CARRIER FUNCTIONALITIES - Tailhook location and how the hook position is calculated

[MSFS 2020] Questions & Community Discussions Aircraft
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Can we have a list of the variables / entries actually needed and (that
actually do something in MSFS) to make a working tailhook? Also, how is the
tailhook position / extension calculated and from which entries/variables it
is affected? We have a tailhook (csutom coded - as we could not figure out
some part of the sim implementation) on some of our products but it does not
interact with the carrier working wires the way the SuperHornet ones does…

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Yes please. Upvoted. Just got home from watching “Top Gun Maverick” again and
I guarantee everybody in the cinema wants to land on a carrier now. OK, almost
everybody, but still…!

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https://devsupport.flightsimulator.com/t/4340

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Thanks for the HU - it worked. CVN-78 and F-35 now functional… the only
problem I am having (on the carrier side) is that after an arrested landing
the cable does not disengage from the hook… so, even if the F-35 has
provisions for a cat launch, you cannot take-off anymore…

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Here is how we did it:

            DetachCableCalculator
            
                
                    (A:CABLE CAUGHT BY TAILHOOK, number) 0 > (A:SURFACE RELATIVE GROUND SPEED, feet/second) 1 < and (A:SIM ON GROUND, bool) and
                
            
            
                
                    (X:LandedWithCable)
                    
                        
                    
                    0 (>A:TAILHOOK POSITION, percent over 100)
                
            
        
        
            5.000

If you force the tailhook to the retracted position, it will detach the cable.
Right now it is automatically triggered after landing, but you may want to
change it to trigger on user input.

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Thanks - added similar functionality to my code.

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I prefer to give pilot possibility to check which cable was caught and then
release it manually

(A:CABLE CAUGHT BY TAILHOOK, percent) 0 > (A:TAILHOOK HANDLE, percent) 0 == and if{
    0 (>A:TAILHOOK POSITION, percent)
}