Cannot launch acft in Midway

billk

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My carrier is turned into the wind, acft are spotted and assigned a mission. Speed of the carrier is 21 knots and the wind speed in 10 knots but I stilll get the message in the Acft dialog box,"Cannot Launch". I only have twelve aircraft spotted and assigned a mission.

What am I doing wrong, do I have to get a Ready messsage before i can launch my acft or what?
 
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Are you attempting to spot aircraft at the same time? The deck can only do one thing at a time, so if you're bringing aircraft up to the deck, that would prevent launch.
 

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No, I'm not bringing acft up to the deck, all have been spotted and have missions assigned. Over half of the acft compliment are still below the deck.

Beats me what I am doing wrong.
 

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Send me a game file to the HPS Support account and I will take a look.
 

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I may have got it, I increased my carriers speed to 27 knots and aircraft started launching. Am am corredt in saying you have to get the combined wind/carrier speed to be mid way between 30 kts and 50 kts in order to launch aircraft?
 

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Probably, I thought it was 25 & 50, but 30 might be right. I'm at work so can't easily check now...it should be in the documentation though.
 

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I'm at work also but I think you are correct, either way thanks for your help,same goes to Gary McCellan.
This is a good game, Midway has always been one of the battles I have read a lot about and HPS did a good job on it.
 
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