Author Topic: How to land a bomber formation? (Read 185 times)

tofri · « **on:** May 19, 2002, 05:08:08 AM »

WTG Pyro!
Sounds great to me how the changes are planned.

But how should I land a bomber formation.
If this formation is a box, you will crash the outer buffs with acks hangars or the sheds at the rearm pads.

Will the outer buffs count as ditches, cause they are not on the runway.

Or stay these bombers airborne and leave the formation, if the flight lead is closing a friendly runway under a certain distance??

FDutchmn · « **Reply #1 on:** May 19, 2002, 05:32:50 AM »

maybe there is a dot command to tell your wingman to go into trail formation on landing? just speculating...

aztec · « **Reply #2 on:** May 19, 2002, 07:16:54 AM »

If they are strung out in line on take off it seems to me they will probably go into a line formation on approach.

xRAM · « **Reply #3 on:** May 19, 2002, 10:02:07 AM »

I have this sneaky suspicion you won't be landing too many bomber formations.

mason22 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 19, 2002, 09:28:09 PM »

good question.

theNewB · « **Reply #5 on:** May 19, 2002, 09:38:33 PM »

i think they will go into trail formation at a certain distance from the runway say 1k or so.then they will probably land normally.not sure but yes you have a good question.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #6 on:** May 19, 2002, 09:59:08 PM »

I often approach said field at 300MPH, scrub my speed with a cross-controlled high-gee roll, and then set her down in a cross-controlled skid (all in order to save time). I'd love to see what happens when the drone-dorks try to follow that kind of landing, LOL.

eskimo

aztec · « **Reply #7 on:** May 20, 2002, 08:45:51 AM »

uhhh, huh?