Originally posted by SPKmes
Cheers to the help you all have given lately, through reading the previous forums and your answering my questions, (good and stupid) I am able to kill (can't seem to land them however). Although I may have found a glitch that somebody can confirm or deny for me ( I will do my own testing on this) it seems that as long as you are hitting at less than 180 every landing on a carrier is successful. I have belly flopped, wings snapped off engine blown. Another time landed on the cockpit, both said you have landed successfully.
Any hoo merry christmas and cheers.
In my opinion, 150 is pretty much it as far as a reasonable max speed for most landings go. If you hear landing gear groaning noises you are in danger of loosing your landing gear and a bit too hot.
It will usually groan at 150 but I have never seen the gears come off at that speed.
I suggest you fly offline for concentrated practice landings until you nail it most of the time. Shouldn't take all that long.
I usually don't bother with flaps when landing and like to come in a little hot, chop throttle, then do short sharp left/right speed burning turns to reduce speed to 150 then flair out and touch down at 120 or so...
Everyone has their own way of doing it... I just like to shorten the landing time as much as I can; less time for a vulching bad guy to get you.
Another skill you will want to learn is re-arming/re-fueling at a land base with your engine idling. At the end of a runway is the re-arm/refuel point. You can taxi there without ending your sorte then takeoff again.
TIGERESS
