I have tried this mission quite a few times, but when you are protecting the transport out of the base, it tends to always crash into the mountains at one particular area...doesn't matter how much damage the airframe received while defending the booger. Tried the mission with different aircraft from the beginning but still have not tried in simulator mode as of yet...still hanging around in arcade mode.

Yep tried it on both arcade and simulator...plane is in green, but always crashes into the mountain...anyone else experiencing this?

Any word on this mission? I had to do the cheat_victory to progress...all other missions are done with ACE...sort of don't like the fact you have to reply with each plane to get the parade skins...oh and what is with the other special skin how do you go about obtaining those? I am guessing beat the mission with the aircraft twice with ACE?

Oh and have the PC version...no matter what happens, the transport always crashes into the mountain.