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I hate complaining but this whole F-14 not being calibrated to the IFLOLs is getting old. Crosschecking feels like a battle! I love the F-14 and the SC but man, this along with the IFLOLS overlay are just off putting. I hope that there is a fix soon! 

 

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I was about to buy the tomcat and saw this. What is the problem exactly?

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11 hours ago, Joni said:

I was about to buy the tomcat and saw this. What is the problem exactly?

It is an amazing plane to fly. I'm not taking anything away from the Tomcat at all. But the SC and the Tomcat are not on the same page so to speak. The LSO will call you slow even when you are fast, the Lens is set for a Hornet, not a Tomcat. And the Flight Deck Directors are also giving you Hornet signals.

IMHO, you should get the Tomcat if you really want to. She's my #1. The feeling is much more immersive to me in the F-14. It's just something about her.

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2 minutes ago, Jackjack171 said:

It is an amazing plane to fly. I'm not taking anything away from the Tomcat at all. But the SC and the Tomcat are not on the same page so to speak. The LSO will call you slow even when you are fast, the Lens is set for a Hornet, not a Tomcat. And the Flight Deck Directors are also giving you Hornet signals.

IMHO, you should get the Tomcat if you really want to. She's my #1. The feeling is much more immersive to me in the F-14. It's just something about her.

 

I mainly do naval ops so, I'd rather pass for now. Thanks for letting me know.

 

 

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This is only a minor distraction and doesn't detract anything from the F-14. Just make sure to be on AoA despite what the LSO is saying, keep the ball high (as in upper half of the IFLOS) and use the F-14 built-in trap sheet instead of the LSO quotation.

The F-14 is by far the most immersive module in the game. If you want to go for it, do not be stopped by the minor SC flaws.

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2 hours ago, Cocker said:

This is only a minor distraction and doesn't detract anything from the F-14. Just make sure to be on AoA despite what the LSO is saying, keep the ball high (as in upper half of the IFLOS) and use the F-14 built-in trap sheet instead of the LSO quotation.

The F-14 is by far the most immersive module in the game. If you want to go for it, do not be stopped by the minor SC flaws.

 

Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately, landing that way kills immersion IMHO. You reach a certain age where immersion is all you got. When the sim kills it due to something I just get very discouraged. 

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2 hours ago, Joni said:

 

Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately, landing that way kills immersion IMHO. You reach a certain age where immersion is all you got. When the sim kills it due to something I just get very discouraged. 

 

Doesn't kill immersion if you get rid of the IFLOS overlay and use your eyeball to spot the IFLOS on the deck, which shows correct line 🙂

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5 minutes ago, Cocker said:

 

Doesn't kill immersion if you get rid of the IFLOS overlay and use your eyeball to spot the IFLOS on the deck, which shows correct line 🙂

 

Oh, ok, so the issue was with the overlay? I thought it was with the carrier lights.

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5 minutes ago, Joni said:

 

Oh, ok, so the issue was with the overlay? I thought it was with the carrier lights.

 

No, the IFLOS overlay is the issue. Honestly, you wouldn't want missing out the most immersive module just for that!

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The IFLOLS should be universal.  Both the Hornet and the Tomcat use the same glideslope.  The meatball is a fixed light array with a Fresnel lens, it doesn't actually move with the aircraft, it just appears to move because of the distortion of the lens.  They don't re-calibrate the lens between traps.

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So, without being technical, and because I'm only on my first cup of coffee, I will say, regardless of whether they follow the same glideslope, the hook-eye distance is different, and the IFLOLS will not be the same between aircraft types.  Trapping an E-2 isn't going to be the same as trapping an F/A-18, trapping an F/A-18 isn't going to be the same as trapping an F-14.  IFLOLS aboard ship (vs land based for FCLP) are indeed adjusted for both aircraft types and landing weights.

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On 2/2/2021 at 5:35 AM, MurderOne said:

So, without being technical, and because I'm only on my first cup of coffee, I will say, regardless of whether they follow the same glideslope, the hook-eye distance is different, and the IFLOLS will not be the same between aircraft types.  Trapping an E-2 isn't going to be the same as trapping an F/A-18, trapping an F/A-18 isn't going to be the same as trapping an F-14.  IFLOLS aboard ship (vs land based for FCLP) are indeed adjusted for both aircraft types and landing weights.

Correct, maybe. In the Tower, one of the calls when an aircraft is about to trap is, "Gear"(weight set on arresting gear), "Lens" (IFLOLS) "set Rhino" or Hornet, etc. Now, I know that the Lens is set for a certain glideslope but what I do not know for certain is if it is for a certain aircraft. I would guess no because I've watched FCLP's at an airfield and different aircraft all used the same lens. 

Just my 2 cents.

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Correct; the IFLOLS used for FCLP is non-adjustable, where the shipboard IFLOLS is adjustable.  "Once set up and calibrated, there are no moving parts to the unit. Shipboard units are much more complicated as they must be gyroscopically stabilised to compensate for ship movement. Additionally, shipboard units are mechanically moved (the "roll angle") to adjust the touchdown point of each aircraft. With this adjustment, the tailhook touchdown point can be precisely targeted based on the tailhook-to-pilot's eye distance for each aircraft type."

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9 hours ago, MurderOne said:

Correct; the IFLOLS used for FCLP is non-adjustable, where the shipboard IFLOLS is adjustable.  "Once set up and calibrated, there are no moving parts to the unit. Shipboard units are much more complicated as they must be gyroscopically stabilised to compensate for ship movement. Additionally, shipboard units are mechanically moved (the "roll angle") to adjust the touchdown point of each aircraft. With this adjustment, the tailhook touchdown point can be precisely targeted based on the tailhook-to-pilot's eye distance for each aircraft type."

You are correct. The "gear, lens set" call is for that. They all fly the same degree of glideslope depending on the weather and other factors. I had to ask an old IC buddy. I hope we get this in DCS someday.

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On 2/6/2021 at 3:48 PM, MurderOne said:

Correct; the IFLOLS used for FCLP is non-adjustable, where the shipboard IFLOLS is adjustable.  "Once set up and calibrated, there are no moving parts to the unit. Shipboard units are much more complicated as they must be gyroscopically stabilised to compensate for ship movement. Additionally, shipboard units are mechanically moved (the "roll angle") to adjust the touchdown point of each aircraft. With this adjustment, the tailhook touchdown point can be precisely targeted based on the tailhook-to-pilot's eye distance for each aircraft type."

 

Nice stuff!

 

I knew about the gyro stabilization thing as I reported many times to ED that the stennis was simulating it but the supercarrier wasn't, so the SC doesn't have the torsion bar simulated and will follow the ship movement.

 

But I though that the adjustments based on AC type were simulated.

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Keep in mind as well that the F-14 is a third party module from Heatblur whereas Supercarrier AND the Hornet are made by ED.  So of course everything works for and is geared to the Hornet such as deck signals (which is not that different at all from Tomcats actually, ok, maybe spreading wings).  Heatblur is at the mercy of whatever ED deems to be the end all be all of carrier ops in Supercarrier, even if the F-14 is one of the most popular, immersive, and realistic modules available.  Heatblur has said many times how they want to do things in a certain way to make it accurate in the Tomcat but can't because ED's standards won't allow it.  There was a time just before Supercarrier came out when the Tomcat almost didn't make it onto Supercarrier for the reason that they had to adhere to ED's standards.  How long did it take, for instance, to finally get the AOA indexer to be bright enough in the Tomcat?  It was fine out of the box then ED did something that made it dim and HB couldn't do anything about it because it was a change to DCS World that thery were at the mercy of.  Then finally things changed only recently where they were able to get it bright again because a DCS thing had changed to allow it.  They are dealing with that with other things too such as the mach cone, the Phoenix behavior, and to an extent the jammer to cite some of many examples that they are at ED's mercy to do anything about.

 

This I'm sure includes the IFLOLS.

 

And let's face it, Supercarrier is by no means complete and is currently in an state of abandonment.  The working LSO station, though in the manual is not working (for instance where is the mouse cursor control to manipulate the fullscreen LSO screen that doesn't even exist though it's in the manual) and I am yet to get a hangar view as in the manual without having to resort to a CTRL-F11 flythrough. 

 

The stuff they do have working is pretty incredible though and we should be at least a little happy with it (compared to the Stennis ghost ship).  Now I admit that the LSO calls leave something to be desired and the IFLOLS placement is kinda bad (not to mention oh yes you can move it with the mouse, but who has time to fiddle with the mouse when you are seconds away from the rounddown?) but it still is better than what we did have.  Some of us can't even see the ball well enough without the pop up IFLOLS because of rendering or monitor characteristics--it's just the way that DCS is.  Before you say, well, you need a better monitor, FSX of all places has AI Carriers as an addon along with Virtual LSO where you can see the ball just fine without a popup and it is functional as well as the LSO calls being accurate.  You even get a trap history with your recencly qualifications tracked.  So it's possible to do may things it's just when can ED get the time to do it and/or do it right?

 

I guess I'm just saying let's not fault HB for soemthing they can't do because of imposed limitations from ED.  They are by no means intentional, but it's not HB's fault and it shouldn't deter anyone from getting the Tomcat which is pretty well received by just about everyone who has tried or has it.

 

 

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On 1/16/2021 at 10:13 AM, Joni said:

 

I mainly do naval ops so, I'd rather pass for now. Thanks for letting me know.

 

 

Regards.

 

You should do it. Tomcat is my favorite plane in the game and it works great with Supercarrier. It's not perfect, no.  The LSO thing is more of a quirk.  You can and should still be able to chase that perfect 3 wire and the only hand signal that's not right is the kneeling. They added the correct wing spread procedure and no longer asks to raise the launch bar.  

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10 hours ago, Uxi said:

 

You should do it. Tomcat is my favorite plane in the game and it works great with Supercarrier. It's not perfect, no.  The LSO thing is more of a quirk.  You can and should still be able to chase that perfect 3 wire and the only hand signal that's not right is the kneeling. They added the correct wing spread procedure and no longer asks to raise the launch bar.  

 

Except for the A, this still hadn't been fixed yet.

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Again, it's a sim and a constant WIP. @Joni I wouldn't let this deter you from purchasing a module, especially one with such a fantastic amount of detail, time and PFM put into it. If you can wrap your head around flying AOA, stay on speed and fly the ball (whatever it's referenced to as @Victory205 has pointed out) on centerline down to the deck you're probably going to trap. The overlay calibration is a small price of "unrealism" to pay for an otherwise fantastic and unparalleled experience.


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On 1/16/2021 at 12:46 AM, Jackjack171 said:

I hate complaining but this whole F-14 not being calibrated to the IFLOLs is getting old. Crosschecking feels like a battle! I love the F-14 and the SC but man, this along with the IFLOLS overlay are just off putting. I hope that there is a fix soon! 

 

 

On 4/2/2021 at 4:51 PM, NineLine said:

If this is still an issue, can someone give me a track please?

 

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