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does anyone know how to do formation flying in FS2004?

stay close

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

Stay really close.

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

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

Yes



bill

....not TOO close mind...

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

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

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).