Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!pcsbst!jkh From: jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: F/A-18 Interceptor HEELLLPPPP!! Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 90 13:22:15 GMT References: <4894@crash.cts.com> Sender: news@pcsbst.pcs.com Organization: PCS Computer Systems, GmbH Lines: 40 In-reply-to: steves@pnet01.cts.com's message of 9 Oct 90 22:56:04 GMT In article <4894@crash.cts.com> steves@pnet01.cts.com (Stephen Scheck) writes: >I know that you are expected to take off, fly around a bit, and land again >upon the carrier, no? This I do, and well, too. I shoot down the stray >MiG-29 when it appears, and make a picture-perfect landing upon the hardtop. >Unfortunately, the game refuses to believe that I have lived up to its Take off, hit the afterburner and pop up into an inverted loop with a slightly nose high attitude. After you've broken the sound barrier and reached about 3000 feet, you should be both high enough and far enough away from the carrier to reduce speed to around 70%, drop your landing gear, and complete the loop. You'll be pointing north (if your loop was clean) and on a perfect approach to land on the carrier. Once you get better, you can shorten the top part of the loop. When I was just starting out, I found that the sound barrier/3000 ft mark gave me ample time to set up my approach, but you shouldn't need anywhere near that much time once you get the hang of it. You *must* land on the south side of the carrier or your landing won't be counted! Technically, I think, carriers can be landed on from both directions depending on the wind (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I know carriers turn to "face the wind" for launches, but I don't believe they do any manouvering for landings. What would be really nice is if the wind changed during the game, with it being the pilot's responsibilty to spot the wind direction indicator on the carrier and land from the appropriate direction! Ah well. BTW, I've heard of people being able to land their planes looking solely from the tower view, or taking off and landing in a full-stick-back afterburning loop (with the afterburner still on for landing!). That's something to try, eh? Jordan -- PCS Computer Systeme GmbH, Munich, West Germany UUCP: pyramid!pcsbst!jkh jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com EUNET: unido!pcsbst!jkh ARPA: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu or hubbard@decwrl.dec.com