Please help with a few missions (long)

[philabong2]

Originally Posted by kozzm0

if and until they fix it, you can usually avoid a flip if you remember to ease off on the elevator as your plane starts to slow down.

I've managed a couple landings at Dover with aviator by centering the stick when the plane gets below about 70kph and then extending stopping distance by yawing left and right.

It still takes the entire runway though, so I had to turn around and take off in the other direction. I haven't managed the entire inspection mission with just aviator layout.

finally managed to do that inspection mission (thanks silence!!!)
Ok so the trick to land on sim is to do a soft touch (as any normal landing) with speed between 120 and 150 km/h and throttle at about 30% (faster is possible but can make for quite a bumpy ride and crash).

When both front wheels have touchdown and plane is steady, ease off on all controls, raise the landing flaps, bring throttle down to minimum (without braking) so the back wheel touches down. Wait for speed to drop to 100 km/h then put the brakes full on and hold them until the plane come to a complete stop. You'll still hit that "bump" at speeds of 40-60 km/h but the plane wont tip over. I've managed to do some quite short landing this way, being able to take off in the same direction on even the shortest runways...rudder being stuck to the left is a killer when taking off again tho so watch out for that

Edit: I usually fly with the aviator settings on the control pad so I have to change it to the wireless control settings whenever i have to land b/c 1st option doesnt offer pecise throttle and braking control

[komet_82]

mh im going crazy in this airfield inspection mission.

im flying it on sim mode and have done these three landings,but the mission doesent end.is there a second goal in this mission?

thanks for your help

[Ancient Seraph]

Originally Posted by komet_82

mh im going crazy in this airfield inspection mission.

im flying it on sim mode and have done these three landings,but the mission doesent end.is there a second goal in this mission?

thanks for your help

It's a bit weird. For me it only worked to make a full stop landing, then it gave the message: <airfield name> inspected, or something similar. If you don't get that message, it doesn't count.

[komet_82]

yes,its weird for me too,it said on the radio that everything seems ok on the fields and the blinking point on the map disapeard from it and there is nothing more to do.just a few hurricans flying at high level.strange not?

and a other strange thing,when i press the circle buton for the map,the plane always makes crazy things

[Ancient Seraph]

Originally Posted by komet_82

yes,its weird for me too,it said on the radio that everything seems ok on the fields and the blinking point on the map disapeard from it and there is nothing more to do.just a few hurricans flying at high level.strange not?

and a other strange thing,when i press the circle buton for the map,the plane always makes crazy things

Hmm, that's odd. It's been a while since I've done the mission, so I can't really help more than I have.

About the map thing: in some single missions, when you open the map you can cycle through the planes in your flight. This means you can fly in any plane in your flight (I believe it's two in that mission) by using the up and down buttons/joystick (not sure which one it is on the PS3). This also means that as soon as you switch to map view, AI takes over control of the plane you were flying. So when you're in map view, AI has control over all the planes in your flight.

[komet_82]

ok,no problem.

how endet your mission?did you had to to something else?

[Ancient Seraph]

Originally Posted by komet_82

ok,no problem.

how endet your mission?did you had to to something else?

Not as far as I can remember.

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by komet_82

yes,its weird for me too,it said on the radio that everything seems ok on the fields and the blinking point on the map disapeard from it and there is nothing more to do.just a few hurricans flying at high level.strange not?

and a other strange thing,when i press the circle buton for the map,the plane always makes crazy things

This happened to me in a different mission. It was because I wasn't flying with the pilot at the top of the list the mission didn't end until I switched back. Also flying with a pilot who isn't top of your alive list will make your plane bank hard when you press the map because it is trying to get into formation behind your top of the list pilot.

Oh and whatever you do don't press the map button while stationary at the end of an airstrip. when you come back out of the map the AI takes over your plane and runs it off the end of the runway into a ditch/tower/trees.

[FOZ_1983]

Doesnt sound to good lol.

[kozzm0]

Originally Posted by philabong2

... Wait for speed to drop to 100 km/h then put the brakes full on and hold them until the plane come to a complete stop. You'll still hit that "bump" at speeds of 40-60 km/h but the plane wont tip over. I've managed to do some quite short landing this way, being able to take off in the same direction on even the shortest runways...rudder being stuck to the left is a killer when taking off again tho so watch out for that

Edit: I usually fly with the aviator settings on the control pad so I have to change it to the wireless control settings whenever i have to land b/c 1st option doesnt offer pecise throttle and braking control

Wait a minute, what brakes, or do you mean throttle to zero/full elevator? Keep throttle above zero until you hit 100, or is there a brake on standard layout?

Raising the flaps totally makes sense, I shoulda thought of that

I usually can't land that slow, I use an old sixaxis and the left stick won't center, so there's no deadzone at all. can't hold the plane steady enough when a slight movement can cause a stall. Most planes I have to touch down at about 170-180. I'm gonna get a DS3 as soon as I can find one for a good price