Help starting a mission with a plane in flight

[Dave82 10]

Hi, first let me just say I'm a complete novice at scripting (which you probably guessed looking at the thread title alone). I'm trying to use guide I found on armahollic which is good but I just can't seem to get this to work. What I want to do is have amission starting with some planes flying overhead, I can get the planes to start in the air but no matter what script I try they are always the same hight above the ground and they stall and crash. The script in the guide had the following two lines "this setPos [(getPos this select 0),(getPos this select 1),10]" and "AV8B1 setVelocity[0,100,100];" AV8B1 being the name of the unit. I combined the two (one for the starting height and one for starting velocity which seemed to make sense but so far it's not working. I've tried playing with the numbers but they don't seem to be making any difference.

Can someone please shed light on my life threatening plight?

[ltn.ghost 10]

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=74457

That thread might be helpful, at least I got a C130 that transports my squad to fly at 450m above sea level right from the start.

Don't know about the setVelocity thing, I just defined the plane to be in air and it worked fine with just the height set.

[jamesf1 0]

To expand upon Ltn.Ghost's post... you may be able to solve your 'problem' entirely by setting the planes' "Special" property to "Flying". This will start them in the air, at cruise speed. Furthermore, you can then use the following code in the plane's "Initialization" box to give it a specific height (if the default isn't suitable):

this setPos [(getPos this select 0), (getPos this select 1), 300];
this flyInHeight 300;

The above example would cause the plane to start, and continue flying, at 300 metres. Change the two instances of '300' to vary the height.