TARAWA Update Overview - 2.5.6 OB

An update following a bit of testing. Found just a couple of issues but overall much improved.Take a look for yourself: thumbup:

Thank you, very useful info, specially for those of us that fly mostly Single Player :)

Thanks Sunstag for the excellent video. Nice to know some fixes improvements have been made and noted do not set wind speed at or above 21 knots to avoid AI harrier sinking on vertical take off.

Excellent video!

This is a great video, thanks for your time testing it an d making video :thumbup:

Well noted the bug for the 21kt wind at 1600ft.

Just a thought for the loaded Harrier: the Tarawa is sailing at 12kt and the wind is 09kt at sea level. This is a wind over deck of just 21kt, which is quite low.

The Tarawa is supposed to have a max speed of 24kt. So making at 20kt (or above) should increase deck wind to 29kt or more and improve payload/ Harrier take off performance.

An by the way, is this 21kt wind speed just impacting vertical take off ?

The mission editor windspeed is not ''from'' it's ''toward''. You had a 9 knot tailwind. The ingame Harrier EHSD windspeed is opposite and how windspeeds are usually referenced in aviation, showing the direction the wind is ''from''.

This will clearly affect takeoff behavior.

You can test by :

Set wind direction in editor

Harrier on ground perpendicular to wind

Note AoA vane on nose (not AoA... just windvane, I guess?)

EHSD/DATA/AC page will show wind dir in lower left. It will be opposite whatever you set in editor.

Flip your wind direction and retest, you may get different results ;)

The mission editor windspeed is not ''from'' it's ''toward''. You had a 9 knot tailwind. The ingame Harrier EHSD windspeed is opposite and how windspeeds are usually referenced in aviation, showing the direction the wind is ''from''.

 

This will clearly affect takeoff behavior.

 

You can test by :

 

Set wind direction in editor

Harrier on ground perpendicular to wind

Note AoA vane on nose (not AoA... just windvane, I guess?)

EHSD/DATA/AC page will show wind dir in lower left. It will be opposite whatever you set in editor.

 

 

Flip your wind direction and retest, you may get different results ;)

:doh:

I know it, I should have spotted it in the video.

Well done :thumbup:

really good video Suns. What happens on the heavy harriers if you speed up the Tarawa to 20 knots.

A couple of other notes.

If you ramp start helos in uncontrolled they will set themselves in the numbered landing pads in sequence, regardless if you have statics in the way. You can pick up to 4 parking spots however.

Also if you have statics on the deck, when the AI harriers land they will taxi around them looking for an open spot. Very cool.

Harriers dont have a choice of parking spots as uncontrolled.

It would be awesome if ED or RAZBAM could ever get human flown helicopters to spawn on the numbered pads!! I am completely baffled by their inability to get that done given what we have just seen the AI do. :mad:

In my experience so far Client controlled helos do spawn in the slots. (see images)

Hope this helps. Cheers.

Just checked with the Mi-8 and it works beautifully!! Awesome job. Thanks.

It works beautifully in both single player and Multiplayer mode as long as you're the only human spawning. I placed 4 individual units of UH-1's and 4 individual units of Mi-8's on the Tarawa, as you would if you were using the CSAR or CTLD scripts and then had several of my squad mates spawn in. We all wound up on top of each other. :mad:

Takeoff from the TARAWA as a Client with three wingmen: