Night cat signalization

[draconus]

It was announced June 16:

https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/274164-dcs-f-14-development-update-bounce-burble-and-orbits/

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Night Catapult Signalization

The standard way of launching off of the carrier at night is to flash the aircraft’s lights to signal the carrier crew. This is now implemented in the F-14, and takes the place of the standard salute during daytime.

 

but all that is done is just a trigger from the binding to Master Lights On. Ground Crew > Salute comms menu does the same.

 

If we turn on Master Lights before connecting to the cat we can then turn on the nav lights switch to actually turn on the external lights as salute but we won't be launched by the crew.

 

I present two tracks of launching both A and B. One with comms menu, the other with key binding. I specificaly turn slimes off and go to external view to show that no lights are turning on on the aircraft.

 

Can this be fixed so that it works from the ground crew POV? They see the lights turning on - they launch you. They have no way to know what switch pilot used.

night launch A.trk night launch B.trk

[Nealius]

Wait, so during the day if we switch Master Lights ON without saluting it will also launch us?

[draconus]

2 hours ago, Nealius said:

Wait, so during the day if we switch Master Lights ON without saluting it will also launch us?

No. Just tested.