SAPP Landing Practice

[Ack-Ack]

People have asked me for years how we members of SAPP have become so proficient in landing our P-38s.  I tell them that while we make it look very easy, it's only because of the hard work we put into it.  On top of our regular duties to our various squadrons we're members of, SAPP and our leaders in the Consortium of 12 require us to complete no less than 20 hours of landing practices per week.  The result has been a group of P-38 pilots that are considered the most elite of elite when it comes to landing an airplane.

Below is an official SAPP release of CorkyJr doing a routine landing in our super secret landing simulator.  Notice the pin point accuracy of where he touches down?  That could only have been accomplished with hundred of hours of practice.

[Zoney]

LOL at the rudder wiggle at the end, don't know why, just seems funny as if the plane is saying "I'm good, I'm ok, just a scratch.

[Ack-Ack]

LOL at the rudder wiggle at the end, don't know why, just seems funny as if the plane is saying "I'm good, I'm ok, just a scratch.

That's standard operating procedure to let the others know the pilot is okay, like how a scuba diver gives the okay sign after he enters the water.

[JimmyD3]

 

[guncrasher]

I dont understand why the training.  that's how I landed 100% of my sorties back in aw days.



semp

[Guppy35]

Funny you should post that.  I had no idea Spikes had his camera rolling.

I've been suffering through a bit of Airwarrior Nostalgia lately and remember vividly the first mass auger of the Nomads back then.  It was A83 and it was done with pinpoint accuracy.  That's almost 20 years ago now, so I have thousands of "landings' to my credit.

I've said since the beginning that if you are going to auger, you must 'auger with style"! 

[MK-84]

 

[USRanger]

I was watching a show called "Storming Normandy" earlier, and they were talking about the surge of U.S. soldiers and equipment into England "such as the American P-38 bomber".  I got a chuckle out of that after some of the threads that have been on here.

[FLS]

https://youtu.be/x6dEoEreahM   

[LilMak]

Real pilots fly taildraggers! 

[waystin2]

WTG Cork!  Your precision is amazing.  Still stunned by what I just saw.... 

[bustr]

AKAK,

Is it possible to do that in our game??

[Ack-Ack]

AKAK,

Is it possible to do that in our game??

Yes, it is possible to crash land in our game.

[bustr]

You know what I asked, can you reproduce a landing like that in our game? Would make an interesting film.

[potsNpans]

Watching this landing and having this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJ_Mz8ftqI from an ol' ketchup commercial playing in my head gave me a good chuckle. Point off for not having his toe's pointed on splash down though.