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?