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Can't land F4u on Carrier? Need advice Please..

H

HouseHobbit

Charter Member
I am Having a Hard time of getting this bird to land well??
I come in a beautiful approch, Holding 110mph, drop Flaps to 50% at one mile out
Level out at 100 ft..
Close to 400 yards, drop Flaps to 75%..
100 yds out drop flaps to 100% speed at 100 mph
50 ft out Level nose Cut engine...
And as soon as The F4U hits the Deck...

BANG!!!!!
Hobbit Pieces everywhere..

A Real Mystery??:jump:
 
What's your "rate of decent" at touchdown? So many of these aircraft aren't modeled to take a high rate of decent slam into the deck even though their real life counterparts could.

Keep an eye on your "climb-dive" indicator, add a little power as you touchdown if it's coming down at over 500 fpm.
 
First there are only a few CFS3 models that are set up to execute carrier landings and that is some of the Corsairs and I think some of the Jap planes. The FM needs to have an excessive amount of drag when the dive brakes are deployed to simulate a tail hook. If you are using one of the models with that modification then carrier landing become easy after a few tries. There is not really any super skill magic involved you just need the right model.
 
Looking at the pictures, I would say:

Try the same thing with a carrier parked at an opposite point on the globe, maybe you'll be more successful!!!:wavey:

Or just "keep your head up" and try again....

cheers
 
retract landing gear and flaps, feather prop, open and lock back canopy and ditch next to the carrier and wait for the pick up boat:icon_lol:
 
Take closer look at the pics, maybe you all can work it out, They show my rate of decent and configuration as I touch down..
:icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_lol:
 
Better yet just find out which models have the dive brake mod and try one. You will see how much easier carrier landing is with just a few tries. Basically if you just get the airplane on the deck without crashing the dive brakes will stop it on a dime, just like a tail hook in reality.
 
Here is a shot of touch down..it shows everything perhaps better..
LOL..LOL..You all are Killing me Here..LOL..LOL.. :banghead:

:gameoff::icon_lol:
 
If I remember right, the real ones did not fair much better. The Navy felt that this air frame was not suited for carrier opperations.
 
landing a f-4

HouseHobbit said:
Here is a shot of touch down..it shows everything perhaps better..
LOL..LOL..You all are Killing me Here..LOL..LOL.. :banghead:

:gameoff::icon_lol:
Click to expand...
:salute:If I am right the wheels have to be down AND THE BOTTOM OF the plane to the deck!
sky pilot
Ha Ha Ha
just picking on you !
 
OK, OK... I get it. We should call you the Crashmaster! Those pics look like my typical formation flying attitude. Really shakes up a new guy in multiplayer.
 
Now you know why I never sent you the Dauntless,I can only imagine the mess you'd make of it.:jump:


Talon
 
Nope no one guessed

LOL what h is showing you in his jokeing way is that the avh vmf 214 has been fixed.he's my confimation test pilot and he preforming the required inverted flight test but with a "landing" attached. the avh f4u was rushed to be put up and there were mistakes left in.if you remmember flying this.you couldn't carrier land without bending the prop,crashing nose first.or if you got "lucky" and got on the deck whole. it would end,off the deck a few hunderd yards out in front.thats all gone now. all those ww2 film footage of corsairs approching from the port side bleeding off speed and sticking it at the wire.can all be done now. the plane has hardened landing gear to "hard drop and stop". the atitude of the plane has been adjusted so you wont prop strike it if you land correctly.the flaps are now operational they the wouldn't deploy above 120 mph they now have lift and drag. it now will lift the nose when landing instead of droping it.when going to full flaps you'll drop like newtons apple! the rudder has been fixed and is useable.i've EVA'D it to do what the plane could originaly do. it won't catch a zero in a turn like the real ones but can out climb,dive and out run them.
If you are a good enough pilot you can imitate a wire landing. and stop 1/8 to 1/4 of the deck.it's been repededly done.take off is also fixed you don't need the extended deck.
Oh and "crash" is a front lol. H.H. can fly inverted and do extream manuvers and survive them. if theres enough intrest. i'll package and post it and do the other carrier planes.

also the navy rejected the "prototype" f4u. chance redesigned it and was accepted and was in U.S. service into korea. it was last built in its finial version in 1957 for the french.
 
Yea, i have been trashing Slip Streams EVA Birds for Him..

This EVA F4u, She is able to land and take off, as a F4u should..
Her gear now works great and I am able to survive very hard landings, as all carrier aircraft are required to do..

And flying inverted is something i do often.
Sometimes hard to remember which way is Up after a few glasses of Meade..OPPPS..
Hey, someone has to do it...

Thanks all for the Fun out of this..LOL..
And Thanks to Slip Stream for letting me wreck His beautiful Work..

Hey Talon, I promise Not to Prang the SBD(Too Often)
PLEASE PLEASE...
:gameoff: :rocket:
 
maybe pic's will work

first is a short hard landing at the wire area,a 2500ft start and port approch with a tracking trail.and the same flight but dead sticked.
 
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