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Title: belly landings
Post by: moneyguy on May 03, 2006, 03:26:10 PM: im not sure if its a bug or it was changed intentionally, but, why cant i belly land at more than 200 mph anymore? sometimes its helpful if you have only 1/2 a wing or are being chased by someone to be able to set it down on the belly. also slows you down much faster.
Title: belly landings
Post by: Mustaine on May 03, 2006, 03:36:09 PM: that was implimented a long time ago to stop the 300+ mph "ditches"

for a while you couldn't ditch at all, but it was fixed.
Title: belly landings
Post by: Schatzi on May 03, 2006, 06:15:19 PM: Anything above 130 mph wheels up is risky, 200+ is suicide....

Think of a REAL plane "ditching" at that speed.... how would the pilot look after auch a 'landing'?

As Mustaine already posted, that "feature" (=bug) has been removed a few patches (if not versions) ago.

You can still land wheels up, but you gotta do it at reasonable speeds. If you absolutly NEED to do a high speed landing, touch down wheels *down*, then push the plane onto its nose/to the side, break off the wing and gear if possible. With a little practice, all this can be done staying on the runway.
Title: belly landings
Post by: Oleg on May 04, 2006, 02:02:11 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Mustaine
that was implimented a long time ago to stop the 300+ mph "ditches"

Yeah, that was very lame feature.

moneyguy, generally you cannt belly land without wingtip. You need to land at wheels (tip: key to success is flaps).
Title: belly landings
Post by: Schutt on May 07, 2006, 01:17:59 PM: Can still belly, just need to be slow enough. Just managed to ditch a 109k4 with halve wing (that is one and a halve), i think you must have a speed of below 150mph.

Any ground contact with higher speed than the limit (i am not sure of what the limit is) will explode and kill you. The cases where anyone would survive a ditch with higher speeds in a ww2 aircraft are pretty scarce i guess, no longer getting wings shot off and successfully ditching.
Title: Re: belly landings
Post by: cav58d on May 08, 2006, 08:43:21 AM: Quote
Originally posted by moneyguy
im not sure if its a bug or it was changed intentionally, but, why cant i belly land at more than 200 mph anymore? are being chased by someone to be able to set it down on the belly. also slows you down much faster.

are you joking...........think about it, and ask yourself why this was rightfully changed
Title: belly landings
Post by: moneyguy on May 08, 2006, 05:48:04 PM: im not joking
Title: belly landings
Post by: cav58d on May 09, 2006, 06:34:02 PM: so when your loosing to some guy in a dogfight you would like 2 be able to do a 300mph belly landing and ditch instead of getting a kill?
Title: belly landings
Post by: moneyguy on May 10, 2006, 02:05:56 PM: no, when im coming in fast with half a wing, id like to be able to set it on the runway, somtimes it takes a bit more than 200 mph to stay upright with half a wing.
Title: belly landings
Post by: nirvana on May 10, 2006, 05:00:00 PM: I would challenge you to belly land a plane with fuel on board at 200MPH and see how well it turns out for you. I'll have emergency crews standing by, although a firetruck will probably be all that's needed...
Title: belly landings
Post by: moneyguy on May 10, 2006, 05:21:37 PM: yea...whatever:rolleyes:
Title: belly landings
Post by: cav58d on May 10, 2006, 05:39:17 PM: YEA WHATEVER NIRVANA! MY AIRPLANE HAS SUPER ARMOR ON IT AND FIRE extinguishers and cant get hurt my belly landing that fast!:rolleyes:
Title: belly landings
Post by: Oleg on May 11, 2006, 01:12:42 AM: Quote
Originally posted by moneyguy
no, when im coming in fast with half a wing, id like to be able to set it on the runway, somtimes it takes a bit more than 200 mph to stay upright with half a wing.

Landing w/o wingtip must be difficult. Instead of asking for return that lame feature back take time to learn how to land properly. Most planes (if not any) can be landed at wheels w/o wingtip.
Title: belly landings
Post by: Hazard69 on May 11, 2006, 09:28:49 AM: Landed with wheels on runway at 120 knots....after one of them NASTY spit16s broke my wing....enough said.

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Title: belly landings
Post by: moneyguy on May 11, 2006, 04:22:27 PM: i know how to land planes properly
Title: belly landings
Post by: Iceman24 on May 22, 2006, 04:38:28 PM: "Anything above 130 mph wheels up is risky, 200+ is suicide...."

Depends on the plane. I land corsairs around 220 or so all the time, generally I just slow down enough to get a notch of flap out, if that... when I get home I will try and see just how fast I can actually land them on the cv, Maybe I'm catching the hook 1st and that is enough to slow me down before the wheels touch, if I remember correctly I have actually landed them around 300 or so...
Title: belly landings
Post by: hubsonfire on May 22, 2006, 10:31:49 PM: "Wheels up", as in, retracted.
Title: belly landings
Post by: SAS_KID on May 24, 2006, 08:23:36 PM: heh trick with half a wing is never turn into the screwed up wing also in a twin engine lane never turn into that engine. Also, my way to belly land if i have to is to use the tail as a shock absorber.
Title: Re: belly landings
Post by: RAIDER14 on May 31, 2006, 02:50:11 AM: Quote
Originally posted by moneyguy
im not sure if its a bug or it was changed intentionally, but, why cant i belly land at more than 200 mph anymore? sometimes its helpful if you have only 1/2 a wing or are being chased by someone to be able to set it down on the belly. also slows you down much faster.

any plane would rip apart on a belly landing at more than 200+ mph and plus it wouldn't be very realistic you wouldn't need to land at more than 200 unless YOU were running from someone

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