Accurate replay of landing on a moving carrier

[noisy]

As FS Recorder does not record the position of aircraft carriers, during playback the carrier is usually in a different position. Here is a workaround for this problem, which I received by email from an FS Recorder user:

Recording:

• pause FS
• save the flight
• reload the saved flight
• start recording

Playback:

• load the saved flight
• start playback

It is important to reload the saved flight before starting recording! After reloading the flight the carrier initially has a slightly different speed, resulting in a slight position offset. Therefore you have to reload the flight before starting recording to get the same conditions during recording and playback.

Thanks to J.R. for finding this workaround!

[lawndartleo]

Hmmm....

Not working here.

Can somebody with experience using this method please post a proceedure list with all steps... more specifically when to add the carrier.

Maybe that is exactly the issue, that this works with a scheduled AI carrier and not a placed carrier using AI ships. That would make sense as the time synch would be accomplished by the paused start.

Funny how typing makes you think.

[lawndartleo]

Nope...

unable to get it to work in any fashion.

FSR 2.17 and FSX/A in use.

[lawndartleo]

Resolved. It works as advertised when done to the letter.

[wahnsim]

Hi.
I am using a saved flight (in slew and paused) as the base, then I insert the carrier at the user position, change the craft etc.. Connected to the catapult, I synchronise the movement with the canopy closing of a recorded Goshawk, the one I initially saved the position with. The differences of the carrier movement recordings thus are marginally.

However, I noticed that after longer periods of recordings and playbacks (both initiated before moving the carrier) there are larger differences in the plane's positions, leading to up to two fighter lengths in the movement axis and half a width to the sides. I learned to neither press pause, nor to open additional windows (like map, views), and to care about the stick calibration and dead zones - but still ...

It is disturbing not to know what could prevent it, as the parking positions vary so much etc. Any idea what could be causing this? Oh, and I noticed it does not replay my Augusta.

A (maybe impossible) suggestion to this brilliant FSrecorder - which is btw. more and more my favorite tool - would be to synchronize the carrier and to record the effect of the catapult shields and steam ... I would love to pay for it.

Cheers
wahnsim