Me 262 campaign cant take off

[dimlee]

Good instructions. Should be useful for any Me-262 novice before he/she develops own style of flying this bird.
IMHO, this aircraft is Absolute Evil in our Game, - if operated properly.

[Derda508]

Well, all the above is correct, true and valid, but maybe there is a more simple answer to Wotan's question.
In our game Me 262 's engines will immediately catch fire anytime you move the throttle a littlebit too fast. And 'slow' is already too fast. So just try 'very, very slow'.

The swallow needs a long, long time to reach speed and altitude, and bleeds them in a moment. As Dimlee said it might be absolutely evil if operated properly, but in online fights against human pilots. Offline against AI it is pretty useless, since your enemies will always know exactly were you are and how far you are away and will turn sharply away exactly just before you get into shooting position. So boom and zoom ist pretty pointless against AI. Since their engine (and energy) management is also flawless, usually you get shot down even by greatly inferior aircraft.

[gaunt1]

My experience is the opposite. It is the only german plane that is a match to AI flown La-5FN, La-7, Yak-9U. If you fly the 262 properly, you are almost untouchable, even for the above aircrafts. Bnz works very well against them.

As for taking off with the 262. I think the problem lies elsewhere. Engine catches fire usually when you forget the throttle of the joystick in a position above around 20%. After pressing "I", if you move the throttle, even just a little bit, the game immediately sets the throttle to the value where you left the joystick. This results in fire usually. 2 methods to avoid this:
1, Set your throttle to 0 before pressing "I"
2, If you forgot to do the above, you can still correct it: Do not touch your throttle at all! Istead, increase power by using keyboard, until you reach the approximate value of the joystick. When reached, you can freely use the throttle.