Carrier Landing and air refuel

[Prophet_f15]

Where can I practise carrier landing and air refuel with DCS World base SU and DCS F15C? Do I need to create a mission in mission editor. I remember practising carrier and air refuel in flaming cliffs 1 or 2, as mission. How about doing this in the current version?

[Griffon26]

Creating a mission by your own would be the easiest option in my opinion. It isnt too difficult to set a KC 135 and a carrier. The other option would be to search in the user file section of the ED Homepage:

 

http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/?arrFilter_pf%5Bfiletype%5D=1&arrFilter_pf%5Bgameversion%5D=&arrFilter_pf%5Bfilelang%5D=&arrFilter_pf%5Baircraft%5D=22&arrFilter_DATE_CREATE_1_DAYS_TO_BACK=&CREATED_BY=&sort_by_order=TIMESTAMP_X_DESC&set_filter=Filter

 

Hope that helped you a bit ;)

 

Regards Griffon26

[Prophet_f15]

Ok, easygoing by mission editor. Took just seconds. Noticed SU 25T doesn't provide aircraft carrier landing and air refuel option.

Am I right, that the DCS F15C doesn't have carrier landing capability?

Which aircraft of DCS has a tailhook and can be refuelled by basket?

[feefifofum]

Currently, the Su-33 is the only aircraft capable of both carrier ops and air-to-air refueling.

 

Though the F-15C does have a tail hook visible on the model, it is not currently possible to lower it. You can do air-air refueling in the F-15C, though.

[GGTharos]

The only aircraft that operates out of a carrier in FC3 is the Su-33.

 

The F-15 has a tailhook, but it is not suitable for carriers - it is meant to be used on a normal runway in the event of an emergency.

 

Ok, easygoing by mission editor. Took just seconds. Noticed SU 25T doesn't provide aircraft carrier landing and air refuel option.

Am I right, that the DCS F15C doesn't have carrier landing capability?

Which aircraft of DCS has a tailhook and can be refuelled by basket?

[esb77]

If you want to practice for the eventual release of DCS F-18 without having FC3 and the Su-33 you can work on that with just the Su-25T and F-15.

 

Practice air to air refueling with the F-15, it's a different system but the same sort of precision formation flying skills are needed whether you're using a boom or a basket.

 

With both planes practice precision landing. Pick a point on the runway and practice until you can get the wheels down within 5 m of that target at least 9 times out of 10.

 

Ideally you want a fairly high sink rate, fairly high AoA, and fairly high throttle setting, though without a tailhook there's a limit to what you can do in that vein without bouncing the plane off of the runway. Load up the Su-25T on the heavy side and you can plunk it down pretty hard without bouncing or breaking the gear, so maybe a better practice plane in some ways than the F-15 is for the classic Navy landing. The drogue chute can also be used as a tailhook analog of sorts, though the throttle requirement is reversed. Full throttle for hook, idle for the chute.

 

If you want to get the DCS Hawk, I'm not sure if they have tailhooks or carrier landings implemented for it, but a Hawk variant is what the USN uses as it's jet trainer. So that's what you'd normally learn your landings in if you're thinking about the F-18 module in the future.

 

Whatever planes you're using it's never a bad idea to work on improving the degree of precision with which you can handle the plane. Getting on one of the aerobatics servers and finding people to practice close formation flying with is another way to work on the skill sets you need for carrier ops.