You could. You could also probably stab yourself in the foot. I don’t want the MPCD gone, I just want to turn off the moving map overlay that’s over the HSI.
(for the record, MODE → MAP is supposed to toggle it on/off.)
Yeah, I noticed that too. But…on the other hand, it forced me to spend more time with the Map, and by the end of the session, we became acquaintances, if not true friends.
Edit: What do you guys think about laying the CRS line over the carrier’s heading? Helpful? Haven’t tried that yet.
I just stick either stores page, rwr on it and move hsi to another screen. No map.
I didn’t think about circuit breakers. Will have to check that out.
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Yes, I understood what you were asking. I was just wondering if it was possible to pull the breaker and turn the whole thing off. If you were having some malfunction with it like it was going full bright, or flickering non-stop at night, it’d be nice to be able to depower it.
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood. If nothing else, could you just turn it off via the brightness knob?
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Would definitely help with situational awareness. I don’t fly a single approach in the real world without at least a line from a FAF to the runway even when I’m flying visual approaches. Just helps keep everything in perspective.
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I can’t remember how the brightness knob works in that module. But that would probably work. Almost all of the planes I fly allow for that. Although some of them have an auto switching function (like the old Citation V I flew) that senses when you’ve turned off an MFD and automatically “composites” the remaining one (pulls the info from the other display and crams it all into one…)
Like this…
Scroll up a couple of pics:smiley:
The APMCD brightness knob’s lowest brightness is marked OFF.
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Perhaps, but there’s only seven circuit breakers in the cockpit and they’re FCS, launch bar, gear, and hook.
As others mentioned the best temporary solution is just to put it on one of the DDIs.
Yes definitely. Daytime VFR just use the ship’s heading. Night or Case 3 use the final bearing, which is essentially the course of the landing area.
I’m not sure offhand what the offset is for the LA from BRC but that’s something that’d normally supplied by Marshall/approach.
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So ah… I can land it OK on land, -ish on the ship. Now how do I turn off the engines?! Can’t find a fuel shutoff valve or switch anywhere 
Move the throttles back past the idle cutoff. Probably RALT/RSHIFT End.
I lift up my hog throttles and bring em back all the way, doesnt do jack schmitt. It does on the hog tho. Perhaps I should fiddledytweak with the curve settings on the throttle?
I filed down my AB detent to become a hump and that seems to work pretty darn nice for the bug. about 99% mil before and full burner after.
It seems to be twitchy in both directions - I had to take the throttles over the hump twice on startup
Yup the idle stop bindings are wonky right now.
I was able to shut off the left airborne but not the right, even though they’re bound to identical left/right functions.
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My first impressions after a whole 45 minutes of entire play time (live a little!).
- I love it.
- If the US Navy needs a place to put a Bouncy Castle for birthdays etc, then I would recommend the back of the carrier. Would have saved a lot of lives.
- Throttle feels nice and responsive, but my goodness is there a ‘plunge’ at low speed that you need to catch.
- The Harrier seems liked a really nice warm-up for systems familiarity, given the family McD’ness.
- Sounds and audio (betty, flyby etc) are fantastic. Seriously good.
- Only ever flow it in VR
and it works well, with (as others pointed out) a lot of static aircraft causing some perf dips. Cockpit looks great. Can’t read the map but everything else is pretty good. - In VR the IFLOS / ball is about 1 pixel of nothing. Very hard to use. Also, the levels of detail on the deck markings on the Carrier are too grey during the day, making it very hard to line up even in good VFR. A tiny tweak in LOD needed here I think.
- The Stennis is on 127.500 AM for manual Comms2 fans. Took me ages to find that. Unless changed in the mission editor then it is also channel 1X by default in TACAN.
- A weird funny was that I had an old mission with the ‘wrong’ old CVN-70 Vinson carrier set up to play around with. I was using that (because I just flipped the aircraft to F/A-18C Lot 20 from the Su-33 I was playing around with) and had all sorts of weird shadow-world spock-with-goatee non-bugs. The Hornet TACAN channel 55X would come up but not allow a course line, the number of bolters was extreme (could be me though) and I couldn’t use the ‘U’ key to set up a launch. Obviously user error, but I mention it in-case anyone else makes the same mistake. Use CVN-74 then, Doh!
- I didn’t bother setting up an axis curve for pitch/roll so resorted to using guns on the poor A-6 S-3 refueller. I need to git-good on that obviously.
- The systems are remarkably intuitive and easy to use so far. Start-up is not too weird to remember. As all things should be, etc.
and it works well, with (as others pointed out) a lot of static aircraft causing some perf dips. Cockpit looks great. Can’t read the map but everything else is pretty good.Great fun and a good start.
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I have no idea of the validity of the claims, but I guess the flaps lunge is a bit violent. Dunno.
@boomerang10 - is the speed brake ‘should not be incremental, it’s an off or on’ thing quite right here? It’s at 2:53 to save watching it all. I wonder if the guy is remembering the 2005 model and the Ops docs are talking about newer builds? It’s not really that important in the grand scheme of things but thought it interesting anyway.
PS Apologies if this is video has already been posted. I have 1500 posts unread here, so going to have to claim ‘post read bankruptcy’ soon and dismiss them all…
Ok I figured it out! @Navynuke99 too
As I was running the cold start tutorial (not voiced by Wags, sadface) It told me to right-alt-home and right-shift-home to turn the engine on. So I jumped into the controls screen, pressed right-alt-home and that took me to the right control, engine idle/stop. Cool beans. So I pressed bind, lifted my throttle over the idle hump and voila presto! The throttle now behaves much like it does in the A-10C!
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My first impression was like most of you. Low speed handling is difficult and, I guess, a bit off. For the last two nights my sim partner was a former F-16 guy and our sim instructor was ex-Navy: F-16N (never heard of that one!) and F-18. The F-18 is point and shoot. They both went on and on about how it can easily be steered around the sky at 70 knots. I am guessing “easy” might be understating things a bit. “Our” F-18 turns into a lead cannonball above 10 degrees AoA. I don’t buy that it is anywhere close to accurate. But it’s beta and its a beauty for sure.
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Apologies @smokinhole, I got my RL pilots mixed up and edited it to @boomerang10 on the minutiae of that switch… 
Some other notes/funnies/misunderstandings on my initial playing:
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When to do a FCS reset? After carrier landing (after getting out and kissing the deck many times) I did a cold start again but didn’t do a FCS reset and BIT test (the switch on the right hip). Is that reset and test required at every cold start? I did hit the FCS Take Off trim before the cat launch, but something wasn’t quite right on round 2.
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Talking of which weird flying, when deselecting an autopilot mode is there significance in using the ‘AP disconnect paddle’ rather than just toggling a mode off? I got some weird ‘would not climb’ sort of behavior, so I’m thinking there are some FCS rules around this I’m not clear on.
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Does anyone have a quick reference table for take-off trim on the Carrier per weight, just as a rough guideline. I do, like a good sailer, make sure I am hands-off at the cat, but after that I do need to catch the trim, and I think I remember seeing somewhere some sort of weight/trim guideline that I can’t find again.
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Check your FCS page. My understanding if any of the control surfaces come back with an X, you need to reset. I’m shaky on this facet of the jet though.
Preeeetty sure there’s a nice big button on top of the rudder trip rotary that will automatically set it for you 
(or I could be wrong)
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