Ok, so what am I doing wrong here?-below 1000'-all lights and avionics are off except a small amount of panel light-I have engine rpm at about 50% (don't know if this matters for this job since lower rpm = quieter engine)Everytime I get within 15-20 nm of the destination the fuzz airplane hones in on me without fail. The passenger says to evade the airplane so I try to move around a bit but that doesn't help.

should be fine. just try to determine where the 'fuzz' airplane flies, which direction. and try to fly around it, first away. you see that if obviously the distance between you and the airplane gets bigger. in general the direct path is not always the best, my path goes first straight over water, easier to fly there at low height especially during the night, fly around the islands and then fly landwards when you get to your destination.

My assumption is that you need to adjust your heading by 90 degrees or more to fly quite a ways around the fuzz. You can't maintain a direct or near direct course to the destination because the fuzz appears to be flying wide circles above which will intercept quite a range of flight path radials. I find it helps to fly over water, there never seems to be fuzz out there.

If you use the HUD (I do), I've found that keeping the destination marker just off the left or right side of the end of the horizontal line of the crosshair is sufficient to avoid the man... so far, anyway...

there never seems to be fuzz out there

never say never, they already busted me over water

Fly well below 1000, like under 300 to avoid detection.

The only time I've ever seen an interceptor in many missions was when I forgot and flew a direct route. I only saw him for a second. Dropped to treetop level, made a hard turn, and got out of the direct path between the departure and destination.Hook

I encountered fuzz over the water the other night. Turning 90 degrees as I suggested before didn't help in this situation. A police plane that appears to be high above me (but I can never actually see) always seems to be closing in no matter what direction I go, so I banked another 90 degrees effectively turning around and going the opposite direction for a very short spell. That did the trick. Shortly after I was able to 180 again towards my destination and although the police was in sight the entire remaning leg to my destination (25nm or so), the police were flying away from me as the nm distance indicator stayed the same or slightly increased as I continued on a bearing towards the final destination.HTHJas

I find a good strategy, if things arent going your way, is to fly straight at them, then turn 90 degrees and towards your destination. By the time they turn around you should be at least 1nm away from them, then just stay low and try to put distance between you and them.

Thanks for the help guys.I did a clandestine job from a different airport and the only time I saw the fuzz was for a brief second after take off. I guess them showing up is really random, although this time I was about 200' from the ground/ocean the whole way so maybe that helped.

I've done 4 or 5 clandestine jobs, and have yet to see "los federales". I keep it low, real low, < 100ft. < 50ft over water. Keeping it low also keeps you on your toes giving you something to do besides maintaing straight and level flight on the longer missions. if my flight path takes me between islands, I stay offshore and fly around the islands. In the case of the big island, just keeping low and flying below ridges and down valleys if possible seems helpful. I don't fly exactly directly to the destination, but the distination marker is usually to the far side of the right or left of my screen, depending on the terrain. So far this has worked out for me.