You can land at...

[senseispcc]

This is a thread to see the most bizarre places to land;

Near Buckingham Palace to visit the Queen.:grin:
http://s1.postimage.org/2nuchj5ac/shot_20110421_190815.jpg (http://postimage.org/image/2nuchj5ac/)

And you?

[recoilfx]

Already did that yesterday.

It's almost obligatory to fly under the Tower Bridge, circle around the big ben, then land at the palace when you first play London sightseeing mission.

[senseispcc]

Already did that yesterday.

It's almost obligatory to fly under the Tower Bridge, circle around the big ben, then land at the palace when you first play London sightseeing mission.

Yes, but did you land along the cliffs of Dover to Folkestone?
http://s1.postimage.org/2nxgy2qv8/shot_20110413_155833.jpg (http://postimage.org/image/2nxgy2qv8/)

Or with a wheel busted;

http://s1.postimage.org/2nxxhg7t0/shot_20110421_153906.jpg (http://postimage.org/image/2nxxhg7t0/)

[Gollum]

anyone fly by the alps yet? haven't checked that out yet.

[Kakashi]

anyone fly by the alps yet? haven't checked that out yet.

Are they even there? Thought the map only involved the north of france and belgium. Seems to my knowledge that the Alps are in the southern half of France (as well as switserland, Italy etc...) Does the map goes that far south ?

[Gollum]

Are they even there? Thought the map only involved the north of france and belgium. Seems to my knowledge that the Alps are in the southern half of France (as well as switserland, Italy etc...) Does the map goes that far south ?

Not sure. Would love to find out.

[Redroach]

Does the map goes that far south ?

nope, it doesn't, sadly

[ATAG_Doc]

Someone land at the golf course along the shoreline and check out the fairways. This will be the first thing I want to do.

[Helrza]

i landed at london tower/ london bridge and stonehenge :D plus did the tour of buckingham, trafalga and big ben :D then tried to fly to paris for the eifal tower, but map stops a few clicks b4 it :(

[TUCKIE_JG52]

I do almost the same scenery flight and land in the same place on every patch to test performance of the simulator :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM2y6Hu3q4k

Interesting, we all do the same test :)

[Redroach]

As stated in another thread, I couldn't find HMS Victory in her drydock though :(

[Sauf]

As stated in another thread, I couldn't find HMS Victory in her drydock though :(

She's prolly out patrolling the channel till some modern warships arrive :rolleyes: Maybe we can launch a hurri from her mainmast!

[senseispcc]

And to land at night;
http://s1.postimage.org/2us7ljr7o/shot_20110422_102158_569.jpg (http://postimage.org/image/2us7ljr7o/)

[David198502]

today i tried to land on the docks of Dover.at my first attempt, i was too much left, so my wing collided with the rails and i crashed.but then i tried it another ten times i think.nice approach and soft touch down in the center of the dock.every try resulted in an explosion. unfortunately it seems that its impossible,and that the game sees the harbor docks as buildings.as soon as you touch them,the plane explodes.
its a bit dissapointing,because i was able to land there even in the arcade game Birds of Prey.of course landing in BoP was arcade too and much more simple.
but now i really made nice landings.slow speed and slow descend rate.everything fine.as soon as you touch down,no matter how soft,you explode.

may anybody else already tried it?may be with success and you can convince me that im wrong?

btw: i like your vids Tuckie!

[Sternjaeger II]

can u actually land\taxi on the tower bridge?

[reflected]

I've also landed in front ohf the Buckingham palace, I stopped in the roundabout. I couldn't go around though, I couldn't steer my Moth on the ground :(

Confirmed: Landing on the docks of Dover was the first thing I tried, but I exploded too.

[David198502]

Confirmed: Landing on the docks of Dover was the first thing I tried, but I exploded too.[/QUOTE]

thats sad:(
i really hope that it will be possible one day

[Baron]

can u actually land\taxi on the tower bridge?


Well, not that i know of.

1. its to narrow

2. both ends of the bridge have IL2 ramps so trying to tuch down on them or approach them in any kind of speed results in an explosion.

3 landed at one end of the bridge and tried to taxi onto it but the Moth was impossible to steer on the ground. In idle it slowly turned on its own, as soon as u gave it the slightest power it either stopped turning (even with full rudder) or it started turning the other way instead. No control over it what so ever.

[Blackdog_kt]

Did you start your flight by selecting the cross-country mission?

I tried the Tiger Moth yesterday and there definitely is a crosswind implemented in that mission, it was weather-vaning to the right with the engine off. I guess this is also part of the reason people have problems with the Blenheim in that mission, as for some reason it spawns with rudder trimmed to the right (this one's easily fixed, just reset the trim), it has a pull to the right of its own due to prop and torque effects and on top of that you have the crosswind to deal with.

On another note, it seems that the Moth's engine controls suffer from similar bugs to the ones found in the two-speed prop Hurricane. It seems that mixture is correctly modeled with rich corresponding to the lever fully aft, but the throttle is reversed (full throttle should be forward, in the sim full throttle is aft).
The reason mixture and throttle are opposite of each other in the real aircraft is that when pulling the throttle back, the throttle lever has some sort of a pin that pulls the mixture back into rich to prevent rough running of the engine that could occur with low throttle and lean mixture.

However, in the sim the throttle is reversed while the throttle pin that pulls the mixture lever is working correctly. This makes it a bit difficult to start it up due to the levers interlocking in reverse (if that makes any sense) and messing things up with inappropriate throttle and mixture combinations that either choke the engine due to too much throttle/fuel or starve it of fuel.

That was with CEM enabled, i will try it again tonight to see if i can make it work as when started up and rolling it's actually easier to work around the bug.

[Baron]

Did you start your flight by selecting the cross-country mission?

I tried the Tiger Moth yesterday and there definitely is a crosswind implemented in that mission, it was weather-vaning to the right with the engine off. I guess this is also part of the reason people have problems with the Blenheim in that mission, as for some reason it spawns with rudder trimmed to the right (this one's easily fixed, just reset the trim), it has a pull to the right of its own due to prop and torque effects and on top of that you have the crosswind to deal with.

On another note, it seems that the Moth's engine controls suffer from similar bugs to the ones found in the two-speed prop Hurricane. It seems that mixture is correctly modeled with rich corresponding to the lever fully aft, but the throttle is reversed (full throttle should be forward, in the sim full throttle is aft).
The reason mixture and throttle are opposite of each other in the real aircraft is that when pulling the throttle back, the throttle lever has some sort of a pin that pulls the mixture back into rich to prevent rough running of the engine that could occur with low throttle and lean mixture.

However, in the sim the throttle is reversed while the throttle pin that pulls the mixture lever is working correctly. This makes it a bit difficult to start it up due to the levers interlocking in reverse (if that makes any sense) and messing things up with inappropriate throttle and mixture combinations that either choke the engine due to too much throttle/fuel or starve it of fuel.

That was with CEM enabled, i will try it again tonight to see if i can make it work as when started up and rolling it's actually easier to work around the bug.


Nope, its the free flight over London mission.


Had to tutch down in a circle around the Tower to have enough room :)

[senseispcc]

I think that like the aircrafts in WWI the throttle is from front to back.

[Sternjaeger II]

I think that like the aircrafts in WWI the throttle is from front to back.

uhmmm that was only a French and Italian peculiarity that was abandoned after WW2..