Hi!
I asked the same question to myself and looked for a solution for WoE in the forums before.
I did it this way:
- I downloaded the libya terrain and installed it. I copied the GermanyCE.cat from germany terrain into libya folder and renamed it to libya.cat, so the terrain should work
- I downloaded the CVN-59 Forrestal ground object package, which includes actually 4 carriers of the forrestal class.
- I downloaded the mission package "Tomcats over Libya" which includes carrier based missions
- Then some fine tuning was needed. So did the forrestal file- and directory names didn't match.
This is always a point You must check. The objects included in missions will not appear in the game if the references don't fit. Mostly the directory and ini name of the referenced objects don't match and must be renamed.
But check this out for Yourself. These are smaller problems everyone must solve for himself.
If the carrier's not in the game Your aircraft will fall simply in the water at the beginning.
- last but not least: You can takeoff from carriers, but for me landings were impossible, because the gear
brakes away at launch, because the takeoff speed is too high.
First I was wondering, if I could do anything like less throttle to avoid it, but the real problem is, that the F-14
configuration says, that the gear max speed ist about 130m/s. It sounds strange when I checked, that the F-15 for example has an max speed value of about 170 m/s. A carrier based aircraft's gear is more instable than the gear of an land based aircraft? I think this is an misconfiguration
and corrected the max speed value to 170 m/s. I don't know if this is realistic, but at least, now I can land on carriers too.
- If You start one of the missions You can even choose any other available aircraft than the F-14 for You
So, good luck !