Mosquito dips in to sea after repair on Forrestal aircraft carrier.

[Rainbowgirl]

Hello. When Mossie is repaired on a Forrestal carrier,  it  respawns in a parking slot at the front of the tower. Its tail overhang the deck`s edge and plane dips into sea after being lowered from air. Not sure whether same happens on Nimitz or Kuznetcov.

[razo+r]

If it was a bug then a Forrestal one. But since the Mosquito is not supposed to be there in the first place, it's probably going to get a (no bug) tag. 

[-0303-]

Same thing happens with Spitfire, P-51, P-47, Bf-109, I-16 ... Funny. When the algorithm sometimes puts those planes on a catapult, the tail wheel is placed on the catapult hookup.

This "bug" breaks suspense of disbelief in a bad way. Seems just a small effort is needed to fix it. If ED doesn't want to redefine the plane center they could alternatively just exclude non naval planes from the move-to-catapult-or-elevator algorithm. Repair could work on the spot like it used to pre 2.5.6. Third option, only position on catapults.

Suspense of disbelief. People (well me) like to explore virtual worlds. Land Harrier on a freighter. Land helicopter on a truck. Land a plane on the beach, grass field. Sometimes crash and burn, fine. Some limitations are fine. I wouldn't expect Tower to pass the Turing test. "Easy fixable" unnecessary limitations, like algorithm deliberately throwing your plane overboard, no.

Besides, planes did land on CV's hook less. It was a part of WW2. Hurricanes was evacuated to carriers from Norway without hooks. Planes got ferried a lot on carriers. One guy lost his drop tank on takeoff, and landed his Spitfire back on the CV without a hook.

Once I landed and took off the Spitfire 50 times in a row. I could've kept going except for a server reset.

Edited December 8, 2021 by -0303-

[Ercoupe]

You know, no offence, really...but with all the things that need to be worked on, I can't believe that someone is complaining that they can't operate P-47's from an aircraft carrier. Wait 'til the Corsair comes out, and you won't even care anymore.

[HotTom]

2 hours ago, Ercoupe said:

You know, no offence, really...but with all the things that need to be worked on, I can't believe that someone is complaining that they can't operate P-47's from an aircraft carrier. Wait 'til the Corsair comes out, and you won't even care anymore.

Ditto. The history is plenty interesting and exciting. Let's stick to it.

[NineLine]

On 12/8/2021 at 1:51 AM, -0303- said:

 

This "bug" breaks suspense of disbelief in a bad way.

 

So does landing on that carrier. 

[-0303-]

10 hours ago, NineLine said:

So does landing on that carrier. 

Yes it does breaks suspension of disbelief because it's doable in the physical world and it has been done. Last time famously by a Cessna Bird Dog on USS Midway.

Landings and takeoffs can already be done. I'm only asking for the planes to not be thrown off the side by the repair algorithm. Like it worked pre ver 2.6.

On 12/9/2021 at 10:13 PM, HotTom said:

Ditto. The history is plenty interesting and exciting. Let's stick to it.

In history Hurricanes was evacuated from Norway to a Carrier. Never mind it shortly got sunk by a German battleship.

[NineLine]

When did it land on that carrier, the Forrestal, I'm sorry, we have much more important things to work on than this. 

[No1sonuk]

On 12/24/2021 at 8:38 AM, NineLine said:

When did it land on that carrier, the Forrestal, I'm sorry, we have much more important things to work on than this. 

October 1963

https://www.theaviationzone.com/factsheets/c130_forrestal.asp

That's a C-130, but still...

[NineLine]

3 hours ago, No1sonuk said:

That's a C-130, but still...

Okay...

[NineLine]

The discussion is about the operating in DCS off a carrier, we do not have the carrier they operated off of, and the one mentioned here is by a third party more for their modules. It's just not something we are going to worry about right now. Sorry.