Well,..............I bit the bullet and bought it, and what a nice piece of work it is! 8)
It put's the USS George Washington CVN 73 in four locations; Gulf of mexico, Bay of Biscay, the Persian Gulf, & the Sea of Japan.
It includes 6 aircraft; The F-14 Tomcat, F-18 Hornet, E-2C Hawkeye, CH-46 Seaknight, AV-8B II Harrier, & S-3 Viking.
Is compatible with Fs2k2 & 2k4, and has ArrCab too! 8)
I havent yet tested the cables, but will let ya know as soon as I do, heh, I was too exited to go for a landing, besides it will take alot of practice approaches before I even dream of puttin the wheels on that deck.

Hmmm, no their stationary SaVas, and here's an exerpt from the readme file;

Scenery Features
Javier Fern�ndez created the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CVN 73 included in Flight Deck III with numerous enhancements made by Richard Hogen. The end result in Flight Deck III is a complete aircraft carrier including:

� � � �Hard/Landable surface
� � � �Night Textures
� � � �Pop-up Blast Shields
� � � �Airport Facility Directory entry
� � � �NDB
� � � �VOR
� � � �ILS
� � � �Personnel on deck
� � � �Detailed lower/hanger deck

The USS George Washington CVN 73 has been positioned in 4 different locations in Flight Sim including:

� � � �Gulf of Mexico: C73P (off of Pensacola, FL)
� � � �Bay of Biscay: C73B (off the coast of France and Spain)
� � � �Persian Gulf: C73G (off the coast of Saudi Arabia and Iran)
� � � �Sea of Japan C73J (Between the Koreas and Japan)

Aircraft Animation
All of the planes in Flight Deck III have advanced animation. You�ll find features like those listed below on most the Flight Deck III planes.

� � � �Main Exit opens
� � � �Secondary Exit opens
� � � �Folding Wings/Blades
� � � �Extending Tail-Hook
� � � �Refueling Probe

Yeppers,.............here ya go Pete. 8)



Ready to go!


On Deck, at night.

DVC, on Approach, ( yeah I know, was way too high for this one  )

Rodger that Pete, yeah,...................Im lovin it,..........big time!
The arrestor cable program so far is working, I know the catapult does,.........that was cool!!
Heh, heh, but as yet i havent been able to get her on the deck to test the cable catch. But Im confident it does, I just got to get a grip on the approach.
I allmost made it on this one but again was too high as you can see. Also note the operational FLOLS(Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System) in this shot of me overshooting( again )


I'll get it yet, I had her lined up good this time, but was just too chicken

I may get it but I gave myself a sort of personal ban on all abacus products because I have been very dissappointed the last few times I bought from them.

Yeah Flyboy, eh, heh, I'd been passing it up for a month for the same reason. But I didn't have anything better to do with the 30 bucks it cost, so this time out to the store, so I went for it.
I gotta admit I've got some other Abacus stuff as well and wasnt impressed, but this one,........well you bet im happy with it.
Thanks for the comments friends, and here's a few more.

Heh, I gotta try driving around down here with one of my vehicles.

Early morning, sea of Japan,(sorry it's so dark)



heh, this guy was too interested in watching the cameraman to notice me taking off.

See ya....................


Later guy's gotta get back to work.

almost forgot to ask  !

How did you get below the deck to explore the hull of the carrier?

How did you get the traffic and people on the flight deck?

Iask because I have been trying to figure that out when I used the program in FS2002 and I never got it to work for me!

Thanks Chuck 

Though when I purchased mine it said created for Fs2002 and didn't have that playable with Fs2004 sticker on it. So I think I might have to cough up that extra $20 to get the upgrade disk.  I just purchased it October and got a new computer and played Fs2004 on it and now I am stucky!

Well I will try it anyhow and see what happens! Thanks for replying!

Sam

Yaaaayyyyyy!!! Happy days indeed Sam, great find!
Yeah I was at the Abacus site this morning lookin around, there are some things in the 2004 ver. added that werent in the 2k2 ver., like the S-3 Viking for one.

Well great Sam, im so glad, heh, heh, and I'll be even more glad when I manage a succesful landing on that thing, Im close but I can see It's gonna take alot of practice!
But it sure is fun!

Ok see ya Sam, and have a great day!!! 8)

Oh happy days I made it!!( after 8-10 attempts )
Whew! Yeah I died a few times, but my biggest trouble is it seems is just keeping the slope, and the darn carrier in sight, I keep losing sight of it and wind up having to raise my seat(shift+enter) to keep it in sight so I can see the FLOS.
But damn, what a good feeling once you get it down and trapped!! Heh, heh, yeah ya gotta get up and strut around awhile 8)



Alright guys get this elevator goin, I gotta go pee!!!


Ahh, now to go hit the shower!

Hee, heee! As you can see, im havin fun with this.

Garsh, thanks Nuno , I just try to get the best angle/zoom and such, nothin special.
Yep im lovin this thing, well worth the 29.95 I gave for it.
Here's another at night, on the downwind leg, it's kinda dark but I like it
(Hmmm, dont know what happened with that night shot, it disappeared for some reason, so I replaced it with this one.)
Hehee, I was just playin around to see if this thing would launch.

those are some nice shots, still waiting for my upgrade to be sent to me. 

The water effects are right here on SimV. Go into the Scenery Section of Downloads and look for the file named FS9WAT. They are truly breath taking take a look at how much better you sim experience can become

Still waiting for upgrade disk too. I sent them the copy of the reciept yesterday and today again! They trying so hard to tax $15 bucks off me instead of $4 

Guys:
I just read your posts and this is  what fsiming is all about....just plain fun,  some people are really angry at this particulary add-on ( i don�t have it, , so i�ll only refer to what i�ve read) but the i see these posts and well people are having fun.
Keep having fun guys, maybe i�ll get flight deck 3 later, but now is work time

best regards

Prowler

Hi ya Prowler, thanks for stoppin in! Yeah you got that right,................fun is the name of the game, and I for one,.......love to have fun!
Glad to hear your getting this great program, heck ya know I'd have loved it even if it didnt come with any aircraft at all, the Carrier and Arrcab alone is worth it.
And heck you can fly any plane ya want off it, not just the ones that come with it, the catapult will launch any plane with a tricycle gear and in fact there are lots of freeware & payware military planes with carrier landing capability/ tailhooks.

Hmmm, I wonder, I bet you could even launch a Cessna from it.
Hmmm, I'll have to give it a whirl and find out. 8)

Have fun Prowler, come back soon!!

Sweet shots, I've kinda got a thing for naval aviation and I love this program  8)
I'm also lookin forward to those Skyhawks 8)

I think the first one takes the cake. The others look too calm. Now if the creater could implement changes in the water textures do to the weather conditions. Then that would be hot.

It can't be choppy all the time and it can't be calm all the time. It is just not real. But the first one looks great from air indeed!

Thanks Chuck
Pics were great.
Will look into that program.
Still trying to get water right in FS2004 for float flying.

Cheers....Doug

Who me?................Sea sick?  NAwwww!
Im so sorry Sam, I dont mean to make ya drool,.........I just love to show off somthin cool. 8)
You'll have it soon enough, and I wont be able to stand ya then you'll be so happy!! I have personally sent a request to Santa,  to put a priority 1 on your disk, and im sure it will arrive before Christmas!
Now for my next trick, I have a shot here for you to geuss at,...........what is it.? It's not a carrier shot, just something I picked up lately and is freeware so I'll have to start another thread on it so I'' only put in this one shot.
So what is this, and from what vessel(ficticious).

DUDE NOW I AM GETTING PISSED OFF! No RESPONSE from ABACUS on processing my order. It is now TUESDAY going into Wedsnesday and no damn Disk.

Now I am getting impatient with these people.... of course they do know this means war  !

They won't like it when I get angry 

FD3 is nice, but it's too modern for my tastes.

Rodger that Mav, yep we are a collection af all types, ages, and from all over the world..................heh, were some great bunch eh?

Makes me proud ya know?

Oops, yer right Mav, heh I didnt..........I thought you might have seen my other thread on it in the freeware section; "Admirial Nelsons Flying Sub" so I wasnt gonna put any more in here about it, but since ya asked what the heck.

It's the "Flying Sub" from the old TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"

Here are my five cents:
I always remember those crowded decks of aircraft carrier of mid 80�s, full of a-6�s,  f-14�s,a-7�s a few a/f-18�s back in home ports you could see some a-3 skywarriors, Skyhawks (my beloved one...my other car is a scooter...lol) ect. Man you could see a lot of different types for even the same or different purposes, but they were a sight to see,  and in dessert storm they all went to combat, ,for me, those were the times when you saw a lot of types, gorgeus planes them all, you name it, it was flying back then. Times have changed and well for us, is time to let the new generations watch and maybe in their future they will be saying the same about those new types. For military aviation early 70�s late 80�s was the time.
there are my 5 cents.
now i�ll call the nurse ..since i have the urge to take a leak............LOL

oh by the way..i�m only 32

best regards

Prowler

That looks hot. Must be an exciting download!

Heh, dont have to buy it Frontier, check my thread on this sim in the freeware section;
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=screen;action=display;num=...

Yeah, know what ya mean Sam, I dont think I'll be getting anymore myself.
Im perfectly happy with Flight Deck3, but I have to admit though that the only planes that are wirth a crap are the F-18, F-14, and the S-3. The rest aint no better than some freeware ones I have, or have had.

Jeez, the Chinook seems like cardboard from the inside. .  The Harrier's VC the canopy frame dissapears when panning.

However, the Arrcab works well, and the carrier itself is quite good, and well detailed.
But I think that overall the quality from Abacus varies so much from one product to the other, I have their Military aircraft collection on CD, and well as I said, I've seen free stuff that is as good or better(Dan Reimer's F-18).

And dude, I just got two other planes, one from Flight1(Cessna 310 Twin) & one from Captain sim ( F-104), and the quality is 100 times what Abacus's is...........BIG TIME!! Man the F-104 will knock you socks, shoes & pants off!   Take a look at awash's thread on it.

FInally they abacus has delivered the FD3 upgrade! Man it was a pain in the butt waiting for with all the mishaps in shipping. But well worth the wait! I am happy now! 



This is my pass by the tower station on my first landing in FS2004!



This is a pic of me on standby at the catapult for my 2nd carrier take off! Man I really love the new tomcat! It is so much more better then the one that came with FD3.

Well I think it is time for maverick to do his infamous flyby the tower at over 500 knots!  Hold your coffe tight guys!

Dude I think my video card has an issue with MSN Gaming Zone. I tried it once and it caused my computer to crash! When i recovered the system, it was saying something about a video card error and incompatiblity with a newly installed hardware or software.

So sadly enough I don't think this video card is going to allow me to have any fun with freinds. I am looking into replacing it with a NVidia 256mb video card. I am currently using a 256mb Radeon ATI card.

But it feels good indeed man!

gotta question there for ya Sabrehawk,

how did ya get the aircraft into the belly of the hanger?

I tried using the slew mode but all it did was manuever forward, backwards, right and left.

Is there any particular place on the carrier you have to go to get refueled! (just wondering if the station is in the belly of this carrier)

Thanks for the info SAbrehawk!

I gotta challenge for everyone who has FlightDeck 3 for FS9. check out the new tread!

Mav