Aerosoft F-14 won't catapult off the deck

[Cees Donker]

Has anyone here encountered this problem? Great aircraft, but it should take off flawlessly?

Cees

 

[Tako_Kichi]

Has it got the 'launch/catapult' details correct in the aircraft.cfg file?

 

[Cees Donker]

Yes, I checked that before I posted the thread.

Cees

 

[Cees Donker]

[launch_assistance]
launch_bar_pivot = 21.88, 0.00, -3.94
launch_bar_lug = 23.6, 0.00, -5.54

 

[Tako_Kichi]

Odd

 

[Cees Donker]

Tested: In P3DV4 it works fine???

Cees

 

[MrZippy]

How about:

[launch_bar]
freeset = 0
paw_lock = 0
max_deploy_angle = 90.0
min_deploy_angle = 0.0
yaw_control = 0
pitch_control = 0
max_drag = 0

 

[Cees Donker]

How about:

[launch_bar]
freeset = 0
paw_lock = 0
max_deploy_angle = 90.0
min_deploy_angle = 0.0
yaw_control = 0
pitch_control = 0
max_drag = 0

????

Cees

 

[MrZippy]

????

Cees

That was from a Google search about what is needed in the aircraft.cfg for catapult launches. I've personally never had Acceleration, so never launced
from a carrier.

 

[MrZippy]

CatapultForceLimiter=1

 

[LJToranaXU1]

I've got the Aerosoft F-14 in FSX and have had the same problem. I've never been able to find a functioning work around for the catapult issue. It's a long standing problem with many users but as far as I'm aware there has been no fix for it. I tried messing around with some of the gauges xml code with no success. I haven't used this aircraft for quite a while but from memory only thing that seemed to work was to use the arrestorcables program with this aircraft to get it to launch off a carrier.