Mission 1 Carrier Turns Before Takeoff

[Andrei]

In Mission 1 I took the standard pace going though the startup including full alignment. Shortly after (<1 minute) after alignment was completed I started to taxi and at that moment carrier started turning away from the wind. 

The resulting takeoff wind component after the turn was complete was 8 knots head and 10 knots cross. Please provide enough time to go though the normal startup procedure without stored heading cheats  

[Nix Mills]

21 minutes ago, Andrei said:

In Mission 1 I took the standard pace going though the startup including full alignment. Shortly after (<1 minute) after alignment was completed I started to taxi and at that moment carrier started turning away from the wind. 

The resulting takeoff wind component after the turn was complete was 8 knots head and 10 knots cross. Please provide enough time to go though the normal startup procedure without stored heading cheats  

Thanks for reporting this. Odd, we’ve never had that happen before, carrier is not set to turn for quite a while. Will look into it.

are you using STD HDG to align your GPS or taking the full 8 minutes to spin up?

Edited March 30 by Nix Mills

[Andrei]

1 hour ago, Nix Mills said:

Thanks for reporting this. Odd, we’ve never had that happen before, carrier is not set to turn for quite a while. Will look into it.

are you using STD HDG to align your GPS or taking the full 8 minutes to spin up?

Hi Nix!

Like I mentioned - full alignment.
Began taxi at +00:14:55
Carrier started turn after about +00:15:50 from the mission start.

[Nix Mills]

I checked the ship's log and it confirmed that the carrier did indeed make a hard port turn at 0646 hrs local time - so 16 minutes into your mission. The bridge have agreed to extend this a bit with the next update, although I did get some sass from the airboss who complained about camera crews, players and more holding up his launch window. 

[KENNY1988]

Hi Nix,

I have the same issue. I've looked on this mission via ME and there are 3 WPs for carrier, see below. I think, If you do a complete startup procedure, you can't get to air before carrier starts turn. Carrier is going to WP1 only for 7 miles, so it's not enough time

Thank you

Flying KENNY

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[Nix Mills]

Thanks. I've moved WP1 giving it 5 min more, which will come out in the next patch.

A little trick here, though. If you are spinning up your navigation instruments (GPS) all the way, it takes 8 minutes or so. So do this instead:

- Set INS switch to CV

- When your middle DDI screen comes on, press to box STD HDG at the bottom in the HSI screen

- Continue your other start-up procedures

- When the CV calibration timer has passed 1 min and 30 sec, it'll say OK

- Set INS to NAV or IFA

 

Edited April 5 by Nix Mills

[KENNY1988]

On 4/5/2025 at 2:40 AM, Nix Mills said:

Thanks. I've moved WP1 giving it 5 min more, which will come out in the next patch.

A little trick here, though. If you are spinning up your navigation instruments (GPS) all the way, it takes 8 minutes or so. So do this instead:

- Set INS switch to CV

- When your middle DDI screen comes on, press to box STD HDG at the bottom in the HSI screen

- Continue your other start-up procedures

- When the CV calibration timer has passed 1 min and 30 sec, it'll say OK

- Set INS to NAV or IFA

 

Thanks. I'll wait for next update. 

I'm only using Stored Heading and IFA during my startup procedure.

Again, thank you for resolving this little issue. 

Have a nice day, man