Approaching for landing in an A-164 Wipeout?

[Hades]

Hello! I was wondering if there really is a technique for lining up the CAS plane to the runway. I know the interface in the plane eventually shows the runway at about 2km but by the time I am that close I can't re-adjust myself. I am "decent" at flying the plane except when it comes to approaching my landings and I can barely land because of me not being able to line up with the run-way. Thanks for any tips given!

[Kiri Otoru]

first of all, there is autopilot. you can enable it and watch how it works out.
next, there is map, to set up approach points or lines. and ofc there is GPS panel to view them.
third, there is some rules of approach, like when do first turn, second, third and final. You can google it, it is no copmplex matter.

and I heared, that view distance set to 4-5 km helps too.

[Tajin]

First of all, don't trust the autopilot ! It may be ok to watch it but do not use that thing when it really matters.
Draw a line on the map to mark your approach path and watch for that on your GPS.


Set full flaps, reduce throttle and especially do not forget about the airbrake on your wipeout. It is really effective and allows you to bleed off speed quickly, which makes landing a lot easier.

Personally I'd say within 2km you still have good time to react, otherwise you're probably going way too fast.

[Hades]

Originally posted by Tajin:

First of all, don't trust the autopilot ! It may be ok to watch it but do not use that thing when it really matters.
Draw a line on the map to mark your approach path and watch for that on your GPS.


Set full flaps, reduce throttle and especially do not forget about the airbrake on your wipeout. It is really effective and allows you to bleed off speed quickly, which makes landing a lot easier.

Personally I'd say within 2km you still have good time to react, otherwise you're probably going way too fast.

Hey, thank you for your response! Yeah I don't really trust the autopilot, and I kind of just want to learn it myself for when I can not use it. I've just recently figured out the "line" method actually and it's helping me out a ton. I've never heard of this "Air-Brake" feature, could you tell me how to use it? I usually try to start slowing down 5km out and just slowly reducing throttle with flaps down obviously.

[Sora]

Press and hold "X", it should put speedbrakes up on the wings, and help you lose excess speed.

[Hades]

Originally posted by ♥ Sora ♥:

Press and hold "X", it should put speedbrakes up on the wings, and help you lose excess speed.

Just tested it out and that helped me greatly! Thank you all for helping me out, I appreciate it.

[Tajin]

Originally posted by PrisonNightmare:

could you tell me how to use it?

No I can't I've customized all my keybinds so I really don't know the default ones. Thanks Sora ^^

Anyway, I'd recommend to at least scroll through the keybinds from time to time, to see if you've missed something important. (for example, few people know that you can rebind the driving controls for cars to analogue steering, which makes driving with a mouse a lot better (to me at least))

ps.: You do know about the targeting pod though, right ?

[Hades]

Originally posted by Tajin:

Originally posted by PrisonNightmare:

could you tell me how to use it?

No I can't I've customized all my keybinds so I really don't know the default ones. Thanks Sora ^^

Anyway, I'd recommend to at least scroll through the keybinds from time to time, to see if you've missed something important. (for example, few people know that you can rebind the driving controls for cars to analogue steering, which makes driving with a mouse a lot better (to me at least))

ps.: You do know about the targeting pod though, right ?

Never heard of it?