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Title: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: earl1937 on January 08, 2014, 12:13:24 PM
 :airplane: Sure would be nice to have one of these on the carriers. I know that this wasn't used during WW2, but 262 didn't shoot down Zekes and B-29's either, so what the heck!(http://i1346.photobucket.com/albums/p684/earl1937/FS_CdG_Optics_zpsf2c3b7ab.jpg)
Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: Zoney on January 08, 2014, 12:45:04 PM
How about, to keep it historical, we have a flagman giving you the same signals the lights provide?
Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: Lusche on January 08, 2014, 12:52:12 PM
(http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o507/Snaildude/AOP_zpsafb71c0e.jpg)

 :)
Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: Sabre on January 08, 2014, 01:24:29 PM
"Aces of the Pacific" had a cool system for this.  As you turned onto final (within a certain distance of the ship), a small window would pop up in the upper left corner of the screen with still picture of the LSO holding the paddles.  The picture would change to indicate your current flight path and orientation (Example: both paddles above/below shoulders meant you were above/below glide slop).  It would probably help newer pilots with CV ops.
Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: Scca on January 08, 2014, 01:46:52 PM
+1

I rarely have issues landing (if I make it to the CV), but it sounds like a cool immersion thing..
Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: Randy1 on January 08, 2014, 03:02:54 PM
Landing is my favorite part of a CV launch. 

I bet if they added the lights, they would add a pitching deck. :joystick:
Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: waystin2 on January 08, 2014, 03:05:06 PM
Adding a skivvy waver animation would be cool. :aok
Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: earl1937 on January 08, 2014, 04:28:39 PM
"Aces of the Pacific" had a cool system for this.  As you turned onto final (within a certain distance of the ship), a small window would pop up in the upper left corner of the screen with still picture of the LSO holding the paddles.  The picture would change to indicate your current flight path and orientation (Example: both paddles above/below shoulders meant you were above/below glide slop).  It would probably help newer pilots with CV ops.
:airplane: That would be a great idea, just don't know how much trouble it would be to implement!
Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: earl1937 on January 08, 2014, 04:32:10 PM
Landing is my favorite part of a CV launch. 

I bet if they added the lights, they would add a pitching deck. :joystick:
:airplane: Randy, you know I don't have good eye sight anyway, so I always use the 360 overhead approach thing, but am still having trouble getting power to zero and wings level just at touch down, but dang it, I am going to do it yet! I just think it would be a cool addition to the game, especially if we actually had a "LDO", I think was what they were called, with paddles.
Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: ozrocker on January 08, 2014, 04:39:51 PM
It wouldn't matter what the light said, or what the man flapping his arms was doing.
As soon as your committed, the CV turns :aok




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Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: Tilt on January 08, 2014, 05:22:00 PM
I wish we could add lifts as hanger equivalents
Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: Saxman on January 08, 2014, 05:40:41 PM
Lol, I saw the other landing lights thread before I saw this one. It immediately made me think of AotP's LSO.
Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: Auger on January 08, 2014, 10:15:38 PM
All VASI would do is make all the n00bz crash into the same spot on the runway because they are coming in too hot.  Landing long is a speed control issue, not an approach slope problem.
Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: BaldEagl on January 08, 2014, 10:58:56 PM
A flagman animation would be really cool.  +1 to that idea.
Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: bustr on January 09, 2014, 12:55:05 AM
Do a buxom anime bikini babe who jumps up and down when you land successfully. And where the Japanese would have waving cheering crew members seeing you off on takeoff. Have her friend do that on take off jumping up and down clapping her hands and waving.

This isn't ww2.
Title: Re: Add to Carrier Please
Post by: Randy1 on January 09, 2014, 06:31:22 AM
:airplane: Randy, you know I don't have good eye sight anyway, so I always use the 360 overhead approach thing, but am still having trouble getting power to zero and wings level just at touch down, but dang it, I am going to do it yet! I just think it would be a cool addition to the game, especially if we actually had a "LDO", I think was what they were called, with paddles.

I think it would be a cool addition as well.