F14 Carrier landing

[Tricky11]

thought somebody may find this useful?

Tomcat carrier landing by christopher deacon, on Flickr

[Grundar]

Nice! Will give me a good idea of what I should be doing rather than my soon to be patented "get-it-on-the-deck-let-maintenance-sort-it-out-belly-flop" that I will be predominantly using.

 

So excited for this module.

[Tricky11]

You and me both buddy. Cant wait

[BlackLion213]

thought somebody may find this useful?

Tomcat carrier landing by christopher deacon, on Flickr

 

 

Yes.....excellent.

 

This will prove quite handy. :thumbup:

 

-Nick

[Tricky11]

That last picture is off a Manual landing and this one is a carrier controlled landing.

F14 Carrier controlled approach by christopher deacon, on Flickr

[Reflected]

I'm already practicing on Aerosoft's version in P3D. Using a program called VLSO it's extremely challenging. The throttle response time is crazy long you really have to anticipate. Also the TF30 engine of the A model is not very powerful, so you need quite a bit of thrust especially during turns. Not to mention how careful you need to be to avoid compressor stalls. The Tomcat's roll is extremely unstable at low speeds and high AoA. Unless you use tiny stick movements you will end up approaching like Cougar in Top Gun, and dropping like a stone. Luckily, there were spoilers on the wing that you could extend or retract with a thumbwheel on the stick. This helped maintaining the glideslope big time.

[Rangi]

"DLC SELECTED", probably not the best time to be thinking about games you want to play once your back in the ready room.;)