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Old 08-02-2013, 12:58 AM
Raven Morpheus Raven Morpheus is offline
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Originally Posted by Stig1207 View Post


Try coming in at a steeper angle. I'm coming in pretty steep, and I can see the deck the whole way.

Took off and landed a Corsair today
Yeah it's a matter of working out how to do that, I've tried it but I am either going too fast, I'm too high when I'm over the carrier or I end up belly flopping it (as I said the nose digs in).

Trial and error I guess. Yesterday I did 3 "reasonable" carrier landings in a row, and I managed to land a Corsair myself in a campaign mission (although it was my Okinawa campaign with my custom "medium" difficulty settings).

Visibility depends on the aircraft though in the Corsair there's little in the way of your view, but in the SBD that gunsight (and whatever else it's a sight for) gets in the way and you can't raise the seat up it seems. Visibility is much better in the Corsair.

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Originally Posted by wheelsup_cavu View Post
Use the Scramble option with the Midway or the Midway1 QMB maps and you should start on a carrier. If you don't use any enemy planes you should be able to practice taking off from a carrier and landing on it as much as you want and not have to worry about getting bounced by enemy planes.


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Ah cool, I thought Midway would be like the Pacific Islands base where you start on the ground, although come to think of it I tried Midway the other day and I don't recall having to take off/land from/on a Carrier, it was a land based scramble.

I'll go back and have a look though.
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