Flying the F-35....

[Helmut_AUT 0]

Hi Guys

Sorry for the likely basic question but my search came up empty: How do you transition the F35 from Hover mode to normal flight? When I hit "Auto Hover" the engine nozzle turns down, I can lift off vertical and it flys a bit like a helo.

But when I keep adding speed, the nozzle never retracts for normal flight. No action menu or key to be found either?

[Daniel 0]

So there's an Auto Hover option but no Auto Hover Off?

[beacon 0]

Yes, there is. Just turn off Auto-Hover again.

[TCEd 0]

Check out this video on the F-35B;

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[Helmut_AUT 0]

Okay, I got it now: Turning off Auto Hover does not configure the plane for normal flight, this happens when you get over a certain speed. Same for the Osprey.

[easty 0]

O5sbDWnGT_k

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One of my vids showing a proper stovl take off..

Just nose down and get speed up to switch back to conventional flight.. soon as there is enough air flow over the wings for lift it will transition back..

to make it really real BIS need to dump all your fuel if you do a vertical takeoff with a full loadout.. there's a reason it's a STOVL aircraft not a VTOL. Edited June 5, 2009 by easty

[4 IN 1 0]

so out of all the things that BI did right or wrong, V/STOL system is the one that they did correctly(sort of), rgr?

[TCEd 0]

easty, to make your video work on the post, remove everything but the ID code after the equal sign and before the & sign, the code for your video is O5sbDWnGT_k

If you put that on the page, then highlight it and click the YouTube button, which will put the code around the ID, it will play on your post.

Great video btw....

Edited June 4, 2009 by TCEd

[Amuro 10]

[YOUTUBE]O5sbDWnGT_k

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One of my vids showing a proper stovl take off..

Just nose down and get speed up to switch back to conventional flight.. soon as there is enough air flow over the wings for lift it will transition back..

to make it really real BIS need to dump all your fuel if you do a vertical takeoff with a full loadout.. there's a reason it's a STOVL aircraft not a VTOL.

That's a very nice video! One question though, how does the game simulate the HMDS (Helmet Mounted Display System) of the F-35? Did you turn the HMDS off in your video?

Edited June 5, 2009 by Sniperwolf572
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[MehMan 0]

It doesn't, but it can be modded in. It was done in ArmA.

[Helmut_AUT 0]

so out of all the things that BI did right or wrong, V/STOL system is the one that they did correctly(sort of), rgr?

I would say yes. It might be me, but the Harrier seems unchanged, that is I can not get the Nozzles down for a true VTOL.

The F35 and Osprey however work nicely in that you can do a true vertical takeoff, then gain speed, fly with the engines horizontal, and then land with the engines vertical again.

It's all controlled trough speed automatically, so as you slow down in flight, the engines position themself correctly.

Should be fun to takeoff and land on the LHD.

[easty 0]

That's a very nice video! One question though, how does the game simulate the HMDS (Helmet Mounted Display System) of the F-35? Did you turn the HMDS off in your video?

As Mr Meh says there is nothing.. Although the flight model is great the internal and external textures are not too great.. I may be a little bias as I worked on jsf for nearly 5 years.. The textures don't bother me too much but the belly nozzle seems to resemble the Harrier more than the JSF. The JSF doesn't have pitch aligned fuse nozzle it has a WTB roll nozzles.. meh i am being picky.. anyhow it's really cool to fly and I hope they spend time improving other area's of the ground operations..

[4 IN 1 0]

As Mr Meh says there is nothing.. Although the flight model is great the internal and external textures are not too great.. I may be a little bias as I worked on jsf for nearly 5 years.. The textures don't bother me too much but the belly nozzle seems to resemble the Harrier more than the JSF. The JSF doesn't have pitch aligned fuse nozzle it has a WTB roll nozzles.. meh i am being picky.. anyhow it's really cool to fly and I hope they spend time improving other area's of the ground operations..

well, for the record, you are being a little picky here, as for all we know, this is not a flight sim from the start:p

[armored_sheep 56]

You can take it this way : the hover mode switch basicaly changes the way PageUP / Down (or Q/Z) keys work. If you have VTOL aircraft, when you switch to hovering those keys work for UP/DOWN movement. If you are in non-hover mode they change desired speed setting. During landing as the speed drop below stall the muzzle vector is moving to keep aircraft flying. Harrier is STOVL so it works the same way as in Arma, he needs short roll before take off.

[Amuro 10]

So no stuff like pitch ladder, flight path marker, gun pipper, etc will be displayed on screen then?

[CarlGustaffa 4]

Proper Harrier takeoff that should look like a familiar setting ;) :

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It's capable of doing a vertical takeoff, but I think it's usually only done on airshows for, well, show :)