BradenFTW Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 Ok, so I thought I'd give myself a challenge and try and land a jet on a carrier. So I thought I'd try it off as easy as possible and try a vertical landing in FastCargo's beautiful F35-B. But for the life of me, I can't do it. I don't know whether it's the physics of vertical hover that doesn't allow me to neatly and slowly let it down or is it the fact I'm too goddamn crap and I have no idea what I'm doing. What I do is I approach the carrier at a moderate 200 knots with about 20% throttle and slam it into vertical hover mode just about as I'm over the top of the carrier and deploy the airbrakes while increasing the throttle to around 86%. Now rather than it slowly coming to a controllable speed and allowing me to descend calmly, it slows down and begins to stall despite the throttle being nearly maxed out and I rapidly lose altitude and ultimately end up wiping out into the ocean. Please help! Am I doing it wrong? Quote
FastCargo Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 Couple of things. One, the FM has not been updated in a while, so some tweaks are needed. Second, the real F-35B has a limited 'bring back' capability...if you are too heavy, you can't hover, period. I think one of the user created campaigns has a F-35B with an updated FM. FC Quote
BradenFTW Posted October 22, 2012 Author Posted October 22, 2012 Couple of things. One, the FM has not been updated in a while, so some tweaks are needed. Second, the real F-35B has a limited 'bring back' capability...if you are too heavy, you can't hover, period. I think one of the user created campaigns has a F-35B with an updated FM. FC Lol no chance you could update it? ;) Quote
FastCargo Posted October 23, 2012 Posted October 23, 2012 Depends. You have the cure for cancer lying around? FC Quote
BradenFTW Posted October 23, 2012 Author Posted October 23, 2012 Depends. You have the cure for cancer lying around? FC Yeah let me check my pockets. Any chance you could link me to that user created campaign? Quote
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