Mission 1 Help

[dresoccer4]

alright, first post! I'll start it off by requesting help/advice for good ol' mission 1.

 

I successfully landed on the first oil rig, but by the time i arrived in the vicinity of the second one, it was pitch black night time. and for some reason the oil rig workers decided to make it incredibly hard on me and turned off all of the lights on the rig. so i have no idea how you're supposed to find a dark rig in the middle of the ocean at night in a massive thunderstorm...literally i can't see anything and there's no homing device on the rig. it's one thing to make a mission hard but no pilot in their right mind would fly this unless they were suicidal :pilotfly:

 

any tips?

[Hatefury]

Its difficult but I think that's intended. I just got a mission fail the moment I touched down on the 2nd rig. I'm trying again now will update.

edit: on retry I got a mission failed on the 1st pad. Not sure if its because there was movement forward on the landing will try again.

edit2: Ok completed it the 3rd time. The pads do seem a little sensitive to movement and you need to be right in the middle of them when you touch down.

Edited September 1, 2018 by Hatefury

[rge75]

Sounds indeed hard. So how do you navigate to the rigs? Do you have the numbers for Doppler or is the Garmin allowed?

[Gerd-Wiem]

The Garmin is allowed !

[rge75]

Thanks for the info. I prefer to navigate on ACP and/or Doppler, but it's always a nice backup device :-)

[rge75]

Garmin indeed is very appreciated in the first mission. It's becoming a complete instrumental flight and the turbulences don't make it easier.

 

@dresoccer4 did you use the night vision googles? I was also using the search lights in the beginning but they may be distracting for the night vision googles (same for the taxi light). You may have to dim the cockpit lights a bit to be able to interpret the instruments with night vision googles though.

 

 

Edit: Around 200m above sea level seems a good altitude to spot the oil rigs. If you don't have the Garmin, then make sure you set the Doppler correctly when you land at the 1st oil rig. You can find the numbers in the briefing (2nd picture)

Edited September 1, 2018 by rge75

[rge75]

Ok, I just finished it without using Garmin. It works fine with the Doppler. The 2nd oil rig seemed a bit more to the left than what the Doppler told me and I really had to orbit a while to see it.

 

 

What I did - I flew to the 1st oil rig with instrument lights on and without NVG. Once landed at the oil rig (always land into the wind with those conditions), I dimmed all the instrument lights and switched to NVG.

 

 

Make sure you do instrument scanning all the time. Also, I turned on the flash light to iluminate the instruments which were "below" my NVG. This way I have a good and clear sight on the VSI. See attached screenshot. Speed and altitude can be "imagined" through the NVG.

 

 

 

Flight from 2nd to 3rd oil rig is pretty close. Set the Doppler anyway, but you should see the two oil rigs very soon when you do a compass bearing.

 

I do the flight (navigation) on co-pilot seat. Watch your drift instrument and correct your bearing accordingly. Whenever I'm close to the LZ (oil rig in sight), I switch to the pilot though to do the landing (need the altimeter). Therefore I also tend to turn the compass bearing on the pilot seat into the direction of the wind.

 

 

If you're landing approach is bad, don't force anything. Safety first - do another turn around and do a new proper approach. You have plenty of fuel... just make sure you don't lose the oil rig out of sight.

 

 

Even though I wanted to land with a nice glide angle, it didn't work out all the time. Especially the 3rd oil rig was a bit tricky because the 2nd was in the way. Landing into the wind became difficult. I had to go into a out of ground effect hover. From there, I landed safely. Just take your time. Smooth controls.

 

 

I recorded the whole flight, but I'm currently too lazy to cut it to a watcheable video. The whole flight took 1h07 including flight back and shutting down the engine ;-)

 

 

HTH.

 

 

PS IMO there's a bug (or maybe it's intended?). I've got the "Mission complete" already at the 3rd oil rig without flying back home. After that the message "[...] Welcome home, you can relax now!" appeared. I'm pretty sure this message should have been appeared after RTB and not on the 3rd oil rig. I'll post it in the bug section.

[Gerd-Wiem]

rge75

 

Thanks for your explenation, after that i finished Mission 1 now too. I completly forget the NVG..cause start is in late afternoon into the dark night..2nd oil platform only dark.

[Simicro]

Guys,

 

Follow rge75 closely, that guy is very dedicated to flying helos campaigns.

 

As far as I know he completed all campaigns (both default and payware) on the Huey and Mi-8.

 

;)

[rge75]

Thanks, but don't make me embarrassed ;-)