How do I take off from the carrier?

[barthelby]

hello

 

 

 

first sorry for my bad english :music_whistling:

 

 

So it's about the 5 time that my F18 is stuck on the carrier during take off. I push "U" to lock the plane on the track, i check that the barrier behind my plane is up. i go full PC the plane start shaking and.... nothing...

 

 

is it a known bug or i'm the lucky one ? :pilotfly:

 

 

thanks for your answers :D

bug carrier.trk

[609_Relentov]

Having the same issue with the F-14, posted my observations/thoughts in this F-14 thread: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3866098&postcount=26

[Davee]

hello

 

 

 

first sorry for my bad english :music_whistling:

 

 

So it's about the 5 time that my F18 is stuck on the carrier during take off. I push "U" to lock the plane on the track, i check that the barrier behind my plane is up. i go full PC the plane start shaking and.... nothing...

 

 

is it a known bug or i'm the lucky one ? :pilotfly:

 

 

thanks for your answers :D

 

 

Have you taken off before with no problem? I have not had this happen to me but I thought that I would post some links in case you see something missing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Rsn65d8Qzy4T9A8435sYw

Edited April 2, 2019 by Catseye

[Cytarabine]

Have you retracted the launch bar? It is part of the procedure, no idea whether not doing so would stop you from launching at all.

 

Is it only if you start from a cold start or away from the cat, or if you got start on the cat?

[Gierasimov]

I did a cold start on the deck and I was not able to reproduce this.

One thing I did differently was that in my ME, Stennis is sailing at 25kts and not default 11kts like yours. I am not sure if that would make the difference though... will try to check next time ...

[danny875]

I’m sure that I’ve had this once with the F14, she would not launch from cat 2. I decoupled, turned around and used cat 3 I think, strange

[jackdaw]

I have had this happen before, exited mission then restarted, worked ok

[Zarbas]

Sometimes it happens when you're not correctly aligned with the cat (in some missions you're forced to turn right for cat 1 without having the right space to align properly). If you can't take off after 3-4 seconds with throttle at MIL just got back to idle, disengage the lock pressing U and align again

[bonesvf103]

Sometimes I've noticed you have to raise the launch bar again so that it tensions on the shuttle. Then you can launch.

 

 

v6,

boNes

[Banman]

Proper procedure is to set the launch bar switch to retract once connected to the shuttle. Obviously the bar will not physically retract once connected.

[Madbrood]

That might be proper procedure, but it doesn't inhibit launch - I do it all the time.

[DeltaMike]

Maybe I missed it but I didn't see you set your takeoff trim. Wonder if that's not the problem.

[Sparky1b09]

I once forgot to put my second engine in idle and it would power up but not launch. Just a thought.