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[BOYAN]

I made a video about the carrier landings for the F-4. The video is refering to what Karla said. It's a very hard to land this plane on a carrier.
You have to find yourself below 300km/h when you toutch deck, otherwise the gear could break.
I watched many F-4 carrier landings, they always seem to drop altitude gradualy and keep their nose up. Only thing is, I can't see what's in front of me if I pull it like in the historical videos. I fly only in cockpit view with the F-4 cockpit from 4.12 when I land. I think it's a better training.

Guys, why are you making something hard even harder? Turn that cockpit off! Carrier landings are hard enough in IL2, help yourselves with SHIFT+F1... Also, put carrier in full speed, fly with 50% of fuel or less.

Now, here are some things I believe helped me with landings in general, since I haven`t yet flown the jets off the carriers...

1. Put the joystick between your legs, as in the real cockpit. Three peaces of wood and a couple of screws will make a nice stand, tall and narrow, yet stable... I have flown this way for 10 years now, and I can`t imagine going back to having a joystick on the table or to the side...

2. Start with the trainers... Just like in real life. For example, navy pilots: AT-6 > Hellcat > T-33 > Panther, Cougar or Fury > Phantom. Master the props, go to carrier. Back to land to jets, qual on carrier and then to Phantom...

3. Landing configuration and flight circuits. Get used to flying low in landing conf. Get rid of that famous nose hopping up and down in IL2, don`t overcontrol it, be smooth, gentle, feel the aircraft, cement the nose on horizon, know your stalling speed, work the throttle in small increments, notice the vertical speed. Keep the same altitude in downwind leg in landing conf...

4. Mark a spot on land and try to land on it or close to it, good practice for the carrier, but on a long runway, so you will land either way. Make touch and goes, you don`t have to land to a full stop every time... Stay in landing configuration!!

5. Props on a carrier. Watch some real training and historic footage of props landing on CVs... Forget the training videos in IL2. Know your stalling speed!! Fly little above it. Nose on horizon on downwind leg, and nose up attitude on base and final approach. Throttle is your joystick now! Find that centerline and keep it, along with the altitude. Know the carrier height and don`t go below it. Cut the power a few seconds before reaching the ramp, keep the nose up, and the aircraft will settle down in that attitude, hook will engage and thats it!

6. Record every flight. That way you will find mistakes and correct them in coming flights. Make a goal of 8 carrier landings, without waweoffs (or crashes). Get the cockpit back on only when mastering the landings with cockpit off.

[kukulo]

Fuel load for Phantom is important. 100% is not good!!!

But anyway looky forward for this peace of art. I will install jet era again than too

[western0221]

Hi, karla.

I sent you a PM 4 days ago with a new classfiles/ini files to make a new individual BHR's ship slot with enabling JBD.
How about it?

[karla]

Thank you very much western. I will take action soon.

[karla]

A major milestone has been reached - a standalone version of Bon Homme Richard works in IL2 4.12.2m Modact 5.3 under Linux Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit and Wine 1.7.31 (thanks to western0221 for Java Class files and advice). I still can't do screen captures and will sort it out soon (tried shift, Ctrl, Alt and straight versions of PrtScn and will probably use a capture utility; remember I'm working IL2 under 64 bit Linux. I can capture video with VLC though, hmmm).

The model is currently composed mostly of old files with only about twenty key meshes manually added so that the new detail can be seen. All the texture maps are resized and renamed and need no further work. I am resisting the temptation to carry on further modelling and have come to realize that rendering of the detail under Blender is better than the visuals from the game engine and the extra effort will be wasted.

There are some further corrections to be made and FLOLS and JBDs also need sorting so its still going to be a while ......

[karla]

Latest screenshot from Blender. Conversion to the game is quite an effort and so is only carried out to test major changes. We should have a screenshot of BHR from the game next time.

Deck handling equipment has been added and I'm looking into adding crew on the sponsons. JBDs are modelled but can't be animated and are probably going to be left inert. FLOLS are also not working but the basic structure is there ready for completion some other time.

It has been disappointing trying out Pablo Roldán's bbexporter.py plugin for Blender 2.49 (and 2.49b) under Linux and Windows. I was unable to get it to work on a single mesh0 and CF_D0 mesh. I was also unable to get an alternative idea to work of using Dr Jones MeshConverter to convert .obj (exported from Blender)  to .msh without crashing under Linux and Windows. The only method that works on my system is that outlined in Post #13 which is quite tedious and slows down development. So, at the recent rate of progress it appears that a realistic release will be in the new year. This will, however, allow time to carry out further modelling, improve texture maps and make the whole model a little more robust.

[Tofolo]

It looks awesome!

Take your time and enjoy the holydays 

[AG-51_Razor]

It does look awesome Karla! Your work is much appreciated and will be well worth the wait.

[western0221]

In my memory, Essex class never had FLOLS.
Mirror landing aid was a mother of FLOLS.

[Koty]

um, is it going to have landing beacon?

[duffys tavern]

Yea, I think the FLOLS was first used in the early 70s or there about.

[Phoenix9491]

Looks great so far!