Simviation Forum - It is much better with a carrier...

Apr 8^th, 2004 at 2:12am

codered Offline
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I downloaded a set of US aircraft carriers off the coast of Thailand. I am sure the rest of you discovered these. Here are some shots doing some approaches in the F/A-18E. Grin

Start up.

Taxi out for launch.

Clean up the aircraft.

Turning final for approach.

WAVE OFF! Grin

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Reply #1 - Apr 8^th, 2004 at 3:27am

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Great shots there codered Wink

Makes me want to run off and do some carrier ops right now!!!

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Reply #2 - Apr 8^th, 2004 at 4:46am

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same here! didn't know about this add on carriers. do they have a working steam catapult? and working arrestor cables? i'm tired landing on normal runways...

oh, does anybody know if there's a download available to install arrestor cables on a normal runway, just to practice a bit...? Wink

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Reply #3 - Apr 8^th, 2004 at 6:32am

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Ken there is a program available here that does the same thing as ArrCab I can't remember its name but its listed as some sort of carrier landing gauges or something. I'll go have a browse now....

Mark

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Reply #4 - Apr 8^th, 2004 at 6:54am

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Sorry Ken it seems I made a mistake, we haven't got the original file for some reason. Some panels have it.
The file is called rcbco-11 and is by Rob Barendregt and Doug Dawson.
I know its over at no-nodes, and probably at Avsim as well.

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Reply #5 - Apr 8^th, 2004 at 9:59am

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Carrier ops are fine if you have the option of landing in the Hangar Deck.........the only one I know of where you can do that in 2002 is the Abe Lincoln which sits to the west of San Deigo ........ Wink

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Reply #6 - Apr 8^th, 2004 at 10:05am

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Looks like you had too much fun!

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Reply #7 - Apr 8^th, 2004 at 11:20am

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There is no catapult or cables.... I guess there are addons to represent that, I just haven't looked yet. I had to cheat a bit to get the plane in the air. I took the shot, and tried to do a short field take off, but I ended up in the drink. Grin

So my next time off the deck I taxied all the way to the stern and took off from there. I was able to land fine, but I had to come in real slow and had to do some serious braking action. Grin

Still a load of fun, and different than the 10,000 ft runways. Grin

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Reply #8 - Apr 8^th, 2004 at 12:11pm