Le samedi 26 novembre 2005 à 08:57 +0100, Mathias Fröhlich a écrit : > 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. And we could add,: When the launchbar is activated , you may depress the break, and operate full throttle, the AC being stopped by the launcbar f > 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.
It is very realistic I have not found the way, on how to record a movie file (without any external recorder), to show these characteristics > 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 .. Your F-18 Hornet must come now, i did notice that someone else is planning to make a F-18. Will it be two F-18 into the FG Hangar ?. About Crusader no problem as soon as we will have a FG cvs release able to process carrier landing (jsb fdm), Crusader will come. > Greetings > > Mathias > Cheers -- Gerard _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
