Author Topic: Landing For Wussies? (Read 1822 times)

Reschke · « **Reply #30 on:** July 15, 2003, 10:59:02 PM »

Try to bring it home to where I started from or anywhere close that is a friendly base if possible. Hell even a GV base will work for me. I just need to work on that nasty left twist on landing my Corsairs that always takes out my left wing or engine...but oh well I suck anyway and I only get lucky once in a while and land a few kills.

Rutilant · « **Reply #31 on:** July 16, 2003, 12:03:24 AM »

Land dweebs..

lazs2 · « **Reply #32 on:** July 16, 2003, 08:21:53 AM »

rut... meet jakal. mental giants such as yourselves should join up... sterling examples of the strat game.
lazs

Nilsen · « **Reply #33 on:** July 16, 2003, 08:45:33 AM »

The clue is to land slow and pull the stick back abit when you feel its going right on the runway... the f4u will straighten up right away.

SlapShot · « **Reply #34 on:** July 16, 2003, 09:42:13 AM »

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Originally posted by Reschke
Try to bring it home to where I started from or anywhere close that is a friendly base if possible. Hell even a GV base will work for me. I just need to work on that nasty left twist on landing my Corsairs that always takes out my left wing or engine...but oh well I suck anyway and I only get lucky once in a while and land a few kills.

Reschke ...

The key to landing the F4U is to get the tailwheel on the ground.

Like Nilsen10 said ... come in a slow as you can. Once you hit the runway, DO NOT apply brakes (or gently tap them) until the speedo is under 100 mph. At that point, the tailwheel will settle on the ground. Once that happens, pull back on the stick to make sure it stays on the ground, then apply brakes (pumping them). Another good thing to do is to cut the engine ... the torque of the engine is one of the causes of the "twist".

Back on topic ...

Chased (well followed as best I could) a pony for more than a sector in my Spit V, back to his base after one unsuccessful high alt pass on his part. I was hoping that he would extend enough and turn back to fight but he dove into the canyons and ran.

What a fun sortie he had .. I mean, even if he turned and lost, at least he would have gained some experience, instead he learned nothing.

Why are people so afraid to die in this game? I don't like to get killed as much as the next guy, but please ... if I die I get a new life and a new plane and the experience of what I did right and wrong.

I just don't understand the "wussie logic".

lazs2 · « **Reply #35 on:** July 16, 2003, 01:13:03 PM »

When I flew the -1a for tours at a time I found that a good way to land was to touch down and then push the stick forward while braking hard but only for a sec to bleed off excewss speed.. then, let the rear wheel touch and pull back hard on the stick while braking. or.....

leave the gear up and simply belly it in.
lazs

Jackal1 · « **Reply #36 on:** July 16, 2003, 05:45:08 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
rut... meet jakal. mental giants such as yourselves should join up... sterling examples of the strat game.
lazs

Too easy.
World meet Humpy The Wonder Pooch a.k.a. Laz , a sterling example of ...............well nothing..........unless maybe pres of Butt Sniffers Local 101 or Whiners Without A Clue.

Rutilant · « **Reply #37 on:** July 16, 2003, 06:02:42 PM »

lazs, must i include a 'balloon smiley face' for you to understand ANYTHING?

No one is that clueless, not even you. (well, maybe). Sarcasm, lazsypoo, sarcasm.. sense of humor, joke. Stuff pretty alien to you, methinks.

Taaaaaaaaaaaaaaard, perfect example of the quake game.

MrCoffee · « **Reply #38 on:** July 16, 2003, 06:43:37 PM »

This is how mrcoffee lands f4u for guys who want to know.

After base leg, uppon approach, drop flaps at least two notches or perhaps even all the way out. Drop gears, if landing on CV, drop hook. Gradualy but progressively trim the airplane so that the nose is heavy. Stop triming when trim has reached maximum setting. You'll have to then pull back on the stick just a bit to ensure a proper glide path/angle to the ramp as you descent and drop further speed. When runway is just ahead, decrees engine speed down to about 2000 RPM. Modulate throttle as needed on landing, you should be near stall speed soon. Landing now is just a controlled stall at this point. Aircraft should come to stop very rapidly after landing.

This is how I would land it on a CV so you can actually come in a bit faster for runways with less flap but hey its a NAVY bird right, cough, cough do it NAVY style.)

Trim up and RPM down prevent the f4u from ground loops.

Mathman · « **Reply #39 on:** July 16, 2003, 08:38:13 PM »

When I take off on a flight, my intent is not to survive but to shoot down as many of the red guys as possible. Does this mean I don't try to survive? Of course not. If I am not going to survive, then how am I going to shoot down red guys?

What I am getting at is that I take off with the intent to shoot someone (hopefully many someones) down. If I was looking for a flight where I would take off and land every time, I would fly MS Flight Sim. If this makes me a bad person or a dweeb to you, go find someone else to save. I tried the whole fly to live thing and I found it boring. Realism police and score potatos please take note. This is my feeling on the matter, and I don't care how you fly as long as you don't care how I fly.

Keep in mind this is my approach to the MA. Scenarios are a different story, and I am sure this is probably going to be the case as well with the Mission Theater. In those places, I fly to accomplish the mission I am assigned.

Anyway, those are just my ramblings on this. Take it with the provebial grain of salt.

XtrmeJ · « **Reply #40 on:** July 17, 2003, 07:29:51 AM »

Thats always my intent math, I like your thinking. My goal is to shoot as many down as possible. If i run outa ammo or fuel I will RTB. But if I die fighting well then theres not much that can be done except maybe trying to get 1 or 2 on the way down.

lazs2 · « **Reply #41 on:** July 17, 2003, 07:58:52 AM »

rut.. you are a perfect example of the non furballer... you can't even get up enough enthusiasm to play anymore. you even bore yourself.
lazs

Rutilant · « **Reply #42 on:** July 17, 2003, 12:39:42 PM »

You should pay attention lazs, prevents you from lookin like a bigger fool.. My joystick's broken, and I need a new HDD (this 19 gig isnt cutting it), a new processor, more RAM. a new puter, etc..

I cancelled my subscription so i could get a bit of extra money, and i can't do anything but fly a goon eith this damn mouse. Believe me, i'de be there to battle your fuel bunkers and toolsheds if i could.
(Edit: continuation)

Lazs, you probably don't care, you've probably heard it a thousand times before, but you're a perfect example of a whining furballing self-centered change-the-game-for-me turd.
You peruse these boards, looking for any place you could shamelessly plug your shorter field distance agenda, complain and bicker about everything that stops you from 'fragging' people (I believe that's the term Quake uses) in an on the deck, swirling mass of N1Ks, La7s an P51s (and P47 now). Fly n Die. The rest of the game simply gets in the way, the strat, the realism, all of it.

The Strat.. You hate it!
The CT.. What's that?
DA? What DA? We can't furball there! It's perfect, and 'furballers just need a place', but we can all see that isnt true.
Leave? You can't, someone handcuffed you to your chair.

Answer the queastion everyone's DIEING to know..

WHY are you here?

lazs2 · « **Reply #43 on:** July 17, 2003, 12:47:14 PM »

rut.. if you can't afford to play then you need to do what jakal did and get a bigger paper route.
lazs

Rutilant · « **Reply #44 on:** July 17, 2003, 12:52:10 PM »

Oops, dbl post.. sorta