Deck crew night ops

[Devil 505]

I could not find this but I know it has been brought up.  Any ETA on the deck crew getting hand lights for directing deck traffic after dark?  I only play in VR and it is very difficult once the crew steps off to the side to see what the hand signal is prior to launch.  Looking forward to improved deck crew night ops.

[borba_eagle]

+1

Even without VR is hard to see these guys in the deck. Hope soon they improve that in SC.

[KittyVCAW-1]

I've resorted to using NVG on the deck because it's the only way I can see their hand signals without jacking the gamma through the roof. Which makes the sky look awful 

[Harker]

It's lower priority at the moment, apparently...

 

[Swift.]

3 hours ago, Harker said:

It's lower priority at the moment, apparently...

 

That's quite shocking to hear, it appears to me that the lack of night capabilities is what one might refer to as a 'blocker'. Like why are they bothering with ACLS before we can even taxi on the deck at night (when ACLS would feasibly be used).

[Harker]

6 minutes ago, Swiftwin9s said:

That's quite shocking to hear, it appears to me that the lack of night capabilities is what one might refer to as a 'blocker'. Like why are they bothering with ACLS before we can even taxi on the deck at night (when ACLS would feasibly be used).

Agree completely

[Nealius]

On 12/11/2020 at 2:04 AM, Swiftwin9s said:

That's quite shocking to hear, it appears to me that the lack of night capabilities is what one might refer to as a 'blocker'. Like why are they bothering with ACLS before we can even taxi on the deck at night (when ACLS would feasibly be used).

So people can be lazy and not land the jet manually at noon CAVOK. 

[Harker]

On 12/14/2020 at 4:03 PM, Nealius said:

So people can be lazy and not land the jet manually at noon CAVOK. 

It saddens me that you are probably right. Already most people are not bothering to learn how to correctly do a CASE I and that number is going to probably increase. I've had people tell me that they can land the Tomcat on the carrier just fine, just for me to realize that they only knew how to use ACLS.

[RackMonkey]

What about some ambient lighting? Watch any night ops video on YT and you will see floods on the island. The deck crew doesn't operate in the total darkness that our carriers currently have. Just don't make it so bright that you can see it from space like the alignment lights currently are.   

Edited December 24, 2020 by RackMonkey

[phil106ci]

deck crew hand lights +1

expecting a lot more like briefing room, decent hangars, push back, etc ... soon lol

[Silver_Dragon]

On "2021 and beyond video" show some Supercarrier improvements.

- 1:04 CAG station
- 3:01 Flodding lights
- 3:55 Hangar

That only a matter of time.

 

 

[Swift.]

The flood lights at 3:01 are already in the game, but they are correctly not bright enough to see the plane directors hands. This is why they use the wands IRL. Until then we see those, we are effectively stuck to daylight ops only.