![]() ![]() Take control, climb into the realistic 3D cockpits and fly the most famous military aircrafts, faithfully reproduced.ĭiscover the REAL WORLD TECHNOLOGY and begin now to plan your flight! The flight deck is only 150 meters long, just enough to stop the aircraft.Īccept the challenge, take on missions in the spectacular scenarios and join the best Top-Gun pilots. Landing on an aircraft carrier is one of the most difficult tasks a pilot has to execute. IRL I presume ACLS T/C would give the ship your updated state.The most advanced Flight Simulator and Aircraft Carrier Landing System ever created. This is recorded and can be displayed on the LSO platform. Yes, if you talk to the ship they know you fuel state. I don’t know if the AI LSO in DCS can tell if an aircraft is overweight and automatically waves off overweight aircraft or if it’s just a bug with the unlimited fuel setting that causes an aircraft to get waved off every time, but I can tell you that with unlimited fuel turned on, I was getting waved off 10 out of 10 Case 1 landing attempts and when I turned off unlimited fuel, I immediately returned to my typical case 1 landing success rate of about 7 or 8 out of 10 successful landings and only 2 or 3 out of 10 attempts ending with wave offs. I finally realized that with unlimited fuel turned on, and no munitions except for bullets and AIM 9’s on the F/A-18C wing tips, the aircraft weights around 34,700 pounds.Īs soon as I realized this and turned off the unlimited fuel setting and I was able to dump fuel to 33,000 pounds or less, I was no longer getting waved off every time and started sticking about 7 or 8 out of 10 case 1 landing attempts again. What I didn’t realize is that when you have the unlimited fuel setting turned on, whenever you flip the dump fuel switch to the On position, it doesn’t stay in the on position and immediately switches to the OFF position, so when I thought I was dumping fuel, I wasn’t. With 6,000 pounds of fuel and no munitions except for bullets and AIM 9’s on the F/A-18C wing tips, the F/A-18C is below 33,000 pounds total weight. Part of my normal carrier landing procedures/checklist is to check my total weight on the checklist page and if I’m over 33,000 pounds, I turn on the dump fuel switch and as long as I have bingo fuel set to 6,000 pounds, the dump fuel switch will automatically turn off when my fuel state reaches 6,000. For the life of me I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong. ![]() No matter what I did, I was getting waved off. A few days I ago, I wanted to practice my case 1 landings in the F/A-18C and I got the bright idea that I could get a lot more attempts if I didn’t have to stop to be refueled, so I turned on the setting for unlimited fuel.Īfter turning on unlimited fuel, I started getting waved off by the AI LSO every single landing attempt, even when I was on center line, On-Speed, with a centered ball. I had gotten to where I was successfully completing about 7 or 8 out of 10 Case 1 Landing Attempts without getting waved off or bolter. I had never flown in DCS with the unlimited fuel setting turned on. Normally with an unexpended loadout (typical CAS loadout) you’ll probably have somewhere around 4000 pounds of fuel (or a little more) at max trap. So, my question is: How do you deal with this in RL? Do you dump the extra tanks and/or remaining ordnance, at sea (sounds very costly)? Do you accept a heavy bird or do you accept the low state (very risky)? Or is weight not correctly modeled?Īs stated earlier, max trap is really 34000 pounds. So, my question is: How do you deal with this in RL? Do you dump the extra tanks and/or remaining ordnance, at sea (sounds very costly)? Do you accept a heavy bird or do you accept the low state (very risky)? Or is weight not correctly modeled? Edited Januby moggel I can only imagine coming back from a long interdiction with remaining ordnance under my wings! As it turned out I had about 2000lbs left which is definitely "low state", at the level where it's time to ask for priority! Loadout is just self defence (2xAIM-120C + 2xAIM-9X) and two external tanks.Īs I completed the mission part and started the inbound to Mother I checked the weight, which was at 42,000lbs so I put myself in orbit to relax a bit and dump fuel before heading back to the boat. Mission is ship identification/patrol at night in IMC (low cloud cover, rain and very strong winds). So, I put together a training mission for myself. He also went on to explain how to dump fuel in order to reach that limit. In the first episode he mentions that landing weight should never exceed 33,000lbs, and also adds that it doesn't take much in terms of ordnance, pods and external fuel, to become heavy for landing. I was watching these (very good) videos by "Lex" - a retired IRL Hornet driver, on CASE I recovery. ![]()
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