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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Halo on July 03, 2003, 11:22:27 PM

Title: Specify Aircraft Max Loads, esp Carrier
Post by: Halo on July 03, 2003, 11:22:27 PM

Somewhere in Tour of Duty there needs to be a clear upfront posting of aircraft max loads.  For example, certainly no real pilot has to wander around reading newsgroups to figure out an F4U cannot take off a cv with max fuel and max bombs.  

Hopefully the ready room or some such place will include logical easy references for max and optimum loads for the various missions.  No commander would let his pilots guess at that.

Furthermore, for various missions, should be checklist for new or unusual requirements, just as in any operational briefing, e.g., flap and power settings for takeoff as well as optimum climb rate settings.

Guess this will just be part of the mission briefings, huh?

Title: Specify Aircraft Max Loads, esp Carrier
Post by: Swoop on July 04, 2003, 05:04:50 AM

:confused:

What are you talking about?  Sure an F4U will take off from a CV with a max loadout.


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Title: Specify Aircraft Max Loads, esp Carrier
Post by: BenDover on July 04, 2003, 11:56:31 AM

I've managed to take a chog with rockets, full fuel and DTs off the deck of the CV, its not easy, but its possible.


And anyway, I don't think we'll have a choice for the load out.

Title: Specify Aircraft Max Loads, esp Carrier
Post by: Halo on July 04, 2003, 02:56:16 PM

Driving an F4U off a cv has always been a bear in Aces High.  Plenty of threads attest to that, as do the many articles off line about the Ensign Eliminator and delay in its carrier certification in real life.

Some of the latest reading makes me wonder if the Corsair in real life ever took off from a carrier with two 1k bombs, six rockets, max ammo and max fuel, especially in WWII.  

If so, there must have been special checklists and restrictions, and it was not left to each pilot to do his own research to figure it out.

I've read a lot of the relevant threads on Aces High and experimented with most of the takeoff techniques.  I can get airborne with some of the heaviest payloads but certainly not all.  

From what I've read lately, one 1k bomb or two 500s were considered plenty for either the Corsair or Hellcat to lug from a carrier.

I can understand the impracticality of Aces High being able to provide detailed instructions for every one of its aircraft, but I would think that special circumstances like cv fighter bomber takeoffs might warrant at least a paragraph or two checklist in the plane descriptions.

Presumably Tour of Duty will groom its progressive pilots with enough detailed mission checklists to prevent losing significant numbers from accidents instead of combat.  (True, probably as many aircraft in real life or lost from accidents or "0ther" than combat.)