So an update on this: I'm planning to place a carrier group in the waters off of southern Alaska. Currently going with the USS
Theodore Roosevelt because this carrier was actually in Alaska for Joint Exercise Northern Edge 2019 (
https://news.usni.org/2019/05/14/theodore-roosevelt-strike-group-in-alaska-for-high-end-joint-exercise-northern-edge-2019). I haven't been able to find a definite location for where the actual carrier was, so I'm basically just picking a spot that looks nice.
This scenario will be based on the Truman_demo.xml that is included with the default FG installation (with the escorts and such).
Work that still needs to be done:
Creating or modifying carrier and escort ship textures (changing numbers and names, etc).
Finding a better location than the one I currently am using for testing
Ensuring the ships have enough room to move around without hitting each other or the land or something
Correcting escorts (see below)
Also need to either find a new way to path the "turn to launch/base course" option so the ship doesn't smack into the land
As far as the carrier itself, all I should have to do (unless something else pops up) is to edit the textures and make it independent of the Truman files and such. As for the escorts, I need to retexture some of them (I think) and get the proper destroyers for the
Roosevelt's strike group. However, this strike group also included a replenishment oiler of the
Kaiser class (specifically the lead ship of the class). This model and associated textures do not exist in FlightGear, and I honestly have no idea how to make them myself. If anyone has and would like to contribute a model with associated textures and stuff, I would appreciate it.