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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: TT on November 07, 1999, 02:49:00 PM

Title: ground handeling
Post by: TT on November 07, 1999, 02:49:00 PM
 Has anyone tried to taxi onto the runway after landing. The plane refused to go that direction. I keep hearing about realism. Well, even I know you can taxi an airplane.
  If this is a "gameplay" thing, fine. make it a crash if you miss the runway. That would make more sense.

 Also, I dont care about ranking in beta. But I will when we go gold. I have a higher score than the guy above me in every catagory listed. Is there some other factor considered into the score.

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Title: ground handeling
Post by: Bradburger on November 07, 1999, 03:23:00 PM
Funny never noticed that one!


Cheers

Bradburger
Title: ground handeling
Post by: Azrael on November 07, 1999, 04:42:00 PM
Hmm, taxiing goes fine in almost every possible condition. Didn't try hills up yet but as long as the tailwheel is on the ground the rudder will move that thing around - and I should now, my B-17 landings in AH don't resemble any coordinated flight conditions  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

Az

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Title: ground handeling
Post by: Hans on November 07, 1999, 07:56:00 PM
And we have differential braking with keys "X" and "C" I beleave.  Combined with rudder this allows a fair degree of control on the ground.

You can't pivot on a dime, but I don't think your supposed to.

Hans.
Title: ground handeling
Post by: TT on November 07, 1999, 11:42:00 PM
I spent 10 min going at it from every angle. One try I was no more that a dozen ft at a 90 degree angle and the plane turned itself when all i tried to do was hold it in a stright line for a couple of ft. Its either a feature or a bug.
Title: ground handeling
Post by: Rojo on November 08, 1999, 12:44:00 PM
Couple of possibilities here, TT. 1) Your gear was up (yeah, pretty obvious but I had to say it), 2) your gear was damaged in some fashion (like tail-wheel damaged), or 3) your wheels got caught in some discontinuity in the terrain.  In WB, there are spots in the NG terrain, for instance that resemble a curb or step; you can't see it from inside your A/C, but its there.  I've not had any trouble taxiing to and fro, even over minor hills and such.  Try it off line and see what happens.

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Rojo (S-2, The Buccaneers)
Title: ground handeling
Post by: delta on November 08, 1999, 02:59:00 PM
Hello All and HTC,

It is possible to go uphill.

Over the weekend, I was tooling around off-line and landed a Spit at the "bottom" of F1.  Just for grins, I decided to drive (drive as opposed to hop, fly or other aeronautical means) up the hill and did just that.

The only feature I didn't like was that the Spit did not roll backwards when I stopped momnentarily.

As for TT, weren't you one who was having severe problems with joysticks?

Sounds like a stick setting problem or,

like Rojo said, damaged main or tail wheel.

delta