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Who cares what’s ‘legit’ according to ‘several Hornet pilots’? Sometimes aircraft have capabilities that aren’t used regularly but that doesn’t mean it’s not something ED can add to their Hornet for us to use. The complaining about the MavG and the Litening is what I’m referring to. I really hope ED aren’t listening to every complaint about what they can and can’t add the F/A-18C. It’s a flight sim not a classic car resto. I don’t care about timelines/ mod status blah blah - just put whatever a Hornet could carry on there and let’s have fun. If you’re a hyper realism pureist just don’t load whatever you have issues with.

Cheers guys, the VFA-113 flight deck wire paint is something I don’t know how people live without :) It also makes the landing area markings easier to see and the heavy tire skids show where aircraft should be touching down.

I really do not care if it’s ‘unrealistic’ to have litening on the cheek. It’s an awesome stepping stone to ATFLIR and I’d prefer to get practice with it located on the cheek. If you’ve got hyper-realism issues just wait for ATFLIR.

I agree my Warthog slew is unusable when depressed. Works perfectly as the radar slew (not pressed). If we could have this option back for the Mavs that would be awesome.

Cheers guys and Deano thanks for your kind offer from before. Thanks Eldur, the voices are in-game and are timed for the pilot ball call response. It’s the VFA-113 Stingers LSO mission which I first made around 2012. It has been updated over the years with input from many real world US Navy aircrew. It is designed for use with our LSO grading system which is what you see on our PLAT cam videos. It ensures objective/consistent and fair grading for every approach using human LSOs. You can download it along with our PLAT cam mod from our website at the bottom of the first page.

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Thanks guys! Yes coming out of the SHB I really find trouble remembering to trim! I think the meatball is good but I find at the ramp I am making sure the pitch is 5 and the FPM cuts the 3rd white centerline mark from the end to get a 3 wire. I do find there is some sort of burble/ground effect that kicks my nose down 2 degrees at the ramp if I’m not prepared to catch it. But yeah this extension is very cool, especially if you center mount your Warthog.

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Hi Rakamora I investigated the axis again after our talk and found I still need a custom user Curve to have th AB detent working correctly with my throttle . Do I need to enable the “use AB detent” thing in options?

This is amazing please bring this as soon as possible!

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TonyG and Strut thank you for your kind support. Your squadrons are formally invited to fly in a VFA-113 Stingers PLAT CAM video, let me know when you would like to do it. Funky Franky check out our PLAT videos and LSO training film: BbMw4PcvMyY Once your pilots are getting aboard safely it’s rare that we need to wave someone off. The VFA-113 PLAT cam has been flown and personally verified by a real US Navy Carrier pilot as being more glideslope accurate than the real PLAT cam on a Nimitz class. We at the Stingers have been using it for years and hope others get as much fun out of it as we do, and please post more videos of your approaches, I love seeing them.

This is true genius, great job! You’ve solved lots of issues using this box and now you’ve got me rethinking the cockpit...

‘The Warthog Project’ at the YouTube comments recommended this as well and mentioned you can also have the 15 degree twist by using it so I ordered 2 of them today :) Awesome Sting57, they are so cool. They should come with a Rift. Found out the hard way today that if your Touch controllers are on then the F/A-18 in cockpit mouse stops working after a while. Caused me a tonne of grief!

Wow Gekoig that is cool! That’s great you could build up the memory to use all your panels like that. TechRoss I often spend 5 hours in DCS F/A-18C in VR and you come out feeling very hyped about everything.

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Brilliant news, this made my day! Looking forward to having the Litening on my jet.

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Ha ha cheers Mover, it wasn’t the SHB that worried me, it was the airspeed fluctuations causing me grief. Our SOP is 350 in the break and we went to 410. We had another squadron visiting and didn’t want to look messy. Matthew I flew a LOT of approaches last night checking this out. I have a new theory now that something else is happening to my AOA, does anyone know if ground effect is modelled? I recorded 2 passes for a video and the one that’s a perfect 3 wire the ball was centered nicely coming across the ramp. The one where I got a 4 wire the ball was slightly high at the ramp - in the wires. So am going to try flying a less energised ball for a while and see if I can’t get back on the 3s.

Thanks Fropa, when we were putting the SOP together we deliberately left a lot out because it’s easy to get stuck in the weeds and the time blows out. Barney’s flight was perfect because you get to see a bearing line join where there’s errors and you can see my reactions trying to correct the join up. Also it highlight how important it is to be gentle with your bank angle and speed changes. The other thing it shows is when it’s PLAT night there is so much going on and a ten minute flight comes down to a 15 second chance to do one good approach. You only get one shot and it’s stressful!

Thanks Fropa. Yeah I hate hearing how mean I sound correcting poor Barney every 5 mins which is why I’m acting like such an over the top jerk in the first part :) Barney is new but doing good. I couldn’t have asked for a better flight in showcasing common mistakes people make in port holding or as a flight lead.

Yeah no probs I was surprised too and I said to him "why do we need ILS for case 1"?!? It helps a LOT though, just have to remember that the needles make you low if you make a perfect cross, this is the same in real life I believe.

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