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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: swoop777 on September 04, 2007, 06:46:55 AM
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I was reading some of SEraidr or whatever his name is posts and it got me to thinkin about something else. Someone in one of his posts sited that they landed without elevators on the big hanger pad which made me curious. If I lose my engine at a half a sector out and glide back coming just short of the runway (still on the base mind you) or even worse slide just off the concrete it is not a successful landing but a ditch.
Just think that is kind of stupid since I am infact ON MY BASE and furthermore I didnt crash!
I thought any landing you could walk away from was successful *LOL
thoughts?
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I ditched 4 kills yesterday ON the concrete
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You aint been here long have ya 777?
Don't mean that as a dig.
Just mean that it's been discussed sooooo many times.
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SWOOP!
:)
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Your PM inbox is full Curv.
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ya got to give him credit tho.... this one hasn't come up in the last couple of weeks :D
HTC had to draw the line some place for a good landing. He chose the runway. If he expaned it out to any concrete area, next week there would be someone complaining that the grass area should be good too, and so on and so on.
Next thing you know we'll have people falling from the sky missing a wing yelling "Come back you coward! Its only a flesh wound !"
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Originally posted by Swoop
Your PM inbox is full Curv.
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Fixed...I hope.
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Originally posted by The Fugitive
HTC had to draw the line some place for a good landing. He chose the runway. If he expaned it out to any concrete area,
Humm.. You can already land on any concrete area on a base...
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Originally posted by Latrobe
I ditched 4 kills yesterday ON the concrete
CHEESE IT.:aok :aok .
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Question: what exactly has to be on the concrete to count as a landing. I seem to remember hanging off the runway a good bit and still getting a landing. I've always wondered exactly where the line is.
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Originally posted by bongaroo
Question: what exactly has to be on the concrete to count as a landing. I seem to remember hanging off the runway a good bit and still getting a landing. I've always wondered exactly where the line is.
Me thinks something like "center" of the plane. Maybe pilot?
But that would be quite easy to check offline.
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Originally posted by The Fugitive
ya got to give him credit tho.... this one hasn't come up in the last couple of weeks :D
HTC had to draw the line some place for a good landing. He chose the runway. If he expaned it out to any concrete area, next week there would be someone complaining that the grass area should be good too, and so on and so on.
Next thing you know we'll have people falling from the sky missing a wing yelling "Come back you coward! Its only a flesh wound !"
Ahhhh the Black Knight guarding the bridge syndrome :rofl
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Originally posted by Lusche
Humm.. You can already land on any concrete area on a base...
You can land on concrete anywhere, I believe.
I've put down a disabled 262 at a friendly strat and landed successfully.
I was most pleased with that.
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I'm too lazy to test. IS it possible to "land" on the concrete at a factory?
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Yes. Have done it many times
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To many a MA-er landing is over-rated (kinda like Michigan football)
I have parked on the big concrete pad in front of the hangars several times. I've heard rumors of putting your plane in the AAA pit in town and it counting as a land rather than a ditch.
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I landed 4 kills last week in an osty while sitting next to a hanger on an ememy airfield while getting ack whacked... that made me smile.
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Originally posted by Xasthur
You can land on concrete anywhere, I believe.
I've put down a disabled 262 at a friendly strat and landed successfully.
I was most pleased with that.
While you may have experienced that, on most maps, only hardtop at a friendly field is a sure thing. I have been captured ditching on a friendly strat on the concrete.
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Oh, I see.
That's a good piece of information, thanks, Murdr
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Landing is for quitters
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Originally posted by Raptor
Landing is for quitters
Isn't that the truth :)
Who the heck cares! No one dies. Planes are free.
And I hate to break it to ya. They aren't real planes and we aren't really flying WW2 fighters :)
I know, I know. This is serious!
:noid :noid
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One of these days Dans gonna run into a burning building, convinced that hes a cartoon person and it won't hurt him. :rolleyes:
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Maybe if you land off the concrete but still within the base perimiter you should still get the landed successfully message, but get half the points and half the perk points.
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Originally posted by Guppy35
Isn't that the truth :)
Who the heck cares! No one dies. Planes are free.
And I hate to break it to ya. They aren't real planes and we aren't really flying WW2 fighters :)
I know, I know. This is serious!
:noid :noid
I find getting home after a good fight to be just as fun as turning until I die.
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Originally posted by Xasthur
I find getting home after a good fight to be just as fun as turning until I die.
I have no problem with that. There are the few occasions where I'm not blown out of the sky that I rtb leaking, single engine, missing many parts and more often then not have to belly it in.
The satisfaction coming from controlling that wreck and getting it down. It's never a question of whether where I land should or shouldn't get me points however. That seems to be the bigger concern of the original poster.