Mission 3 - not a bug, but looking for advice

[dakota558]

I'll post this as a spoiler as not to spoil the mission.

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Any advice on how to avoid the manpad? I've tried three times now, flying from south to north and the manpad hits me every time. By the time I get the warning, it's already too late. What altitude should I aim for and should start to evade before I get the warning?

Otherwise, it looks like a great campaign and I enjoy the save feature so that I don't have to the whole mission again with AAR and all.

 

Edit: Finished the mission.

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I don't know why this happened, but the manpad fired long before I got to the city, and I could easily avoid it.

 

Edited October 16, 2022 by dakota558

[CH4Pz]

On 10/16/2022 at 7:39 AM, dakota558 said:

I'll post this as a spoiler as not to spoil the mission.

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Any advice on how to avoid the manpad? I've tried three times now, flying from south to north and the manpad hits me every time. By the time I get the warning, it's already too late. What altitude should I aim for and should start to evade before I get the warning?

Otherwise, it looks like a great campaign and I enjoy the save feature so that I don't have to the whole mission again with AAR and all.

 

Edit: Finished the mission.

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I don't know why this happened, but the manpad fired long before I got to the city, and I could easily avoid it.

 

 

set up a flare profile, something like 2x10@1.75, start dropping them before the bottom of the dive, preemptively, which in reality is what would probably happen irl. also you wanna cut your throttles (less heat for the heat seeker), you should have fair momentum diving from 13-15k ft to get up the other side. hes also over on the side of the town where you gbu'd the munition dump, so do the SOF on the other side and turn in (so your engines are away from him)... hope that helps

oops just checked the date and the fact you finished it. info is still good generally for manpads though

[GumidekCZ]

Beware, the mission will give you only small amount of flares, be sure to LOAD FULL FLARES! At low pass, be at very high speed, but not on burners, release flare preemptively as CH4Pz said.