OPF altitude limit?

[Silent N Deadly 0]

Is 13,500 the altitude limit in OPF? The highest I got is 13,500 and then the plane just drops in altitude like a 1,000 even tho the planes speed is 1200 and going straight up. I tried this with several planes and couldn't get higher. Can anyone confirm this?

[suma 8]

13.5 km is quite high - you will not get much lift from your wings above this alltitude. I am not sure if the simulation is absolutely realistic, but I think we are not too far from it in this respect.

[Acecombat 0]

Whats the total length of earths atmosphere anyway?

[gandalf the white 0]

Whats the total length of earths atmosphere anyway?

40 KM + i believe.

[Acecombat 0]

Thats not much i could drive up and reach the top in 30 mins or so if there was a road made to go there

So whats the max height planes fly on?

Fighters and High altitude bombers must vary here right?

[Silent N Deadly 0]

Highest plane flew ~350,000. A few days ago. Called Spaceshipone. BTW- That's above earth's atmophire. This plane was powered by a single engine using liquid nitrogen, pretty much a rocket ship more then a plane.

EDIT- 350,000 feet not kilometers.  

EDIT Again- In Flashpoint is it 13,500 feet or kilometers? According to Suma's post I am guessing its kilometers. But why is it kilometers and not feet or meters, I was assuming this all along. I thought it was meters or feet rather then kilometers and miles.

[VerySolidSnake 0]

yeah i heard about that, won $20 million for getting it up there

[Silent N Deadly 0]

Yes, I saw it yesterday on the Discovery channel. Pretty interesting. It was a 2 hour thing, I think ?! It showed some nice footage of the flights and alot of other stuff. Humans are pushing the limits of flight. Spaceshipone was the first civilain flight to space.

[shadow 6]

But why is it kilometers and not feet or meters, I was assuming this all along. I thought it was meters or feet rather then kilometers and miles.  

OFP uses (and always has) the metric system for all distances.

[sanctuary 19]

It seems to be the  altitude limit.

I teleported with a setpos an A10 in 14000 m of altitude , and as it was not possible to move the A10 to fly higher, i tried to turn to my left and was immediately put to an altitude of 1m while spinning on myself at great speed just before exploding

EDIT : 14000m not 14000km ;)

[korax 4]

EDIT Again- In Flashpoint is it 13,500 feet or kilometers? According to Suma's post I am guessing its kilometers. But why is it kilometers and not feet or meters, I was assuming this all along. I thought it was meters or feet rather then kilometers and miles.  

Suma said 13.5 kilometers, which is 13500 meters

[Silent N Deadly 0]

Oh my bad!

[bonko the sane 2]

commercial airliners fly at 9000m (30000ft), personaly i dont feel any need to go higher than a few Km upwards, especially in MP game (in fact i think i never flew higher than 3km in MP game)

[monty67t 0]

So if you want to reproduce a somewhat realistic HALO insertion, the aircraft should be at 9000m or 30,000 feet. A good way to test the limit is to download an aircraft that you know has an afterburner (I would recommend the F-111 because it's badass anyways) and point yourself up and hit the afterburner. I have done it before but I can't remember what happened. :P

Monty

[edc 0]

I don't see why there's really a need to go that high. Even with the view distance on the max(5,000m), you still wouldn't be able to see the ground from that height. There would be no visible difference between 13,500m, and a much lower height. That's one area I think OFP needs to improve upon in future versions(larger view distances especially for seeing aircraft from the ground, and seeing the ground vehicles/buildings from planes).

[Guest]

I remember flying a SU25 in OFP, I flew til 40000 feet, and stil going up. I stopped because I got boring.

[Silent N Deadly 0]

What version?

[feersum.endjinn 6]

So if you want to reproduce a somewhat realistic HALO insertion, the aircraft should be at 9000m or 30,000 feet.

It's just that even with OFP's viewdistance set to max, it isn't very exiting to spend 3 minutes it takes to fall down from 9km without seeing anything but sky and fog... That's also reason why in FDFmod HALO jumpers start way lower than that.

[cozza 24]

I just love going high then Ejecting to see how long it takes to come down. And it takes a bloody long time

[Migebuff 0]

I dont think there is an altitute limit....

[raedor 8]

there is one. at least in ofpr 1.96beta

13000m + x; x < 500m

something like that.

[Silent N Deadly 0]

I dont think there is an altitute limit....

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That doesn't count . You can't move around or do anything, it's just a visual effect. The launch is cool tho.

[Pappy Boyington 0]

*|puts on hendrix|* ....s'kuz me while i kiss the sky  

about 0.3 seconds after that pic i burst into flames and dieded

[theavonlady 2]

about 0.3 seconds after that pic i burst into flames and dieded  

You hit the ceiling?

[Pappy Boyington 0]

about 0.3 seconds after that pic i burst into flames and dieded  

You hit the ceiling?

if i got any higher id be smokin a bag of pot singing hippy songs

so yes. i "hit the ceiling" thats all shes got. thats the second time in my OFP playing carrer that ive got that hight. first was with the A4. ironic that only NAVY jets can get that high