Is there a way...

[MaskRider]

... to disable the landing signal officer graphic?

MR

[Typhoon Willy]

Hi MR,

It's been so long (years) since I've done that...I was looking in my main CFS2 folder of one of my installs to try and find something...seemed to remember there was an entry for the LSO that had to be changed to "false", just like the green "tracking cone", but was unable to locate anything, sorry I couldn't help.

TW

[MaskRider]

Thanks, TW.

Yes, I seem to remember the same sort of thing from way back in the dim dusty past.

I'll start looking through my archives.

Cheers,
MR

[bearcat241]

It's a gauge located in the gauges folder - Lso.gau. Find and rename it for backup, like Lso.gau.bak. That should prevent it from appearing universally.

[Shadow Wolf 07]

It's a gauge located in the gauges folder - Lso.gau. Find and rename it for backup, like Lso.gau.bak. That should prevent it from appearing universally.

Nice shot Bearca241!

[Captain Kurt]

That brings up an interesting question. That is, what causes the gauge to activate and the LSO pops up?

I believe it is the proximity of the player aircraft on approach to the carrier because the gauge doesn't show in any panels or air file. In some Navy A/C cfg files there is an LSO entry for a landing speed adjustment, but not in all carrier aircraft. For example, the Wildcat cfg does not have an LSO section.

Just to check the hypothesis, I took a P-40 and set up a landing approach to the Essex and Bingo, the LSO popped up to guide me in, then waved me off after I was close enough for him to determine I had no tail hook.

Just for fun I tried it again in a C-47 with the same result.

So it seems there isn't any way to selectively disable the LSO for individual planes. It's all or nothing.

[MaskRider]

It's a gauge located in the gauges folder - Lso.gau. Find and rename it for backup, like Lso.gau.bak. That should prevent it from appearing universally.

Thanks Bearcat. That did the trick.

That LSO kept popping up not only when I got withun the approach "cone" of a carrier but also whenever I got withing the approach cone of one of Usio's ships. It got a little pesky.

WRT Usio's ships triggering the LSO, I think I may have cured it by using Usio's "target-only" dps, but, still for some reason his ship icons still show as carriers in the MB layout window.

No worries. The LSO is gone. Thats a definite improvement IMHO.

Cheers,
MR