Originally posted by BigB717
I agree with new speed, more realistic speed.
However, does anyone remember when they used to have it at 400 + your plane accually fell apart/ took dammage from the scrapes and bangs from landing. You very rarlely had it where u would INSTANTLY go to tower from just scratching your wingtip.
That is what is wrong with new ditch/landing model/dammage.
I like the speed at which it was changed but, you need to keep the way your pane takes it. If your at 180 and just slightly touch your wing or belly to hard...POOF tower! The plane used to fall apart and give u a chance to live.
It sucks, when your at 200 u BARELY touch your wingtip or scratch your belly and POOF tower when your trying to slow down.
YODA< just thinks its a tad sensitive...even though the speed was changed
this does not mean i dont agree that u can ditch any faster, simply your plane should react the same as it did
/\
He gets it.
They got it too.
\/
"Another pilot, Ernie Weidenhammer, beat the odds. He was up by Rome when a 20 mm shell exploded in the cockpit, right in front of him. It hit a nerve in his right arm and he could not use it. He of course was bleeding all over but managed to fly the plane for forty five minutes with his left hand. I suspect he couldn't touch the throttle so he belly-landed under power on the grass and passed out. The meat wagon gathered him up and rushed him to the nearest military hospital."
---
"He was putting another of these patched-together Jugs through its paces when half of the right wing broke off at the aileron/flap line! After a moment of panic, he discovered it was still controllable as long as he kept it at full throttle, but if he let go of the stick, or throttled back, the unbroken wing tried to flip the plane over. That also meant there was no way to bail out. So he decided he’d try to fly it onto the runway, gear-up, at 400 mph. But you still have to slow down at some point when you land. When he cut power at just a few feet over the runway, the good wing took authority and the Jug snap-rolled itself once (probably ripping the wing off), slammed down on its belly, and careened down the runway (continuing to roll) shedding parts as it went. The plane plowed through some boarding stairs (an image that stayed with him!), passed under the nose of a parked C-47, and finally slammed nose-first into an embankment. The only part of the airplane left was the cockpit and engine, all in a sort of an accordion shape. Dad, displaying the luck that would follow him throughout the war, was unhurt, though a bit hazy from hitting his head on the gunsight. When people got to the crash site, Dad was a bit delirious, busily flipping switches, trying to turn things off despite there being nothing left on the other end of the switches. I have the top half of the broken joystick grip from that plane."
