The Firebirds major update brings with it an array of improvements to the aviation portion of the game, specifically test flights, airfields, c*ckpit models and graphical features. In today’s dev blog we’ll be diving in and taking a look at them, so let’s get started!
Greatly Improved Test Flights! Introducing the new Test Flight for aircraft, coming in with a range of improvements. You can now choose the terrain type for the test flight itself, from Western Europe, Eastern Europe Winter, Desert, Mountains, Jungle or Middle East Mediterranean. Previously you were only able to spawn on the airfield, but that has changed! Before going into a test flight, you can now select a spawn point: either on the airfield as normal, or from 500 m to 7 km in the air for planes, and up to 2 km for helicopters, or at an enemy air defense zone to test out your evasive maneuvers...
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