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Better aircraft spotting during carrier recovery


ryanyomomma

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I apologize in advance for the lengthy post. If I can sum this up TL;DR style, what I'm saying is that current aircraft spotting during recovery operations are bad and that I wish that you spotted the aircraft from the bow of the ship first, similar to actual recovery ops as I remember it when I was in the Navy.

 

OK, the long version

 

For you devs, are you folks planning to do more proper spotting of aircraft during recovery? As someone who has time on an actual flight deck onboard 5 different carriers, the spotting in the sim is atrocious. To top it off, the aircraft are spotted beyond the foul line, which is a big no-no during recovery.

 

I notice that aircraft that recover (in sim) spot by the Patio first, followed by El 3, the junkyard (typically an E-2 is spotted there next to the salvage crane), next to the island (typically helo's in bed are lined up next to the island and at least one spare E-2 towards the front of the island and next to the six pack), El 2, the Corral, the Point, and then El 1 (in which the el drops and then makes the aircraft disappear in the hangar deck.... wut)... see pic below

 

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My "wish" is to spot aircraft from cat 1 and 2 and work your way aft. During recovery onboard the Kitty Hawk and GW, aircraft were recovered and taxied towards the bow (typically down cat 2 but this has been done in reverse, too) and brought back up to the Point. This is to ensure that aircraft are pointed aft so they can taxi out for the next sortie. Aircraft were also spotted on the Corral, el 2, the six pack (typically 3 to 4 aircraft), and el 1, all in that order. El 1 and that corridor leading up to that foul line is typically clear since that area is used to safe weapons and it's basically the "intersection" of recovery. See other pic below.

 

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*Do note that "Nothing here" means there shouldn't be any spotting here.

 

I understand that this would probably be pretty low on a priority list, but I figure that I should make my plea anyway because I know I'm not the only Airdale who notices this. I would also argue that changing the spotting from its current state is more efficient, even on the sim. While I imagine most simmers flights from the carrier to not have a lot of aircraft on deck for one reason or another, there may be some simmers, or vsquadrons who do like fill their flight deck up with a mix of pilots and AI pilots for immersion and whatnot. I certainly do since out of all the things I did in the Navy, flight ops and working on Hornets is the thing I miss the most. :(

 

At the very least, is there a way to manually change spotting so I can do this on my own?

 

Anyway, I think I typed enough.

 

Have a great day/evening!

US NAVY Veteran (2004 - 2010)

NAS Oceana, NAF Atsugi

VFA-106 (Line)

VFA-192 (Line sup, PP, L/HPT instructor qualified)

VFA-115 (PP, LPT qualified)

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You mean parking... yes, the parking is quite FUBAR at the moment. The carriers and airports both are being redone, functionality wise at the moment, so I wouldn't sweat it (long term). Just recently the whole system was much cruder than it is now. Been a lot of progress over the last year.

Де вороги, знайдуться козаки їх перемогти.

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You mean parking... yes, the parking is quite FUBAR at the moment. The carriers and airports both are being redone, functionality wise at the moment, so I wouldn't sweat it (long term). Just recently the whole system was much cruder than it is now. Been a lot of progress over the last year.

 

We referred to "parking" as spotting i.e. "spot aircraft on the Point." This is especially relevant considering aircraft in sim would have to magically back up to be placed in the pre-designated parking spots in sim.

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NAS Oceana, NAF Atsugi

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VFA-192 (Line sup, PP, L/HPT instructor qualified)

VFA-115 (PP, LPT qualified)

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There has been discussion before about having a virtual tug. The new carriers are still VERY new, WiP stage. It'll be a while before they get everything they need, we don't even have the full crews they have been working on yet, or the ATC that is in dev.

Де вороги, знайдуться козаки їх перемогти.

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