SHB Thread

[micro]

Spaz, no doubt that red ball would have the LSO looking sideways at me. But, I didn't mean I received a "No Grade" for the pass. The vLSO just never registered the pass. Granted, I had the deck moving at 1.6 degrees on the Pitching Deck program. A little trigonometry with a ship that's roughly 1000 feet long, and that translates to about 30 feet of deck movement. That darn deck just had to be all the way down as I got to the ramp, so you better believe I spotted that thing and came way back on the power to end up in the wires. The Trap gauge actually showed me grabbing the 3 wire. But... not the best way to do it. LOL
As for my equipment, here' are my specs.

iBuyPower custom built gaming rig
16 x Intel i7-5960X cores @ 3.0GHz
32 GB Ram
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Orion, The FSXBA jet is probably the best overall handling aircraft I've flown in FSX, or any sim for that matter. Getting aboard with it is about as easy as it's going to get. I just always tend to be about 1-3 knots slow on approach. But, Jimi just informed me I'm flying an old version that still has a few bugs. Gonna upgrade before my next flight.

[SpazSinbad]

Thanks for the computer stats 'micro'. I think I'll have to install Windows 7 to probably get rid of the stutter issues experienced in Win8/8.1 that put me out to pasture with FSX etc. I'll check what is the real world deck movement allowance. Why have the deck moving so much?

[micro]

Spaz, given our discussion about 18 months ago, I can assure you, 30 ft of deck movement is "allowed" - and trained for. 

=44s

Why, have the deck moving so much in my video? Because this is meant to be a fun thread, my friend! Having flown the real things you must know that pilots like to get a bit crazy in the sim. Let's have a little fun and, at least for this thread, not be so concerned with what NATOPS says. What'ya say?

[Orion]

Glad to hear it; appreciate the PIREP!   Hopefully the new one works even better.  Have you tried any approaches with Auto Throttle Control enabled?

The initial release of the pitching deck program limited pitch and bank to 3 degrees in the UI, almost twice what you had set in your video, and some people said that the deck wasn't pitching enough...  Can't win either way I guess.

[SpazSinbad]

'micro' I did not get around to finding out the limits. That video is blocked in my part of the world. Sure it is a sim and you can go do whatever you wish.

[SpazSinbad]

Real World LSOs will not allow you to deck spot at any time. They are canny that way. I wonder how this pilot would have gone 'deck spotting' at night. I jest - OK.

Hornet Pilot Night Pitching Deck USS Nimitz Pacific Experience

[SpazSinbad]

Looks like this video clip is from the PBS doco showing the CVN deck moving during the day; but the dialog has been replaced by music:

[GOONIE]

Interesting new video (also check out his other HUD tapes) of a SHB. He admits it was a bad pass following the SHB, still great to see some new HUD tapes.