DCS F/A-18C - First Night Carrier Landing Attempt

First attempt at landing the F/A-18C on a carrier, and tried it at night. Sloppy landing but at least the plane survived.

[@lukabulatovic3489]

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

[@robertd57i989]

Out of 5 attemps to do a night landing i made only one. Usually splash on the final approach. Check your kneeboard and look for ICLS and punch that in on the ILS button and then on the HSI page box it. When you come in for a landing it will make a cross and have a perfect glide slope

[@Zimbertica]

I'm still working on day landings, lol... how is it at night in VR?

[@Hank-j9y]

In many ways night landings are easier than during the day as it requires less piloting but more systems. If you setup icls, tacan and brc properly and fly the numbers, there's no real reason not to get aboard. Look up a tutorial on a case 3 recovery. In short, setup your systems then from the marshal stack, slowly decent to 1200ft agl. Be configured for landing (gear down, hook down and on speed) before 6 nm out then fly needles till you're visual and call the ball.

[@Flogger23m]

VR certainly helps with getting visuals quickly and being able to look around your cockpit to view controls. But it does have some down sides, Quest 2 I am using is a bit blurry but manageable. More expensive setups will look more clear I assume.

[@Hank-j9y]

You might be trolling but in case you're not, you should really look up how to actually do a case 3 recovery. You basically did a very poor case 1 recovery at night, which would always be case 3.