Carrier - getting out of your parking spot

[Extranajero]

How do I move from my parking spot to the catapult when I'm blocked by a plane at the side of me as in several of the provided missions ?

There's no way to go forward without ripping his wing off.

 

If I was in my car I'd just let the guys tyres down, go for a walk and return when the tow truck had been, but I'm in a Tomcat and besides - he's my wingman and we have pilot shit to do.

[TacoGrease]

Does this occur after you request takeoff from the ingame ATC? (If so, try not requesting takeoff and just move to/hookup with the cat).

[Extranajero]

The first thing I tried was requesting takeoff and eventually got bored of waiting - twice

I'll try it again, see what happens.

[Extranajero]

Nope, ATC won't talk to me until I try to maneuver round the F-14 at my side and tear it's wing off.

[Extranajero]

OK, further experimentation has resulted in this :-

 

Jester, when first asked to tune Ch3 on the radio, tunes Ch2

The second time you ask him he gives you Ch3 ( ATC )

 

I tell ATC I'm cancelling my takeoff and then my wingman moves to the left front cat, out of my way.

 

I request takeoff again, swing round to take up position for my own cat shot and keep getting " hold position " then " continue taxi " in a loop from ATC.

 

I finally ignore ATC and move to the right side cat, where I can see around the jet blast deflector for the left side cat - the one my wingman took off from.

 

ATC's confusion becomes clear because my wingman is stuck on the bow of the ship, still hooked to the cat which has completed it's shot, afterburners blazing away but going nowhere :D

 

Do I just give up trying to fly this mission or what ? :D

[pimp]

Try not contacting ATC. You can just start rolling to the cat to hook up.

[Eagle7907]

Since 2.5.5 update, there are two options.

 

1) do a ramp start and let yourself drift away from wingman wing tip. Then taxi to cat.

 

2) do a takeoff from runway start where you begin on the cat itself.

 

Otherwise, my experience is if you use ATC to taxi, wingman immediately starts rolling and turns into me ending the day early and in shame.

 

 

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[snarkbomb]

Finding the same thing here, seems like a bug that your 2 is starting with his wings unswept.

[TacoGrease]

Yep. This is what I meant.

 

Try not contacting ATC. You can just start rolling to the cat to hook up.

[snarkbomb]

Yep. This is what I meant.

 

 

This won't work unfortunately because you wingman has his wings fully unswept, if you taxi forward you end up breaking his wing off, and presumably damaging your jet as well.

[Extranajero]

Is there a mission editor trick to get him to sweep his wings ?