Carrier Quals In F-15

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Just had to do it!

 

 

Enfield 01 Abeam, 3 down & locked, hook down (he,he)

 

 

Enfield 01, Eagle, Ball, 3.5

 

 

That damn burble!

 

 

Three wire coming up!

 

 

Bolter! Bolter!

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Oh, great! Only one picture got attached!

 

Here`s the rest in sequence:

 

Abeam

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Ball (imaginary!)

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Burble (yea, right!)

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3 wire

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Bolter!!!

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whats ur FPS @ that res? :o

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whats ur FPS @ that res? :o

Around the boat - 38 to 45

Around densily populated cities - 20 to 30

 

I really tried to find a way to run it in high visibility settings without lowering

the "scenes" setting but the FPS around the cities was just too low - anywhere

from 12 to 20.

I wonder if I should mess with overclocking my P4 3.2, it probably won`t make

that much of a difference. I did overclock my Radeon9700 (using Omega 3.9)

to 330 syncronized (I could probably go higher) but that didn`t change that much

in terms of FPS.

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You managed to stop the plane on deck?

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You managed to stop the plane on deck?

No!

The wheels hit the deck (vertical velocity of about 8 or 9 feet/sec ) and everything

was cool but you can`t lower the hook in the Eagle in Lo-Mac (not that it would help ;) ) Su-33 is the only plane with that capability.

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I tried landing the Eagle on the carrier as well after the A-10 became trivial for carrier ops

 

 

The Eagle was far far more difficult. Could not touch down at a speed that was low enough in order to break in time while also high enough not to stall out before the wheels hit the deck.

 

What I eventually did was aim for my wheels to touch 10' before the deck so that I was slightly behind the deck when I flared the plane real hard. This helped knock out some more speed, but even then, it was just barely enough. I crashed many many many times, did even more touch and goes because my speed was too high and wave offs then I could count, before finally, I landed one. Perhaps someone more consistent at controlling the plane will get better results. For me, it was pure luck.

 

 

 

 

I stopped, but was unable to taxi anywhere, as moving one more foot would have dropped me off the boat. I am sure a skilled line crew could have moved the eagle for me though ;)

 

Here is the approach, hopefully my pic host will let me post what I need

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was still doing the wheelie a little beyond the wires, I guess that should help me slow down, weather it did in game, I dunno. But, it makes me wonder how braking is applied in the game as I was hard on the wheel brakes first chance I got. Now, think about it. I am doing a wheelie riding only on my main wheels. I brake hard, but I still am doing a wheelie. Makes me think brakes in the game does not neccessarily work by slowing down the wheels which in turn slow down the plane, but rather, it just slows down the plane. Nit picking, I know B)

 

I noticed my speed across the wires was 180. I have seen a pic of Sulsta ( I think is his call sign, if I am wrong, sorry :D ) on the official site and he had a trap wire speed of 177. Someone after him posted how no way you can slow to a stop at 177, well 177 on the screen is below 100 on the HUD and yes you can stop with that speed...barely. I know, cause I did it with 180.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

....and I have reached my max daily allotment of screenshot uploading lol. Just refer back to the first pic for the shot of zero speed. For referance, my eagle was stripped down of weapons and carrying only 1241LBs of fuel (JP4?) , I tried to dump more off in flight but it would not let me dump beyond that point. ...or maybe I was pressing the wrong buttons. I had the boat moving at 50 and other then the headwind generated from the boat, I don't think ther was anything else unless it gets set by default.

 

Hopefully that was enough :D

Edited November 30, 2003 by FatElvis