Team SDB USS Enterprise.

[PRB]

Glad to be able to help, in a teeny tiny way. Looking forward to the release!

[strykerpsg]

This will be a fantastic addition to the upcoming Razbam Buckeye, which must be very close based on all the feedback from last week. Anyway, in case I missed it, does the carrier offer period specific AI aircraft/helo's? In other words, can you pick a 70's based carrier with warbirds from that era? If not, not a deal breaker for me.

Matt

[Mickey D]

This will be a fantastic addition to the upcoming Razbam Buckeye, which must be very close based on all the feedback from last week. Anyway, in case I missed it, does the carrier offer period specific AI aircraft/helo's? In other words, can you pick a 70's based carrier with warbirds from that era? If not, not a deal breaker for me.

Matt

The aircraft you see in the screenshots are modelled into the carrier and can't be removed or replaced by the
user. That's the only way it can be done on an AI ship so they "move" with the ship. AI aircraft can't be
made to work with a moving carrier. They require an airport facility file, a so called AFCAD, which remains
stationary. Any "AI" that you may have seen with a moving carrier are in fact dynamic objects which may
becompiled into the carrier.
This first release represents the two post-refit cruises of the 1980s. The one you are interested in, the
pre-79 refit Enterprise is physically and visually a different beast and is planned as the subject of a
future release.

[fsafranek]

This will be a fantastic addition to the upcoming Razbam Buckeye, which must be very close based on all the feedback from last week. Anyway, in case I missed it, does the carrier offer period specific AI aircraft/helo's? In other words, can you pick a 70's based carrier with warbirds from that era? If not, not a deal breaker for me.

Matt

First off, glad that's not a deal breaker. Usually those posts are meant to be negative.

When we first started this project one of the questions was what era would be represented. The decision to go between 1982 and 1997 was influenced by two things -- 1) during a 1979-1982 refit the roof was changed to the type we have now and 2) the A-6 Intruder we have as one of the statics left service in 1997. We've since learned even more about the Enterprise's cruises and that has narrowed the range a bit to the earlier 1990s.

The FS9 version still has the three static aircraft deck layouts like the original Alphasim version did -- launch, recovery, and dual-purpose. Since they are changed by moving files around there is also a clean deck option. On that clean deck you can place whatever aircraft you want from any era. As long as you don't look at the roof of the island it won't matter.

As Mickey D mentioned, since the FSX version is a moving carrier we must fix the static aircraft in place and so we are configuring it to represent the Enterprise in the early 1980s and in the early 1990s. These decisions are based the static aircraft made available to us to use. You can of course launch and land any aircraft on her.

As mentioned in the opening post of this thread we have always had in mind changing the roof design to represent the original very distinctive beehive version that was in place up to the late 1970's -- we've collected the necessary static aircraft to represent the 1960's through the late 1970s. In order to go forward with this second release (I hope we do) there are several people involved with other interests and we all need to agree that it is worthwhile to put a few more months into it. So the successful acceptence of the first release will determine how that goes.

[Victory103]

Great to hear of the periods covered, I cruised on Big "E" in '96, as mentioned the last Intruder cruise (VA-75 Sunday Punchers). Sorry I don't have any pics scanned yet of that cruise but I can help with research if required, I own the "Cruise Book" as well.

[Navy Chief]

Awesome work indeed! Doing a great job of representing our Navy eh Chief?

A most remarkable job. Incredible is the word to describe it. Having lived and worked on carriers of that time period...well, it really brings back memories.

Pete

[empeck]

Beautiful work guys!

Can't wait.

[VCN-1]

Looks fantastic.

You simply can't enough carriers.

Looking forward to the release.

It is now on my must purchase list.

VCN-1

[expat]

Wonderful work and will be an early buyer. Kudos to all involved.

There is still a real need for a e.g. Forestall or angled deck Essex class cv for FSX

[strykerpsg]

So, gonna spam this everyday until release now that I have the Buckeye and Kestrel to fly off of her.....kidding, about the daily spamming, just every other day. Have an approximate ETA?

BTW, I would buy all the variants of era's you make available, as it would also go great with the VRS Superhornet and Dino's upcoming F-35C.

Matt

[fsafranek]

Speaking of the Buckeye, Bill (Wings of Gold) Mackay sent an image over
flying the new Razbam release out to the Big-E during testing.

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[robertorizzo]

I've never been so anxious as in these last days since this topic has been opened.

[Willy]

For the T-2 Buckeye, you really need the USS Lexington (CVT-16), the last of the Essex class in commission and the Navy's training carrier from 1962 until the early 90s. We mostly flew the T-2s and TA-4s on the Lex. Sometimes we'd get A-6s & A-7s from squadrons whose carrier was unavailable and had pilots needing to requal on carrier landings.

[Mickey D]

By way of a Work in Progress report I thought I'd upload this pic of the recent island remodelling. Some pretty cool 3D work there.
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[PRB]

Wow, that looks great!