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Psst HMS Victorious has put to sea

peter12213, please post your Hellcat tailhook section from your aircraft.cfg here so we can see if there is anything wrong with it
 
Rich I've just installed yours and I'm going to try it now, I will get back to you soon mate! Its definately not a nose over, as the aircraft is still at a normal attitude when I land her i'm going for a 3 point landing to minimise the nose over effect speed is around 80-90 mph on touchdown!
 
Rich its was the old tailhook setting mate, I installed yours as well as the catapult config and its working a treat now, many thanks for all the help guys!
 
peter12213, as a matter of interest please post your old tailhook settings, you may well have been touching down at the correct attitude but nose over I have found can be a straight tipping onto the prop and thats it or going through the deck and dissapearing into oblivion which i think you had.

Old settings please so I can work out which.

Did you try putting other tailhook settings from other aircraft on the Hellcat, this does make a difference and no one can sort out if it came from the origional download or your own self inflicted wounds.

Feedback helps in fixing but only truth not Porkie Pies

Anyway glad you got it fixed it is a nice model.

I am not a Guru just detemined not to be beaten and use a lot of trial and error
 
I wasn't going through the deck or nosing over it was the hook taking the wire, I just don't know what was causing it I think it may have been the hurricaine on the right of the deck but I'm not sure, to explain fully I tried landing on the round down which I did then as the aircraft moved fowards and took the wire I got an instant object collision, its happeneing even with the new tail hook settings but not as much now, I'm deinately not landing wrong I know these aircraft like the back of my hand and regualry fly from cassablanca class carriers with them and have no problems, as well as the ark royal in your wyvern!

Rich i'm going to keep checking this, as its very strange tbh I'm having alot of frame stuttering with the carrier also much like the early ark royal release (this is my system it doesn't like big textures or dxt5 lol), I will keep trying and reporting back! However it was a building object collision!

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peter12213, in a attempt to replicate your problem I have done half a dozen fast taxis in the Helcat from the hanger lift forward with the hook down close and to the right edge of the deck slicing the right wing through the Sea Hurricanes and the island with no problems if there is a object crash it would I think show on all aircraft not just one.

11 people have downloaded the Hellcat settings I posted but no one else has reported any problems with object crashes or crashes of any other sort, unfortunatly even though 11 people beside you downloaded the fix no one has said whether it works or not even though I did ask for feedback good or bad seems a waste of time for me to post the fixes at all since I do'nt know if they work for others or not.

While not speaking for all the Flying Stations team, as far as I am concerned there is nothing wrong with the ship or the Hellcat but I think we would all agree on that.

If you find a answer please let us know.
 
Mr. Peter "peter12213,"
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Since you were having troubles with the RF Hellcat's tailhook settings, you might want to look at the Tailhook settings in this post...

... and, for those that may have missed it as well ...





This will help you'll get the landings/Launches for many of you FSX Payware/Freeware models in ALL FSX Acceleration Carriers, AICarriers R2, Mr. Javier's Nimitz/Eisenhower Ver.'s 1 & 2, Mr. Sylvain Parouty's PA Clemenceau (R 98) v2 French Aircraft Carrier, Flying Stations' HMS Victorious R38 - Early WWII Carrier & HMS Ark Royal v.IV and the Carriers to come.... Enjoy! :wavey:​
 
Mr. Rich Ruscoe,

FSX's Acceleration Default and AICarriers utility Carriers use a ILS/TACAN frequency of 111 MHz or TACAN channel 47X. Mr. Javier's Nimitz package uses the frequency of 112MHz or TACAN channel 57X.

Please can you tell me what your HMS Ark Royal IV and HMS Victorious WWII Carriers use as ILS/TACAN frequencies?

Thanks you very much and Merry Christmas! :wavey:
 
You need to check with Skippy on that it is his model I am only the deck sweeper,as far as I know no nav aids
 
Please can you tell me what your HMS Ark Royal IV and HMS Victorious WWII Carriers use as ILS/TACAN frequencies?
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James,

The models themselves don't have any nav-aids in as that's not possible, the Hornet HUD that adds TACAN and ILS is actually searching for the two Nimitz models amongst the traffic, rather than tuning into a beacon.
I'm toying with making something similar for the Swordfish I'm working on, although I think the homing beacon on the Vic only provided bearing (Type 72 DM Homing Beacon) but I'm still researching it.
I'm not sure what frequency Ark IV used for it's TACAN, although a google search would probably turn something up!
However, from looking at the code, it should be possible for the HUD gauge to be re-written to include other carriers.
 
Thank you, this is a very nice addon, the animated anchor is a great touch :) I have two questions concerning the carrier itself: there is a cloud of steam coming out near the right side of the catapult (clearly visible on this photo) - I wonder if it is a part of steam cataplut system? If so, why was the steam let out instead of being accumulated (was the pressure simply too big?)?
And I'd like to find out what is the purpose of two large cylindrical objects located on both sides of the deck near the last arresting cable? Are they part of recovery system?
Cheers,
Dymitr
 
The steam is actually there to indicate the wind over the deck, the catapult system was actually hydraulic and referred to as an Accelerator to differentiate it from steam powered systems.
The two large cylinders are the gun directors for the aft 4.5" guns, they were an optical sighting system essentially where the sight looked the guns followed. Various prisms etc. allowed you to calculate the range which could then be compensated for, by the end of the war radar would take over. Having used a smaller version of the system to keep station on a carrier in real life I can confirm that this was a good thing!
 
Rich said:
11 people have downloaded the Hellcat settings I posted but no one else has reported any problems with object crashes or crashes of any other sort, unfortunatly even though 11 people beside you downloaded the fix no one has said whether it works or not even though I did ask for feedback good or bad seems a waste of time for me to post the fixes at all since I do'nt know if they work for others or not.
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I am one of the eleven, and I am still waiting for time to test. Now that the semester is over, I should have ample time.

The odd crash is something I have experienced with my own Gambier Bay (Casablanca class). Sometimes my test aircraft would crash with their wings over the edge of the deck even though there are no objects there. After enough work it would go away for unknown reasons, then resurface after more modifications. My assumption is that I have forgotten something in the modeling (e.g., scaling though I have fixed that). This probably does not apply here (these are better modelers than I), but I have seen odd crashes.
 
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