majapahit

Did a test with same above .miz. Wind set to 30kts, turbulence "32", boat speed 18. Could land now, perhaps one of the last updates fixed all. I did watch closely what the deck was doing when at the stern, where I saw the deck had arrived at the highest point coming up, so when I noticed it going down, I hard pulled the throttle when coming over the wires and simply slammed the aircraft on the deck at the #3 wire. Easy peasy (not sure about the landing gear). Sea state was indeed quite horrible from the deck :)

2.6x more pixels, but 1080p not that exacting, I'd have the wild guess you're fps will half (my 4x 1080p 60hz screens do 30fps instead of 180fps with 1 screen from a GTX 1080)

Have no idea what you're talking about. Yes, my pitch was 13-14, my weight was high, like in real life with 2 wing tanks and missiles (watch RL YT's for that), my descent speed was also higher, because that is what a RL pilot does when you're heavy. Necessarily having to be on - standardized - speed which is a phrase copied from the present, unfinished, F18 experience, is quite limited thinking I'd say when you're at the top of the weight allowance. You try it. BTW I think you were quite lucky in your landing, or perhaps I was unlucky, depends how the deck was moving, I floated above the deck in high turbulence and couldn't make contact with the deck, it just disappeared from under me. Putting the turbulence setting to '65' might have done the trick. It appears you were more lucky being able to slam the aircraft on the deck at the right time when the deck was in more benign position, lucky you. Try a couple more.

Errr, the pattern image shows a down wind go around leg to be 1200', then a 180° 'bank on speed level turn', which rejoins the '1 1/4 miles, 600ft top of decent' ingress, which is, obviously, at 600ft. You losing 600ft in the base leg, which isn't mentioned? (nice .miz though)

I reverted back to No detent after shaving off the TMWH original one to 'just a tad of bumb'. Even such a small physical bumb starts to annoy when the F18 flies as it does now, sinking like a ton of bricks when you're off on your spool up anticipation trigger. I'll try again when you can move the flaps or trim and not have the F18 take a minute for the EFC to adjust, and never the same.

Turbulence is in the weather option of the ME. Set too high and you won't be able to land (I think to remember DCS said they're working on that WOD >30 kts and added turbulence won't help, will it now). Turbulence is .1x windspeed per feet (or yard? meter? altitude) or something. Set above 6 and you'll have problems. I noticed when boat speed set to 14 the speed in the status bar mentioned 12, which can be the result of modeling head wind. WOD is exactly that, wind over the deck, where in RL the carrier will point into the wind when excepting landings (which lets say might vary 0-5/10°, the ship steadying its course and or the winds changing). Thus the WOD will be boat speed + modelled wind speed, minus the vector of 10° that the landing strip is angled to the boat hull, plus or minus the possible discrepancy between actual ship heading and actual wind direction of another 0-5°, add turbulence wind shift direction and turbulence winds force, add the added effect of the lee of the superstructure island at high winds which will most likely adds added vertical movement, the lee of the stern itself will have added effects when coming up or down, effecting possibilities on the aircraft both up and down, the whole deck pitching adds another component of wind force that is obstacled by a pitched deck, up or down, heaving or falling deck will add another wind (obstacle and or sudden vacuum) component. And oh, now we're on the subject, lets not forget, when in high sea state, also add effects of roll and yaw of the deck ... Also, in general, like a RL pilot mentioned, the deck, and the landing strip, is 'moving away from the aircraft descending, at an angle of the ships course and into the wind and the landing strip on the deck will move parallel rightwards'. For which high winds will exact additional compensation when descending. Attached the original “Caucasus FA-18C Case I Carrier Landing.miz” (from somebody), add wind, boat speed & turbulence, mission is “Behind the USS Stennis at 8 nm. Carrier Heading 360 degrees TACAN 1X STN ICLS on channel 1". Put the F18 also a bit further away like 12-16 miles, gives you time to setup the DDI’s, TCN, ICLS. Caucasus FA-18C Case I Carrier Landing.miz

Let me repeat myself ('pitching deck', winds 18 kts, boat speed 14 kts, turbulence "3"). In 'pitching deck' condition one does not and cannot follow the ICLS horizontal (I found). The explanation for this goes like this, a. When carrier bow pitched up (as in 10-15 feet or more) your AOA will be too low and the arresting hook will float above the deck, you’ll bolt b. When carrier bow pitched down (as in 10-15 feet or more) the landing spot rises - the worse the sea state the faster this will happen, not just the pitch of the carrier but the whole deck will rise- and, your wheels will touch the heaved deck before wire #1, you’ll bolt An example of b. if you watch the HUD of the video, - At a couple of plane lengths of the stern at 20’’ into to YT, the HUD shows a F18 exactly on the ICLS crosshairs. - Then the slope bar starts to rise fast, indicating a bow pitching down the wave, which means heaving the deck at the position of the cables (rapidly, in this sea state). - The AOA will now be too high - the whole deck is also moving upwards - the arresting hook hits the deck premature - the wheels touch the deck before cable #1 - this results in a bolter (all them flames supposed to be the gear wheels hitting the cables really hard because the deck is coming up, which by-the-way is big kudo's to DCS for a impressive simulator modeling). One has to anticipate the oscillation of the deck, which can be done by carefully observing the ICLS needles movement in the HUD when in the groove and when with a steady pitch held.

with the above presented image captures of v1.15b compared to v1.15, if one needed to choose (negating time and effort), I'd say, v1.15B looks waayy better.

You're confusing the perspective of the camera in the video capture. The ball Fresnel setup is designed in such a way that the status of the indicator ball can only be correctly viewed from the pilot's seat. The ball in this video capture from the pilot's seat was smack in the middle when trapping #3. BTW. when there's a 'pitching deck' situation (I found) one doesn't follow the ICLS indicator, which is oscillating up and down with the pitching, heaving and rolling deck, when in a 'pitching deck' situation, you look at the location of the deck as a whole and as the center of all the sea state induces oscillation, and it’s the ICLS indicators that one will let oscillate in the HUD.

Wind over deck > 30KTS AND turbulence "6" (six) makes landing impossible, somehow the F18 rises about 12 feet just behind the tower Wind Over Deck 32Kts (Carrier speed 14, wind 18, turbulence 3, I've done, #3 wire, I find it rather easy with the ICLS. Don't follow the ICLS when deck pitching, look at the deck, and watch how the ICLS horizontal, oscillates, moves up and down with the heaving of the deck, keep your F18 steady in between the osculations (look 'behind' the ICLS and perform your #3 wire trap) Have a look when on the deck with outside view F2, the heaving deck is quite the sight. My F18 also moves around a bit even when on the brakes.

I never was aware of the deck sliding issue that now suppose to be 'fixed', BUT when yesterday I made wind speed 18 and boat speed 14, when parking on the deck after landing, my F18 'moved' half a yard to and fro or so with the (rather massively) heaving deck. Which is interesting, amusing, to watch, but still a tiny bit weird (low importance I'd say). Also when I increased turbulence settings, with settings 1-3 OK, but set at for instance six (6) with 32 kts over the deck (tried to make the deck - and the ICLS - move a lot), there is some weird unintended 'flare' behavior just above the deck (suddenly lifting the F18 10 feet), somewhere perhaps in the dead-zone of the tower that makes trapping about impossible (hook bouncing or whatever, floating over the deck). I read a couple of months ago somewhere, a supposed DCS simulation limit to wind over deck of 30 kts, because this still needs to be modeled properly .. (?), trapping with wind over deck 32 and turbulence 3 is no problem whatsoever (but for the interestingly movements of the ICLS horizontal needle coming down) perhaps this still is 'in the pipeline'?

I don't have the MIG 21 But in my .. \Saved Games\DCS\Config\View\Server.lua I bet you can also delete or rename this server.lua and a new one will be generated with default settings. there's the list of installed addons and perhaps there is a MIG 21 added, then find: CameraAngleLimits = {200,-80.000000,90.000000}, -- < 200 degrees)

I mentioned this in a post ones, that I saw a documentary about really bad weather night carrier landings a long time age, apparently this was the PBD series ‘Carrier’ first episode date, April, 2008. Found a 18:20 min cut from that series uploaded to Youtube 2014 titled Pitching Decks. At 11min ‘that’ night sortie starts where the CO, who apparently is CDR David Fravor, CO of VFA-41 Black Aces, also famous because of the recently disclosed 2004 Tic-Tac incident, the sighting of a UFO captured by HUD camera , in NAVY speak an Anomalous Aerial Vehicle AAV, and David Fravor one of the two intercepting FA-18’s of the USS Nimitz group, - The Pentagon Released New Documents About the 'Tic-Tac UFO' https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9k8kaz/the-pentagon-released-new-documents-about-the-tic-tac-ufo joins in the night sortie. At 16:12min in this YT, David Fravor is the last one out, David Fravor took the place of a junior female pilot ‘trust me, at the and of the night you will thank me for this’, when all others are in, no more tankers flying around for helping out bolting jets, the evening started with 15 bolters and the deck apparently rising and falling 60 feet and the weather now so bad, the deck now also makes yaw movements. Ace David Fravor (of course) makes an impossible (“how can he be there with the deck pitching?”) landing. Pitching Decks US NAVY

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Here too, like Wags, no problem. Perhaps check if additional axis are defined/bound for stick movement (on your rudder or other USB)

ACLS is for 99% of pilots, who would crap themselves flying a plane down on the deck manually, I'd say.

FLOLS compensation to level, would be ok up to a certain point (which even in this YT it is most likely included), else, beyond which, it would make 'a specific AOA towards the deck is needed to keep the hook from bouncing', so many words, redundant FLOLS compensation to level, makes a lot of sense to give pilot guidance from the top of the groove down. CILS is a more measured instrument that guides to the deck, in this case a moving deck with a wheels on deck angle requisite. I also posted a link to a paper about ACLS that states 'in the last seconds of the slope, the ACLS (i.c. CILS linked AP) will compensate for the deck movement' (The YT might also be from the era before CILS)

In high seas with both a tilting deck and a heaving deck (we ignore roll, yaw and forward boat speed since we slam unto the deck), 'earth reference' in this case of 28 WOD gusting would imply a 'heaving and tilting earth'. When AOA (speed in the case of the F18 ) in regard to the deck surface and the actual altitude position of the deck are the main references of a proper trapping with the hook not bouncing, implying there is a fixed groove angle to the deck but not a fixed AOA with 'carrier earth', well, .....

I'd say, that's what actually would happen at 28WOD and high seas. In those conditions trapping becomes the test of the art.

You do not have a clue do you now.

You have no idea how misinformed you are .. ?

You have no clue about how dumb this is .. ?

Don't wast my time.

Who said I didn't use flaps? What is wrong with you guys? Flaps down is 250ktn

I didn't. I also am running a computer simulation, I don't care. Why should you.