Too nice a guy to play Pappi.
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Yes! Took me way too long to find the airspeed gauge
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Human factors? We don’t have time for human factors, there’s a war on!
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Greg of youtube fame had a video on the ergonomics of WWII fighters and it focused on the Corsair as an example of something that started out very bad and was made better in future revisions.
I should go back and review that to see exactly which cockpit we’ve got here? There were quite some changes made IIRC!
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Looks like there is a bug where the hook will not catch the wire at certain carrier directions
Casmotv did a live stream about it …but can’t seem to link it
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Found a summary on the ED forums:
“No, Casmo just verified it on his live stream. It works in quadrants 1,2 and 4. The problem only occurs in quadrant 3, 181 to 270 degrees”
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I’m keen to get this but have to wait until August as my daughter wants to get it for me, which is very kind of her.
I see in some videos that other Corsair’s are parked at the end of the deck and it appears you land with them ahead of you, preventing a go around. I may be misinterpreting this of course but did they really land with such precious obstacles in front of them? I’ve read about the Corsair in Royal Navy service and it was never mentioned.
Edit: I’m seeing clean decks in more recent videos so maybe it was just people rushing to be first with a carrier landing video.
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I believe they had a catch net (like the barricade in Top Gun Maverick) between the landing area and the parked aircraft. Which I think had to be dropped and raised to allow the landing aircraft to taxy forward into the parking area?
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Yes. No other option on straight decked carriers when recovering a bunch of aircraft. They would raise the barrier to protect the aircraft up front, lower it to allow the next landing aircraft to taxi over it and raise it again for the next.
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Yep they rigged a barricade for all traps to protect the parked aircraft. Same in Korea before the angled deck modifications were made.
I have the beginnings of a WW2 Marianas sandbox here: GitHub
Just rudimentary cruising area. Orote and CV-11 have four client slots each. There’s a lone Corsair orbiting on the southeast coast of Guam for formation practice. Rota field has parked aircraft and vehicles for target practice.
CV-11 has a couple scripted features:
- auto turn-into-wind from 08:01 to 11:00 with 30kts over the deck (if she can steam fast enough)
- static aircraft parked on the stern for launch; on the bow for recovery. Use the comms F10 menu to switch between each deck setup.
If you want to change the mission time you’ll probably need to update the carrier’s turn-into-wind timing in the .miz file’s lua. l10n/DEFAULT/TurnIntoWind.lua.
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It is remarkable how much this has changed over the years.
I can’t imagine landing with such a limitation in a 172 or PC-12, let alone a Corsair or Wildcat. Sure, there’s LAHSO, but that’s voluntary and you get a lot more room to deal with there. This was a requirement.
You have to respect those old curmudgeons who were among the first aviators to land on a postage stamp in the ocean.
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Nineteen year old curmudgeons will say “yes sir!” to just about anything.
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There is a binge worthy series from Bruce Gamble on VMF-214 in the Pacific on YouTube. Episode 1 is all Wildcat, so if you are looking for F4U specific content, start with E2. Episode contents are listed in the video description for each. I’ve been enjoying all of them.
YMMV
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Did another flight tonight, second one for me. Takeoff is quite docile, as is landing. She feels pretty nice up above 5,000ft but at low level something feels…lethargic? All buttoned up and 2700rpm/53" I’m stuck at 200-210kts. Roll rate is just about as slow as the P-47’s as well.
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You should be able to do a little better down low. Less cowl flaps maybe?
For some reason my gear keybind wasn’t being recognized and I was having a similar issue. Popped into extremal to see if I was missing anything and the giant dangling gear-as-airbrakes were the cause. The click spot in the cockpit worked though.
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The vids were great! Thanks @chipwich !
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If you want a great book on carrier aviation, I suggest “Feet Wet” by RAdm Gilchrist:
As I recall from the book, there were three layers of arresting gear safeguards.
The first was the number of wires, which I think was 12 rather than the later 4. So, trapping had a somewhat higher chance of success over what I presume was a longer landing area.
The second was a “knee knocker” wire which was strung after the last wire and was actually more for catching your gear than your hook. I recall it would often result in rocking you up on your nose…but it did stop you.
The last was the barrier which was strung I’m guessing any time there were parked aircraft forward.
Both these last two were obviously not the desired method of stopping but were necessary as, once you passed a certain point in the approach, you were essentially committed to land.
He has some great stories in that book that spans a career from the late ‘40s to the ‘70s.
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I need to get his books on the Crusader and Tomcat.
I’ve been trying for a while now to find more information about the incident he talked about that happened to his carrier when he was CAG.
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