Have you rescued Johnson?

[H Lecter]

In one of the Sicily missions you get the option to rescue a squad mate. In order to do so, you have to land your plane alongside his on a field (which actually looks quite flat and nice for landing).

I did not have any problems landing my plane in the earlier missions that required it and I never flipped. But on this mission I never managed to land my plane smoothly without flipping over. Funnily enough after my 50th crash landing or so I swiched to the map for some reason to see that the secondary objective was already achieved - obviously a crash landing is sufficient. You should have seen that field, it was one big fire and flying over it reduced my framerate to felt 5 fps.

Did you manage to land without flipping over with your joystick? I really don't wanna pause the game and switch to the joypad for landing.

[Jazzy Jase]

What mode you playing on? I did this on Realistic with my joystick.

[H Lecter]

Originally Posted by Jazzy Jase

What mode you playing on? I did this on Realistic with my joystick.

On sim mode - but except for the flaps (which I set to landing correctly) there should not be a difference landing the crate. Some of the landings I pulled off deserved to crash, but the flipping over thing obviously happened with the smooth landings after rolling down the field at very low speed already.

BTW - funny thing I noticed: After a crash landing the respawned plane would have the gear up but the flaps still set to landing.

[bud30]

Originally Posted by H Lecter

In one of the Sicily missions you get the option to rescue a squad mate. In order to do so, you have to land your plane alongside his on a field (which actually looks quite flat and nice for landing).

I did not have any problems landing my plane in the earlier missions that required it and I never flipped. But on this mission I never managed to land my plane smoothly without flipping over. Funnily enough after my 50th crash landing or so I swiched to the map for some reason to see that the secondary objective was already achieved - obviously a crash landing is sufficient. You should have seen that field, it was one big fire and flying over it reduced my framerate to felt 5 fps.

Did you manage to land without flipping over with your joystick? I really don't wanna pause the game and switch to the joypad for landing.

Ye landed with a logitech force 3d pro - realistic mode with no landing brakes. Think I came to a stop in the next field so Johnson must have hauled ass over the hedge. Still managed to turn around and take off again. Took me 2 attempts .

[H Lecter]

Originally Posted by bud30

Ye landed with a logitech force 3d pro - realistic mode with no landing brakes. Think I came to a stop in the next field so Johnson must have hauled ass over the hedge. Still managed to turn around and take off again. Took me 2 attempts .

Well, must be me then. I'll give it another 50 tries next weekend

[Jazzy Jase]

Just before the point it flips start firing the guns and keep the trigger held down. I find this slows the plane down and prevent's it flipping.

[bud30]

Originally Posted by Jazzy Jase

Just before the point it flips start firing the guns and keep the trigger held down. I find this slows the plane down and prevent's it flipping.

i can see some health and safety issues with this form of braking!

[The M00ps]

I flipped on the first 2 tries, but landed successfully on the 3rd. On that 3rd try, I came in at a 90 degree angle (south to north, I believe) from the first 2. Don't know if that made a difference or not.

[Soviet Ace]

I saved him once. But it was funny because, I was coming in to land near his Spitfire, but it was touch and go, so I came back around to do it again, and before I landed, I heard that guy saying that it was a tight squeeze or something like that? So I guess, making a touch and go landing can achieve getting him as well?

[strawberryfuel]

I managed to land there in sim mode, but after i picked him up i couldnt get my engine started again to take off.
Anybody knows what I`m doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

Greetz,

The Straw