Aussie Group Flights Team: Carrier Sorties - Ford and Nimitz Class Carrier Ops

In this series of events, we will be landing and taking off from Carriers.

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Requirements:

Aircraft: F4F-4 Wildcat
Available from Got Friends: F4F-4 Wildcat – Got Friends

Carrier: Supercarrier Pro V1.0.1 is now available at ORBX and the Miltech Simulation Store: https://www.miltechsimulations.com/

  • NEW: Aircraft hangar accessible on static ships
  • NEW: Aircraft will now spawn to deck on moving ships
  • NEW: Moving carriers will now be identifiable by ICAO Code (see updated list of locations and ICAO codes)
  • Fixed bugs with spawning on static carriers (eg. aircraft spawns under the deck)
  • Collision surface fixed on static support ships
  • Other various Bugfixes (https://miltechsimulations.talkyard.net/…/supercarrier …)

Sortie: Nimitz Class Carrier at Long Island, Formation flight to Cape May(KWWD), Formation flight to Ford Class Carrier at Norfolk.

Details to follow. Hope you can join us.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS INFORMATION IS FOR FLIGHT SIMULATION USE ONLY.

Regards, Paul

ATTENTION Aussie Flight Group Participants …

Group Flight: 2023-10-10T19:00:00Z

PLEASE DO NOT SPAWN ON THE RUNWAY. ENSURE YOU SELECT THE STARTING POSITION ON THE RAMP.

Route: Long Island Carrier(ZC06) Cape May(KWWD) Norfolk Carrier(FC07)

Take off from Long Island Carrier(ZC06)
Perform orbits of the Carrier until all aircraft are in the air
Form up for formation flight (Leader will be nominated)
Track 105 deg to Cape May(KWWD) 105nm
Full Stop Landing at Cape May(KWWD) +++ 10 minute break +++
Take off from Carrier 
Perform orbits of the Carrier until all aircraft are in the air
Form up for formation flight (Leader will be nominated)
Track 221 deg to Norfolk Carrier(FC07) 140nm
Full Stop Landing at Norfolk Carrier(FC07)

Altitude: The route can be flown up to 3,500’ to be clear of terrain.

Airport details

Cape May(KWWD)
Elev: 22’
RW 01/19 Asphalt
RW 10/28 Asphalt

Aircraft: F4F-4 Wildcat

IMPORTANT: In the interest of keeping it REAL, please refrain from selecting inappropriate aircraft, like airliners. This only detracts from the immersion of the flight.

Seeing Aircraft Correctly: You need to do two things to ensure you can see the other pilots in the event and see them in the aircraft they selected.

Select the same server: To do this, proceed as follows:

From the Welcome Screen, click on your Username (top right)
From the list of servers, under Servers, select South East Asia.

Turn off Generic Planes: To do this, proceed as follows:

From the Welcome Screen, click on OPTIONS
Click on GENERAL
With TRAFFIC selected, scroll down to the last option and set USE GENERIC PLANE MODELS to OFF

Turning off Crash/Damage:

Select Options/Assistance
Expand Failure & Damage
Disable Crash Damage
Disable Aircraft Stress Damage
Disable Engine Stress Damage
Accept the changes

Voice Room: My personal Discord server is used for voice comms. If you haven’t already joined my server, click on the below link to request access. I will set you up as a Member so you can access the server. Ensure you do this prior to the flight, as latecomers will need to wait for the next event.

Link to join the Voice Room: Aussie Group Flights Team - On-line Flying

Note: this link is only valid for 7 days from posting.

Weather/Time: We will set the time to 8am. This will allow us to fly in daylight and choose REAL weather so that the winds are correct.

From the World Map view, click on Flight Conditions (upper right of screen)
Click on All Players, Live Traffic, Custom
Under Weather and Time, select Live Weather and move the time slide bar to show 8:00am. 
Click Close and Fly from the World Map view.

We can start departing from 20:00z. There will be no need for official radio calls. Lets just have some fun taking in the scenery and the social aspects of the event.

Turning on Points of Interest

Select Options/Assistance
Expand POI
Set Landmark Markers to ON
Set City Markers to ON
Set Airport Markers to ON
Accept the changes

Turning on Name Tags (This will assist you in following the group if you get disoriented):

Select Options/GeneralTraffic
Set Show Traffic Nameplates to On
Accept the settings

Still confused, check out the multiplayer video tutorial from SimHangar Flight Simulation: MSFS | MULTIPLAYER | How To Guide | Everything You Need To Know | Fly in events coming soon. - YouTube

Let me know if there’s anything else that I’ve missed that you need to know.,

Regards, Paul

Flight plans for the event …

Little NavMap: VFR Long Island Static Carrier - C (ZC06) to Norfolk Static Carrier - Cvn78 (FC07).lnmpln (1.5 KB)

MSFS: VFR Long Island Static Carrier - C (ZC06) to Norfolk Static Carrier - Cvn78 (FC07).pln (1.8 KB)

Print this flight card out for your easy reference during the flight (Note: only available up to the date of the flight): Dropbox - Flight Card_Carrier.pdf - Simplify your life

Event reminder …



Formation flying …