The lead ship of 3 Invincible class light aircraft carrier. Originally was designed as ASW ship but change of plan, Royal Navy needed a carrier and this become one with air group limited to VTOL aircraft. This ship saw action in Falklands war. Survived and get modernization then end of story, get scrapped later.

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Controls

Ship

• VTOL: Throttle ship
• Yaw: Rudder control
• -Ag8: Lock rudder

Helicopter

• Ag7: Turn on engine & controls
• Trim: Collective pitch
• Pitch,Roll,Yaw: Cyclic pitch
• Brake: Air brake
  On helicopter cockpit, look down you'll find 3 buttons:
• Fold: Fold rotor blades (just for visual, the blades collision has disabled)
• Taxi: Taxiing on ground. Use Pitch for throttle & Yaw to steer
• Hover: To keep hovering so you can turn off Ag7

Planes

• Ag1-6: Turn on engine & controls of selected plane
• Trim: Trim
• LandingGear up+Ag1-6: Enable aircraft guns
  Common fixed wings aircraft controls, the rest are on buttons:
• Jettison: Drop your payloads that attached to pylon
• 3rd: Switch to 3rd person view
• VTOL: Use Trim down to control thrust vector. Will also enable gyro movement. Also note VTOL with LandingGear on activate air brake
• Taxi: Same. Taxiing on ground. Use Pitch for throttle & Yaw to steer
• Stable: For autopilot, similar to Hover on chopper. It's like VTOL but without gyro movement
  

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VTOL planes Instruction manual

There're 3 loadouts: Air superiority. Attack, Bomber
For missile target acquisition, target must be in line of sight of AEW chopper
Take off
You can't take off vertically on full weapon loads. But It's possible to short take off from zone 1 with any payload.

1. Turn on VTOL
2. Trim down 1/2. This will direct the thruster 45 degree
3. Make sure ship on full speed and the launching aircraft Taxi button is off
4. Turn on the aircraft (Ag1-6) full Throttle. Use Yaw to aim for the ramp
5. When airborne, turn off LandingGear. After you gain some speed & lift (around 150-200kts), turn off VTOL

Landing
To match irl Harrier max speed, I designed the aircraft with very low drag instead of increasing engine power. This increase de/acceleration time. So it takes some time for air brake to slow down you might need to approach further away.

1. Jettison payloads. If you're pro enough, you can do semi vertical landing
2. Turn on VTOL aim it down full Trim down. Aircraft hover at about 80%ish Throttle
3. Ideally on step 2 when approaching, you're at around 100kts or better already hovering (that's why I recommend longer approach range)
4. Use Pitch,Roll,Yaw to get in position above cleared flight deck
5. Slowly lower down Throttle (at empty load, it's okay to slam it down)
   

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Additional notes

• The ship was build completely from this blueprint & reference images.
  
  Might be inaccurate replica & lacking details but that a good side of modern ship: Simple superstructure, less guns, less part counts.
• Not a very well made build. This is an experimental one for me to familiarize with missile aiming cam, VTOL plane, AEW & FCS. More cool stuff stay tuned.
  

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Possible FAQ of known issues

• Sometimes the camera switched for no reason.

  A: I'm not sure why. I blame this's a SP bug.

• Taxiing on deck really bad. Bomber loadout barely move.

  A: The bomber loadout on full load only move while steering. I know it's not much. The better fix is: Replace the side landing gear with wheel and it will move neatly, But I already finished configuring COM-COL and worse duplicated to other Harriers. Will take really long to fix if I'm willing to.

• The planes suck: Subsonic maxspeed, little uneven load cause heavy roll, brick'ish maneuverability. And @Bogey your cockpit design also sucks really hard.

  A: Yes it is. Blame irl BAE Harrier. it was cold war era designed as attack aircraft that can take off from poorly made runway. Perhaps Royal Navy really that poor like imagine no catapult CVN with proper AWACS. Post made by Marine Nationale gang

• Stable button make plane sloping

  A: Turn on then turn off VTOL button work. I think it's because the last input while button pressed off was recorded. Someting like zeroOnDeactivate=false

• Missiles hit self.

  A: Rarely happen but mostly with sidewinder during high speed maneuver. Easy fix: disable part collision.

If you find any bugs consider reporting it.