Bits and Pieces

[JimBear]

In the last two updates I have been subject to some "unusual" behaviour relating to A/C structure failures.
Several times in the F4U while in a shallow dive 300mph Indicated I have heard the crack and bang of a wing seperating (no creaking first)
And yesterday evening at 25k in a B-17 while in level flight (lvl otto) at 240mph indicated, my tail plane departed without a by your leave ;-)
Are Gremlins at work, wierd stick spikes or just work in progress?
I wouldnt even mention it but that buff run was the best I have had and was thumbing my noses at the Bish's behind me when i saw my tail go thataway. How embarasking

JimBear
=VMF111= Devil Dogs

[popeye]

Noticed a couple of unexpected "bangs" in the F4U last night as well.  Didn't cause any damage though.

popeye

[buhdman]

JimBear,

A squadmate of mine was flying a B-17 at a pretty good clip and accidentally hit Alt-X, causing the plane to suddenly pull up, ripping off his tail and shortening his flight quite a bit.  Could this have happened to you, too?

Another squadmate hit X to level out from a fast dive and had similar results.  Seems that there is some work yet to be done here.

buhdman, out

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Walt (buhdman) Barrow
(formerly lt-buhd-lite)
The Buccaneers - "Return with Honor"
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[bloom25]

Yes, someone else had this happen too!  If you look just above this topic you will see TT's post about cheating.
Last night I was flying a b17 over 2, I had just hit all acks, tower, etc, and was coming back around for fuel tanks.  I was in a pretty sharp turn to avoid TT in his "uberN1k"   , just as I was pulling up out of the turn, bang, both my elevators came off.
I didn't know what happened, because from my view TT was over 1.5k away and losing ground at the time.  I'm also on a 10baseT network, so I don't think lag should be a big problem here.
TT was upset because he didn't get a kill for me, but that was because my tail came off by itself.  

Is this a bug, or are the b17 elevators really this weak?  I couldn't have been pulling more than 2 g's at the time.
Also, I heard none of the strain noises the game usually makes when you are about to lose a part.

[iculus]

I started a thread on the "killer-autopilot" in the bug section.  If you are at full speed and level with a light load (or empty) in a B-17, when you hit auto-climb your nose comes up so hard that something usually breaks (like wings )

The autoclimb just needs some kind of dampening.  I'm sure that the problem is slated for reworking with the flight model changes.

IC