Old issue, ditches on airfields.

[FL3]

I know this topic has been brought up a number of times, but it still bothers me.

In a game that is based on WWII, you must realize the any landing within the area of the base should count as a successful landing, (as long as you walk away).  Seems like this should be an easy fix.  Heck the Germans and Russians didn't have to many actual fields to use, just pasture's, and same in England for most of the war.

So seems just fair to award a landing anywhere on the confine's of a air base.

[ReVo]

Easiest fix is to land on the concrete. 

[XxDaSTaRxx]

Easiest fix is to land on the concrete. 

[The Fugitive]

There has to be a line drawn some place and HTC has picked the runway. It's a challenge to land on the runway damaged, but you get the  "landed safely". If you don't land on the runway you don't get a good landing much like if you don't put enough rounds into a bogie you don't get the kill.

[morfiend]

There has to be a line drawn some place and HTC has picked the runway. It's a challenge to land on the runway damaged, but you get the  "landed safely". If you don't land on the runway you don't get a good landing much like if you don't put enough rounds into a bogie you don't get the kill.

  This^^^  Or fly in WW1 arena you can land successfully anywhere on the bases.



   

[Vraciu]

I know this topic has been brought up a number of times, but it still bothers me.

In a game that is based on WWII, you must realize the any landing within the area of the base should count as a successful landing, (as long as you walk away).  Seems like this should be an easy fix.  Heck the Germans and Russians didn't have to many actual fields to use, just pasture's, and same in England for most of the war.

So seems just fair to award a landing anywhere on the confine's of a air base.

+1

[icepac]

Yet we routinely see 12 clowns in P38s landing gear up after a horde base take.

[colmbo]

We must land on concret, yet can takeoff from the hangar across the turf…

or land at a Vbase and have it a "good" landing because you end up on concrete.

[ReVo]

We must land on concret, yet can takeoff from the hangar across the turf…

or land at a Vbase and have it a "good" landing because you end up on concrete.

Most aircraft in Aces High were capable of taking off from dirt airstrips, they didn't explode the second their tires touched grass.

[colmbo]

Most aircraft in Aces High were capable of taking off from dirt airstrips, they didn't explode the second their tires touched grass.

Having actually landed a WWII aircraft on a grass strip I'm well aware of that fact.  Those grass/dirt/coral strips were prepped, rolled, maintained so that the aircraft would not sink thru them.  The vast majority of them used marston matting/PSP so that they could support the weight of an armed aircraft.  In game we're able to takeoff and land anywhere…..

[ink]

except the MA and Aces High is NOT "based" on WW2...nor does NOT try to recreate WW2.....

it uses WW2 equipment that is all....

[Gray]

If you're really shot up, just land near the base.  Then click f3 then f8 .   Push hat switch forward to get external view from above.  Then drive it to concrete.  This has saved many sorties.

[guncrasher]

Most aircraft in Aces High were capable of taking off from dirt airstrips, they didn't explode the second their tires touched grass.

but also if you took the wing off an airplane  and he crashed on the runway you were awarded with a kill anyway.



semp

[save]

we don't need no prepared fields, take a look at these 109s and 190s taking off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4ChYkkGSg

[save]

If you're really shot up, just land near the base.  Then click f3 then f8 .   Push hat switch forward to get external view from above.  Then drive it to concrete.  This has saved many sorties.

I remember a squad member driving through the road system of the map, with his shot through radiator of his Dora