Guiding F14 to catapults on a supercarrier

[Goetsch]

In an update a while back ED added the ability for the supercarriers to have ground crew guide you to the catapults.

However, after that update F14 will not be able to access the catapults with a birth from a parking spot, saluting the ground crew on the F14 is not effective, they will not guide you, and the only way to catapult is to birth the F14 directly to the catapults.

Is this issue a long standing bug at the moment or is there some setting that I am not aware of that needs to be changed?

Edited Tuesday at 05:59 AM by Goetsch

[draconus]

2 hours ago, Goetsch said:

However, after that update F14 will not be able to access the catapults with a birth from a parking spot, saluting the ground crew on the F14 is not effective, they will not guide you, and the only way to catapult is to birth the F14 directly to the catapults.

No it all works fine for the Tomcat. If you have problem it's probably mission related, so please, be specific or add a short track.

[Goetsch]

My current situation is such that I've put F18s and F14s on the supercarrier, both born from a parking space,

but only the F18s can trigger deck guidance from the ground crew by saluting.

 

Does the F14 need to have any specific settings in the mission?

[draconus]

6 minutes ago, Goetsch said:

only the F18s can trigger deck guidance from the ground crew by saluting

Try keybind Salute instead of the one from ground crew radio comms. If it's cold start - salute, wait a bit, if nothing happens, salute again.

Can you share this mission so we could test?

[Goetsch]

1 hour ago, draconus said:

Try keybind Salute instead of the one from ground crew radio comms. If it's cold start - salute, wait a bit, if nothing happens, salute again.

Can you share this mission so we could test?

Okay, I will share it in the post later, Thank you.

[Goetsch]

Here's my test

F14 supercarrier test.miz

Edited Tuesday at 01:19 PM by Goetsch

[draconus]

8 hours ago, Goetsch said:

Here's my test

Sorry, can't help you with this one, I don't have Germany map. Only Caucasus, Nevada, Marianas, Syria and Persian Gulf.

[draconus]

I took a few minutes to create simple mission in Caucasus, put a CVN-71 sailing 27kts, then 4 Tomcats group including 1st unit for Player and 4 AI Hornets group. Hornets start up in the sixpack in front of you. You have to wait a few minutes on Elevator 2 and after the Hornets start taxiing the brown shirts are starting to be available returning to their spots. Then you can use Salute binding to call one (not the Salute from ground crew radio comms!) and continue with your startup.

F14 supercarrier test Caucasus.miz

Edited 7 hours ago by draconus

[Q3ark]

Are you using the key bind or the option in the radio menu? The radio menu item only works when you’re on the catapult ready to launch, you have to use the key bind. 

[Goetsch]

16 hours ago, draconus said:

I took a few minutes to create simple mission in Caucasus, put a CVN-71 sailing 27kts, then 4 Tomcats group including 1st unit for Player and 4 AI Hornets group. Hornets start up in the sixpack in front of you. You have to wait a few minutes on Elevator 2 and after the Hornets start taxiing the brown shirts are starting to be available returning to their spots. Then you can use Salute binding to call one (not the Salute from ground crew radio comms!) and continue with your startup.

F14 supercarrier test Caucasus.miz 10.39 kB · 0 downloads

Okay, I'll reconstruct the case later, in the Caucasus map, thank you very much for your help.

16 hours ago, Q3ark said:

Are you using the key bind or the option in the radio menu? The radio menu item only works when you’re on the catapult ready to launch, you have to use the key bind. 

I just can't activate the ground crew at the parking spot to guide me TAXI to the catapult, when I birth directly from the catapult it is possible to eject, I just can't get into the catapult.

I can activate ejection for takeoff by saluting, but I can't activate TAXI by saluting.

Everything works fine for me in the F18, but I can't taxi in the F14.

[speed-of-heat]

50 minutes ago, Goetsch said:

Okay, I'll reconstruct the case later, in the Caucasus map, thank you very much for your help.

I just can't activate the ground crew at the parking spot to guide me TAXI to the catapult, when I birth directly from the catapult it is possible to eject, I just can't get into the catapult.

I can activate ejection for takeoff by saluting, but I can't activate TAXI by saluting.

Everything works fine for me in the F18, but I can't taxi in the F14.

Ejection?