HI, i was wondering how hard, if done, or if possible to create a mod where more planes, small bombers and jet aircraft were equipped with carrier tail hooks.
I would have a lot of fun landing a jet on a carrier if the plane were equipped with a tail hook.
Please let me know, any ideas, help or feedback will be welcomed! :wink:
Hi ya
Unless there is historical evidence for each aircraft you wish to have a tail hook, then it won't happen. It might be worth trying without though :wink: can you get a ar234 down on a carrier?
According to what i hear it's hard to add a Tail Hook. Yea u can just smack it on the plane. But it requires some Fm edits. And remember the point is not to make fantasy Planes. (Eventho i always try to strect the lines a bit)
The fact that this requires a FM edit to happen, (thus would require a new slot) will limit the likeliness of this being done en-mass... but, for a select few, those being done as new aircraft; which traditionally have a lot more than 'simply' a hook added; stand more of a chance at being seen.
I believe a Panther was under consideration in the past... perhaps that needs to be revisited...
ever land a 323 on a escort carrier?
I was working on a couple of thing, i was trying to see if i could use code from an aircraft (that has a tail hook) and run if for a different aircraft body. then adding the visual tail hook. but my time is limited.
Did it done that don't waste your time. And it is true no historical data, no mod. And believe me when I say we tired to get as many airplanes with tail hooks in the game. At one point or the other they all got shot down. My latest attempt was the P-51 when it went secretly on sea trials under the name the Seahorse project. WE had dicussions about the BF 109 T which got abondoned and the ju87 also not being done. Ill give olge created for making most of the planes used on the carrier's back then. We should really get the BF109 T back Ill do the 3D (EXtending the wing and desiging that tail hook system) If some one wants to Make and new slot for it ETC.
109T would be nice, they were also used from land bases for short takeoff runs on small runways. So these were actually used operationally by frontline Luftwaffe units, not a 'what-if'.
Sea Hurricane with tailhook has already been done. Not sure if it's on here though.
:cheers:
How about the YP-80? The new version could be called the P-80, just a few years after the war it was made a naval aircraft with a tail hook, and it also needs some work on the weapons model, I KNOW it could carry droptanks on the wingtips and probobly a LOT more than that. Whatever it definately didn't just have MG's or nothing for loadout :? .
Well, from what i hear, this idea wont go far, maybe ill work on it for personal use, not for use online. With some practice i can land some of the jet aircraft, and other bombers on a carrier.
Using the mission builder i placed 2 carriers inches from each other, creating a double carrier, which is easy to land on with big fast aircraft, but i still think it would be fun for a tail hook mod so that i could land on an aircraft carrier more practically.
( I don't think putting 2 carriers together was ever historical either. ) but its the best i can do, with out a tail hook mod 8)
thanks for all your input, and would love more!
