Originally posted by walker1200
Are there certain planes for carriers? and when i take off i go staright down although im pulling all the way back
in answer to your questions:
Are there certain planes for carriers? YES
click on a carrier, bring up the kneeboard, select hanger
select Fighters, select enabled only
you now have a list of the fighters available on a carrier.
To get started you may wish to fly a carrier based aircraft from an airfield until you have mastered rudder control to counter an aircrafts left turning tendency due to gyroscopic precession and the propellers extremely high angel of attack (AOA) which make a slow moving aircraft 0 – 60 MPH want to make a hard left at full power.
Start out with 50% fuel no ord. 20% flaps, full power, plus WEP, raise the tail ASAP and hold the centerline with rudder. As soon as the gear comes off the deck, gear up, flaps up one notch, accelerate , second notch of flaps up, accelerate, WEP off, establish normal climb.
Landing is all about airspeed control and aircraft control. Plan on an approach speed of 125MPH. if you are not a pilot or have no flying experience. Trying to land on a moving carrier is fun but a waste of your time. You need to develop the landing skill set. It would help to learn what a downwind, base and final approach are. But depending on how you arrive on final approach, you want to be about 600 ft above the approach end of the runway at the desired approach speed with gear down and locked. And perhaps 20% flaps. Flaps are not speed breaks, flaps are not designed to slow down an aircraft. Flaps are not used for speed control. The sole purpose of flaps is to allow the pilot to increase the angle of decent. Anyone that tells you that flaps are used for speed control does not know what they are talking about. Then you ask yourself am I HI LO Fast or Slow. If your HI , another notch of flaps, reduce power, if your low increase power stop the decent, if your Fast, reduce power, raise the nose, if your slow, add power, lower the nose (if you can). Landing is nothing more then making these corrections over and over until you reach the runway and before you touch down you make a transition from the approach profile, to the landing profile, you do this by raising the nose to a slightly nose high attitude, and waiting for the aircraft to settle. The approach for landing on a carrier is exactly the same, except that the final transition is not into as nose high an attitude. You more or less fly the aircraft onto the deck.
The reason that you go straight down is because you have the aircraft controls in a stalled condition. There is an old joke repeated endlessly by flight instructors to students the world over. If you want an aircraft to go up, you add power and pull back slightly on the stick, if you want the aircraft to do down, pull the stick back more.
It takes very little stick movement to get an aircraft to respond, that’s true in both real life and AH. Make small movements with your controls. Until you get a feel for the controls.
I hope I've answered your two questions.