do ships have navigation beacons?

[wolle]

I am starting to do ship based take-offs and landings. I have a question: do ships (like the CVN-70) have ADF or ILS beacons? If so, what are their frequencies?

[wess24m]

I am starting to do ship based take-offs and landings. I have a question: do ships (like the CVN-70) have ADF or ILS beacons? If so, what are their frequencies?

 

I'm not sure if they do by default, you can however add radio transmission to the unit, or if you'd like add a trigger area over the ship for navigation.

[Cake]

Ships can have TACAN and obviously any system that broadcasts as a Nav aid is broadcasting it's location, not so good an idea. Some systems are on demand, but I think that must have been replaced by now with some type of ship-based WAAS?

[wolle]

How do you add a radio transmission to a unit. I know how to add a radio transmission from a stationary zone, but how can I add it to a moving unit (specifically a ship like CVN-70)?

 

Thanks for your help

[luza]

radio transmission from unit. :)

[Weta43]

See above, but you know you can attach a zone to a moving unit don't you ?

[wolle]

radio transmission from unit. :)

 

Sorry for being really thick here, but there is no "radio transmission from unit" as far as I know (see attached screenshot)

[wolle]

See above, but you know you can attach a zone to a moving unit don't you ?

 

How?

[Robin_Hood]

- for moving zone, check in the triggers for UNIT INSIDE MOVING ZONE, choose the unit to which the moving zone will be attached

 

- for radio transmission by units, check out in the Advanced Waypoint Actions (or the Triggered Actions if you want to trigger it otherwise than by a waypoint) of the ship (NOT in the mission's "Triggers"), and in Perform Command, use SET FREQUENCY and TRANSMIT MESSAGE. I have yet to try that on a ship, though.

[Joni]

- for moving zone, check in the triggers for UNIT INSIDE MOVING ZONE, choose the unit to which the moving zone will be attached

 

- for radio transmission by units, check out in the Advanced Waypoint Actions (or the Triggered Actions if you want to trigger it otherwise than by a waypoint) of the ship (NOT in the mission's "Triggers"), and in Perform Command, use SET FREQUENCY and TRANSMIT MESSAGE. I have yet to try that on a ship, though.

 

 

I can confirm this doesnt work. The ship moves but the radio transmission stays in the initial trigger zone

[BaD CrC]

Generally speaking, good luck with ship based operations and choppers. It is likely that your aircraft will slowly slip and fall in the water if your boat is moving by the time it takes for you to start up.

[Robert31178]

that only happens if the ship is moving and the wind is not coming out of the direction the ship is heading. We ran into this a lot when we were running real time weather, but with the updates we have not been able to run that mod. If there is no wind added to the server map they are fine. For a ship underway I've found that you do get some bouncing, but the helicopters generally stay put because the only wind generated is coming from in front of you and you're more or less heading into it. I've had good luck on the ISVA ship mods and with the LHA. I've been able to, even with the ship underway, rearm, refuel, AND repair. Pretty much CTLD functions worked, crates appeared on the decks of the big ships, pilots recovered could be dropped there, it works fine in multiplayer.....or at least it has so far for us.

 

One thing, my friend in the MI-8 was unable to rearm or repair, he could refuel.

 

Now if you are talking about slingloading stuff onto the ships, now that's a totally different experience :-)

[m4ti140]

- for moving zone, check in the triggers for UNIT INSIDE MOVING ZONE, choose the unit to which the moving zone will be attached

 

- for radio transmission by units, check out in the Advanced Waypoint Actions (or the Triggered Actions if you want to trigger it otherwise than by a waypoint) of the ship (NOT in the mission's "Triggers"), and in Perform Command, use SET FREQUENCY and TRANSMIT MESSAGE. I have yet to try that on a ship, though.

 

 

The latter is not possible with ships, because they lack the "Transmit Message" command in AWA

[BlacleyCole]

There is a chart for tacan frequency’s for those aircraft that don’t have tacan

[m4ti140]

There is a chart for tacan frequency’s for those aircraft that don’t have tacan

 

 

What chart? First time I heard about this...

[BlacleyCole]

Chech back a couple weeks back I downloaded or linked to it but I would have to find it

[RED]

Chech back a couple weeks back I downloaded or linked to it but I would have to find it

 

Did you use it?

 

What frequencies does the ICLS use? Maybe we can tune in those.

[Vlerkies]

Hi

Sorry a bit of a necro revival.

 

Im just trying to setup a simple mission where the UH1H takes off at night from land, pitch dark and has to fly some ways to locate/land on a ship, any ship.

 

Can anyone help with guide or a mission upload so i can see how its done.

The key being navigation to the vessel.

Many thanks and Merry Xmas to everyone.

Edited December 25, 2019 by Vlerkies

[Chump]

AFAIK, ships do not have the capability for a homing beacon (not even in LUA).

 

 

I am sitting here wondering if maybe you can put a HMMWV/etc. aboard a ship and have that transmit something that an aircraft can pick up and home in on?

[Chic]

Check this out https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=215573&highlight=fm+homing&page=2

Park a Huey on board.

[RePhil]

this may not answer ur ? on beacons but, If you call the ship via ATC drop down usually 127.5 you will get a vector to the ship