Author Topic: 1 inch off runway (Read 486 times)

senna · « **on:** August 13, 2002, 02:56:23 AM »

I landed a sortie today and was severly damaged. Made it back to runway landed gears up and slid. Ended up just a bit off the runway but mostly on it. Very close the main body was on the ramp and the tail was off. Server said I ditched. That sucks. HT, how about changing it so that landing anywhere near a field is not a ditch, is really a crash landing or emergency landing. In situations like this the aircraft did make it back to base safely however just totaled it furhter upon landing.

senna · « **Reply #1 on:** August 13, 2002, 03:17:39 AM »

Senna of the ++++ Blue Knights ++++ Crash Landed 4 kills in a P-38L of a wreck.

There now I dont feel jeeped off.

whgates3 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 13, 2002, 03:24:30 AM »

there has to be a line of demarkation somewhere - you were just unlucky enough slide over the line, but if the universe is just something good will happen to you to balance it out, like you will find a quarter on the sidewalk

Mitsu · « **Reply #3 on:** August 13, 2002, 03:49:15 AM »

hmmm, good point.

What about adding a landing zone to airfield around?

Example:
Set a Rectangular Landing Zone to Airfield around.
If you landed to the zone, system will judge you as "landed".

Hristo · « **Reply #4 on:** August 13, 2002, 04:23:14 AM »

careful...next thing you'd have is nobody using runways anymore

Naudet · « **Reply #5 on:** August 13, 2002, 05:00:45 AM »

Hristo, to be honest, how many WW2 airfield had real runways?
Many many times a "runway" was just a flat mud field or a nice green meadow depending on the weather.
So that why not add landing zones.

Hristo · « **Reply #6 on:** August 13, 2002, 06:30:21 AM »

...and I thought I was clever

You're right, Naudet. Changed my mind, landing zone is OK.

Witless · « **Reply #7 on:** August 13, 2002, 06:42:44 AM »

Hi,

Funny thing happened to me today. Spawned in a hangar which had been destroyed so I hit the tower button to avoid running over the dangerous rubble on the way out. System said I'd ditched. Has it always been that way?

Cheers.........Witless/Trikky

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 13, 2002, 08:02:27 AM »

I like the idea of not only having a plane that can land and pick up downed pilots, but also having an airfield tender type of vehicle so that someone can drive and tow your bellybutton to the field if you run out of gas and land just outside the field. Of course, with senna's wheels up heavily damaged aircraft I do not know how viable this would be.

NOD2000 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 13, 2002, 01:07:51 PM »

lol i had a wing tip off the runway when i landed this il-2 with 6 kills and it said you have ditched...............

Dead Man Flying · « **Reply #10 on:** August 13, 2002, 02:15:59 PM »

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Originally posted by NOD2000
lol i had a wing tip off the runway when i landed this il-2 with 6 kills and it said you have ditched...............

Why bother landing in H2H?

-- Todd/Leviathn

Kevin14 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 13, 2002, 02:57:19 PM »

Lol, sad but true Dead man

senna · « **Reply #12 on:** August 13, 2002, 04:26:55 PM »

Good point hristo. Landing on the ramp is still alot safer though since you will ensure not hitting hangers and ack guns etc... I would prefer a runway landing anyday but if I have to risk it, being off the ramp and on the field should be a safe landing. How about allowing a walk home as well. Say you crash just outside of the field and you then bail and walk on up to the field. That should be considered getting home safe also.

BenDover · « **Reply #13 on:** August 13, 2002, 05:50:41 PM »

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Originally posted by Dead Man Flying

Why bother landing in H2H?

-- Todd/Leviathn

duh!

claim your kills:rolleyes:

Dead Man Flying · « **Reply #14 on:** August 13, 2002, 07:56:46 PM »

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Originally posted by BenDover
duh!

claim your kills

Ah, of course. And so by this logic, since it was unnecessary to "claim" kills prior to v1.10, I must conclude that landing kills in H2H never happened prior to the latest release.

Right? Right.

-- Todd/Leviathn