Dont feel bad, Last night @AeroMechanical taxi’d off the deck into the water, which exploded me sitting there.
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Hey, someone’s gotta sew the chaos in the server.
Had a moment last night where I saw @Gunnyhighway shoot off the cat while @Navynuke99 and I were circling the carrier trying to set up a landing despite the turbulence pushing our jets around. Good stuff!
I’m pretty impressed by the initial release. Bugs here and there, but with a high number of fundamental systems that are up and running compared to what’s typically considered early access.
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For the record, I was flying in solo last night while I was talking to y’all. But I’ll be in tonight.
Yes, but it’s bugged. So no, not currently.
And yeah, the moving map is pretty awful right now.
its an early version, rushed in to tick a box. no worries. i put EW on that mfd.
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Stupid question that I’d answer if I were home at the moment…but didn’t ED model circuit breakers? Does the MPCD have a CB you could pull to blank it out entirely? Just curious…
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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