
The tenth mission from the "For Good Pilots" training campaign by Alejandro Gomez. The campaign can be downloaded from Mission4Today. "For Good Pilots" is a series of 28 missions, which put the pilot against some quite interesting scenarios. Some are reasonably easy, some not so much. This mission requires you to land on an aircraft carrier, then take-off again and land on a nearby airfield on an island. With a B-25, with full fuel tanks by default. And to make things funnier, the aircraft carrier will stop after five minutes, so there's not much margin of error - if you go-around the first approach, there'll likely not be enough time to taxi back to the rear deck for a take-off attempt again. The mission can be made somewhat easier by reducing fuel load, but in this flight I had the full tanks on. The mission definitely isn't easy, as it has several things that can fail. The initial landing is the first hurdle, and it has mainly three things that can go wrong: 1. Excessive airspeed which causes you to roll off the deck since you cannot stop. I find the ideal approach speed to be around 170-180 km/h in this mission. The carrier is moving quite fast, so you still have time to stop. 2. Too high sinkrate. The aircraft is heavy, and it has heavy fuel load, so the landing gear can't take the same punishment as you're used to in naval fighter airplanes which were designed to take hard landings from the get-go. This is a bomber, you need to touchdown pretty smoothly. 3. Hitting <b>...</b>
IL-2
Sturmovik
1946
Ultrapack
For Good Pilots
B-25
Mitchell
bomber
carrier
aircraft carrier
Lexington
landing
take-off
Herra
Tohtori