I’ve tried to get above mach 1.7 many times the speed just keeps dropping. Something is bugged with this plane. Please fix it.
Fuel cell enabled? scram enabled? , when you hit mach 1.7 nose down a bit and the speed will start to climb, once you hit mach 2 you can pitch up a bit an go from there. I got it to mach 10.1 @ 275k’ this morning.
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Try this technique: Darkstar Unable to Reach Mach 3? This WILL Help! Top Gun Maverick - MSFS - YouTube
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I have moved your thread there and I also renamed it in order to make it easier for people with the same issue to find it.
Have you checked that your speed-brakes and/or landing gear are not deployed?
Get enough speed in the first dive. Nothing much happens if you don’t do that. I aim for mach 1.5 before pulling up just to be sure.
be sure afterburner is works. read somewhere this bird don’t need to mapping afterburner, but don’t sure it is
In the Darkstar Challenge, there is a step by step guide if you open the “Objectives” panel from the top menu bar in flight (same way you access ATC, Weather etc.). I’m not sure why they dont have this open by default in the challenge.
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somehow, an update changed my brake keyboard shortcut, from right ctrol to left ctrol…
Indeed this makes a difference! Now the Objectives board works. (because if you don’t complete step 1, there are no subsecuent steps shown!)
I learned from a video that if your mach starts going down you should put the aircraft into a shallow dive until you reach maybe 650ish knots and then slowly pull up to the 20 degrees you started at. I like to maintain 10-17 degrees at first until my mach starts going up.
It’s easy . I don’t use the official rolling back and flipping up and all that . You just have to make sure first to climb to 15FL and then once you feel that the speed is still or slowing down and not reaching .90 mach or above then push down slowly at 1g or so u til you get close to 10 deg or close to 0 horizon and maybe if needed a bit below . That will slowly increase the speed and one point just hold it . Do the same if you are stuck at 1.7 or other speeds . Push down slowly .8-1g until speed increases and find the optimal speed increase and hold . It’s possible here you maybe descending , not to worry unless you are below 30fl altitude . I keep repeating this up and down until I hit Mach 10. One important thing is that to make sure to keep your climb slow 10-15 deg esp after Mach 7.5 and above . If you climb too fast and hit 8.0-9.5 Mach and you already reached 275000 ft then you are stuck at whatever speed you reached 275k . To fix that you do the same thing again as above - push down slowly until you start descending and you will see speed increase . And once it reaches Mach 10 slowly pull up and you will hit 275k again. You can stabilize to 5 deg up after .
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there is litterally informations in the cockpit computer how to do it.
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Great information on this forum!