F-14B Tomcat: Carrier ACLS & TACAN Autopilot Landing Tutorial | DCS WORLD 

When they developed the ACLS system for the Navy, it was so accurate that, during carrier trials, the system could make the jet hit the same spot on the flight deck every single time causing slight warpage of the flight deck. They had to introduce an error signal into the system to vary where the plane touched down. Yep...not bad for '70's tech.

"Let's go to the outside view." *Blacker than the void* "Not much to see there, not gonna lie." Lol :')

Let's go outside, nothing to see there, lmao.

Damn, that's busy! Which is pretty crazy for an Autopilot! Great vid, thanks Cap :)

Now all we need is the updated carrier with realistic comms and deck workers (at LEAST yellow shirts...but hopefully it’s possible to get all the crews from the refueling purple shirts to the ordinance specialists that arm the aircraft). Paranoid about not putting in the correct course for the runway. The briefings only supposedly list the BR course...but even they are wrong in the tutorials by about 8 degrees.

"Right you probably want important things....Thats it nothin really more to it."

Great stuff CAP!

It certainly is incredible tech!

Nice video!

Really nice video ... now I will see it again to take notes ... and last, will try it on my own :D .. thanks a lot for the teaching; been loving your channel, dont know why I didnt discovered it earlier.

another excellent Video!!!

I salute you sir and the F-14B tech o7 :D

Amazing tech for the 70’s? Dude, we went to the moon in the 60’s!

RRREEEEEE! I've got so much stuff to catch-up on! I go away for 10 minutes and Caps videos have turned into a couple of Rabbits! :-p

Haha, take a breath, Cap. I could feel your stress in managing the plane and talking at the same time. ;) Thanks for the informative video, though! :D The Hornet is getting this eventually too, no?

I love the reapers!!!!!!!!!

Cap. Many thanks. I believe you can access a Flashlight in the front cockpit that follows your cursor around i.e. it illuminates whatever you want to look at. Think it is "L" on keyboard. Best, Pete.

That was brilliant Cap

I probably missed something but for me on the ACLS screen on the VDI the brakets are on the right and full bottom but on the hud they're perfectly aligned. That's weird

Thanks for the vid...have yet to try this in the tomcat at least... One thing I will def add as a tip for others: When intercepting the tacan final course radial, it's best to do so at a 45 degree angle rather than the pretty much 90 degree angle used in this video. That way it's a much smoother evolution of intercepting and turning into the selected course. Having said that, I'm sure Cap knew this...Pretty tough doing this landing and talking at the same time lol.

Nice one mate but how do you manage to jump back and forth from front to back seats, I can’t get back to the front seat even though I’ve got correct controls bound? I’m talking about instant action..I know you can’t in MP

I believe L-ALT + L turns on the flashlight.

I CANNOT get this to work. I'll stick to NVGs.

no speed brakes on ACLS ?

do you need a human rio to check in the back if your online multiplayer?

Hello, I know this is an old video so I’m not expecting a response, but I couldn’t find an answer anywhere online. Anytime I use the ACLS I bolter. I’ve tried probably 10-15 times, the setup is the same as yours and I get the plane to automatically fly down to the deck, but it’s a bolter every time. Is this a known issue? Is there something I’m missing? I’d appreciate any help anyone might have thanks!

Why is my glide slop indicator acting as a fixed bar. It wont move at all! pls help someone?

AP-CPLR is the Autopilot Coupler

Impressive in all and any way! Should there not be more light on the carrier? (Turned on by asking for permission to land?)

Does this work with the Vanilla Carriers?

If this is "automatic carrier landing", why do cap sound so stressed? 🤣

is this not possible on multiplayer without a human rio?

Can we do this during the day so we can see?

can we get rid of the fucking flight stick?? i dont have track ir so i cant see the fucking lines very well and i dont want to change my camera lol

What I don't get is stuff like this has been around since the 1970s yet pilots even today are trained no to trust it at all. Weird considering how hard engineers work to make it safe.

0 - 9 = 351 351- 6 = 346 :)

Please make a video about ground tracking and heading select, and IP bomb mode, PLS!!!

Why didn’t you use the night vision key binding? It helps tremendously so you can actually see everything lol

How did you find out all those steps, asked some real F-14 pilot? o_o

Though functional, the f14’s acls system is still highly inaccurate & unreliable, that’s my conclusion after 6 times of trying, presumably in reality, the f14’s acls system didn’t saw too much utility because of it’s immaturity, could say the true acls system is not available until f18c was put in services