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H Lecter 09-07-2009 11:26 AM

Have you rescued Johnson?
 
In one of the Sicily missions you get the option to rescue a squad mate. In order to do so, you have to land your plane alongside his on a field (which actually looks quite flat and nice for landing).

I did not have any problems landing my plane in the earlier missions that required it and I never flipped. But on this mission I never managed to land my plane smoothly without flipping over. Funnily enough after my 50th crash landing or so I swiched to the map for some reason to see that the secondary objective was already achieved - obviously a crash landing is sufficient. You should have seen that field, it was one big fire and flying over it reduced my framerate to felt 5 fps.

Did you manage to land without flipping over with your joystick? I really don't wanna pause the game and switch to the joypad for landing. :(

Jazzy Jase 09-07-2009 01:24 PM

What mode you playing on? I did this on Realistic with my joystick.

H Lecter 09-07-2009 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Jazzy Jase (Post 97668)
What mode you playing on? I did this on Realistic with my joystick.

On sim mode - but except for the flaps (which I set to landing correctly) there should not be a difference landing the crate. Some of the landings I pulled off deserved to crash, but the flipping over thing obviously happened with the smooth landings after rolling down the field at very low speed already.

BTW - funny thing I noticed: After a crash landing the respawned plane would have the gear up but the flaps still set to landing.

bud30 09-07-2009 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by H Lecter (Post 97622)
In one of the Sicily missions you get the option to rescue a squad mate. In order to do so, you have to land your plane alongside his on a field (which actually looks quite flat and nice for landing).

I did not have any problems landing my plane in the earlier missions that required it and I never flipped. But on this mission I never managed to land my plane smoothly without flipping over. Funnily enough after my 50th crash landing or so I swiched to the map for some reason to see that the secondary objective was already achieved - obviously a crash landing is sufficient. You should have seen that field, it was one big fire and flying over it reduced my framerate to felt 5 fps.

Did you manage to land without flipping over with your joystick? I really don't wanna pause the game and switch to the joypad for landing. :(


Ye landed with a logitech force 3d pro - realistic mode with no landing brakes. Think I came to a stop in the next field so Johnson must have hauled ass over the hedge. Still managed to turn around and take off again. Took me 2 attempts .

H Lecter 09-07-2009 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by bud30 (Post 97693)
Ye landed with a logitech force 3d pro - realistic mode with no landing brakes. Think I came to a stop in the next field so Johnson must have hauled ass over the hedge. Still managed to turn around and take off again. Took me 2 attempts .

Well, must be me then. I'll give it another 50 tries next weekend :grin:

Jazzy Jase 09-07-2009 02:35 PM

Just before the point it flips start firing the guns and keep the trigger held down. I find this slows the plane down and prevent's it flipping.

bud30 09-07-2009 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Jazzy Jase (Post 97707)
Just before the point it flips start firing the guns and keep the trigger held down. I find this slows the plane down and prevent's it flipping.

i can see some health and safety issues with this form of braking!:)

The M00ps 09-07-2009 03:16 PM

I flipped on the first 2 tries, but landed successfully on the 3rd. On that 3rd try, I came in at a 90 degree angle (south to north, I believe) from the first 2. Don't know if that made a difference or not.

Soviet Ace 09-07-2009 05:06 PM

I saved him once. But it was funny because, I was coming in to land near his Spitfire, but it was touch and go, so I came back around to do it again, and before I landed, I heard that guy saying that it was a tight squeeze or something like that? So I guess, making a touch and go landing can achieve getting him as well?

strawberryfuel 09-09-2009 03:17 AM

I managed to land there in sim mode, but after i picked him up i couldnt get my engine started again to take off.
Anybody knows what I`m doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

Greetz,

The Straw


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