To save some seconds on your extraction. Keep throttle of engines around 40 to 45% MAX when unloading or picking up. This will allow you to get off the ground FASTER than going 0 Throttle and waiting for the RPM to spool up to begin lift of VTOL.
I can't get the thing to remain on the ground. The engines keep throttling up to 100% and causing it to bunny hop badly enough to damage the vehicle. I'll have my throttle all the way down, and even manually lower the flaps (mod that separates thruster vector from flap controls), but it will constantly hop. If I try to manually vector the aircraft to forward movement, the engines fight me and try to vector towards the ground again, causing bunny hops. I also can't shut off the engines, as the odd possessed throttle causes the engines to auto start after forcing them off. Just to be clear, I have no issues taking off, flying, or the initial landing. It's once I'm on the ground that the vehicle develops a mind of its own.
I can't for the life of me get this thing to be anything but garbage to land virtically. Why they didn't just include auto hover like every helicopter confuses me... Xi'an that is.
this also broke all the vtol aircraft in cup mod which is prevalent in exile servers. the community didn't want these changes and asked for option to revert but BI per usual flipped us off. The fact they don't have an independent vector increase/decrease option is beyond me. should be able to map those keys separately for the black fish. because guess what more flaps at lower speed equals more lift... they added quasi realistic vtol flight models to unrealistic standard flight models.
Landing vertically is not necessary anyway, its much easier to maintain some slight forward speed so you keep the field in sight through your windscreen as you slowly descend, then simply flare to zero speed in the last few feet.
that may work in some game modes like coop/milsim/invade and annex. but you need absolute vertical take off and landing in exile. most player bases aren't going to have room for landing strips. most missions don't spawn near landing strips. vehicles as loot from missions don't have air strips. so on so forth.
I don't want to toot my own horn but I can put the Blackfish down anywhere like in a tiny village square or a small forest clearing etc..The trick is to aim at a point about 50 feet above it and approach it while steadily bleeding off forward speed and altitude so that you arrive at the point in a hover. Then reduce throttle to drop vertically..However it's bloody difficult because the Blackfish is full of inertia like a flying mountain..:)
To save some seconds on your extraction. Keep throttle of engines around 40 to 45% MAX when unloading or picking up. This will allow you to get off the ground FASTER than going 0 Throttle and waiting for the RPM to spool up to begin lift of VTOL.
is there any way to fly this thing with an xbox controller? no matter what i do i only ever seem to be able to control yaw with it, nothing else
I could juts not manage to land the Xi'an vertically. I hope this helps me :)
Nice video, but I am still too dumb to land the Xian vertically ^^
Name game?
I can't get the thing to remain on the ground. The engines keep throttling up to 100% and causing it to bunny hop badly enough to damage the vehicle. I'll have my throttle all the way down, and even manually lower the flaps (mod that separates thruster vector from flap controls), but it will constantly hop. If I try to manually vector the aircraft to forward movement, the engines fight me and try to vector towards the ground again, causing bunny hops. I also can't shut off the engines, as the odd possessed throttle causes the engines to auto start after forcing them off.
Just to be clear, I have no issues taking off, flying, or the initial landing. It's once I'm on the ground that the vehicle develops a mind of its own.
Create your own group if you're on a dedicated server, then it won't do that
Very nice, thanks for sharing
I crashed the xi an a million times in the showcase
very well made!
I can't for the life of me get this thing to be anything but garbage to land virtically. Why they didn't just include auto hover like every helicopter confuses me... Xi'an that is.
Lt Muffler they first had auto hovering but they removed it for some reason
this also broke all the vtol aircraft in cup mod which is prevalent in exile servers. the community didn't want these changes and asked for option to revert but BI per usual flipped us off.
The fact they don't have an independent vector increase/decrease option is beyond me. should be able to map those keys separately for the black fish. because guess what more flaps at lower speed equals more lift...
they added quasi realistic vtol flight models to unrealistic standard flight models.
Landing vertically is not necessary anyway, its much easier to maintain some slight forward speed so you keep the field in sight through your windscreen as you slowly descend, then simply flare to zero speed in the last few feet.
that may work in some game modes like coop/milsim/invade and annex. but you need absolute vertical take off and landing in exile. most player bases aren't going to have room for landing strips. most missions don't spawn near landing strips. vehicles as loot from missions don't have air strips. so on so forth.
I don't want to toot my own horn but I can put the Blackfish down anywhere like in a tiny village square or a small forest clearing etc..The trick is to aim at a point about 50 feet above it and approach it while steadily bleeding off forward speed and altitude so that you arrive at the point in a hover. Then reduce throttle to drop vertically..However it's bloody difficult because the Blackfish is full of inertia like a flying mountain..:)