Tree's and AA emplacements

[ONTOS]

Tree's and AA emplacements are a menace to taking off and especially to landing. When you bring a crippled plane in with no landing gear, you can skid off the runway and turn a ditch into a crash by hitting a gun emplacement. Move the AA at least 100 yards off the runway. The trees can be a hazard also on landing a shot up plane.

[BowHTR]

It's always something.

[ONTOS]

I know. Some people would complain if you hanged with a new rope.

[4462]

lol!

[lunatic1]

shilo-- they moved the trees and hangers from the end of the runways--the gun pits are already far enough away from said runway's. it's pilot error if your sliding off the runways. not HTC's fought if you cannot land. the airfields are fine as they are.

[ONTOS]

I can land just fine when I have landing gear, it's when one or both  wheels are gone, and or oil all over the wind screen, with or without a dead engine. I guess you have never encountered any of these problems.

[Shuffler]

I have landed many times with a dead engine. 

[haggerty]

if you have a bad landing gear just do a belly landing at a slower speed its much safer than trying to balance the plane on a wheel.  Once one side makes contact it will slow at a much faster rate than the wheeled side, causing you to launch yourself off the runway.  No dishonor in landing wheels up when needed.

[Shuffler]

if you have a bad landing gear just do a belly landing at a slower speed its much safer than trying to balance the plane on a wheel.  Once one side makes contact it will slow at a much faster rate than the wheeled side, causing you to launch yourself off the runway.  No dishonor in landing wheels up when needed.

I've noticed some land wheels up all the time anyway. LOL

[Vinkman]

I agree. On taildraggers it very easy to hit a gun emplacement. Especially on the new fields where the boundaries of the runway are are harder to see.

I've crashed on take off into gun emplacements far more than I've been saved from a vulching bandit by said gun emplacement. In short they are a greater risk than they are a help.

Vinkman