Skihids
Tritan-Industries
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2012.08.26 16:47:00 -
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When flying a dropship consider that you are basically flying an air-hockey puck. You have NO fixed wing or helicopter rotor to use to "bite" into the air to pull yourself around in a turn. If you are a real pilot or a sim pilot you will need to break yourself of this habit first before you can be successful. I lost several birds before I figured it out. If you are diving at the ground you can't just pull up and translate all that forward momentum into altitude. You can only stop yourself with direct thrust.
Think of it as controlled skidding. Tilt forward with the Left stick, you start pushing yourself forward. Yaw around with the Right stick and you will still be going in that same direction, only backwards now. Basically you are on ice, but you can go up and down as well just to complicate things. The old space wars arcade video game did that in 2D.
So you can push yourself from the front or back or from the left or right side by pushing the Left stick forward or back, or left or right (standard controls). The Right stick left and right pivots the ship in place. Forward and back will move the view camera over or behind the ship in third person view. That won't affect the ship, so don't get confused and try to fly by moving the camera.
Now to complicate things, as you vector your thrust partially to the side what you gain in sideways lift you loose in vertical lift, since total thrust doesn't change. Thus you will sink in proportion to the degree of tilt, though you can compensate for this by goosing the throttle (just not too much, please).
I found it best to find a nice big platform to practice hovering over and landing on. The big crane platform in one of the skirmish maps is ideal as it is also out of the way. It's annoying to have to worry about SL's when you are in basic flight training. At $150k ISK a pop, flight training is already expensive enough.
Start your training low and slow and keep your control inputs small. Pilot induced oscillations will get you killed quickly. If you get into trouble on a landing just abort and try again. Boost up and back off, then come at it a second time. Eventually you will be able to yaw the ship, side slip, and plant it right on the spot pointing in the direction you want. Then take your ship to the top of one of the smaller towers and practice there. It's tougher because you are near the ships ceiling and won't have a lot of power left to correct with. When you are nearly in place you reduce your throttle and settle in. You can even mash L2 and plant it hard if you want to make a quick combat landing. You will loose some shield, but it will regenerate pretty quc
After you are decent at that, practice hoping from one tower to the next. |