Try the default scenery people models and see what happens ideally you could if you ask around get crew on the deck(its worth trying out, just check if its visible to all players) . For hand signals check out the NATOPs manual they are in there for the Superhornet. I think ideally a carrier with crew, ai aircraft, ATC and LSO plus TACAN with ILS would be the ultimate and I haven't seen that since DiDs Superhornet. So you didn't try the LSO lines yet? That could possibly work since its running as a mission.