Landing Succesfully

[Vudu15]

I don't think there is an airfield anywhere that counts going off the runway as a normal landing.

Yes got ya its not a "normal" landing most of the time it when you've been shot up and skid off the runway usually with a pw or something. If your at your home station i.e. the airfield and destroy your a/c the plane is just written off as a combat loss but its not a "ditch". It should not be a ditch sitting in the middle of your friendly airfield. and as to my last post I crew blackhawks and if we were forced down for whatever reason and we made it to the airfield it sure as heck wouldn't be a ditch, just because we didn't place it on the concrete.

[FLS]

I think it's more normal for a helicopter to land off the runway than a fixed wing aircraft.  
The main difference between a landing and a ditch in AH is points, perks and stats. Points and perks are part of the game aspect not the simulation aspect of AH. For a game you reward the more difficult accomplishment.

In AH "ditch" means your flight didn't end on the runway.  I understand it has a different real world meaning.

[Jayhawk]

FLS makes an excellant point, but on top of that, there needs to be a line of ditch and sucessful landing. You think the line needs to be the boundries of the airfield, but what if you go off the end of the runway a little?  Well ok its 100 yards outside the base is sucessful, but some bases have cliffs and it wasn't uncommon for an aircraft to crash land within a few miles of its home base. Ok, so within the radar ring is sucessful, but really if someone lands in a friendly field he would still count his kills of that sortie.

There are boundries now, and they work.  Give em an inch and they'll want a mile.

[TequilaChaser]

Ok well let me narrow this down just a bit I understand this a no go. But then why is there a "wishlist",

I will answer this question with another question........

Why is there a SEARCH function?

you would not have had to go through this whole ordeal if you used the search, you would have found that this subject has been covered several 100 times in the past 10+ years......

Anyhow fully understood you guys run the game I forgot yall have the final answers,

none of us run the game, we all just been here since the beginning and have seen upteen thousand new players come along and asked the same questions..... questions that hitech, himself, has answered....... and we are just relaying what the creator of this game gave as an answer for most of these questions on this wishlist forum......  that way hitech and the HTC staff do not have to waste their time answer the same questions over & over, and we can get new updates quicker

that's a win, win........... for everyone 

[VonMessa]

Don't get shot up too much.

Learn to land with damage.

Do it on the runway.

It is a rare occasion that I use gear to land, anyhow.  It is more of a formality, or if I am rearming because the hangers are down.

f you are not on the runway when you land, it should be, by all means, a ditch.  You have not brought your aircraft home  in a normal fashion, nor have you landed it in the proper place.  You cannot get it, under it's own power, to a place where it can be repaired  You ditched it, broken and unable to taxi or fly.

Besides, HiTech has said NOPE   

[waystin2]

Nope.

[vafiii]

How 'bout if you ditch or land short of the runway you can bail out and walk your pilot to the runway and it counts as a successful landing, or bail out from a damaged plane over your airbase and land successfully. If base is under attack your pilot would have to dodge enemy fire, hide in bushes or disguise himself as a UN peacekeeper as he tries to make it back to base. 

[Krusty]

IMO as soon as you leave the plane and it's not on the runway, you should negate any "name in lights" you earned during that sortie.

If, after that point, you wish to walk around as a chute I won't stop you. You shouldn't be rewarded for it, though.

[Martyn]

How about if you ditch inside the airfield you lose the plane's perks, but to get keep half of those earned.

[SIK1]

I think you should have to taxi off the runway to a tie-down area and shut down to get a successful landing and your name in lights. 

[Vudu15]

Ok guys thanks for the answers... just had to ask. So how can we get some stuff done around here? say the new gvs and aircraft or just........idk something.
 

[VonMessa]

The completely new WWI arena, and planeset looked like "something" to me.

I'm not a coader, but it looks like they have been a bit busy.....

[gyrene81]

I wonder how many of you guys saying "no way" or "HiTech said..." would be squealing if grass airfields were added with the current landing requirements. Wouldn't be too difficult if the runways were dirt but, if there was just grass with some light markings that would make things more difficult. Suppose it would make sense then to have it set to "within the perimeter".

As it is right now, it's on any part of the concrete whether it's a runway, taxiway or between two hangars, as long as the plane is on the concrete.

[Vudu15]

Yes I didnt think this idea would come to much but it was worth an attempt heck Ive crash landed in towns all over the place and those all counted...even got "my name in lights" as a few of you guys like to toss around. Yea landing kills is fine and all but just the stupidity of goin oh great made it all the way fora ditch......why even try to make it home. Shouldve actually ditched it and saved myself the effort.

[Bino]

Would love to be able to land anywhere within the perimeter of friendly fields especially with damage, in a real world setting you would have made it home.
sure the crew chief for the aircraft in question would be upset but the plane made it to its home station.
Cant tell you the number of times Ive not noticed a missing landing gear and skidded off the runway to a ditch in the middle of a friendly field.   

I do not agree. 

I think that putting a premium on flying carefully and well is a Good Thing.  If it were up to me, sliding in for a gear-up belly landing would count as a ditch, even if performed in the middle of a runway.