BF2S Forums What has happened to aviators since 1.2?

USAFDude_1988 wrote:

_j5689_ wrote:

Landing a plane is hard.  What makes it easy at all?

The only hard thing about is getting used to how easy it is to land planes in BF2. If you think this is hard.. try landing planes in MS Flight Simulator 2004 or even a real serious simulation like IL-2 Forgotten Battles... now thats hard buddy.

ExecutionerStyle wrote:

USAFDude_1988 wrote:

On Wake Island its rush the airfield so our F-35s can actually get off the carrier.

Yeah, until someone mans a stinger and paints you and you desperately try to avoid the missiles, then realize you're a marked man and start mashing the China button on the spawn screen like a nutcase.

LOL!!!

love msfs 2004

747 short field landings at meigis chicago w00t

USAFDude_1988 wrote:

PBAsydney wrote:

_j5689_ wrote:

Landing a plane is hard.  What makes it easy at all?

Slowing down and don't flare, because the wonderful BF2 engine will make you do a vertical landing that way....without VTOL engines.

He probably doesn't know what flaring an aircraft means...

Oh by the way.. isn't it odd that the F-35 can take off like a rocket.. yet it performs like a POS anyways? lol

Yea I know, you don't even have to engage VTOL engines to take off at 45 degrees from the spawnpoint. And you can rotate it 45 degrees left or right also for rocket launch.

F35B should have a active stealth system, make it handle the same POS, why not, but make it take double as long to lock on to (for A2A, AA sites have so limited range and good fighter pilots should not lose the F-35B out of the lock for a single secend, depending of the plane of course).

USAFDude_1988 wrote:

PBAsydney wrote:

_j5689_ wrote:

Landing a plane is hard.  What makes it easy at all?

Slowing down and don't flare, because the wonderful BF2 engine will make you do a vertical landing that way....without VTOL engines.

He probably doesn't know what flaring an aircraft means...

Oh by the way.. isn't it odd that the F-35 can take off like a rocket.. yet it performs like a POS anyways? lol

The speed of the F-35 isn't really it's high point I guess since it only uses the take-off speed for vertical take-offs.

What's really funny is that everybody seems to bitch about the less manuverable planes when in fact, all it takes is different tactics to utilize them properly.  Perhaps those folks should quit griping and whining for a fix, and spend some time perfecting what we have.  The F-35 has speed, climb and great stall speed angle of attack.  If your in trouble with the J-10, keep more damn distance inbeween you and them, so when they turn, you can stay inside instead of overshooting them.  Chop the throttles, and your turn will bring you inside.

USAFDude_1988 wrote:

Orgtheone wrote:

_j5689_ wrote:

Landing a plane is hard.  What makes it easy at all?

lol its really easy just slow to 350kts and land

Its 350 kilometers per hour... at 350 kts on a landing.. you're gonna burn ur ass on the runway.. and nuthin's gonna be left of you or your plane... that's in real life by the way..  in the BF2 world.. planes have ceilings of 300 feet.. or 300 meters.. whatever they use..

actually i've been up to 25.000ft in a jet in BF2 a clan m8 of mine has been to 100,000ft which took him 40minutes to reach

USAFDude_1988 wrote:

Orgtheone wrote:

747 short field landings at meigis chicago w00t

You are insane!! lol!

Too bad Meigs was illegally closed by the mayor.. def. one of the best GA airports in the country.

ah, meigs, default airport of MS Flight Sim right? Ah, so many good memories.

PBAsydney wrote:

USAFDude_1988 wrote:

Orgtheone wrote:

747 short field landings at meigis chicago w00t

You are insane!! lol!

Too bad Meigs was illegally closed by the mayor.. def. one of the best GA airports in the country.

ah, meigs, default airport of MS Flight Sim right? Ah, so many good memories.

Yes thats right it rocked online with landing competitions there

Why not go ahead and talk about FS?
I never got FS2004, I only have 2002 hehe.

Can't wait for FSX, that's a must-buy.
How much space do you think it needs for all the textures, lol? 20 gb?

Wow, and such a sudden derailment too. So sad. I think half the BF2S userbase has a severe form of ADD.

Last edited by ExecutionerStyle (2006-07-19 14:25:52)

ericcartmanisbest wrote:

you sound like an old man talking about how much better life was in the good ol days

Those good ole days weren't that long ago... and its not like our voices aren't heard.

Last edited by USAFDude_1988 (2006-07-19 16:11:09)

TriggerHappy998 wrote:

What has happened to aviators since 1.2?

They complain a whole lot more now.

You mean the ones who did all the flying pre 1.20?  If so I agree.

Its just a perception thing. "All in the eye of the beholder".

Before 1.2 the jet pilots had the LUXURY of concentrating on dogfighting if they want to, just because the Ground to Air missiles were no threat to them, and therefore could be ignored.
After the AA was improved, a lot of "ace" dogfighting pilots chickened out of the planes, because they now are much more vulnarable to ground AA.
So indeed its harder to find skilled/allround pilots now on the same server.

Its a kind of funny anachronism  anyway  to dogfight  with planes like  F15 , F18 and F22-  that use LONG-RANGE (Amraam 120 radar homing/guided) missiles - designed  to take out enemy planes  that are 20 to 50 miles away beyond visual range (!)  , if you ask me !

Last edited by MajorHoulahan_MASH (2006-07-20 01:26:03)

SargeV1.4 wrote:

TriggerHappy998 wrote:

What has happened to aviators since 1.2?

They complain a whole lot more now.

no shit. maybe it's because dogfighting has been removed and the jets unbalanced? We have every reason to complain.

And everyone before 1.2 wasn't allowed to complain? You're peeing on your own feet Sarge.

Adapt and survive.