Mission 1 - Feedback ***SPOILERS***

[Reflected]

@War_Pigthanks for sharing your perspective, I'm happy you see it this way. I also find these kinds of challenges very rewarding, it pushes you to exercise airmanship. Not to mention, real naval aviators face such challenges night after night, and we want to simulate that, don't we?

[ataribaby]

After foul deck and return to marshal stack I was never called again or no message popped up so I circled till I decided to call ATC by myself and ran out of fuel. I was very unsure what was going on.

 

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1141138275?t=0h40m44s

Edited September 7, 2021 by ataribaby

[Reflected]

Thanks for the video, now I see the problem: At 42:30 I told you to use the F10 radio menu to tune in to the radio, which you didn't  In the rest of the missions it won't be mandatory, but this is a tutorial mission, so I wanted the player to try.

[ataribaby]

Ahh I see  I never realized it is mandatory here. As it was  my second try on this mission I decided not to listen again.

Edited September 8, 2021 by ataribaby

[Reflected]

26 minutes ago, ataribaby said:

Ahh I see  I never realized it is mandatory here. As it was  my second try on this mission I decided not to listen again.

 

 

Once you turn it on you can turn it off using the same menu

[ataribaby]

Hehe yeah, I just didn't obey orders!

 

PPL always do something different with your work than you originally designed. Probably human nature

Edited September 8, 2021 by ataribaby

[Reflected]

26 minutes ago, ataribaby said:

Hehe yeah, I just didn't obey orders!

 

PPL always do something different with your work than you originally designed. Probably human nature

 

 

Yes, and it's probably the hardest part of campaign making. To predict all possible deviations by the player. But it's physically impossible to account for any and all "what if'-s 

Edited September 8, 2021 by Reflected

[igrpp]

Sorry for asking in this thread but its relevant to the first mission: I seem to be unable to tune into the carriers tacan. I tired 71 and 74 xray and yankee but i never get proper range or aimuth readings. Tacan makes noise but no data. And i checked the briefing, no tacan channels were specified in there so i assumed the standard 071X. 

 

What am i doing wrong exactly?

[unlikely_spider]

1 minute ago, igrpp said:

Sorry for asking in this thread but its relevant to the first mission: I seem to be unable to tune into the carriers tacan. I tired 71 and 74 xray and yankee but i never get proper range or aimuth readings. Tacan makes noise but no data. And i checked the briefing, no tacan channels were specified in there so i assumed the standard 071X. 

 

What am i doing wrong exactly?

The proper channels are in the kneeboard. I don't remember exactly which the carrier is right now though, but they all should be there. Are you also sure that it's in T/R mode, and also set to Pilot and not RIO?

[igrpp]

1 minute ago, unlikely_spider said:

The proper channels are in the kneeboard. I don't remember exactly which the carrier is right now though, but they all should be there. Are you also sure that it's in T/R mode, and also set to Pilot and not RIO?

yes, set to T/R and PLT is in charge, thx for telling me to check the kneeboard ill check again

[CrispyRoboChicken]

I just finished the mission a few days ago and it was very frustrating at first. I just learned the basics of the F-14 and then struggled really hard with everything. Holding the radius and altitude, flying the CASE III approach. However...it was an excellent training  And a rewarding experience.

 

Unfortunately I crashed twice on the carrier because I trusted the ACLS...On my second manual attempt I managed to catch a wire.

[CH4Pz]

On 9/10/2021 at 5:13 PM, igrpp said:

yes, set to T/R and PLT is in charge, thx for telling me to check the kneeboard ill check again

Doubt its still relevant, but i think carriers 59X, all that stuffs in the second image of the briefing too  

[BuzzLine]

Spoiler

Gosh. I wish I'd remembered how crappy night lighting was in 2.7 before opting to go for the tanker... No visual on the tanker's lights until about 0.2 miles , no lights on the refueling boom like the F18 but thankfully there were NVGs aboard. What was not aboard at that point was fuel. I think I plugged when I had 500lbs left. Definitely a good sea story, the likes of which you find in all those naval aviation books.  Looking forward to mission 2 but ... not right now, I'm an emotional wreck.

 

[Reflected]

When I refuel at night I don't use NVG, I just crank the gamma all the way up - simulating my eyes getting used to the dark

[Shibbyland]

Just finished mission 1, man you know how to make a good mission even without combat. I was all over the place trying to get on speed AoA, kept finding myself pitched up to 25 degrees, had to throw in the autothrottle in the end just to take some of the load off.