Now, think about it Sam...the gear's not up right? OK
Now, what's the title of the thread?
Gottit? It's an AI F15 Eagle. So it was the AI pilot's job - nothing to do with me.
All these pics are of an AI F15 doing touch-and-gos from a carrier.
Actually, the gear goes up on climb out but when the AB switches off and the plane begins to bank onto cross-wind leg, the gear comes down and stays down for the rest of the circuit. I guess it's because the plane needs the drag to fly slow enough.
OK - now the next bit. What do you need for AI (amongst other things)?
Answer - an airport.
What you're seeing here ISN'T a stock carrier as such. It is, but it's a special scenery I've created that is FULLY PROGRAMMABLE for AI. So you can fly to it, use the ILS and/or NDB, land on it (if you're good enough!) - even create flightplans to it because it's in the list of airports.
BUT - this is a first folks - it's the first time as far as I know when a properly programmable AI F15 is taking off, doing circuits, landing, and most importantly, stopping on a carrier. Then it parks up for the next time.
OK, so the F15 is a bit special to do that, and when the time comes for the package to be issued, it (or at least its FDE) will have to come packaged up with it.
The idea is that I'll be making one or more carrier groups. The North American one will have 3 carriers off Texas, Florida and Maryland. Each one will have flight plans for its own AI F15s to be doing touch and gos and there will also be plans for F15s to be flying between all the carriers in the group. 24hrs a day.
Now as you'll be able to fly to or from any one of them, VFR or IFR, there should be a lot of fun fitting into all that traffic!
Today I've managed to snatch a few hours to relax and I've managed to tweak all the component bits on one carrier (it's off Texas). Now it's just a matter of pulling the whole thing together - when I get some more time.
Then who knows - an Australian group, a European group etc etc
Whadayall think?
Roger
PS Nice to be back for a quick visit! ;)
by Sam 400 » Sun Feb 08, 2004 3:36 pm 
The harrier, Best british aviation! Ever!
