Landing a GV successfully

[oboe]

How do you measure in game distances when in a GV?   Enemy A/C still have icons showing distance but I've never figured out how to tell the distance to an enemy GV.

[BaldEagl]

How do you measure in game distances when in a GV?   Enemy A/C still have icons showing distance but I've never figured out how to tell the distance to an enemy GV.

You can't even if you could see them.  That's why when I think I've got enough seperation I drive some more.  If there's friendlies I try to judge by their icons but even then sometimes you can't see them.  If you drive out of range channel range of friendlies you for sure have enough seperation.  I'm not sure what that distance is.

[AWwrgwy]

Still not completely true, Lets say any plane injured your tank in any way, even if you show no damage or have re-supplied your damaged tank, and then flies away. You have no one within 6K of you and end mission, the plane gets your kill if he hasn't ended mission yet. At least that's my experience. Now if he lands before you end, you can then get a successful landing.

I would speculate that someone was closer to you than you thought but you could be right.

I've "crashed" upon towering out more than once in a damaged gv on concrete on a friendly field. Couldn't be moving as the engine was dead or I was tracked.



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[redcatcherb412]

Had that happen yesterday.  Had m4 out to kill a tank shelling field, killed it and drove back to airfield. Parked on concrete, checked map and no base or town blinking no cons on radar  landed and got a ditch.  Reupped, town was real close, drove to it, parked on a road and got a Landing.  Might have been an nme con NOE or something earlier, just looked safe to land it.

[Lusche]

Had that happen yesterday.  Had m4 out to kill a tank shelling field, killed it and drove back to airfield. Parked on concrete, checked map and no base or town blinking no cons on radar  landed and got a ditch.  Reupped, town was real close, drove to it, parked on a road and got a Landing.  Might have been an nme con NOE or something earlier, just looked safe to land it.

This is a bug that happened to a few people recently (and has been reported in the Bug Report forum). You should be able to land safely on concrete on a friendly base under all circumstances.

[Lusche]

Still not completely true, Lets say any plane injured your tank in any way, even if you show no damage or have re-supplied your damaged tank, and then flies away. You have no one within 6K of you and end mission, the plane gets your kill if he hasn't ended mission yet. At least that's my experience. Now if he lands before you end, you can then get a successful landing.

Ah ja... I think you are right. I only tested it with self afflicted damage.

[Lusche]

How do you measure in game distances when in a GV?  

Basically: If you can hear them, your are too close. If you can see any, you are still too close. If you can't hear or see them... you simply don't know if someone is still close enough. Sometimes it's just a gamble

Hint: Do not drive back to spawn or towards enemy base. Drive into some completely unlikely direction.

[WWhiskey]

How do you measure in game distances when in a GV?   Enemy A/C still have icons showing distance but I've never figured out how to tell the distance to an enemy GV.

The best way is to have a squadie fly over and read his icon distance as he passes over the closest enemy

[kvuo75]

This is a bug that happened to a few people recently (and has been reported in the Bug Report forum). You should be able to land safely on concrete on a friendly base under all circumstances.

I think i got in an argument with someone on country channel yesterday about this... I have been presuming people are still inching forward or backwards (most likely from holding down s to stop and actually going into reverse) when exiting, then someone said they just start engine in hangar, and exit, and get ditch.. I tried but could not replicate it.

[oboe]

I rolled part away across the field the other day in a Panther.  Then the base stopped flashed so I stopped and exited, and I got a ditch.   Even though I'd only driven maybe a couple hundred yards and was still on the field.

[Tr1gg22]

it said I ditched twice on concrete in a fighter hanger...I no it's just a bug that will be fixed...