off runway starts
#1

In my mission building, I like to have the planes start in hangers or revitments,not on the runway. on almost all maps you need to find a flat spot that is 3 or 4 kilometers off the field , and taxi over rough ground to the strip, but on the slot map,10-43 there is a strip on the island of Kolombongara that will let you place a plane on any of the taxi ways. It would be nice if someone could fix the rest of the airfields to act as this one does. It would be a great aide to builders like myself who like to have off runway starts for their missions

Skulls_CoyMs
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#2

try the reduced airfield radius mod. Big Grin
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#3

Recently I found out how to start from a hangar for instance and taxi to the runway.

This is my alternative solution in FMB:

First select a visible runway(in FMB under Stationary Ships and scroll down to the bottom) and place it where you want to start taxiing. Then go to tab WAYPOINT --> SET TARGET and select the visible runway as your target. Replace this runway by the invisible one (nr. 4). Take in account that nr. 4 has another size and the beginning and end are only indicated by little white L-shaped angles. Now try it out if your plane starts exactly where you wanted it. If not move this runway back or forth a bit.
Another thing: when you taxi a little bit too much to the left or right you fall of the invisible runway and Boom! explosion. So cover the area where you want to taxi
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#4

Real airplanes are NEVER started in a hangar for obvious security reasons.
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#5

Thanks Cpt_Biggles. Just tested it out and it works great, don't know how I missed that one
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#6

Just out of interest, does a normal flight waypoint work with airspeed and altitude set to zero?

No it doesn't ,does it? The aeroplane just blows up because the gear is raised. Dumb idea, forget I mentioned it :roll:
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#7

CoyMs Wrote:Thanks Cpt_Biggles. Just tested it out and it works great, don't know how I missed that one

your welcome, one of my favorite mods, our squad always taxi out to the strip from revetments, hangars and parking bays. Big Grin
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