Me and a few people were doing multiplayer with the icon and 19kt winds so we picked the silliest things in the world to try to land on.First it was a garage roofThen the cruise shipThen a hotel roofThen.. One by one we all successfully "hovered" onto Hilo Tower. Silly? Absolutely.. Fun? Oh yeah.. Took a ton of stick work to and throttle jockeying. I haven't had this much fun flying in ages.

GJ, MS could make that challenge instead of silly landing on regular rwys. :D

And thanks to the practice in `hovering' I finally picked up this achievement. B)

Silly, but very possible to hover with a light plane and strong wind

I have seen a c130 and b25 almost hovering and landing on an aircraft carrier in heavy wind. Perfectly possible.

jtmedina - Was that by chance on the USS Ranger?

One of my professors at uni had a story about how when learning to fly in real life he passed the tower in a Piper Cub... flying backwards.

First it was a garage roof

LOL - I see FastCheetah702 is up to his antics again - I did a session with him the other day getting 4 of us settled onto the garage next to the cruise ship - it was a hoot.

Then.. One by one we all successfully "hovered" onto Hilo Tower. Silly? Absolutely.. Fun? Oh yeah.. Took a ton of stick work to and throttle jockeying. I haven't had this much fun flying in ages.

Actually the Maule Landing Challenge (5 or 6?) is this exact same situation except it's up by the observatories on Hawaii. 60+ knots winds and you have to hover land into the parking lot. It was a lot of fun.What's awesome though, is I found that the winds changed dramatically depending on where you were in relation to the terrain so MS actually modeled the wind flowing over terrain! Check it out for yourself, do the Maule landing challenge and approach the peak in an alsmot hover. Then slowly descend along the side of the peak and you'll see that as soon as you get below the tpeak on the downwind side you instantly get slammed into the ground.

jtmedina - Was that by chance on the USS Ranger?

Made a search and found one of them. it was on the

USS Forrestal.

But I am almost sure it wasn't the only one. Saw too B-25s taking off from a CV and hanging in the air with a very high angle of attack and very slowly. It was impressive they didn't stall.

Rush1169 told me about this post.Great fun doing those stunts...I hv compiled a utube vid for some of the stunts. check it out.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_LDrgj5vCk&context=C42014f6ADvjVQa1PpcFMQX7T7wPtEBh5dqs6hVsvKPz1_IpsF7JI=Rooftop landing record is 5 planes on it...lol

It's good to see some folks just having fun... :LMAO:

Yup.. That video shows the other side of the coin well.. MS Flight has a great flight engine under it. You can bounce around via VOR and enjoy the game as a great GA simulator or cut loose and have innocent fun also. Glad to see it. Flight Simming does not have to be super serious 24/7.. I do have to laugh though at using the canopy as a speed brake. :LMAO:

Silly, but very possible to hover with a light plane and strong wind

You don't really need a light plane, just enough wind:

loved the video! really great stunts and a nice production! Is the video speeded up, I don't seem to get the same sensation of speed when I fly.Is it possible to set wind speed and direction? I can only find the weather themes and have not been able to choose the wind settings.