JF Wildcat F3F3 or Martlet carrier landing

[gastonj]

Hi,

Have you any success landing on carrier with that plane? I think that the fly model is wrong or at least not efficient for this? Have you a cure?
The JF demo video does not show all the landing...why?
The freeware FM2 has no problem. It is quite easy to do carrier landing.

JMC

[gastonj]

oops ...the title is wrong, correct is "F4F3"!

JMC

[Ian Warren]

I don't have the JF Wildcat, but it would be carrier capable, it just they simply did not screen a landing, be a lot of fun with Bruce Fitzgerald's USS Enterprise in a multiplay with a bunch with the same aircraft or VS Dauntless, Hellcat, JF Corsair .. the list go's on .. get a bunch of mates ... one has to be the Carrier Commander driving the ship .. really that is just as much fun.

[DaveB]

This model WILL carrier land but it needs to be light (a little over 50gall or less). Try for a 3-pointer if poss to minimize the chances of a nose-over

ATB
DaveB

[Hanimichal]

I have success landing after editing contact points:

max_number_of_points=14

point.12= 2, 9.800, 0.000, -5.850, 99990, 0, 0.0, 0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0, 0, 0

[dhasdell]

Yes - there's a fix involving the hook.

Wildcat tailhook mod


Make a copy of your aircraft.cfg as a backup.
Locate this section in the working cfg.
Delete the whole section = 4 lines.
copy paste this replacement in its place,
[TailHook]
tailhook_length = 2.50
tailhook_position = -20.100, 0.000, -0.500
cable_force_adjust = 2.0


(Thanks to) Rich Roscoe

[gastonj]

Hi,

The tailhook mod work's fine, thank's!
The contact points mod seems to be a third front wheel, am i wrong?

JMC

[Hanimichal]

Hi,

The tailhook mod work's fine, thank's!
The contact points mod seems to be a third front wheel, am i wrong?

JMC

it work like third front wheel, but with that new tailhook I think you don't need it anymore

[gastonj]

Yes, but thank's for your help.
JMC