FFG help

[Kirk]

OK. I have decided to move on to the FFG. Go ahead and laugh. Just a weeeee bit more complex. Guess I have been using a sub a little to long. Anyway. How do you launch a helicopter? The only thing I found out you had to do was to make a Green Deck and turn off your main gun and CWIS(think that is what it is called). Not sure what to do next? Oh! If you have any other hints for the FFG please let me know. Thanks in advance.

[madcap30]

first, turn your frigate into the wind. then go to the bridge and set green deck. make sure your CIWS is off. then go to the ASTAC Station, and click on helo 1 or 2 depending on how many you onboard. then select the loadout for it, and click on launch. it will now go through the launch cycle, and depending on if you have quick aircraft launch enabled or not, it can take quite a while for it to launch. if you have quick aircraft launch enabled it should launch efter a minute or so.

hope this helps a little :)

madcap

[Kirk]

Thanks Madcap30. That does help.

[JgzMan]

Normally, it takes one hour, real-time, to launch a helo from a cold start. As soon as you get in, you should bring one Helo to Alert 30, (launch in 30 minutes) and one to Alert 15 (launch in 15 minutes). Alert 15 is out on the deck, so only one at a timecan be set to Alert 15. (also, can't recover a helo while the other is alert 15) Alert 5 is also avalable, but for alert 5, the engine is running, and the blades turning, i.e., burning fuel.

The ALERT settings can be changed from the helo-launch menu.

Hope that was of some help.