How many of u like the "plane"

[slowyconection 0]

that plane is real nice

4 seats

really remembers 007 movies

but anyway

how many of u guys use it

and

wats it name

how is it useful in MP

[Airwolf 50]

its ok, better with guns, and its a cessna 182.

[RedRogue 0]

8--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Airwolf @ April 03 2002,038)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">its ok, better with guns, and its a cessna 182.<span id='postcolor'>

Skyhawk 172. Note the twin blade prop, 182s have a triple blade variable pitch prop.

[USSoldier11B 0]

If you like the Cessna, dowm load Gimbal's planes addon. You get 4 modified aircraft. 2 East, 1 AA load out, 1 AT loadout. 2 Resistance, 1 AA loadout, 1 AT loadout.

[Aculaud 0]

i think its really cool depending on what you do with it. Just a little while ago, i made it so you could drop laser guided bombs with it with unlimited ammo

[USSoldier11B 0]

how do you do that Aculaud?

[Aculaud 0]

a little trick with the 'camcreate' command

I set up a radio alpha trigger that could be hit repeatedly with a command in the activation field that spawned a laser guided bomb 30 meters off the ground in my units position. that way, while flying at, say, 80 meters up, i just hit the trigger, and a laser guided bomb is spawned right under me as if i dropped it myself. the trigger is repeatable, so i get as many bombs as i want.

[MDRZulu 0]

Its cool if you want to do some flight simming or look for a good spot to make a mission. But its way too touchy and it stalls with almost any angle of climb unless you have the flaps out.

[WKK Gimbal 0]

To avoid stalls keep your speed above 100. If it shows sign of stall, go into a small dive and keep flying straight ahead (no turning! until you have a good solid speed, like 200 or more.

No flaps necessary, really. In real life it's very bad to use flaps during a stall, it essentially makes you crash even faster.

If watching out for the speed, I think the plane is quite good at both looping, barrelrolls and other cirkus tricks

[DeathShrimp 0]

I thinks it's pretty good - it makes a good Forward Air Controller plane...BTW, has anyone seen an addon of the Cessna with smoke rockets/bombs etc. for marking enemy positions?

[slowyconection 0]

nice

but how useful is it in MP?

and wat r flaps?

[LordZach 0]

in MP it's kind of nice for recon. quieter than a chopper so it's also possible to do 3 man airdrops (unless of course you don't feel like making a return trip and do 4)

[slowyconection 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (LordZach @ April 03 2002,20:09)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3 man airdrops (unless of course you don't feel like making a return trip and do 4)<span id='postcolor'>

allied invasion any 1?

i didnt get the ( ) part

[LordZach 0]

i was saying the pilot could also bail out and join the squad but there wouldn't be any plane left to escape in

[slowyconection 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (LordZach @ April 03 2002,21:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">but there wouldn't be any plane left to escape in<span id='postcolor'>

hehehe

lol

[ravendk 25]

I changede the cessna skin and are udeing it for small operations drop offf (by landing) and extraction (nothing canged but the name and texture) that plane can land just about any where

Here some hints (for flying the cessna)

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When landing go as slow as you can (about 100) just befor stalling trow the plane down (alt max 20)

When taking off make sure that you have about 100m - 150m of clear "runway" like a road or some bigger area. Full flaps and full trottle when you reach about 100 you get airborn (note you need more speed to avoid crashing during tight turns, rolls and loops)

If you have at joystick whit Forcefeedback you can feel when stalling.

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For operations where i need some firepower i use DDAM Bird (it carrys 4 men + 1 pilot kinda like a defender)

http://www.operation-flashpoint.dk/danbat_addon.htm (all Units need the basic pbo called "HMP MOD.pbo" (DDAM was formorly HMP MOD) happy hunting)

[excession 0]

I love flying the Cessna or! even better flying Gimbal's planes

[RA]Therapy made this mission using zwa DE 2.0 and Gimbals planes: http://www.curdin.tzo.com/RebelAlliance/1_6_C%20AirBaseDefendAA.zip

Its ALOT of fun if you have 2-6 people that wanna spend a couple of hours shooting and crashing into stuff.

Big raah to Gimbal, ZWA and Therapy

[shadow 6]

I love using the Cessna. Ofcourse I love your planes too, Gimbal

What I would also like to see in addition is a Cessna with floating pods. Preferably one with both floating pods and retractable landing gears built-in

[jawk2 1]

Kimbal i just worry on your addon...

did u think a targeter would be more useful for bombing (in 1914-1918 some genius pierced a hole in the plane ground to launch with his hand a bomb).

Dunno how to do that... hmm think a camera under the plane that is triggered by selecting the bomb and press Attack2

And another thing with cessna.... may be i m a dwarf in OPF but the angle of view choosen by BIS is incorrect... u have a better field of view in a cessna.

Flying plane in OPF is really a pain... i crashed too much for me, but landing manually is more easy than IRL thought... BIs guy think an idea:

*whispering*

Air portance Air portance Air portance Air portance Air portance Air portance Air portance Air portance!

[Tales_From_Topographic_Oceans 0]

About a different plane.....I flew the tank killer last night (what's it called A-10 thunderbird/bolt?) in the campaign. I had a devil of a time keeping that thing in the air. It seems the plane had no throttle and kept crashing.

Do you have to keep your hand on the UP Cursor the whole time while you are flying? Is there a way to set the throttle to 100% or is it like driving cars in the game where you have to keep pressing UP to move forward?

[WKK Gimbal 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tales_From_Topographic_Oceans @ April 12 2002,14:04)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">About a different plane.....I flew the tank killer last night (what's it called A-10 thunderbird/bolt?) in the campaign. I had a devil of a time keeping that thing in the air. It seems the plane had no throttle and kept crashing.

Do you have to keep your hand on the UP Cursor the whole time while you are flying? Is there a way to set the throttle to 100% or is it like driving cars in the game where you have to keep pressing UP to move forward?<span id='postcolor'>

You should really get a joystick - the planes (especially A10) are much cooler to fly with joystick. When flying with mouse, they can't loop or roll properly. And with joystick the throttle is no problem.

[LordZach 0]

yeah i recently started playing with a joystick and found flying with them is a lot more fun. if i pass a target, pull up, do a lil spin, and fire on my way down. still have to use the mouse for landing but practice makes perfect.

[SpetsnazWarriorX 0]

I have an extremely steady hand when flying the planes using a mouse. However, if I acquire a joystick, will it be the same steady flying, or something big to get used to yet again?

[advocatexxx 0]

Seeing how for some mysterious reason, every joystick I ever owned stopped working a few months after I unpacked it, I decided that the next time I get one, it will be a really good, heavy-duty type, and I'll only do so to use it on Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

I am happy with the mouse in OFP

[SpetsnazWarriorX 0]

Okei, I went and bought a joystick today... regarding OFP flying using one - well, it's different, that's for sure. I don't think I'll be able to get to grips with it The one thing preventing me would be the viewpoint centering. Can anyone tell me if there is some way to make the centre field of view stick to one part of the aircraft? Like, when I pitch the nose down, I end up seeing the underside of the plane and nothing else More answers, pleez!