OH HAPPY DAYS!!!!!!  

Now you are going to laugh at this! How many of us do some serious deep cleaning around the house on the weekends and come accross missing items!

Well today I was cleaning out a drawer full of junk paper and low behold I found the registration card for Flight Deck 3 and I told myself let me check the drawer and all its contents for the missing sales receipt.

I FOUND IT   !!!!!!!!!

Oh I am going to Abacus right now and claim my free upgrade !  

There is suppose to be some kind of guide to assist you with landing!

Its a bar with interchanging levels. As you approach the carrier it bends and the object for you is to keep the bar straight. As you adjust you line up with the carrier perfectly. It's one of the new features for FS2004.

I use to cheat in FS2002 on landings. Some were good and somewhere awful. But I made it on deck none the less for wear and tear sometimes.

Here's a hint. Before you take off note the altitude of the flight deck. When you take off fly straight out then do a turn around. Watch your GPS as to not lose sight of the carrier. As you turn about come to the rear of the carrier and line up with it from the distance. Visually watch your altitude and speed. If you slow down too much you can't adjust your altitude. As you close in to the carrier line up with the deck and slow your throttle. Then belly Flop (cut all throttle) when your over the deck!

Remember speed and altitude are key to landing! Fly to fast you crash into the deck. Fly too slow you fall out of the sky too fast. Find the sweet spot! Good luck

Amazing shots 

Congratulations on your landing one guestion though. You said you had to pee and just as you were parking you said you had to take a shower. Did you do something in that plane we don't need to know about ? I see you cracked the canopy to let in some fresh air  

Anyhow i noticed your not running the water effects program. You should give it a whirl, it'll make your carrier experience feel more real. you might even get a little sea sick coming in and seeing that water looking so real!  

Hmmm, water effects program? I didnt know there was one,..............uhh at least as far as FS is concerned, I got the sliders all the way in the settings.
Or is that something that Flight Deck III/Arrcab does, didnt see anything in the instructions or readme on that. Or no wait,........could it be in the fsuipc readme? Hmmm I'll have to check it out.

Uhh well, errr Uhhh yep I couldnt hold it Sam, 

Oh those!, yeah I got them somewhere in my downloads folder, I downloaded them awhile back, just havent got around to putting them in.
Good ol Bill Lyons, I just love his work!!

Jeez, I gotta clean up that download folder, hehee I'd have trouble finding them now good grief!
But I think I will, they sure look good.

Thanks Mav, later!!

hi Prowler,

Alot of people make negative comments about Abacus! Even I would agree with them that their addons do suck! Their planes look terrible, there is better duplicates of the planes they make here for free.

But hands down Abacus has one of the best addon creater programs and this download Flight Deck III is awesome! It simulates a catapult launch off a carrier deck realistically. You get sling shot off the deck and you literally sail through the air for a couple of seconds and then because you are at full thrust you gain altitude as in real life.

The Carrier is extremely detailed and functions well, The arrestor cable sometimes is difficult but also realistic. the Landings raise the hairs on the back of your neck as in real life. Programs like this bring more life into your Flight Sim experience. We still have a whole year of FREE DOWNLOADS, you never know what people will create next!

Thanks sabrehawk...and regarding you comment about military planes how about my set of A4 skyhawks( wich are having quite a delay) that hopefully will be released before xmass
here is the A-4B VA-93 USS Bennington 1963 west-pac cruise
[img]http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/A4B SKYHAWK2.jpg[/img]