Cannot switch vessels while in atmosphere.

[jer]

Ok, I know someone's gone over this, but I wish you could switch when piloting jets. I was hoping I could make a simple solid rocket booster drone to be a "homing missile" onto a drone plane. But looks like I can't...

[SievertChaser]

The whole physics rail system means that Squad really minds multiple atmospheric objects flown at the same time.

[Gertjan]

that will be too much for normal computers.

there is a mod that allows you do do this, i'm not sure what it was called.
it lets you basically record your actions, then revert time and control something else, with the previous actions on rails

[FourGreenFields]

AfaIk it should be possible.
You can switch to any other flying object - just not to landed objects.

[funkynutz]

You can switch to landed objects, provided you're close enough (I think it's 2km?).

[SievertChaser]

Originally posted by FunkY:

You can switch to landed objects, provided you're close enough (I think it's 2km?).

Not if you are moving.

[margalus]

Originally posted by FourGreenFields:

AfaIk it should be possible.
You can switch to any other flying object - just not to landed objects.

no, you cannot switch while flying in an atmosphere.

[FourGreenFields]

Originally posted by margalus:

Originally posted by FourGreenFields:

AfaIk it should be possible.
You can switch to any other flying object - just not to landed objects.

no, you cannot switch while flying in an atmosphere.

Then how did I switch to my self-built bombs after I dropped them?
Or to debris to watch them crash after RUD?
Or to dropped takeoff boosters to check whether they make it to the ground in one piece?

[Woody]

I switch all the time in the atmosphere. I even switched to things on the ground after droping them from aircraft.

[margalus]

Originally posted by FourGreenFields:

Originally posted by margalus:

no, you cannot switch while flying in an atmosphere.

Then how did I switch to my self-built bombs after I dropped them?
Or to debris to watch them crash after RUD?
Or to dropped takeoff boosters to check whether they make it to the ground in one piece?

I have no idea unless you have a mod that allows it. In the vanilla game if you try to switch while in the atmosphere it does not switch, and you get a message on screen when you try that says " Cannot switch craft while in atmosphere"

Originally posted by Woody:

I switch all the time in the atmosphere. I even switched to things on the ground after droping them from aircraft.

same, you must have a mod that allows it.