Richard Dastardly

Lovely stuff mate hopefully I'll be able to unpack all my flight gear for release... Was it you or someone else working on R09 Ark? I entirely lost track of that one over the years.

36hrs of attempting to pay for the Kiowa via paypal - multiple cancels, multiple retrys at starting the payment on the same order, even tried multiple browsers. It took two attempts and a couple of hours to pick up Kola in May, but this is unprecedented. Been completely fine for the last I don't know how many years until these two.

I struggled until I started practising tight formation work. Doesn't matter what you're in or what you're formating on, it's just getting the right picture & the right amount of anticipation. I still can't hook up with the S-3 unless it's in a turn though, I can't seem to work out which way it's facing...

That's the rather similar A-7.

Well, there was an intention to build CVA01 and possibly a 2nd one ( I wish they had, we wouldn't have the terrible carriers we have right now :S ) - assault carriers with WW2 levels of armour was a good idea. What would have been more interesting was if they'd managed to get the P1154 working, supersonic aircraft able to deploy on anything with a landing pad might have changed naval aviation considerably.

And more to the point the French ones were modified for even smaller carriers. Single seat & rather worse radar than the Phantom though & the RAF would never have taken it ( and then we got teh SHAR 1 with a modified radar from a Lynx ). The air wing with Phantoms & Buccs would have been miniscule too.

At least there's more margin for error than when I was trying the Hornet & the Tomcat(!) on Melbourne ( neither wanted to trap anyway ). But that's another thread's topic. I wonder what sort of force you'd need out of those cats to get a Phantom back off again, they're not amazingly long...

After spending £100m on "studies" in the early 2010s I think they decided the cheapest way to get a CATOBAR carrier would be to build a new carrier. Yeah, the carrier project was a *magnificent* example of procurement... CATOBAR doesn't mean "no ramp" either, with the width of that deck there'd be room for both. Sigh. "Easily" as in "less work than HMS Victorious" perhaps - talking of MoD carrier farces!

Given the percent of F35 built by BAES and the level of partnership that's pretty much guaranteed ( plus the RAF would like it ). There is a plan to put an EMALS on for drones now, which I guess is also going to need wires, so maybe it could trap a, um, navalised Tucano? I'm vaguely sure the original idea was that the ships were meant to be easily convertible, that they're not really has to be yet another MOD/BAES collusion/cockup rather like the propulsion system...

Centaur seems to have been fitted with what I presume was rather optimistically called a blind-landing radar at some point, but this seems like a rabbit hole I don't have time to devote to falling down at the moment. I guess being talked back also worked. Seeing a pic of a US F-4 on Hermes was an eye opener, I bet that crew held their breath when they were launched off again...

Did we ever get to the bottom of these? I notice it's a long running thing that nobody seems too concerned about ( it also happens with other mods ) 2024-05-24 14:07:43.460 ERROR Scripting (Main): plugin: HMS Hermes 1969 by Joey45 unit replace HERMES69 not allowed 2024-05-24 14:07:43.466 ERROR Scripting (Main): plugin: HMS Hermes R12 by Joey45 unit replace HERMES73 not allowed 2024-05-24 14:07:43.466 ERROR Scripting (Main): plugin: HMS Hermes R12 by Joey45 unit replace HERMES81 not allowed The carrier seems to be functional, just wondering if it should be *more* functional somehow. I did go through all the lua I could find, the only reference to the unit names in all-caps I could see was the liveries. Thanks for keeping this going, btw! The tower seems to come up very bright on my system - at first I thought it wasn't actually being textured but apparently it is. Can anyone recommend a pack of deck vehicles btw? I've got the Forrestal & Supercarrier ones but the latter are a bit large & even the Forrestal ones don't really seem to fit that well. Also - did these have landing radio guidance similar to ICLS at any point? even frigates have radio GS guidance for helicopters, I'd be a bit surprised if a carrier was stuck with just TACAN.

Petro swearing at you & asking if you want to reset the sights you clueless idiot should surely be an option, having to leave the pilot seat when there's a gunner in the gunner seat is a very strange concept. Must admit I've had a hard time with him too, but I've not put much time in the bird recently. Evidence will be provided if it turns up.

I try and slow down & get configured in a turn, rather lessens the effect of sudden trim issues when you can roll in/out of it.

Or the TF-51, which will teach you all about rudder trim too. I've had engines out but afair always along with the rudders being shot off - the aircraft is recoverable with just vstabs, but trying to trim in yaw is obviously not going to do anything!

Flew it yesterday for the first time in a long time, at full load it does need a hefty amount of boot to stay straight on liftoff but I've not tried a lesser load yet. Seems ridiculously fast, though - I don't know what the precise Vne for this model is but I'm quite sure I was constantly above it with torque to spare ( very heavy, too ). It does at least feel heavier than I remember, that's a good thing.