Instant mission CASE I Recovery F/A-18C overweighted due too much amount of fuel onboard

[OLD CROW]

Every times I use this mission just to practice a fast carrier landing I got same issues. Boom!!!! boulter and hard landing, and with the last undercarriage iteraction this hard landing is 99% times an U/C fatal failure due the amount of iron & FUEL impacting the carrier deck. 

So I did the homework, surfed thru forum topics and I found one entry that explained the Max. Gross Landing Weight in the carrier for the F-18 is 33,000 Lbs or below this magic number. So I did the mission 10 times, I dumped fuel till Max. Gross reached 33,000 Lbs. and 10 over 10 times ZERO problems broken the U/C in the Landings or even boultering due the rebounds.

There are several solutions for fixing that. I just found a few by my own, but just for people that does not know that detail can you fix the initial amount of fuel aircraft is carrying or situate the spawn starting point several miles away, whatever easier than now due it is just an instant action mission and it should be easier for beginners no?. Thanks for advance. 

[Solo_Turk]

max trap weight is 34k. you can dump the fuel until initial(4nm behind the carrier). for example, you have 10k lbs fuel and your weight is 38k. you can set bingo to 6k. start dumping fuel. it will stop dumping automatically when it reaches 6k. then you can proceed to case 1 rec. ofc you may still have bolters due to piloting things.

[draconus]

9 hours ago, Solo_Turk said:

you can dump the fuel

And so he did. The point is Instant Action Case I recovery mission should already put you in an aircraft ready to trap.

[OLD CROW]

On 11/25/2024 at 8:32 AM, draconus said:

The point is Instant Action Case I recovery mission should already put you in an aircraft ready to trap.

You nailed it