Bullet don't skirt the following question. If you do , you are truly showing how you have no desire to understand the issue at hand.
What do you propose to do if 2 airplanes don't collide, but 1 plane collides and 1 does not. Do not try stray from this 1 simple question.
HiTech
Well is it not true that if 2 aircraft don't collide but 1 doe's through lack of misjudgement or if one wants to collide. they both get damage no matter what the circumstance's.
Now i understand that in on-line gaming certain things are taken into account. but a collision is a collision no matter what the circumstances are HiTech. My point is that if 2 aircraft hit each other 1 will suffer terminal or both suffer terminal damage or 1 will at least beable to limp home. not 1 blows up and the other Carrys on as if nothing has happened.
Ask a pilot what can happen if 2 aircraft collide and he will tell you that 90% of the time the damage is terminal bud and not 1 aircraft blows up and the other can fly on as if nothing has happened.
That's my point hitech when 2 aircraft collide you have 2 object's in motion and when they hit each other its like them hitting a brick wall.
For example you have 2 Spits on a head to head collision OK. now remember they are both moving at speed OK. OK so the first point of impact is the propeller spinner's right. now these are the first damage they shall receive right. but remember that although the spinner's are now not moving forward the rest of the aircraft is as it hasn't yet reached deceleration yet as it is still moving forward at say 200 knots. So you get a crumple effect to both aircraft.
Yes there are certain collision scenarios that dictate 1 aircraft can fly off into the sunset with minor damage. but i am talking of straight head on collions bud where if it happen's by rights both plane's are destroyed.
Heck i will even phone you and get my Father who was an airframe's engineer in the RAF as well for 20 years and he will say the same as me almost to a tee bud
A collision is a collision and collisions mean damage to both aircraft it is Simple hell you should even have friendly collisions on and none of this if you shoot them you go down its freindly fire bud. Altho this should only come into effect once both aircraft have taken off and are over 1k away from each other
( By the way have i said that this is the best combat Sim i have found to date ???)
Please watch this film Hitech its a dog fight between me and EAce and at the end we both collide but he goes down and i stay in the air with a damaged engine where as the way we collided we both should have went down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r22846hXSHw