Pacific Fighters

okay guys i just got this game yesterday (Pacific Fighters) and it is fun :thumbup: ......but i do suck alot i don't have a joystick but i will be getting one soon i hope does a joystick help out in this game?



my main problem is taking off from the aircraft carrier i start up my engine make sure my wings are down and everything but i don't go my plane just sits there so i turn auto pilot on and my plane moves up the aircraft carrier then gets stuck halfway or just falls off the front of the aircraft carrier at abour 10mph so i try turning auto pilot on then off quickly i'm released from whatever is stoping me moving but as i near the end of the carrier i slow down and sorta just go nose first into the water and then the aircraft carrier runs me over once i did pick up speed towards the end of the runway but i still ended up in the drink?


my other problem is landing on a run way once my spitfighter stalled and then got shot up so my engine(i think) got shot up as well as some of my rudders but i did pull up and land it (at the time i did no know how to use my landing gear but i managed anyway without it) but know when i land on a runway i can never do it? do you need the airbrake? what would be the best practice plane? i do use the landing gear now by the way

i can never hit any thing it's the keyboard isn't it i can't just ease onto a target with the keys it always jumps is there aome way to use my mouse for flying i have a steering wheel set do you think that would be better than the keys(i know sounds pretty dumb using a steering wheel)



i know i asked alot of crap any tips would be really useful :thumbup:

PF is kickass!

Congrats on diving into a serious challenge

Carrier takeoff is no joke. Make sure you have flaps set to takeoff, and your engine revved wide open... the trick here is to make sure that you map your chock-release to a key. It's not mapped by default. Alternatlively, you can make sure you hit autopilot right as the mission begins. For whatever reason, if you don't do it right away, the AP can't handle it. You will also have to touch the rudder a bit to counteract the ship's heaving.

Anyway, flaps at takeoff, engine wide open, and release chocks. It's not a rocket, so let it launch off the deck and gently pull up and retract gear. Then retract flaps a notch, let airspeed build a few seconds (depends on the plane you are flying) and then retract them again all the way. From there you are flying

There may be a way to play this game with keyboard/mouse combo, but I wouldn't expect to be able to do much of anything except crash a lot. A decent joystick is critical to this type of game.

Landing is again a real challenge. Real life standard military procedure is to pass down the length of the runway at low speed, then circle around to make an approach at the runway with gear down, landing flaps deployed. The real important part is to pay very close attention to your climb indicator (again, where it is on your dash depends on the plane you are flying) and keep make your approach so that the indicator is very close to level when you make your flare (Flare is when you pull your nose level just before the landing gear touch the ground). The best thing I can tell you here is to practice a lot. Keep in mind, that real life pilots practice touch and goes a LOT in order to keep their landing skills up to snuff, because it ain't an easy thing to do

All of this won't mean much to you trying to use a keyboard/mouse combo. Flying that way would be similar to playing an FPS with just the keyboard. It just don't work very well. You will be very amazed at the difference a decent joystick makes in your flying

If you ever want to wing with me, I'd be happy to fly with you

Originally posted by Bucky@Dec 18 2004, 09:27 PM
If you ever want to wing with me, I'd be happy to fly with you

oh yeah deff but first i gotta prac so i don't make an ass of myself

Dude! I lost track of how many times I have crashed and burned Smashing into the ground is nothing to be embarassed about. If you don't crash now and again, then you aren't pushing your plane hard enough :P

The only potential problem is that my version of PF is installed as IL2+AE+PF. If yours is just PF, we won't be able to connect

Originally posted by Bucky@Dec 18 2004, 09:27 PM
Carrier takeoff is no joke. Make sure you have flaps set to takeoff, and your engine revved wide open... the trick here is to make sure that you map your chock-release to a key. It's not mapped by default. Alternatlively, you can make sure you hit autopilot right as the mission begins. For whatever reason, if you don't do it right away, the AP can't handle it. You will also have to touch the rudder a bit to counteract the ship's heaving.

Anyway, flaps at takeoff, engine wide open, and release chocks. It's not a rocket, so let it launch off the deck and gently pull up and retract gear. Then retract flaps a notch, let airspeed build a few seconds (depends on the plane you are flying) and then retract them again all the way. From there you are flying

oh i forgot how do i rev the engine or do you mean make sure it going at full speed?


i havn't learn't the lingo yet

Originally posted by Bucky@Dec 18 2004, 09:39 PM
Dude! I lost track of how many times I have crashed and burned Smashing into the ground is nothing to be embarassed about. If you don't crash now and again, then you aren't pushing your plane hard enough :P

The only potential problem is that my version of PF is installed as IL2+AE+PF. If yours is just PF, we won't be able to connect

yeah mine is only PF i didn't undertand what all that IL2+AE+PF was for i couldn't find an .exe so i just use PF but i'll install IL2+AE+PF now to see if i can get it going :P

You got it. Make sure you are at 110% throttle before you release the chocks.

If you forget your flaps, you will learn a hard lesson :P

Originally posted by loserII+Dec 18 2004, 08:11 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (loserII @ Dec 18 2004, 08:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Bucky@Dec 18 2004, 09:39 PM
Dude! I lost track of how many times I have crashed and burned Smashing into the ground is nothing to be embarassed about. If you don't crash now and again, then you aren't pushing your plane hard enough :P

The only potential problem is that my version of PF is installed as IL2+AE+PF. If yours is just PF, we won't be able to connect

yeah mine is only PF i didn't undertand what all that IL2+AE+PF was for i couldn't find an .exe so i just use PF but i'll install IL2+AE+PF now to see if i can get it going :P [/b][/quote]
Sorry, not trying to sound l33t.

And I messed it up. Kami forgive me!

It should read PF+FB+AEP. What that means is that You install Forgotten Battles, then install Aces expansion pack, then install Pacific Fighters as an add-on to those two. Unfortunately, they made it so that if you don't have the full chain of games installed, you can't connect with lunatics (like me) that have all of them installed

i think i understand now

i install PF+FB+AEP then i install PF in the same folder