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Hi all,
Does anybody know what the key command is on the aicarriers 2 to launch the aircraft, the default one of shift +spacebar doesn't work, I was using Dino's T45, the nose wheel was bouncing around when attached to the cat and the exhaust blast barriers don't come up.

All ok in the missions with aircraft carriers.

Shift U launch bar
Shift I arm
shift spacebar launch.

If the blast shield has not raised then the cat is not armed. You may need to play with the position of the plane for it to work correctly. Each plane is a little different.

Hi all,
Does anybody know what the key command is on the aicarriers 2 to launch the aircraft, the default one of shift +spacebar doesn't work, I was using Dino's T45, the nose wheel was bouncing around when attached to the cat and the exhaust blast barriers don't come up.

All ok in the missions with aircraft carriers.

Are you using FSX/Acceleration? I don't think the cats work without it

I had this problem with the VRS Superbug once............the launch bar goes down...... the aircraft attaches.... it says "catapult armed"......all it does is hop the front end and the barrier doesn't come up right?........I wish I knew what solved the problem........but it mysteriously fixed itself??????......and I haven't had a problem with it since :-?

Hi All,

I've answered threads on carrier aircraft launches myself, I know it inside out, especially when related to missions.
The problem is purley to do with the aicarrier installation.

I know the button presses off by heartand yes, I'm using acceleration, it's the fsx gold.
The missions that come with gold are all faultless, it's just this aicarrier2 thats not working

Here's what I do: get to cat, lower launch bar, shift and I, t45 'jumps/jerks' as others do as it attaches to the cat but no blast barriers and no response to shift+spacebar, the t45 doesn't even have to be on the cat to be bouncing around, it occasionally looks like the carrier is hitting large waves and the t45 has no damping in the undercarriage suspension, looks more like rodeo at times

But the t45 is physically jerking up and down very rapidly, no others do this.
F18 won't launch either so it's a bug somewhere in the install.

I was showing it to the guys at work who I pass my old flight sims to.

Anybody else any other ideas, I'm tempted to uninstall and start afresh, I may have done somethingw rong on the nimitz/ike install.

Problem solved but no idea what was causing it, I uninstalled it and reinstalled and now OK.

Just need to see how to config it so I'm landing on the nimitz/ike carrier with other aircraft parked up.

In my FSX I realized that if I checked the "Empty Scenery Cache" box in the "Scenery Library" menu and then press OK, I had no more occasional bugs with AICarriers or general AI traffic. AI boats will reload correctly with all their options like cables or catapults for the FSX Carrier (i.e). The rest is about placing your front wheel at the right place, inside the square at the begining of the catapult rail for the FSX FA-18 (i.e),and pressing the requested Shift u, shift i and shift spacebar. With addon airplanes you may need to search the good position a bit. See other posts in this topic.

Thanks - but I wrote some of the guides on using carriers, I know it inside out, was just that one install that was bugged.