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Superb screen Sushy ! Incidentally, it also demonstrates the real ability of the Rafale to fly at high AoA and low speed in real life. Excellent job from our "Master & Commander" of Textures Sushy. Well done ! Fly low. Toan

Hi Sushy, Superb job ! For all our DCS friends, the Tucano has been the basic ab-initio training aircraft for the French Armee de l'Air pilots for years. It is however currently being replaced by the Pilatus PC-21. Well done Sushy ! Fly low... Toan

Hi, I am trying the exact same use of the Rescue Helo for the carriers Clemenceau (R98) and Charles de Gaulle (R91) without success so far. Did you solve the problem ? I am new to Moose, so any help is welcome. Thanks, Toan

Hi All, I'm new to MOOSE and think it's a fantastic addition to carrier ops. IMHO,the Rescue Helo is a very realistic addition. So far however, as far as I understand the Moose.lua file, the Helo Rescue ops are milited to the Stennis, Tarawa and to the carriers in the Super Carrier Mod, i.e., CVN-71 Theodore Rossevelt, etc. I'd like to extend the list of available carriers with new ships, e.g., the carriers Clemenceau (R98) and Charles de Gaulle (R91). Is this possible in any simple way ? Can I modify the list of available ships directly in the Moose.lua file or not ? Thanks for your help, Toan

Hi Gemborow, I like your idea for mission post-editing. My request is quite simple here: I have a large mission, involving approximately 50 ships, 30 aircraft, etc. Currently, this mission starts at 08:00. I'd just like to modify this to any time of the day, say: 20:00. Is this possible globally for all the units and groups in the mission, with one command, and how ? Thanks for your help, Fly low....

Pappy, Ok, do you mean that the update by Damienntrix is the one for 14 helos parking ? Because, I run the previous one and the SEM don't park correctly with that previous one, unfortunately. Thanks Pappy and well done for the scenario. I had the chance to meet last the year the commanding officer of the reco Etendard IV P squadron during the Balbuzar op in Bosnia, which was later the Captain of a ASW frigate, if I rmember correctly, as well as the PR officer on board the Foch carrier during that period. Fly low...

Hello Pappy, Excellent scénario très réaliste. Le document ci-dessous est un récit du commandant de la flotille qui a effectué une reconnaissance "particulière" au dessus de la Bosnie en Etendard IV P. Voir : http://aviateurs.e-monsite.com/pages/1946-et-annees-suivantes/la-camera-qui-voyait-sous-les-arbres.html Compte-rendu très détaillé et réaliste, qui est parfaitement illustré par les screenshots ci-dessus. Bravo Pappy Fly low... Pappy, Deux petites questions techniques : - est-ce que ton Dauphin fait du stationnaire par rapport au Clem comme un vrai "Pedro" ? Si oui, je suis preneur de la méthode. Je n'ai pas encore réussi à le faire. - comment fais-tu pour avoir un SEM parké correctement au pied de l'ilot sur tes 2 derniers screenshots ? Je n'ai pas réussi à faire ça en AI non plus.... Merci d'avance, FLy low...

Hi Sandmonkee, I had several AI wings of attacking aircraft, each one consisting of up to 4 SEM or Rafale equiped with a mix of Exocet and Scalp missiles. Clearly, none of the Scalp ever hit the targets, whereas the Exocet did, at least for about half of them, depending on the range to the target and firing altitude. I usually fly very low approaches, usually less than 200 feet, and climb to 5 to 800 feet for target acquisition and missile firing, and then leave fast, very low also. Fly low...

Hi again, Maybe I wasn't clear enough. All the Scalp attacks were programmed during AI flights, with groups of targets designed in advance. This definitely failed, sadly, whereas similar Exocet attacks in AI missions succeeded. Fly low...

Thanks Sushy.

Hey, Maybe these ships that I was targeting with Scalp missiles had powerful ECM and jamming systems. I tested the Scalp and Exocet, while attacking a fleet including the Kuznetsov carrier, the Moskva cruiser and the Pieltsky AA cruiser. I found this last AA cruiser very difficult to sink, although I used several anti-ship wings of EA-6B Prowler equipped with HARM, as well as several SEM and Rafale M wings with Exocet and Scalp missiles. I had to adopt several varying and out of range routes to escape its saturating AA missiles, before I could succeed to destroy it using at least 10 Exocet.... None of the Scalp succeeded to hit the ship, and at least 3 Exocet did. My conclusion here is that you need of course several missile hits to sink a large cruiser or carrier type ship. The attacking wings (2 to 4 aircraft each) followed different routes, flying low attack profiles. They were launched by the Theodore Roosevelt CVN, the Charles de Gaulle and the Clemenceau carriers. Allover, I lost many pilots and aircraft during this attack of 3 strongly armed ships, and I must admit that the Kuznetsov wasn't yet programmed (by me...) to send any Su-33 fighters against my attacking wings.... Complex but challenging scenario that I will work out... Fly low...

Hi, I have the same problem targeting and locking ships equipped with radars, but then launching the Scalp missiles fails. It works with ground targets, though, but not with ships. Thanks for your help, Fly low.

OK, thanks, this is what I observed. One more point is that the planes must not be defined as starting cold or with engine running from a parking slot. See my screenshot above. It works only if they are "aligned on the runway", i.e., ready for a catapult launch. My question was to try to extend this aspect, with realistic parking slots, using the only 2 exact catapults locations and with better aircraft handling while on the carrier. Thanks for all your work ! Fly low...

Hi, I have this SEM non correctly launching problem when I have a group of 2 or more AI SEM being launched from the Clemenceau, parked with cold or running engines. When two SEM are aligned on the runway (the cats), ready for take-off (i.e. for launch) with engine running, it's OK. So, when there are only 2 of them, they get launched correctly from the 2 "normal" existing cats if they are aligned on the runways, i.e., the cats.. But when there are 2 or more AI SEM, starting from the parking slots, with engines running or not, they are parked half embedded in the superstructure, and get launched from 2 non-existing cats, on the forward deck, and get stuck. This has to do with the parking slots wrong locations, as well as the routes on the deck to the cats, and the cats wrong locations in the "Clemenceau.lua" file. I have a consistent draft set of locations with their coordinates for the parking slots, waypoints for routes on the deck to the cats, if someone is interested. I'd like to update it and create a correct set for the .lua file.... But unfortunately, I am no expert at this. Some help from the Cuesta Bros, or any other competent person, would be greatly appreciated. Fly low...

OK, merci pour cette précision. Et bravo pour tout votre travail ! Fly low...

Ok, thanks for this. Fly low.

Hi, Does anyone know how to design these correct routes and runways on the carrier deck, without fiddling with time-consuming and error-prone blind testing of approximate locations ? Is there any tool around for this ? Thanks for your help. Fly low...

Ok, thanks Kolpakov. I discovered a problem with the catapults on the Clemenceau. When I have a group 3 aircraft aligned on the runways, with engine running and waiting for launching. One is stationed on the aft elevator, which unexpectedly lowers itself down, leaving the aircraft floating in the air. This aircraft is then aligned on a non-existing catapult at the starboard front-side of the carrier. It then gets launched through the superstructure of the ship without harm, and goes flying correctly.... The other 2 aircraft are launched correctly by the 2 existing catapults. I guess this has to do with the runways declaration in the Clemenceau.lua file. But I am no expert here. Thanks for any help. Fly low.

Hi Kolpakov, Could you tell us what are the differences in your file wrt the Cuesta Bros one, please ? Is it only the empty deck, or more ? Thanks, Fly low.

Bonjour, Parmi les véhicules de ce superbe pack, je ne vois pas apparaitre le VBCI dans ma sélection de véhicules terrestres de l'éditeur de mission de DCS, qui est pourtant présent dans les fichiers lua. Une idée de solution ? Merci d'avance, Toan Edit : les fichiers "vbci.edm" et "vbcidest.edm" sont absents du dossier Shapes. Ils étaient présents dans la version initiale du Mod (en février). Je les ai rajoutés dans la version actuelle. Je vais tester.... Non, ça ne marche pas non plus. Toujours pas de VBCI...

Merci Damien pour cet update rapide. Thanks Damien for this quick update. Fly low.

A Sushy, Une livrée Armée de l'Air bientot pour ce beau Tucano, version de l'Ecole de l'Air à Salon de Provence ?... To Sushy, An Armée de l'Air livery for this superb Tucano, which was used by the Ecole de l'Air in Salon de Provence ?... Fly low...

Pour l'atterrissage de l'hélico à coté du pont, je crois que c'est lié à la ligne "GT.Landing_Point = {-104.0, 19.6, -33.0}" du fichier Clemenceau.lua. En modifiant les valeurs (x, y, z), on arrive à se poser sur le pont. Le point de référence (0, 0, 0) est situé juste au pied de l'ilot, au coin arrière gauche. Les coordonnées sont : x = axe du navire (+ vers l'avant) y = hauteur (+ vers le haut) z = déplacement latéral par rapport à l'axe du bateau (+ vers tribord) J'ai essayé de détourner ça pour avoir du stationaire pour Pedro, par rapport au Clem qui avance à 30 noeuds... Voilà le résultat pendant le catapultage d'un SEM...

OK, merci Pappy, je vais tester ça. Fly low.

Bonjour, L'Alouette 3 et le Super-Frelon décollent bien du Clemenceau, mais se posent à coté, flottant en l'air moteur arreté (voir le screen ci-dessous)... Par ailleurs, il semble impossible de faire faire du stationnaire à coté d'un porte-avions à ces hélicos qui sont AI seulement. Le comportement des hélicos dans DCS semble effectivement parfois aléatoire lorsqu'un porte-avions est impliqué.... Hiall, The Alouette 3 and Super-Frelon take-off correctly from the Clemenceau carrier, but they land next to it, floating in the air with engines off (see screenshot). It seems also not possible to fly on station besides the carrier for these AI only helos. The behavior of the helos in DCS seems unfortunately erratic sometimes when involving aircraft carriers....