Clouds and Flight Altitudes

[MikeDixonUK 5]

Just wondering, seeing as we're entering the time of the year were there are a lot of nasty looking clouds...

 

As there are often large banks of clouds that cover the area at a certain altitude, (such at 5000ft) but which the AI seem to ignore and fly through more often than not - and in the OFF options there's an option to set the player flight maximum altitude (18,000ft, 10,000ft or 3000ft I think - presuming this makes the AI flight leader fly lower if you're not flight leader), would it be possible to make it so that the maximum flight altitude (AI as well) can be linked to the weather system - so that if there are clouds at 10,000 feet the maximum flight altitude would be 9000 feet or some such?

 

P5 perhaps?

Edited November 23, 2010 by MikeDixonUK

[MikeDixonUK 5]

Thanks for the tips, Uncleal - although I was meaning it more for other AI Formations, so you don't get enemy Scouts flying around in the clouds - or get a mission to escort some two seaters in the middle of a cloud bank, etc.

[Bletchley 8]

"in the OFF options there's an option to set the player flight maximum altitude (18,000ft, 10,000ft or 3000ft I think - presuming this makes the AI flight leader fly lower if you're not flight leader)"

 

No, I don't think it does.

 

Bletchley

[MikeDixonUK 5]

Sort of the point of the request, it must be said.

[+Polovski 460]

Thanks Mike, sounds like a good idea, although also you'd need to have some above the cloud layer too sometimes.

[MikeDixonUK 5]

Thanks for the response Pol!

 

 

[RAF_Louvert 101]

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In campaigns I nearly always fly as flight leader, (except when I am first assigned to a squadron as a lower rank, then I take my lumps), and I almost never go into the clouds but rather stay under, go above, or around, and try to keep my flight with me. If I am escorting B/R's and they choose to fly right into some giant anvil cloud I let them, but I take a different route and hope to find them when we each get to the other side. Sometimes I don't find them, some times my own wingmen get separated from me when clouds are involved. Sometimes EA come popping out of the clouds and scare the Hell out of me, and sometimes I dive into a cloud for cover and scare the Hell out of myself. I figure it's all part of what our RL betters had to put up with.

 

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[Ratatat 0]

"...and sometimes I dive into a cloud for cover and scare the Hell out of myself."

 

Been there, done that! Hee, hee, hee!!!

[Olham 164]

I remember one escort, when the DFW entered a cloud, and I followed.

For only a minute or two, I was without any orientation, and desperately trying to find a hold for the eyes

to keep the crate flying horizontal and straight forward.

When the vision came back, I found myself so close under the tail end of one two-seater, that I could

have stolen the tail skid! Those moments, when you're freezing cold, and still break out in sweat.

[RAF_Louvert 101]

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This sim is rich with such moments, and is one of the aspects that makes it so very good, IMHO.

 

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