Please make it so all “hot start” tomcats start wings swept by default?

[PSYKOnz]

I’ve lost count of how many liberation, briefing room and other missions I’ve had to give up on because we spawned in a hanger with our wings extended, they then hit the walls of the hanger and break the aircraft or landing gear or what ever, when we spawn cold our wings are swept and we do not have the issue.

 

can you please change it so that hot started aircraft at airfields start wings swept? They start swept on the carriers, if they start swept everywhere regardless of location or hot or cold start settings it would be a huge quality of life improvement

[PSYKOnz]

We have found 2 work around for the issue, the work good alone but best when combined together.

 

first, when you select your jet once on the briefing screen hold your wing sweep aft button down, then click fly.

this will start swinging the wings back as soon as you spawn 

 

second, push the throttles up and hope you drive out of the hangar before 2 much damage happens. Also hope no one is taxing in front of you!

 

if you do both at the same time 9 out of 10 times you’ll make it out, on the odd occasions you’ll need to get a new jet and try again, we’ve been having a good amount of luck doing it this way

[Super Grover]

Hey PSYKOnz,

Thanks for the suggestion. I can't promise anything now, especially on the time estimates, but I added it to our internal tracker backlog, and we will check if we can add a wing sweep override option to the mission editor options.

[PSYKOnz]

Awesome! That would help heaps!
 

Would having that option in the editor also give the externally built mission builders the option to start swept when hot? Things like briefing room and liberation (mission generators that don’t go anywhere near the mission editor)

 

or would it be easier to have the f14 start swept in all spawn types with an option to start wings extended in the editor? 
 

The only reason I bring this up is that on the cv hot, cv cold and parking cold it starts swept, why not just make it start swept in all spawn types and then the option to start extended is there if wanted. I’m not quite sure why the parking hot spawn type would need be any different than the other 3 spawn positions types but it is, either way it will be a huge quality of life improvement and thank you for adding it to let list

[Super Grover]

I would say that it's not that easy . So I agree with you on most of the things you mentioned, but there are some limitations to the available information during spawning. Nevertheless, we will see what we can do with that and maybe we will find a clever way. I'll keep you updated, but, as I mentioned before, it may take a while.

[PSYKOnz]

All good bro, it’s hardly the most pressing of issues haha, you guys have enough on your plate as it is  

[Northstar98]

+1, one of the steps during the Cold Start procedure (after performing the flight controls wipeout, DLC, and flap checks), is to position the wings back in oversweep (step 40 in the pilot post-start checklist).

 

I would've thought that the hot start would have the aircraft ready with post start checklist complete, and as such, a hot started Tomcat, should start with the wings in oversweep.