formation

[footballrun21]

does anyone know how to do formation flying in FS2004?

[Brute]

stay close

[footballrun21]

yea, but how do u go about flying in formation in fs

[Scottler]

Stay really close.

[beefhole]

Not really sure what you're looking for here  ;)

[Rocket_Bird]

Ya, just fly real close to the AI or real pilot or whatever basically.  By maintaining relatively the same heading.  

[wji]

Yes



bill

[commoner]

....not TOO close mind...

[Exile34]

hey ive been flying formation for 1 year. if u want i can help u im on teamspeak ip is fstower.com. i have a va www.freewebs.com/usnba its a Virtual U.S. navy blue angels team

[ozzy72]

If you want to do online formation work with friends then take a look in the multiplayer forum, it has all the answers

[MattNW]

It's really difficult with the AI. They fly a strange jinking pattern where they drift off course by as much as 5 to 10 degrees then jerk back. This of course makes keeping with them a pain.

There's also the fact that the AI fly at a high cruise speed which makes getting near them hard unless you have a much faster airplane and that creates problems because then you have to slow down almost to a stall for the faster airplane to keep up with the AI at cruising speed. Haven't tried it online with anyone but that would probably be a lot easier.

Now just buzzing the AI is a lot less difficult and a lot of fun to boot.  Just take up a jet and chase the Cessnas and Pipers around a little. See how close you can come without crashing (hint: not too close because Fs9 uses bounding box detection for air to air crashes).