Need to keep this alive. It is important

Unlike a fixed wing or rotary wing aircraft, a dropship has no wing and that will likely be the most difficult concept to internalize as a new pilot. This has a few implications you need to be aware of:

1) All other aircraft can trade forward motion for altitude, but you cannot. An airplane obtains lift via airflow over the wing. The faster it moves, the more lift it generates.

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3) You cannot perform banked turns.

I'm not sure this is strictly true any more.
Disclaimer: I'm a rookie. just recently started learning piloting. That being said:

the dropships seem more like VTOL aircraft now. Initially, the thrusters are locked downwards, so it behaves like a helicopter.

However.. when you get the forward momentum going, and the thrusters lock in the aft direction... the handling seems to change. I havent had enough time to play with it yet. However, i'll observe that it no longer seems like it is just
"L1 = up, L2 = down". which would make sense, seeing as how the thrusters are no longer pointed down!


My hunch is that, just like real life jets have a particular stall speed under which the wings give insufficient lift (and it's quite a high speed, comparatively!) -- the dropships have been coded so that, when they are travelling at sufficient speed, they perform in a slightly aerodynamic way. Emphasis on the slightly

Do note, also, that the alleged rated top speed of the things, is 2500km/h. That's an order of magnitude faster than ground vehicles.

It's easy to feel that the engine swivel turns the dropship into a winged aircraft, but no, you don't spout wings.

Try flying at full throttle then yaw the ship around 180. You will see that you can still manage to pirouette and are now flying backwards. The swiveled engines mess with a perfect spin, but it still happens.

In real life the ship should act as a lifting body to give the effect you describe, but I doubt they coded that in.

Unfortunately, i didnt get to test out my theories yesterday. Krazy day. Maybe tonight.

I'm not sure about the precise trigger(s), but the effect of those triggers is the intent to fly fast and to stop.

It's probably just forward velocity, but that requires an initial nose down attitude along with an advanced throttle so you won't be able to pick them apart.

For an assault dropship,using this sort of tactic (high speed runs) with the pilot turret would potentially turn it into a tactical (jet)fighter.
Think strafing runs.
Plus side: moving too fast for any kind of AV lockon to happen. You'd have to be in the right place with a railgun, and target manually.
Negatives: I'd think you could only use railguns, or accelerated missile turrets.
Really, really difficult to angle down, when near the ground, without crashing into the ground. You can only make gentle turns in this mode. So, potentially best use as A-A or anti-tower camping?
Or possibly anti-turret runs, since you should be able to aim and shoot from them at a distance+height, then pull up safely.

Cool, this combined with Judge's videos are great for learning how to fly.

Could I maybe ask for an update on the fitting info though? This was made over a year ago so it doesn't have assault dropships.

Or would the same still apply?

Why isn't this stickied?