Carrier Quals - want to extend my training

[stingray77]

Hi

I am regularly training F-14 Supercarrier-Case I-Carrier Quals that come with the Persian Gulf and Syria Maps (are those coming with the Terrains, or with Heatblur's F-14? I'd better ask there, then...)

What I'd like to do is extend my training to different weather/day of time-conditions.

 

As the training mission starts without opening the Mission Editor I cannot change parameters like wind/weather/time of day.... Or is there a way to "take" the stock carrier quals and modify it somehow (short of setting up a whole new mission - being too new in DCS I'm not yet familiar with creating such a mission...) - and as far as I can see noone ever bothered to create one and made it available for download...

 

Thaks for your inpt

Oliver

[Uxi]

I was going to say Bankler's Case I trainer, as well but standard weather. 

 

Wags did a Case 3 for Hornet.  Easy enough to swap out Tomcat and carrier of your choice.  

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/184352-case-iii-recovery-practice-mission/

Edited June 29, 2021 by Uxi

[stingray77]

Thanks a lot, Uxi. I looked up and downloaded Bankler's trainer and the three missions from your linked thread... Without having looked into, are those landings only or are those "whole cycle"-quals from take off to landing? "Carrier Ops off Bat" at least sounds like the whole thing...

 

Anyhow, thanks again and MUCH appreciated! (Now I hope to get to see the carrier in night ops as well... ) 

[Bankler]

3 hours ago, stingray77 said:

Thanks a lot, Uxi. I looked up and downloaded Bankler's trainer and the three missions from your linked thread... Without having looked into, are those landings only or are those "whole cycle"-quals from take off to landing? "Carrier Ops off Bat" at least sounds like the whole thing...

 

Anyhow, thanks again and MUCH appreciated! (Now I hope to get to see the carrier in night ops as well... ) 

 

My training mission only covers CASE 1. You can tweak the weather yourself in the Mission Editor. As long as the ceiling is no lower than 3,000 feet, and the visibility is no less than 5 nautical miles, it's still CASE 1. 

Regarding landing only/full cycle, there are two modes. Break mode (which is the default), starts ~3 nm behind the boat and will evaluate your flying from the point where you pass the boat just before the break. This is not how they do CQ IRL, but imho I think it's a very good way to practice, since this is how you would land when coming back from a mission. You can use the comms menu to switch to "pattern mode", which will be more like real life CQ. You take off and turn left straight into downwind, and the evaluation will start when you're abeam.

 

I have no scoring support if you want to practice the full cyclic ops recovery thing, with overhead port hold and such. However, there is nothing stopping you from doing that procedure, commence, and then go into the last part. The script will start on initial, and everything should work as usual. We often do it this way if we're a lot of people in our CQ events (not realistic to be 20 guys during CQ, but lots of fun!).