Vivian Meazza wrote: > 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 >
How about a little animated launch officer giving a hand signal? Hard to animate, but extremely cool, especially if he salutes and does that "I'm launching your ass of the boat" move. In fact, hitting the launch key could just tell the system you want to launch instead of doing it, and then after a pause, the dude salutes and sends you on your way. Of course, the signals are probably different for every navy. I think I'm getting into too much eye-candy here :p Josh _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
