: the button on the stick which sometimes also is used for wheelsteering (in other aircraft)

And ditching with the Seafire meant certain death: she turned on her back and the pilot had no possibility to escape.......

Pilots were not that much enthousiastic in these times about the Seafire: her carrier abilities were not great and also her range was not very good. Therefore, pilots preferred the Wildcat and Hellcat (and even the difficult to land Corsair).

Did you already try with brakes (partially) on before landing: I put the brakes at a bit lower as 4 before landing: I do that with a slider on my Hotas: because the brakes are on, direct after landing you have the possibility to stear with the rudderpedals and the plane comes fast to a stop.