Mathias Fröhlich > > On Freitag 25 November 2005 22:14, MPCEE French Bureau wrote: > > Yep! It was the launch bar not attached. It is difficult to note when it > is > > attached. As I am landing with the 'wires, I taxi to a catapult, but it > is > > very much trial and error to know you are in a catchment area. > > There is a little trick with mounting the launchbar. > It is *required* to have very few relative movement of the gear relative > to > the surface to establish that connection. > That is if you want to press L make sure that you are exactly above the > catapult, apply the brakes to make sure you dont move anymore and then > press > L. You will notice that the aircraft is pulled slightly into its nosegears > spring. > That compressed gearspring helps to keep the aircraft on the deck as long > as > the gear is attached to the cat. That produces a negative angle of attack. > When the launchbar is released, that compressed spring pushes the nose > into > the wind and helps getting a sufficient angle of attach suficiently fast. > That is how the launchbar systems on /modern/ aircraft (F14,F18,A4...) > typicaly work. The real life Seahawk has a slightly different mounting > scheme. > Looking forward to more models with the modelled modern scheme ... > :) > > Well, my F-18 and the Crusader (I hope so, it is a great thing!) will > hopefully arrive at some time in flightgear ... >
Yes, I had to hack the launchbar a bit to make it work with the Seahawk and Seafire to model the catapult strop arrangements. (Phase2 - model the strop - perhaps :-0). It works particularly well with the Seafire. In addition to the launchbar tensioning, which can be seen as you mentioned, the ac doesn't move when you release the brakes, which is a good indication! But I did rather wonder if we should show a brief legend in the manner of ATC messages to say that the launchbar was engaged. Vivian _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
