Problems on the carrier deck

[Kyyge]

Hello

 

I've been practicing those tricky Case I landings, great fun. Still a little wobbly, but more often than not I hit the deck on speed with a 600-700 ft/min descent rate. After that, however, strange things happen:

 

1) As the plane comes to a stop, the wire yanks back on the plane, throwing the nose several feet up in the air.

 

2) The wire gets stuck in the hook, leaving my plane dangling from the wire, unable to escape.

 

2) seems to happen almost 100% of the time if I follow the procedure of going full military power upon touchdown. On the other hand, If I go idle throttle immediately, the wire usually disconnects, but 1) still happens.

 

I tried to search the forums for answers, but couldn't find any mention of this happening to anyone else, which makes it even stranger. I'm using the VFA-113 practice mission file.

 

What are your thoughts on this?

 

Best wishes,

Kyyge

[StandingCow]

Are you hitting your brakes? That's what it sounds like.... you aren't supposed to touch them at all and let the wire pull you back a bit.

[Kyyge]

No brake input :)

[David OC]

Are you hitting your brakes? That's what it sounds like.... you aren't supposed to touch them at all and let the wire pull you back a bit.

 

 

That's what I was thinking, Ive done that before accidentally when starting out and need to go to burner to get force on the wire to get it to retract again. Then lift the hook.

 

 

EDIT: Check you have no brake on the pedals by default, Rctrl+enter will bring up the in game axis view window. You generally need to reverse the axis on brakes in the options, have you tried just taxing in one of the ground missions?

 

 

Oh, and welcome to the forum Kyyge

Edited July 7, 2018 by David OC

[Kyyge]

Well I'll be... Just as you suspected, the brakes were reversed, so I was indeed braking. Works like a charm now!

 

Taxiing also became a lot easier, lol :music_whistling:

 

Thanks for the help!