Anyone interested in movable and fully functional aircraft carriers should definitely have this add-on. The options for different fleet configurations was a surprise and really put the icing on the cake. It will then appear with your aircraft now located on the deck and ready to go. Simply press Shift + J to activate the carrier options and select the carrier you had saved. Just be aware that when you open the Saved flight your aircraft will be sitting over an empty ocean.
HOW TO USE CARRIERS WITH FSX ACCELERATION FREE
Installs easily and automatically recognizes if you are using Acceleration and don't need the hard deck option.Īlthough the carrier and/or fleet disappears each time you exit FSX, you can still save a Free Flight. It works great and has been updated for Acceleration. I was trying to get the one at Norfolk located and hadn't had time to try your suggestion.įantastic! Has someone posted this information on this website? Did I miss this? If you time it very carefully, you can takeoff between the big semi and the convertible, but watch out for the taxicab! lol Neither Ultimate Terrain nor FSX noted this technicality. I went to Google Earth and found that the roadway appears to run underneath the end of the runway and not over the top. That is even the case with Ultimate Terrain. I'll post a response on my latest efforts within the hour.īy the way, what’s up with KNGU?! I found it amusing to see auto traffic buzzing across runway 10. I will try resetting the time and see if I can get both carriers to appear.ĭoes the inactive carrier also have aircraft on the deck? The one I am finding does have several jets and a helicopter on deck. There is only the one carrier at this location. The carrier is only a short distance away. I use Rwy 28 out of KNGU, then turn right to about 350°. I have set the Time & Season for Friday at 13:30 hrs.
I think that I am going to the correct location. It would be great if there was a mission that did this, perhaps with AI aircraft flying along. When the carrier gets underway again, the aircraft fly out of the land based airbases and rendezvous with the aircraft carrier after it is some distance offshore. When an aircraft carrier approaches home port, aircraft are flown off the carrier miles before arriving at the homeport and land at various inland military airbases. I was interested in what I have been told is a standard procedure. The best thing is to use the Missions where the catshots and traps actually work. Thanks for helping me smell the coffee.Īgain, it was just out of curiosity and for fun. Hey, why not just use the Time & Season and set it to any Friday afternoon around 13:00 hrs. I had patiently waited until Friday afternoon to begin looking for the aircraft carriers. You did provide me with a heads-up “well-duh” reality. That is a much more detailed AI aircraft carrier. With no functional components on the AI aircraft carrier, it doesn’t have much use other than just for fun. Just after clearing the deck, it was at 170 knots. Close to the edge you are only at about 105 knots, but the after burners really accelerate enormously at this speed. After stabilizing, I kicked in the after burners and released the parking brake.
HOW TO USE CARRIERS WITH FSX ACCELERATION FULL
I set full flaps, spooled up the engines just short of the afterburners. Once on the ship, curiosity took over and I changed the Cessna to the F-18A to see if it could take off without a catapult. Once again, it is an AI ship, so don’t look for any landing aids. It will take almost the entire runway to stop, but it can be done if you don’t overshoot the landing zone. To insure that I did it on the first try, knowing there was no arresting cables, I used the Cessna Skyhawk for the landing. It is a simple AI ship and not intended as a functional aircraft carrier. This is apparently its “home port” until it moves out again.Īs expected, there are no arresting cables or launch catapults. It was sitting about a mile from the Golden Gate Bridge and didn’t seem to be moving. Found the AI aircraft carrier at San Francisco.