Carrier Tacan available on RFN

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As far as carrier ops, I am still not clear what this gauge actually does. What I understand is that moving (AI) carriers in FSX -either "placed" in game using Aircraftcarriers2 by Lamont Clark or with pre-set carrier tracks - cannot have any working navaids (a fixed carrier can have an AFCAD=airport= see it on the map/GPS/ILS etc . .) BUT this gauge emulates or simulates a TACAN or similar signal such that it shows the direction and distance (?) to the carrier to the pilot. Especially useful in IFR and/or night conditions and more generally as it can be hard to find "the bloody boat" even in good visibilty in FSX. Have experienced the same or similar gauge in the Smudge Hornet.

Ideally I would lke to install the gauge in a 2D panel and/or VC and be able to find the Javier Nimitz class and Clemenceau boats. Is this possible and what does one need to do?

Thanks in advance,

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...What I understand is that moving (AI) carriers in FSX -either "placed" in game using Aircraftcarriers2 by Lamont Clark or with pre-set carrier tracks - cannot have any working navaids (a fixed carrier can have an AFCAD=airport= see it on the map/GPS/ILS etc . .) BUT this gauge emulates or simulates a TACAN or similar signal such that it shows the direction and distance (?) to the carrier to the pilot.

Yes, you're right, FS navaids works only with geographical coords, so the workaround is to simulate moving beacon by calculating similar navaids variables beetween airplane's player and AI carrier. Then it feed a complete set of custom variables : distance, bearing, loc, glide slope error, etc...

... Have experienced the same or similar gauge in the Smudge Hornet....

I guess you're speaking about Neutrino's HUD? Yes, it is even more than similar, because my gauge is based on Neutrino's code which I had enriched with a parsing dll in order to have a configuration file (Carrier.xml) for a more flexible carrier management.

...Ideally I would lke to install the gauge in a 2D panel and/or VC and be able to find the Javier Nimitz class and Clemenceau boats. Is this possible and what does one need to do?....

This is the goal of the gauge, and Javier's carrier is already defined in the packaged conf file. After that, you just need to modify your panel.cfg to use the gauge in a 2D panel. For a VC usage, it should be possible (by replacing an existing gauge), but 3D cockpit is generally something more depending on the plane author's will...

Regards,
Sylvain

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Very helpful Sylvain, many thanks!