Spring Tension - Enemy AAA inside South Ossetian border

[gachatar]

I can understand wanting to punish players if they CROSS the border, but it was extremely frustrating and infuriating randomly dying until I found out that I wasn't accidentally crossing the border, I was shot down by invisible AAA placed inside supposedly friendly cities, with its range a few hundred yards from my flight plans. Why the hell would you even do that, think that's going to be a fun experience?

Edited June 25, 2021 by gachatar

[Quadg]

I have flown this mission at least 20 times and never got shot down. didn't even know that gun was there.

so yes its a fun experience.

follow the flight plan and don't cut corners. like the guy giving you your familiarisation flight tells you too.

follow the bearing leaving tshkinvali till you see the outpost then turn right onto the new bearing and you will be fine.

 

you are warned several times to stay away from the border because the whole area is contested. 

and you are given a flight plan specifically avoiding the border area.

going down in flames is what you get for cutting corners and ignoring all the warnings.

take it as learning experience.

when they said stay away they actually meant it.

you are carrying very very important documents.

if you get shot down someone is going to have to fill them out again in triplicate. 

[gachatar]

Yeah no, then you got extremely lucky. Some of the missions tell you to fly through the contested city with the AAA in it, it's like they just want to piss you off for no reason. Here's one, just fly bearing 90 from Tskhinvali LMAO GREAT JOKE. They literally placed WP1 at the edge of its threat ring to make sure you don't miss it. Compare with the map in the first post. Without WP1 you would actually fly a bit further to the north where it's safe, so they added WP1 further into the city just out of pure evilness.

Edited June 27, 2021 by gachatar

[Quadg]

 

 

the yellow circle is the spotting range the much smaller red circle is the actual shooting range.

the route goes nowhere near the red circle.

the yellow circle is irrelevant in this instance. (does not matter if they spot you)

I wasn't lucky 20 times....

i simply flew the route i was ordered to fly.

and you were not unlucky.

just well off the route you were ordered to fly. if you got shot down.

no luck involved.

and no bad mission writing.

 

war likes to punish the reckless, lazy and inept.

its not a tickling competition.

 

hell war even likes to punish the ones who do everything right.

its not exactly known for being fair.

[v81]

Just flew this and did OK.

In fairness to OP it is a close one, if you flew 090 without factoring in magnetic declination it may fly you into the circle.

Need to fly 083.5 magnetic for true 090

That 6.5 degrees will put you easily in the detection zone and it would take almost nothing but a tiny bit of being off track to get shot.