HMS Victorious circa 1960

Superb work as always Flying Stations.

Anyone know if there is a Blue and Yellow paint for the Alphasim Westland whirlwind to match the guard helicopter? and if so where to get it?

Matt
 
I like it more with every flight, but I still haven't got the hang of adding that RFN gauge yet.
 
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Airtrooper said:
Hi from down south in Bournemouth Dave!

Now, if we could just get AI ships to sync in multiplayer we could crew 2-seaters like the Venom/Vixen/Bucc properly on and off the ship.
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You can drive Andy - I'm cr*p at it!!!:toilet_claw:

DaveQ
 
noddy said:
Couple of old girls.
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Andrew , That is one wicked screen banking over the Vic ! :cool: , I don't have the Sea Venom but i do have the Scimitar ... now there is talk it work in MP , now that would be interesting
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Airtrooper said:
With no FLOLS! :-O
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Technically it's not a FLOLS, it's a MOLS (Mirror Optical Landing System), hence the row of lights further aft to bounce off the concave vertical mirror. Not that I read a whole document on optical landing aids to figure out what to put there!
 
Love the new ship but I'm starting to think I made a mess of te install - that or I'm shooting a perfect approach every single time, I can't get the "meatball" to be anything other than centred perfectly between the green bars. This is if I don't use the RFN gauge, if I do use it I get no lights whatsoever regardless of how I fly the approach, once tunned in I get the course corrections on the ILS and the LSO voice works, no lights however.

Also might have found a slight typo in the read me?

There is no "RFN_Gauge.xml" in the RFN 4.1 pack so I've added the following lines* to the eng of "RFN_Carrier.xml".

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<!--?xml version="1.0"?-->
<carrier helo_distance="0"
Helo_Bearing="0"
Sim_Name_Helo="none"
TCN_Zcoord="1.63"
TCN_Ycoord="39.48"
TCN_Xcoord="14.97"
ILS_Zcoord="-55.0"
ILS_Ycoord="13.00"
ILS_Xcoord="-2.25"
GS_Angle="3.6"
RunwayAngle="8.0"
Language="US"
Frequency="117.20"
CarrierType="1"
Sim_Name="Victorious_1958"
Name="HMS Victorious 1958"/>

Craig</carrier>
 
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Tried my own mods to the the ealier Victorious RFN 4.1 xml entry - and also Craig's - but no show on the TACAN at 117.20 for some reason. Other boats work fine.
 
I had originally started posting that I couldnt get the frequency to apear, manaeged to eventually but it was out of sequence for some reason.

Craig
 
Hi,

Norton nailed the installer, but the exe can be returned from the quarantine.

If I proceed with the installer, how do you use the HMS Victorius? Does it have certain location or does it have a traffic.bgl file to get running somewhere?
 
MDIvey said:
Superb work as always Flying Stations.

Anyone know if there is a Blue and Yellow paint for the Alphasim Westland whirlwind to match the guard helicopter? and if so where to get it?

Matt
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Matt, I uploaded an earlier version of this S-55 to Avsim I think, a couple of years ago, but it's not there any more. I can send it to you if you like.
 

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There were some discussions about the British bringing back the standard carriers for the F-35. This thread prompted my curiosity. What's the status of that?

Ken
 
Back to this work -- stunning! I love the detail of if and frankly I've always had a love crush on the design and functionality of these RN carriers and their aircraft, and this piece of work captures it all magnificently!

Ken
 
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There were some discussions about the British bringing back the standard carriers for the F-35. This thread prompted my curiosity. What's the status of that?

Ken
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The government officially made a Uturn fromSTOVL to CTOL then a year or so latter made another Uturn back to STOVL. They then turned around and asked why the cost went up - dunno maybe something to do with screwing the contractors around for over a year and having them undertake a series of pointless design studies - open up new supply chains and redirect the construction shedule for (ultimately) no reason whatsoever and then having them work it all back in reverse to get back to where they were before Mr Politician stuck his ignorant nose in.... Rant over....

Craig

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Oh yeah - Mr Politician then decided to make another swing of the defence cut axe to recoup the costs of the aformentioned screw up...
 
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They then turned around and asked why the cost went up
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To be fair the contract was for a carrier that could be converted to take cats and traps so it's not unreasonable to ask why having it done was apparently going to double the cost of the ships...
 
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