Has anybody been able to save Air Force One which makes an appearance at about 15.00 on day 2? I haven't even come close.
I'm usually at least 40 miles away when AF1 goes down even on full burner.
I've even gone back to saved games and modified flights to be in the vicinity, but that just seems to provoke more enemy planes to take off (out of the sea).

I was able to..on medium difficulty (on the off chance you are playing on hard). Of course I might have gotten lucky. Heck it's the one mission where there are 3 sets of escort flights; plenty of fire power.

You might consider taking some long range Meteors and usingthem as soon as the enmey gets within shooting range. Kick in the after burner before you fire them to give them a boost. Also as soon as you locate an enemy air threat, tell the escorts to engage. Put the enemy into defense mode rather then offense. Of course..I might just have gotten lucky.

I escorted AirForce One all the way to where it was going, but it didn't actually land. Finally I decided since it was over a friendly base I might as well go home. I never did find that Blackbird flight I had to escort though.

Urm... not that I'm digging the game here (well *g* mibbie just a tiny bit ) but why is the President of the US going even close to a war zone? sorry if that sounds a little stratigically illogical... but then again... its immersion it gives... not realism...

hehe I wonder if there is a submersable version...



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Vaider-Raider

"I'm right here,
because I'm not all there"

Uroboros, I think it is a case of me being unlucky. At least you've proved that it can be done if the campaign develops in a certain way. In my case the pilot has too far to go to have any chance of getting in range.
What do I do now? continue after failing this mission or start again and throw away a day and a half?

Vaider, if you get this far in the game,the wafer thin plot is revealed in the EBC news. It's not quite "Independence Day" though.

I was just thinking that when I wrote the post.... but to back up ID4, atleast the aliens went to him.....

but no... I didnt get to that 'level' and have no plans in the near future of doing so.

pity.


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Vaider-Raider

"I'm right here,
because I'm not all there"

You should probably put at least one of your pilots in an airfield that is close enough to the place that Air Force 1 comes from.
Just one Ferry mission

It's not the president but the vice president on the plane if I remember correctly. The reason it lands in Iceland is because it's low on fuel. I forget the exact details; but one of the videos (which you can play outside the game) gives the reason.

Boomer, that's an excellent idea. Let's see if it works.

I am reminded of this:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/pages/010510/5047875.html

Now... Imagine, you are an RAF or CAF pilot or RNAF or whomever pilot asked to drop what you are doing and rescue the VP...oh yeah, get right on that one...har har.

Gavin

Did it work Mike?

No,I moved a pilot to the nearest base to where AF1 appears but when my flight takes off it immediately has to contend with about 6 enemy fighters. Even though it doesn't take long to deal with these, enough time has been lost to make it impossible to save AF1. This is despite me having a modified supply mission out at sea as well. This gets in range of AF1, but can't do much against 6 fighters. Long range meteors seem particularly ineffecive in this mission.
...anyway I'll try a few more times, but it looks like my war ends here.