Old issue, ditches on airfields.

[olds442]

 

How is this funny?

[diaster]

     You should get a "Ditch" if you don't land wheels down on the Runway so you can get rolled over to the repair shop and not scooped up with a forklift. 

amen, but wheels down anywhere in the airfield is a landing...not a ditch.

ditch definition (short for last ditch-made as a final effort especially to avert disaster). wheels up on yer field ain't a ditch. it is a successful landing.
frustrates me when i land out of gas and roll a little long and my wheels stop on the grass at the end, and its a ditch

[ReVo]

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

I have done this before myself. 

[kvuo75]

you make anywhere on the field a landing, then someone will complain when they're just inches off the field..

[FL3]

Once again I receive a stupid ditch this is just plain and simple stupid HTC come on dang it,  I land on the friggin runway left gear gone slide so the nose of the B26 is off the runway and get a ditch?????????????????????? this just sucks the big one.  An airfield is a GD airfield land on the field anywhere and walk away you get a GD safe landing. It doesn't make it to easy it makes it real.   

[Lusche]

Once again I receive a stupid ditch this is just plain and simple stupid HTC come on dang it,  I land on the friggin runway left gear gone slide so the nose of the B26 is off the runway and get a ditch?????????????????????? this just sucks the big one.  An airfield is a GD airfield land on the field anywhere and walk away you get a GD safe landing. It doesn't make it to easy it makes it real.   

Real? I doubt they would call a belly landing next to the runway a "'safe landing"...

[Tilt]

amen, but wheels down anywhere in the airfield is a landing...not a ditch.

ditch definition (short for last ditch-made as a final effort especially to avert disaster). wheels up on yer field ain't a ditch. it is a successful landing.

It may be a landing.... The pilot may have survived .....but there is little successful about it if you broke the plane .

I think the frustration is when we land a healthy ac and carelessly return to tower only to find we did not park it fully on the concrete..... to my view the ditch category is pretty harsh under those circumstances.

I have never heard any anecdote where by landing a plane wheels up was any thing other than referred to as "ditching" the aircraft...... usually deliberatly beside the run way rather than on it.

Strangely if you go to any airfield in the UK it has something that no AH airfield has............. A fence........ Or a hedge around its perimeter.

My father tells stories of his stupid pilot attempting to bounce a fully laden Halifax over the hedge at the end of the runway at Lynton.

Perhaps  if AH fields had hedges or fences then the edge of the field would be better defined and some pilits would focus a little more on not running through them.


Then perhaps wheels down landings within the perimeter could be better classified without fear that the next request is for such landings on the wrong side ( or in) the perimeter fence/ hedge.

[Scca]

Looks good to me

[Vraciu]

I think FW, Me, and Spit planes are compromised structurally a bit landing on concrete.   Designed for grass fields...one would think they are stronger but I am not so sure*.I have broke more gear in four days flying these than in four months flying P-51, F4U, etc.   




* I remember the CAF Buchon being put in the hangar for many years because the concrete runway in Harlingen was wreaking havoc on the wing spar where the gear attaches.   

[The Fugitive]

Once again I receive a stupid ditch this is just plain and simple stupid HTC come on dang it,  I land on the friggin runway left gear gone slide so the nose of the B26 is off the runway and get a ditch?????????????????????? this just sucks the big one.  An airfield is a GD airfield land on the field anywhere and walk away you get a GD safe landing. It doesn't make it to easy it makes it real.   

This is a game, not real life. To get a good landing you must remain on the runway.

To do critical damage to another's plane you must hit critical components....not just near by.

To do damage with bombs you must hit with in a certain distance.... not some place in the same grid.

It is just a game rule. If you want to get a good landing LEARN TO LAND ON THE RUNWAY.

[Nath[BDP]]

[colmbo]

I have never heard any anecdote where by landing a plane wheels up was any thing other than referred to as "ditching" the aircraft...... usually deliberatly beside the run way rather than on

In 40 years of flying a or 20 years doing Crash Rescue I've never heard a gear up landing called anything but a gear up landing. "Ditching" refers to putting the airplane down on water

Ditching as used in the game is just a game reference.

[Megalodon]

Real? I doubt they would call a belly landing next to the runway a "'safe landing"...

..... No but the pilot completed his mission and got back to his base and walked away.... then he got a new plane just like in AH

 Is "Safe" the objective or returning home Alive?

[Lusche]

..... No but the pilot completed his mission and got back to his base and walked away.... then he got a new plane just like in AH

 Is "Safe" the objective or returning home Alive?

Well, you get "home alive" when you bail in friendly territory as well, and yet the penalties are even worse than with a "ditch"...

It's really simply a gameplay definition: A safe landing is everytime you end up on friendly concrete. If you don't do that, you more or less failed. Yes, it sucks to end up with a ditch due to damage (PW ect), but that's just the challenge.
I have to admit I really don't understand how this is an issue at all.

[kvuo75]

I have to admit I really don't understand how this is an issue at all.

someone botched a landing and didn't get name in lights.  


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