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Can it be done?
I spent about two hours messing around on this one last night and finally had to admit defeat.
Take-off is fine but landing is a real night-mare (for me).
Has anyone solved this one.


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Message Edited on 06/28/0305:29PM by Extreme_One

[XyZspineZyX]

Can it be done?
I spent about two hours messing around on this one last night and finally had to admit defeat.
Take-off is fine but landing is a real night-mare (for me).
Has anyone solved this one.


S! Simon.
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Message Edited on 06/28/0305:29PM by Extreme_One

[XyZspineZyX]

I'm not sure about landing on any random piece of water, but there are a handfull of new "water airbases" on the new maps that act just like land-based airbases. Make a waypoint a landing WP near one of these water airbases and it will latch onto it. Then the catalina will communicate with ground control and line up for a landing and even taxi to the shoreline.

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[XyZspineZyX]

uh....where are theses water bases? No see-ums, they are. Thanks.

[XyZspineZyX]

I've been able to get the Catalina to land in the water pretty near where I want it to go. I've set up waypoints to give it a fairly long, straight approach and then set the final landing waypoint in the water. I've not used marked seabases. If I remember correctly, when you first assign "landing" in the water the waypoint seemed to automatically move to the nearest airbase. I then click and drag that waypoint back to where I want it. I have wanted to have the Cat land near ships at sea. I've been able to get it pretty close to the ship I wanted after tweaking the approach, the landing point and the object I wanted to land near. There are a couple missions (one each to each campaign)that do this in the campaigns I have uploaded here
http://mudmovers.com/Sims/FB/fb_campaigns.htm
It was'nt perfect but it was close enough to get the idea across I think. Hope this helps.

[XyZspineZyX]

The only place those floatplanes land consistently is in the proper airstrips!
Where are these waterplane landing strips?
Here is a tiny section of the summer map Gulf of Finland, showing one of the islands in the eastern end of the gulf.
The wet strip is the airbase icon in the water.
Note there are TWO wet airstrips shown - each one has a single icon.
There are a few more such airstrips near the other islands and on the coast.
For some reason, it seems the floatplane stations are closed when the gulf is frozen solid...





Touchdown on the southern strip on above map:

[XyZspineZyX]

Yikes! I was wondering why they put those extra markers in, thought it was a mistake. Thanks.

[XyZspineZyX]

Thanks everybody!


S! Simon.
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Message Edited on 06/30/0307:14PM by NuFoerki

[XyZspineZyX]

Your Gonna Love this one Guys,
Ive created a South Pacific Black Cat Mission, where a Black Cat Stealth PBY transports Australian Commandoes deep into Japanese held territory, and lands in the Sepik river.
Ive used the Kuban Map to simulate the Owen Stanly Ranges in Papua New Guinea South Pacific 1942.

I have tested and re tested in 20 mission launches the Pby takes off from the Coast flys accross the Ranges, swoops in low over the country side and lands in one of those little rivers you see on the Kuban Map 20 times with out a hitch.

Its part of a Coop Mission among other Coop Missions I have created using Pacific Skins.
The Missions and skins will be included on a down load site I will be creating shortly.
The Missions are for Australian American or other squads that want to fight in South Pacific Coops Online.

Cheers