Carrier Landing single mission - landing waypoints not activating

[Raven Morpheus]

Originally Posted by Stig1207

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.

Originally Posted by wheelsup_cavu

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.


Wheels

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.

[wheelsup_cavu]

Originally Posted by Raven Morpheus

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.

Use the Midway map if you want to take off from a Japanese Aircraft Carrier.
You will need to be flying for the Axis side to get the carrier takeoff option when you use the Scramble feature.
There are no limitations on the aircraft that you can attempt to fly off of the Japanese Aircraft carrier other than it must be a player flyable plane.

Use the Midway1 (Midway One) map if you want to take off from an American Aircraft Carrier.
You will need to be flying for the Allied side to get the carrier takeoff option when you use the Scramble feature.
There are no limitations on the aircraft that you can attempt to fly off of the American Aircraft carrier other than it must be a player flyable plane.

I am fairly certain I used multiple carriers so there should be some randomness to the carriers that you use when you start a new QMB session.


Wheels

[Raven Morpheus]

Ah that explains it. I was on the US side when I tried Midway, I'll try Midway1 instead then.

Thanks.