Author Topic: wheels up crash landings (Read 583 times)

oboe · « **on:** June 26, 2004, 04:01:00 PM »

Anybody tried these yet? I can't seem to do one successfully in AH2. I'm using the P-40E, a real tought bird, and coming in low and slow with full flaps, speed just under 100 mph. As soon as the prop strikes or I hit the ground, I flip over and die...

TequilaChaser · « **Reply #1 on:** June 26, 2004, 04:13:20 PM »

I've made several belly sliding landings, p38( meant P47 :-) ), p51 f4u

I try my best to get near 100 mph and as I touch down I pull back on stick and let the tail touch first slowly easying off on stick pressure to let whole fuselage touch down, any slight forward stick motion will prob dig in the nose/prop and flip you/crash you

I have had no problems so far though, with or without flaps. Only time I might foul it up is if part of wing shot off, or flap missing on one side etc.....

J_A_B · « **Reply #2 on:** June 26, 2004, 04:53:36 PM »

I can belly-land perfectly fine......

EXCEPT in the P-40E. When I try it in the Kittyhawk I get the instant-death syndrome he describes.

J_A_B

Jasta · « **Reply #3 on:** June 26, 2004, 05:31:13 PM »

P-40 is hard.

F6F is not.

The reason is probably the way the 40 is designed. Its got a big underbelly and the wings are higher on the fuselage than on an F6f.

lower center of gravity.

Its the same reason a spitfire is a lot easier than a typhoon or tempest

J_A_B · « **Reply #4 on:** June 26, 2004, 05:32:43 PM »

I can't even land the P-40 in the water, lol

J_A_B

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #5 on:** June 26, 2004, 08:00:03 PM »

At least in the P-38 when you do a belly landing make sure you kind of come in flat so that your belly hits first and not your tail boom. If you hit the tail boom as you come down it will break off and you will die. That is why I highly recommend using landing gears when landing

ack-ack

jthemenway · « **Reply #6 on:** June 28, 2004, 03:25:05 PM »

Quite a few this weekend in the LA 7 while I tuned my machine for poor frame rates near the ground

AKFokerFoder+ · « **Reply #7 on:** June 28, 2004, 07:45:04 PM »

You can do wheels up landings in the F6F on a carrier.

Come in at about 80 ft, 90 mph, and ride the stall horn. Plane gets bent up but you get a successful landing message.

Try it off line.

Wadke · « **Reply #8 on:** June 28, 2004, 08:58:41 PM »

Make sure you come in slow as usual and low as possible
Get the tail to hit the ground first but don't let the nose come down extremely quick...and ride out the rest...try this offline a bunch of times to get used to it also....
Being that i fly the P-40 80% and F6F 20% of the time i play i've learned how to belly land the thing with a good bunch of success

SKurj · « **Reply #9 on:** June 29, 2004, 10:50:58 AM »

Landed wheels up in 109 fine last night on the runway.
Tried a second time but a bush flipped me over. Was wounded and outta oil..

Other than that I've ditched, successfully, inverted in a p40e.

SKurj

Jasta · « **Reply #10 on:** June 30, 2004, 12:49:11 AM »

I did the F6F carrier landing in the CT tonight. Didnt intend to, but my speed got out of hand and the landing gear snapped off in front of me on final.

put down the tailhook, and stalled it on the third wire!

"SYSTEM: Jasta landed 5 kills thanks to a screwball landing in a F6F-5"