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1) Use a Joystick with a throttle

2) Put a marker on the end of the runway you intend to land on

3)When thinking about landing, fly at roughly 70% throttle. This keeps your speed closer to what we'll be using for our approach, but not so slow we'll have problems flying.

3) When ready to land, give yourself at least 1500m of space and cut throttle to 40%. Orientate yourself with the runway and fly towards the marker at an altitude of 200ft. Make sure you stay at roughly 200ft until you see the runway (in the j10 you will have to pull back on the stick a little to maintain alt)

4) When you see the runway, dive towards it. When you are approx 100m away, cut the throttle.

5) About 10ft above the runway, flare by pulling back on the stick. Hopefully the nose will come up but the plane will keep dropping. This is perfect. This kills a lot of speed and puts you in the correct landing position, which for max style points should see your rear wheels touch down just before the nosewheel.

6) On the Runway, when your speed drops below roughly 450 knots, pull back on the stick to activate the brakes.

7)Once stopped, pop the canopy and light up the victory cigar.

Easy. Even in the J10

Same as above except a few differences that will be outlined here:

Approach at 55% power at around 130-150alt. Make sure you maintain altitude

When the marker you laid at the end of the runway is reading 500m drop the nose to point at the marker so you are flying down towards the close end of the runway.

At 300m from the marker cut the throttle and begin to softly flare at 200m.

If all goes to plan you should gently float over the runway and touch down rear wheels first.

ConSs wrote:Can this be used for the harrier as well? I have NEVER (except for one time out of bounds, couldn't enjoy the success very long) managed to land a harrier. Or is it even meant to be landable? Tips and instructions are welcome.

SuperTimo wrote:however in the typhoon i prefer to fly along fast then reduce my throttle to about 70% then cruise in and smack my throttle off about 200m before, its a hard landing
but you can normally only have to use half the runway, useful if both have been a bit messed up. also this makes you less vunerable on approach.

1. Try and have a marker put on the edge of your runway.
2. Come in from the other side of the map, keeping your throttle at 40-45 % (should keep speed at around 800 BF2Units, any slower and you'll stall, and crash.)
3. Stay at roughly 100 feet above runway, avoiding all obstacles like hills and trees and such.
4. Make sure that when you have a visual on the runway, that you've lined up perfectly or else epic fail.
5. Don't cut the throttle until you're about to touch down, in which case cut it immediately, throttling backwards seems to work best and doesn't affect you path on the runway AFAIK.
6. Taxi backwards only when you are under a speed of 500 and when you don't need to adjust position on the runway. If you try and taxi backwards while yawing slightly, even with a large forward movement, the results are never what you expected or wanted. This is a real killer on Quiling, but I've never seen it addressed.

Panzar wrote:Also, for your original post, step 5 is almost nearly impossible.
Because the BF2 engine means that if your nose is up you go up, I'v actually landed on my backwheels once then the front wheel by coming in from a big alt (somewhere around 600) and touching down on the runway when your swooping down, very risky.

.:iGi:.Hitman.2.5 wrote:What i want is a [how to] on the tornado

McLuv wrote:^^ VERY hard, especially on Brit base:

Here's what I've found has worked, but you'll want to practice it out on training servers h=just to get comfortable.

1. Try and have a marker put on the edge of your runway.
2. Come in from the other side of the map, keeping your throttle at 40-45 % (should keep speed at around 800 BF2Units, any slower and you'll stall, and crash.)
3. Stay at roughly 100 feet above runway, avoiding all obstacles like hills and trees and such.
4. Make sure that when you have a visual on the runway, that you've lined up perfectly or else epic fail.
5. Don't cut the throttle until you're about to touch down, in which case cut it immediately, throttling backwards seems to work best and doesn't affect you path on the runway AFAIK.
6. Taxi backwards only when you are under a speed of 500 and when you don't need to adjust position on the runway. If you try and taxi backwards while yawing slightly, even with a large forward movement, the results are never what you expected or wanted. This is a real killer on Quiling, but I've never seen it addressed.

Hope this helps!

'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino;851712']I find no landing gear helps



that is until you grind your way though the bombs/missiles on your belly

That was in fact a emergency landing I did in DR when me and my gunner where bleeding from chasing a mig outside the combat zone, we got him thou



I dont find it that hard to land the tornado on Qinling but ye, Qinling's runways aint the best.