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Hook Up detection
Tactical Paddles has introduced Hook Up detection as its newest way of training!
Why
We believe paddles.contact should be focused on helping pilots get better.
Train and refine their skills and practice requires repetition.
Repeating however can be a little bothersome if the deckcrew doesn't play along or when the launchcrew is sleeping on the job.
Any time spent on the deck is time not spent flying.
Luckily hook up passes can be a great way to make this happen. But getting a bolter every time can have the opposite effect.
Every time you'd think "how good would it have been?"
Well that is over now.
How
To make sure you get the most out of the newest update it's best to understand when and how the distinction for a hook up pass is made.
When entering the goove your friendly LSO will give you a little reminder to check your hook if it's not down.
By that time it should really have been checked a few times, but a reminder has never hurt anyone.
Once you get close to the RAMP paddles will check your hook again.
If at that time it's still up it will assume the decision for a hook up pass was made.
You should fly the normal bolter procedure after that.
Result
The result is a grade with a "NH" comment. "NH" does not deduct any points, but actually grades a bolter pass as if it was an arrested one.
These will be shared just like any other landing on discord channels en on the dashboards on the website.
They will however be filtered out of your "My Profile" data and the (to come, soonTM) Greenieboards.
Hopefully this will help you train and get better at pleasing paddles even more!
No Wire?
Indeed you'll never catch a wire this way, which can be little misleading for the grade.
We are working on getting a model live that's trained to predict the wire based on all other data.
As of the moment of writing we are still deciding whether we will only predict if you were in or outside the wires or predict the expected wire specifically.