Question about helicopters

[lidec]

In the loading screen I saw tip that said you have to use seaplanes or helicopters to acquire some aerocaches. So are helicopters in the game already or are they being added as dlc?

[ScruffyDuck]

There are no helicopters available at this time. However there may be DLC in the future that contains a helicopter.

Jon
ScruffyDuck Software
Microsoft MVP

[lidec]

k thanks for the info!

[J van E]

Originally Posted by crusader58

Meantime you can get the ground-based aerocaches that are seemingly unreachble by plane simply by landing the plane on a nearby level(ish) area of terrain , exiting the plane and walking to the cache ...in Flight you are a god..you can walk on water and clamber mountains with no effort. (just another little detail that detracts from the immersion value)

Or... you can fly straight towards those hard to get aerocaches and when the screen flashes yellow and you are about 5 feet away from crashing, you simply press M and reposition yourself somewhere save in the air. That's how I got all the hard to reach aerocaches. The hard to get ones at the bottom of waterfalls and so on, I simply dived towards without ANY chance of getting out there in one piece if it hadn't been for the glorious M key!

I have collected all the aerocaches (that come with the game) apart from the two high ones without leaving the plane. Yes, I know it's cheating, but aerocaches are a bonus to me and I only play them when I am bored.

[ScruffyDuck]

Originally Posted by J van E

Or... you can fly straight towards those hard to get aerocaches and when the screen flashes yellow and you are about 5 feet away from crashing, you simply press M and reposition yourself somewhere save in the air. That's how I got all the hard to reach aerocaches. The hard to get ones at the bottom of waterfalls and so on, I simply dived towards without ANY chance of getting out there in one piece if it hadn't been for the glorious M key!

I have collected all the aerocaches (that come with the game) apart from the two high ones without leaving the plane. Yes, I know it's cheating, but aerocaches are a bonus to me and I only play them when I am bored.

Hmm - extreme flying indeed!

Jon
ScruffyDuck Software
Microsoft MVP

[RoboRay]

Originally Posted by J van E

Or... you can fly straight towards those hard to get aerocaches and when the screen flashes yellow and you are about 5 feet away from crashing, you simply press M and reposition yourself somewhere save in the air. That's how I got all the hard to reach aerocaches. The hard to get ones at the bottom of waterfalls and so on, I simply dived towards without ANY chance of getting out there in one piece if it hadn't been for the glorious M key!

I have collected all the aerocaches (that come with the game) apart from the two high ones without leaving the plane. Yes, I know it's cheating, but aerocaches are a bonus to me and I only play them when I am bored.

Heh, I did the Map trick once, before I found a more legitimate technique to get the "waterfall" ones... Power out, slow down, full flaps, right on the edge of a stall directly over the top of the waterfall. Drop a wing, then the nose, vertical dive right down the face of the cliff while rolling to point the canopy away from the cliff, pulling out right as you collect the aerocache. Full throttle and fly away, pulling the flaps back in.

I smacked a few trees doing that, but always managed to keep the plane in the air and recover.

[BASys_ODG]

Hi Folks

Originally Posted by J van E

you simply press M
and reposition yourself somewhere save in the air.
That's how I got all the hard to reach aerocaches.

Jeroen, Jeroen.......
disappointed in you,
and you're missing half the fun.

All aerocaches have been flyable, *
with the additional benefit
of potentially increasing your crash-count.

As penance
complete 3 Gold Rushes.

ATB
Paul

* I did walk to one, stuck to the side of a building.

[Sagelber]

Originally Posted by crusader58

Yep there's also an unreachable cache at 80,000ft which would indicate that there will be future DLC that will provide a plane with the ceiling to reach it.

I would say that there is also an unreachable cache at 80,000ft which would indicate that there is a possibility in the future DLC that will provide a plane with the ceiling to reach it.

[RoboRay]

Redundancy is redundant.

[EastCoastGuy]

^ So says the Department of Redundancy Department.

[Sagelber]

Originally Posted by crusader58

Strange ..I thought that's what I said ...my English must be different than yours, the use of the word 'indicate' suggests it's a possibility, I didn't think it required a double emphasis.

Ok so we are on the same frequency now, allow me to say it.

The emphasis is on the fact that no one would have ever expected a so inconsistent DLC in the first months of Flight, that leads to consider the release of a jet IMO a remote possibility, so remote that it may be even not taken into consideration by MS.

Of course if a plane able to reach such altitude will be released I fear it will be one without cockpit.

[AzureWX]

I dunno, the release schedule has been pretty consistent for me and fit with their announced plans so far. One plane per month, scenery every 3 to 4 months.

[papyloup]

Yop all

Pour les aérocaches des chutes, tous peuvent être fais en avion, mais c'est chaud.
J'espère voir bientôt un hélicoptère ? Mais quand ???
Et j'ai toujours l'aérocache à 80.000ft en attente !!!
Par contre je ne sais pas pourquoi que depuis que j'ai passé les 500.000 XP
je suis bloqué au niveau 20 Carrière.
Si quelqu'un à une réponse, ce serait cool.
Merci à tous (tes) et bon vol

[houston144]

"Yep there's also an unreachable cache at 80,000ft which would indicate that there will be future"

80 grand, try at least 90, my goal was to try at least to get the curvature of the earth, which I took off from hilo and flew at a steady climb towards Honolulu, which the aero detector read 10 miles above me at 40 grand.

what we may find in the future is a combo package for "Space Ship One" and the "White Night" seeing that project and Flight have one thing in common.