I had a near perfect Case 1 approach/landing but...

The replay track system just isn't accurate enough to allow me to make a video of my best landing yet. While trying to recreate the mission, the timing is a bit off, resulting in the aircraft and carrier not being in the same places they should have been. So, the F-14 tries to touchdown on the water, and fails to catch a wire. Every time a play it again, it plays out a little bit differently, but never the way it looked when I actually flew the mission.

At least I took a screenshot at the time.

Yes, I did have the same problem.

But I don’t think it’s specific to HB F-14, it’s a general DCS issue.

It's been a while since I looked at a track of my own, but in the past I was able to sometimes fix this problem by pausing at the start of the track replay, and doing a full wipeout of all my controls. So stick, rudder, throttle. Then unpause and let the track play.

Try it on MP external server then see the server track.

Slightly off topic: Good job on the slope and lineup. The only thing it looks like you need to improve on from the screenshot is your time in the groove, it’s about 20 seconds too long.

On topic: it’s a bummer that the replay isn’t working so you can watch it and see what you did to be able to critique the full approach

It's been a while since I looked at a track of my own, but in the past I was able to sometimes fix this problem by pausing at the start of the track replay, and doing a full wipeout of all my controls. So stick, rudder, throttle. Then unpause and let the track play.

What do you mean by « wipeout » ?

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What do you mean by « wipeout » ?

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Move your controls through their entire range of motion.

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Slightly off topic: Good job on the slope and lineup. The only thing it looks like you need to improve on from the screenshot is your time in the groove, it’s about 20 seconds too long.

 

On topic: it’s a bummer that the replay isn’t working so you can watch it and see what you did to be able to critique the full approach

As you can see from the track, I didn't come out of my turn at 3/4 of a mile... quite a bit further back. I frequently have trouble trimming out at 600 feet at correct AOA on speed indication and end up turning a little late and/or turning a little too slow. Since I am lined up well past the range limits of the evaluation track, I am pretty sure I started the turn late on this attempt and also went a little wide.

I frequently have trouble trimming out at 600 feet at correct AOA on speed indication and end up turning a little late and/or turning a little too slow.

I had the same issue as you. And I followed a buddy piece of advice...just work the throttle and stick.

You won't be perfectly trimmed, so work the throttle and stick, trim in the process to ease your work.

It did work better for me, even if I still have lot of room for improvement :thumbup:

What helped me was not engaging DLC too soon. I now wait until I'm quite a few seconds into the downwind leg before I activate it. It might not work for everyone but it did for me.

It's been a while since I looked at a track of my own, but in the past I was able to sometimes fix this problem by pausing at the start of the track replay, and doing a full wipeout of all my controls. So stick, rudder, throttle. Then unpause and let the track play.

Can you reproduce this?