Carriers that looks like the Love Boat ??

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I have installed the “18 Carriers” scenery in FS9 (car2004a.zip) by Alejandro Villa. It’s been out a while. Sometimes, when I go out to one of the carriers, they look like cruise ships. Like the one pictured here. That, dear fellow simmers, is the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), a nuclear powered aircraft carrier of the Nimitz class. Oh yes it is. Just yesterday it actually looked like an aircraft carrier, but today it has it’s cloaking device on, evidently. Does anyone know what is causing this? It’s really driving me nuts (insert head banging icon here). I can't land on that!
 
hehe. You know, all it takes for me to figure something out is to post a question about it here, then I find the answer a few minutes later and feel like an idiot.

I've been going by the VOR frequency published by the author and I swear to God it leads you right to that cruise ship! But if you go by the LAT LON numbers, the real carrier is a bit further up the coast... Stupid sim pilots!! :costumes:
 
I've been using those carriers for some time and was somewhat perplexed by your query. Nice to hear that you've got it sorted. Say... have you had any success trapping that P38 yet? I tried that once :isadizzy:

:costumes:
 
Anybody that even contemplates landing a P-38 on a carrier should rightfully feel like a idiot, if not a damn fool.
Regular Navy planes are hard enough to land without tearing the tail out of an Army Air Force aircraft.
 
Perhaps the cloaking device is to lure certain pirates aboard.....:mixedsmi:
 
Helldiver said:
Anybody that even contemplates landing a P-38 on a carrier should rightfully feel like a idiot, if not a damn fool.
Regular Navy planes are hard enough to land without tearing the tail out of an Army Air Force aircraft.
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Used to land dcc's P-38s on carriers in FS all the time. Just have to stand on the brakes and use all the deck for both landings and take offs.
 
dogknot said:
Cool video. I can't imagine the heart rates of the pilot and co-pilot during the 1st attempts at that! Pretty gutsy.
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The Co-pilot was my CO on the the Saratoga in 1980, real nice guy but he expected the respect due him. I had a chance to talk to him a few times when he made the rounds of the ship or after his daily run on the roof or hangar deck. Made his 5000th trap on the Sara during the Med Cruise.

As for gutsy, Capt. Flatley wound up being CO of VF-31 over N. Viet Nam when the Commander of the squadron was shot down.
 
PRB said:
hehe. You know, all it takes for me to figure something out is to post a question about it here, then I find the answer a few minutes later and feel like an idiot.

I've been going by the VOR frequency published by the author and I swear to God it leads you right to that cruise ship! But if you go by the LAT LON numbers, the real carrier is a bit further up the coast... Stupid sim pilots!! :costumes:
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That's funny. I don't care who you are! :costumes::costumes:

:ernae:
 
Alas Helldiver, the evidence shows that Navy pilots need a silly hook to stop them on a carrier while the Air force boys seem to be able to land without help... yzat?

(maybe sea-legs can't work the brakes, or did they leave brakes off the specs entirely?)
:running:

Rob
 
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