How to Takeoff in the Dora

[leafer]

The trick is holding the stick, not just a little, but way back to lock that wheel. I tried taking off with just slight back pressure, like someone suggested, and I was all over the place.

[Razor5-1]

I HATE it! it fishtales all over the place, it goes right, it goes left, right, the left wing dips....

I want to take off my TrackIR hat and jumper because im getting so damn annoyed and hot under the coller :joystick: ..... this is not enjoyable. I took off the Mustang after 5 or 6 goes when I was dying with a hangover... sober and no dice with this one.

 

 

This is the result of my first attempts

Edited August 8, 2014 by Razor5-1

[fastfreddie]

I HATE it! it fishtales all over the place, it goes right, it goes left, right, the left wing dips....

I want to take off my TrackIR hat and jumper because im getting so damn annoyed and hot under the coller :joystick: ..... this is not enjoyable. I took off the Mustang after 5 or 6 goes when I was dying with a hangover... sober and no dice with this one.

 

 

This is the result of my first attempts

 

A lot of us had airfields looking like that but read the suggestions and take a break every few tries. I was having a horrible go at it till last night when I figured it out.

[NineLine]

I HATE it! it fishtales all over the place, it goes right, it goes left, right, the left wing dips....

I want to take off my TrackIR hat and jumper because im getting so damn annoyed and hot under the coller :joystick: ..... this is not enjoyable. I took off the Mustang after 5 or 6 goes when I was dying with a hangover... sober and no dice with this one.

 

 

 

This is the result of my first attempts

 

You need to relax, have a drink, maybe take a walk... come back, look at some vids, read some tips on the forums, give it another go or three... you will get it.

[xaoslaad]

This is the dogfight instant mission. I take down the P-51D and then land.

 

Landings are getting better. Not so many chunks all over the runway. Still find it _extremely_ difficult not to bounce the thing. Don't have this problem with the P-51D.

 

I have no issue with takeoff, so there is that at least.

http://youtu.be/jxd0TyPpfEw

[NineLine]

Nice kill, didnt take much to saw that wing off it seems ;)

[xaoslaad]

Thanks - ya, I couldn't believe he gave me that shot. I basically just had to shoot while he dragged his plane across my line of fire.

[NineLine]

Thanks - ya, I couldn't believe he gave me that shot. I basically just had to shoot while he dragged his plane across my line of fire.

 

Always nice when they give you the fleshy part of the wing :)

[fearlessfrog]

First cold start, take off and then landing - my story.

 

Cold Start: I settled into the cockpit, got the TrackIR comfy and looked around. Nice! Smacked my head immediately on the 'bar' leaning in. Push, pulled, tweaked and twerked the starter bar. Counted to '25' really quickly in about 3 seconds and watched the prop not turn. Discovered the starting position of the throttle and the fuel lever. Forgot the oxygen and started to hallucinate about color coded dials and german engineering.

 

Taxi: Like a drunken salmon leaping home after closing time, I zig-zagged down the taxi-way like a gyro escaping its case. I bounced from taxi-light to parked aircraft while jabbing the toe brakes like a man learning to tap-dance with clown shoes. I finally settled at the end of runway 27, facing due north - the canopy still half-open and one of the wing-tips slightly bent.

 

Take-off: I majestically rolled out down the concrete, the grass, the concrete, the grass and then settled for a combination of the two. My yaw had more curves than Marilyn Monroe's plumper sister, as I wrestled the stick, rudder and brakes like a man possessed. At about 40 kph too soon I was airborne, registering about fifteen touch-and-gos fees for one take-off.

 

Cruise: I did not explode after 30 seconds, so I've beaten my record in the the Mustang.

 

Landing: Coming in at an overly excited 300 kph, I squinted for the wee switch for the flaps while shouting at the Dora to slow down. As Batumi hurtled towards me I kept pressing the vertical trim tiny switch with all my might, in a vain attempt to settle in. I half expected a cuckcoo clock bird to spring from the bar with a note saying 'ha ha - signed, vertical trim designer'. My gear came down in vaguely straight lines. I stalled about 1 nm before threshold, the FFB stick jumping in my hands at 190 kph. I switched on the master arm lights, as their glow was strangely comforting. I landed. Then I landed some more. It's all a blur really. Batumi called me for parking, of which I took as either sarcasm or contempt for all the bits I just left on their runway. I stabbed at the wheel brakes randomly, and in a final flourish of ineptitude managed to clip a passing aircraft on taxi.

 

Not too bad.

 

[otto]

I was critical of ED more than i would have liked .And i'm not asking for the takeoff, landing of the dora to be made easyer. I'm sure that if i had more precise hardware than just a T16000m i would have made it first time like i did with the p51(takeoff, landing).

 

To me there is a big difference between how easy it is to takeoff, land the p51 vs how hard the dora.

 

 

This is my 40th-50th take off with the dora, second landing try, first p51 takeoff,landing after months (and i did not make more than 10 of those because online there was always airstart available) .

[SimFreak]

I recall Pony was very hard to take off as well... we learn and adapt.

[Konrad Friedrich]

First cold start, take off and then landing - my story.

 

Cold Start: I settled into the cockpit, got the TrackIR comfy and looked around. Nice! Smacked my head immediately on the 'bar' leaning in. Push, pulled, tweaked and twerked the starter bar. Counted to '25' really quickly in about 3 seconds and watched the prop not turn. Discovered the starting position of the throttle and the fuel lever. Forgot the oxygen and started to hallucinate about color coded dials and german engineering.

 

Taxi: Like a drunken salmon leaping home after closing time, I zig-zagged down the taxi-way like a gyro escaping its case. I bounced from taxi-light to parked aircraft while jabbing the toe brakes like a man learning to tap-dance with clown shoes. I finally settled at the end of runway 27, facing due north - the canopy still half-open and one of the wing-tips slightly bent.

 

Take-off: I majestically rolled out down the concrete, the grass, the concrete, the grass and then settled for a combination of the two. My yaw had more curves than Marilyn Monroe's plumper sister, as I wrestled the stick, rudder and brakes like a man possessed. At about 40 kph too soon I was airborne, registering about fifteen touch-and-gos fees for one take-off.

 

Cruise: I did not explode after 30 seconds, so I've beaten my record in the the Mustang.

 

Landing: Coming in at an overly excited 300 kph, I squinted for the wee switch for the flaps while shouting at the Dora to slow down. As Batumi hurtled towards me I kept pressing the vertical trim tiny switch with all my might, in a vain attempt to settle in. I half expected a cuckcoo clock bird to spring from the bar with a note saying 'ha ha - signed, vertical trim designer'. My gear came down in vaguely straight lines. I stalled about 1 nm before threshold, the FFB stick jumping in my hands at 190 kph. I switched on the master arm lights, as their glow was strangely comforting. I landed. Then I landed some more. It's all a blur really. Batumi called me for parking, of which I took as either sarcasm or contempt for all the bits I just left on their runway. I stabbed at the wheel brakes randomly, and in a final flourish of ineptitude managed to clip a passing aircraft on taxi.

 

Not too bad.

 

 

 

Your hilarious description eases the pain I've gained the last two days...

:P

 

The good thing about Dora's TO and landing behaviour is:

Most of us share the pain.

We are not alone...

;)

 

After all - she's a german girl...

They can be a little bit haggish in the beginning.

But once your past their defenses, they are sweet and tame. ;)

[alado]

my last take off,something damaged but she is still flying :):

 

[Corvus]

After turning more than two dozens of Fw-190D into bent metal and pile of spare parts here is my attempt to takeoff and land in Dora:)

 

[Youtube]uUud36EkYOY

[fastfreddie]

Good landing. I think once people learn to pull up right before you touch down landings will be a breeze. Have you tried just going full blast from the beginning of takeoff .... get off the ground pretty quick that way.

[Corvus]

Good landing. I think once people learn to pull up right before you touch down landings will be a breeze. Have you tried just going full blast from the beginning of takeoff .... get off the ground pretty quick that way.

 

I have to try that, right now it's quite hard for me to keep her on the centerline.

[xaoslaad]

Corvus what was your vertical velocity and speed for that landing. The tutorial wags put said ~2.5/190, but I still get bounce around there. That looked way more sexy than the crap I'm doing.

[Corvus]

Corvus what was your vertical velocity and speed for that landing. The tutorial wags put said ~2.5/190, but I still get bounce around there. That looked way more sexy than the crap I'm doing.

 

 

I've checked my track and just before touchdown I had just a bit less than 2 m/s and around 190 km/h.

[Fabri91]

 

Here my first non-deadly take-off and subsequent flight!

[Derbysieger]

One of my first attempts that didn't end in flames:

 

And a short flight I recorded yesterday:

[Python]

Trackir gave up and went mad, I had no real way of looking around other than number keys but I persisted and didn't die at least.

 

 

[JG4_Greif]

First time I managed to take off and the landing afterwards :pilotfly::doh:

 

 

[IonicRipper]

Looks like a good landing

 

 

Oups...

 

[txmtb]

This was by far my best ejection after another pooched takeoff attempt. Pilot was more than happy to just hang out on the stab while the plane taxied in circles...

[Python]

I tried taking off today, it ended in four fireballs before I gave up and jumped into the Mustang. Surely the real thing can't be this difficult to control?