Quick Start

Quick Start

Six steps, about a minute. The Pilot Guide explains each one properly.

Before you start: carry a CARP Computer (it is in the Arsenal), and be in an aircraft. See Installation if TLB CARP is not on your interaction menu.

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1. Open CARP

Sit in the aircraft and press your ACE Interact key → TLB CARP.

There is also an Open TLB CARP keybind under Options → Controls → Configure Addons → TLB CARP.

2. Set the drop zone

SET ON MAP and click your point, or pick a DZ_* marker from the list.

3. Set height and speed

Type TARGET AGL and TARGET GS — the height and ground speed you intend to run in at — and press APPLY.

These are a plan, not a constraint. Arrive higher or faster and the release point moves to match.

4. Lock the run-in

Roll out on the heading you intend to drop on, let the aircraft settle, then press RUN-IN.

CARP takes the direction you are actually travelling at that moment and makes it your final drop heading. Lock in a turn and you have told it your run-in is halfway through a turn. This is the step people get wrong.

5. Arm guidance

ARM GUIDANCE lights the HUD. Fly it like an ILS: centre XTK, get TRK to HOLD.

AP will fly it for you, and hands back the moment you touch the controls.

6. Drop

AUTO DROP releases at the right instant — or leave it off and release on the cue yourself.

It will refuse a bad pass and tell you which limit failed. That is deliberate: a load released off the line misses by about as much as you were off.

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Then what

The HUD keeps tracking the load: RELEASED → CHUTE → ARRIVED, with the time on target rebased on the real canopy event rather than the prediction.

Next

• Pilot Guide — the whole procedure, in order
• The HUD — every row and state explained
• Cargo — loading, sticks, and the four cargo sources
• Guided Cargo — canopies that steer themselves onto the DZ