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Carrier & Convoy Planner (CCP) v1.3.2.9 Released

Ccp huh

Well, its late again but this is when I have the time to check stuff out. And......I followed all the instructions. I made absolutely sure that each carrier listed had the exact path that is in boats. Identical. To prove it as soon as Start on Carrier was selected, it gave me the pos 1 location just as I had specified. Big BUT!!! Monitor. Start FSX. Put aircraft at a close airport. As soon as I connect to fsx the aircraft is transported out into the ocean, not on a carrier. No carrier is anywhere on the ocean just an aircraft somewhere AND the time was specified as 12:00 as Blue Zone video suggests to start with and the FSX clock was 11:57:43. What's going on here. PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I really want this to work. Somebody who is successfully using this tell me what's going wrong. It works for Blue Zone in his videos and I am sure for a lot of others too.
 
Could you have a time zone confusion? Like say the instructions said 12:00, and your FSX clock read 11:57. Could the boat be on UTC, or ZULU time, and your FSX clock is reading in YOUR local time. Like, say UTC +8 (ie: PST).

You may have to convert. Like if your FSX is on UTC +8, just for example, add 8 hours to what they specified. Like set your FSX local time to 07:57, or 1957 and see if things are correct now.

You didn't specify AM or PM. That's why it's better to use a 24 hr clock, rather than the 12 hour version. Or, in other words, use military time readings, rather than the civilian ones. Like 12:00, well, is that 1200 or 2400, or 12:00 AM, or 12:00 PM? See the possibilities for confusion? Same with 11:57. To me, that's 1157 or 11:57 AM. But, did you mean to indicate 11:57 PM? To me, that's 2357. :dizzy:
Also, using a 24 hr. clock, you never need the colon, nor the AM/PM indicator. Saves typing, if nothing else :biggrin-new:

OR, try setting your FSX time to ZULU time and see if things match up as expected.

No promise that this IS the problem, buuuut...:indecisiveness:

Honestly, the reason I stick to the 24 Hr. even though I'm no longer active military, is that one time, when I WAS active, I worked 2300-0700 every night. IE, 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM. We called it mids.
Well, one day, I was sleeping soundly, when something woke me up. I looked at my watch, and it read 11:30. OH NO! I thought I was going to be late for work! I jumped up, showered and dressed in a record time I hadn't achieved since boot camp, and ran for the door. Opened it up to a lovely, bright, sunny, day. I was 12 hours off. I said several very bad words, and went back to bed. That night, I set my watch to read in 24 hour time, and I've stuck to it ever since.

Good luck!
Pat☺
 
Zulu Time

Thank you Sgt for taking the time to try and help with this. I am a 2X Vietnam Navy vet with a bunch of experience too and familiar with "Zulu" time GMT which is now UTC. I wish it were that easy a fix. The sim clock was set for 11:55:00 GMT 07:55:00 local Eastern Daylight time or GMT-4. The problem is not that it did not trigger but that it triggered early and no carrier was present so the aircraft splashed. This is THE NIMITZ which is the one carrier it originally worked on for a split second and then zoomed off the deck EVEN though engines were shut down and aircraft cold and dark all power off. That is why I am so perplexed. In the BlueZone video he make up a Kiev and puts a helo on deck. Now the engines are running when he is on deck and he doesn't show starting up in FSX because he says he is not going to make us wait. I wish he would so I could see him from square 1 in FSX. I just read a post in the Blue Zone forum where he tells a guy to pre-start FSX 10 minutes. I don't know if 10 minutes, 5 minutes 3 minutes makes any difference but I'm going to try 10 minutes. I'll be back "like a bad penny". LOL

anyway, thanks for the help to you all trying to help

R:banghead:
 
Nuts!

I am tired of trying to fix this when I don't seem to know enough about it to ask a dumb question. I want to thank you guys who have tried to help but its not working yet. Everything you suggested I did. There is STILL NO CARRIER NOTHING BUT WATER when it connects and that is instantaneous no matter what time is in the sim. And YES ITS GMT to GMT with 10 minutes before CCP is supposed to connect in fsx. Yes its the same NIMITZ in PA.cfg and my "boats" folder and yes the flight deck positions all show and can be selected from the carrier in the box in Monitor. So?????????????

My last resort here is to ask someone here on the SOH who is currently actively using CCP in FSX Acceleration successfully if you are willing to do a Teamviewer session with me and I let you do everything on my desktop while I watch and see if anything I am doing something wrong or if you do the same steps I am with a default CCP installation with not one single change and it still does not work correctly. THEN I am willing to do an uninstall/reinstall of FSX and Acceleration just in case though it works perfectly with everything else including RFN gauges and vLSO JoinFS the whole thing just in case FSX/A is the problem.

Post here if you are willing and what your timezone is in the world so we can connect. :dizzy:
 
tgycgijoes said:
I am tired of trying to fix this when I don't seem to know enough about it to ask a dumb question. I want to thank you guys who have tried to help but its not working yet. Everything you suggested I did. There is STILL NO CARRIER NOTHING BUT WATER when it connects and that is instantaneous no matter what time is in the sim. And YES ITS GMT to GMT with 10 minutes before CCP is supposed to connect in fsx. Yes its the same NIMITZ in PA.cfg and my "boats" folder and yes the flight deck positions all show and can be selected from the carrier in the box in Monitor. So?????????????

My last resort here is to ask someone here on the SOH who is currently actively using CCP in FSX Acceleration successfully if you are willing to do a Teamviewer session with me and I let you do everything on my desktop while I watch and see if anything I am doing something wrong or if you do the same steps I am with a default CCP installation with not one single change and it still does not work correctly. THEN I am willing to do an uninstall/reinstall of FSX and Acceleration just in case though it works perfectly with everything else including RFN gauges and vLSO JoinFS the whole thing just in case FSX/A is the problem.

Post here if you are willing and what your timezone is in the world so we can connect. :dizzy:
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I'm with you mate. CCP COULD have been brilliant but from the start - the instructions are almost completely unintelligible, the MO with GUI remains glitchy and stubbornly un-cooperative.

I really believe that some sort of Carrier Ops add-on for TP would be amazing. Something I could spend a couple of days planning and mapping out a campaign and then a wet Sunday afternoon going hell fire with.
Unfortunately CCP, IMHO is very far from anywhere near this.

You're not alone in your frustrations.
 
thank you

Ganter said:
I'm with you mate. CCP COULD have been brilliant but from the start - the instructions are almost completely unintelligible, the MO with GUI remains glitchy and stubbornly un-cooperative.

I really believe that some sort of Carrier Ops add-on for TP would be amazing. Something I could spend a couple of days planning and mapping out a campaign and then a wet Sunday afternoon going hell fire with.
Unfortunately CCP, IMHO is very far from anywhere near this.

You're not alone in your frustrations.
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It helps some to know there are other frustrated :banghead: folks out there but not much because as you feel too, this could have been great. My post above still stands for a helper in Teamviewer who can show me how to use this from MY desktop. If I get any takers, I will setup a webinar which is live time for all us frustrated folks who want this to work like it is promised in the videos.
 
I was kidding not serious. I know nothing about CCP. But I am getting it and will learn how to make it work. I have FSX Accel (works good - 30 fps), Windows 7 Pro (64 bit), and i7 3.5 Ghz CPU, and know my way around fsx.cfg, but you never know. I feel your pain, though. Hang in there.
Chuck B
Napamule
 
I know

I know you were kidding. Good luck with figuring it out. I have the same software, OS etc you do. Seriously, though, a couple years ago I was recreating Air Group Five in 1943 and back-dated FSX to that year in the calendar and it really worked with real weather. I didn't consult the Old Farmers' Almanac from 1943 but I'm going to believe that Microsoft's ACEs team programmed their software realistically. The calendar was a correct day of the week because I checked online. You can post your success (or not) here. I am sure that Ganter myself and a lot of others are interested.
 
I can't seem to find the document that I put together about getting CCP carriers to work. Unfortunately, I've been really busy this week and haven't had as much time to devote to the issue as i would like.

Something that would help me to help you would be a list of the carriers you are trying to use, then I'll be able to create a step by step instruction set for you....hopefully tomorrow or Saturday.
 
Carriers

First, are you using the most current version of CCP or an older one? I read both CCP documents tonight though they were written for older versions. They mention first that you activate the FSX@War pack 1 which they say is automatically installed by CCP. NOT! It is automatically installed by FSX@War which I installed tonight just because I thought that might be why its not working. I just finished trying to use it after the FSX@War install. Still does the same stupid thing. As soon as it connects to FSX it doesn't wait for the activation time set in CCP but immediately sends the aircraft out to sea with no carrier at full speed whatever that happens to be even though the aircraft is at 0 speed with parking brakes set on the runway at whatever airport i set it at.

I have tried to use the USS NIMITZ by Javier, veh-carrier 01 high detail sm earlier and just now FSX@War Pack 1 USS Nimitz. It doesn't matter. Everything I do in CCP is by the book and up to connecting to FSX it seems like its going to work but...

Instead of writing out something will you connect with me with Teamviewer and YOU make MY CCP work on my computer and I will watch you and see what you do different or don't do that I'm doing. Or you can see it doesn't work and see if you can figure out why. I am Eastern US Daylight Time which is GMT-4. If you are willing to do this we can setup a time convenient for us both Saturday. I really do appreciate you trying to help.
 
I guess

I guess that there is no left who has been able to master CCP and explain how to do it besides the way they say in the tutorials and instructions because that way does not work. I have a perfectly operating FSX/A. I know its perfect because 1. Its a new installation after uninstalling it and re-installing it. 2. Every other thing I have add-ons including ai carriers works perfectly. It is really a HUGE disappointment that I can't get CCP to work as cannot others. We would really like to get this to work as shown but I can't get any answers out of Blue Zone who created the tremendous videos. I have uninstalled both FSX@War and CCP until some help arrives.
 
tgycgijoes said:
I guess that there is no left who has been able to master CCP and explain how to do it besides the way they say in the tutorials and instructions because that way does not work. I have a perfectly operating FSX/A. I know its perfect because 1. Its a new installation after uninstalling it and re-installing it. 2. Every other thing I have add-ons including ai carriers works perfectly. It is really a HUGE disappointment that I can't get CCP to work as cannot others. We would really like to get this to work as shown but I can't get any answers out of Blue Zone who created the tremendous videos. I have uninstalled both FSX@War and CCP until some help arrives.
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Yep, looks that way. Sorry. (I always thought it was load of rubbish)

But Hey, listen! - Life isn't that bad. If you have AiCarriers and Tackpack installed it's possible to spawn pretty much everything - with everything firing at you/ it/ AI, etc.

CCP was a great idea - but it just don't work. If you have the above deployable add-ons then you can have a very busy day indeed.

I'm going to do a video soon on how I arrange Tactical Exercises out on the Ocean - I use a combo of Tacpack, AiCarriers, NavMap and a shed load of luck.

FSX/P3D can be exceedingly fun on Mil Com. I tried forever to make CCP (FSX@War) work but really, it don't)
 
Virtual CVW 14

Ganter said:
Yep, looks that way. Sorry. (I always thought it was load of rubbish)

But Hey, listen! - Life isn't that bad. If you have AiCarriers and Tackpack installed it's possible to spawn pretty much everything - with everything firing at you/ it/ AI, etc.

CCP was a great idea - but it just don't work. If you have the above deployable add-ons then you can have a very busy day indeed.

I'm going to do a video soon on how I arrange Tactical Exercises out on the Ocean - I use a combo of Tacpack, AiCarriers, NavMap and a shed load of luck.

FSX/P3D can be exceedingly fun on Mil Com. I tried forever to make CCP (FSX@War) work but really, it don't)
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Having just started vCVW-14 I am very anxious to see how you setup a TACEX. We only have 3 pilots right now but I hope to grow. We are virtual 1976 right now aboard USS Enterprise CVN65 but currently we are onshore at NAS Lemoore and NAS Point Mugu as was done in real life. Our deployment is scheduled for ******* (oops that's classified LOL). Thank you for replying and keeping me from feeling incompetent. I DID post over at Zone Blue on his Facebook page again today so we'll see if/when he replies and I will post the reply here.:wavey:
 
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