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Well this is truly superb. 
Thanks very much for the new model and also the tip on getting this to work with aicarriers2.
Was getting very excited to build a WWII US and Jap fleet e.g using Usio's warship and Phil Crowther's Liberty Ship models, but sadly these models would not display in FSX.
Not sure why some other FS9 ships display in FSX with no problems but others won't.
Thanks very much for the new model and also the tip on getting this to work with aicarriers2.Was getting very excited to build a WWII US and Jap fleet e.g using Usio's warship and Phil Crowther's Liberty Ship models, but sadly these models would not display in FSX.
Not sure why some other FS9 ships display in FSX with no problems but others won't.Using recorder module with CV6
fliger747 asked "About the recorder module. How do you then introduce the airplane?"
You record and save the flight of the carrier. Then you start another flight using whichever aircraft you prefer, then go to the recorder menu and select "play as traffic" and then select the saved carrier recorder file and click Open. You should then be back in sim, flying your aircraft and the carrier in your world, following the course recorded in it's recorder file.
You can play back more than one recorder file at a time. You can also record a file of your landing and then play that back as well. It would take awhile to do, but in theory you could get it up to seven or eight files going at the same time and fill up the flight deck. Unfortunately, the recorder module doesn't record wing folding or canopy open or tailhook status.
fliger747 asked "About the recorder module. How do you then introduce the airplane?"
You record and save the flight of the carrier. Then you start another flight using whichever aircraft you prefer, then go to the recorder menu and select "play as traffic" and then select the saved carrier recorder file and click Open. You should then be back in sim, flying your aircraft and the carrier in your world, following the course recorded in it's recorder file.
You can play back more than one recorder file at a time. You can also record a file of your landing and then play that back as well. It would take awhile to do, but in theory you could get it up to seven or eight files going at the same time and fill up the flight deck. Unfortunately, the recorder module doesn't record wing folding or canopy open or tailhook status.
milvis's, currently in early beta
OK, where I can sign for beta testing?
I signed on for beta and thought I was going to get to help, but never heard anything back...
Darrell
This is awesome! Finally landed on a steady, but moving, ship (not bouncing.) Moving carriers are great! When I stopped and looked around, the sensation of being on a big moving ship was pretty cool.
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Now the weird part. I made a second “CV-6”, fiddled with the deck texture file to turn the “6” into a “5” and called it “Yorktown”. Just for fun. I can setup formations with just CV-6, just CV-5 or both. In any event, the CV-6 ship goes backwards when I tell it to move, and it bounces around so violently that you get a crash soon after coming to a stop. However, the “Yorktown” does not do this! CV-5 is steady as a rock. I’ve gone over the sim.cfg files in the “boats” folder, and all appears to be as it should.
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Here’s me on Enterprise after I land. Watch the SBD about have way through… This is Enterprise during what I think is the Battle of Santa Cruz. That actually was the result of a bomb hit forward. But that’s what happened to me after I land on Enterprise. :costumes:
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krazycolin
Banned
For all those who signed on for the Beta for the Corsair, we're still in ALPHA not beta. Hence the reason we've not contacted anyone ... (yet) but soon!
Where CV-6 should have ended her career... Well done, N332DW!
I couldn't have agreed more PRB! Big E deserved a much better fate... and that is exactly where I would have put her... moored next to Ford Island... although in her original berthing behind Utah on Carrier Row.
Would have also helped people remember the Utah!
On the Corsair, I think it will be pretty nice when complete. It's Alpha enough for me to have some fun wringing it out in the air and aboard ship. The carrier came along just at the right time. In it's present iteration, it's not any harder or easier to bring aboard than I expect the real one was. Field Carrier Landing Practice (FCLP) is very necessary to develop the skills required to not provide the fleet with more Kamakaze effect than the Japanese did! I do look forward to the Beta phase and feedback as to the flight charcteristics.
Cheers: Tom
Cheers: Tom
Ok, how do you use the ship like an airplane? Meaning, I have it installed in the simobjects/airplanes folder, and its thumbnail appears with all the other planes, and I can even select it, as though I was going to “fly” it. So I figure I can’t start the “flight” from KSEA, because then I’d have an aircraft carrier “beached” on the end of the runway at KSEA, right? And what’s the point of that? So, I take off in an amphibious plane, land in the water, and then switch “planes” to the Enterprise. Brilliant! Except it always results in a crash, or, as FSX calls it, a “SPLASH”, if you crash in the water. So what gives? How do I get on the bridge and drive this ship around?
There are several ways to set up the "pilotable" version of the carrier.
Here's one. With the carrier selected as your "aircraft," start the flight at any location you like (close to a large body of water makes things easier). Then access the map view. Move the icon of aircraft till it's over the water. Set the altitude to 0. Then close out of map view, and your ship should be sitting in water ready to go. I would recommend doing a "save flight" at this point.
Second method - Turn off crash detection until you've created a few flights for the ship. Then start a flight with the ship at any desired airport. Then using the slew key, move the ship to the nearest water. Pressing the F1 key while in slew mode will lower the ship down to sea level. Once on the water in the desired location, exit out of slew mode and create a "Saved Flight" file.
Here's one. With the carrier selected as your "aircraft," start the flight at any location you like (close to a large body of water makes things easier). Then access the map view. Move the icon of aircraft till it's over the water. Set the altitude to 0. Then close out of map view, and your ship should be sitting in water ready to go. I would recommend doing a "save flight" at this point.
Second method - Turn off crash detection until you've created a few flights for the ship. Then start a flight with the ship at any desired airport. Then using the slew key, move the ship to the nearest water. Pressing the F1 key while in slew mode will lower the ship down to sea level. Once on the water in the desired location, exit out of slew mode and create a "Saved Flight" file.
Just did a trap with the Guy Hulin ABC Hog. Great to land on a fleet of moving ships.
Anyone else not have any wake effect using this with aicarriers2?
The default ships have wakes, not the CV-6. Also, while I could not get USIO's great warship models to appear, I did get the USS Mispillion to work, but also no wake. Have dropped the CV-6 wake effects in the Effects folder as instructed.
Any theories?
Anyone else not have any wake effect using this with aicarriers2?
The default ships have wakes, not the CV-6. Also, while I could not get USIO's great warship models to appear, I did get the USS Mispillion to work, but also no wake. Have dropped the CV-6 wake effects in the Effects folder as instructed.
Any theories?
Stickshaker
SOH-CM-2023
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