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Title: Ahhhhh! a ditch, wait landed??
Post by: Latrobe on November 08, 2009, 09:01:20 PM
Was flying around A19 in Blue arena in an F4U trying to help capture. Checked my fuel 15 minutes into sortie to find I had 5 minutes remaining. I thought I can still fly a bit, cv is just off shore. Went in to strafe a PT boat heading for our carrier, but a 190 forced to break off. Checked fuel and saw I only had 2 minutes of fuel left. Looked for cv and realized I could probably just make it. Well, I was right about barley making it, just is was the wrong kind of barely  :lol . I watched in horror as I saw the rear of the Carrier fill my screen and I knew I was either gonna get a crash or ditch. After smashing into the ocean and sliding towards the carrier I knew it would be a ditch, but as I came to a stop I saw this...

(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n101/Latrobe_2006/ahss0-3.jpg)

As you can see in the text area I'm being rearmed and refueled. I .ef and I landed successfully.  :lol So, you CAN land successfully INSIDE a carrier!
Title: Re: Ahhhhh! a ditch, wait landed??
Post by: Strip on November 08, 2009, 09:07:18 PM
I rearmed in flight once....and thats not a joke.

Strip
Title: Re: Ahhhhh! a ditch, wait landed??
Post by: trotter on November 09, 2009, 01:14:50 AM
Latrobe were you moving along with the carrier or you just skidded inside it and .ef'ed quickly? Nicely done.
Title: Re: Ahhhhh! a ditch, wait landed??
Post by: Shuffler on November 09, 2009, 10:22:40 AM
I landed and stopped on tarmac yesterday. It said I ditched. Was not even close to the edge.... go figure lol.
Title: Re: Ahhhhh! a ditch, wait landed??
Post by: Reaper90 on November 09, 2009, 10:28:49 AM
I landed and stopped on tarmac yesterday. It said I ditched. Was not even close to the edge.... go figure lol.

Apparently all the parts of your plane in the grass around the runway totalled to more of a P-38 than the part you were sitting in on the runway!
Title: Re: Ahhhhh! a ditch, wait landed??
Post by: greens on November 09, 2009, 10:47:24 AM
I landed my 262 just like that  :banana: on the carrier :rock
Title: Re: Ahhhhh! a ditch, wait landed??
Post by: Shuffler on November 09, 2009, 12:30:17 PM
Apparently all the parts of your plane in the grass around the runway totalled to more of a P-38 than the part you were sitting in on the runway!

Ahhhhh you got a point  :aok
Title: Re: Ahhhhh! a ditch, wait landed??
Post by: Ratpack1 on November 09, 2009, 12:33:33 PM
Shuff are you sure that was a runway and not somebody's driveway? Maybe you pureed the blender one too many times.  :joystick:
Title: Re: Ahhhhh! a ditch, wait landed??
Post by: Stampf on November 09, 2009, 12:35:21 PM
First sortie of this tour I had to make an emergency landing in a Fw190 onto a friendly carrier.  Deadstick, wounded, and missing control surfaces (sitnorm), I came up short on final and slammed the back of the carrier.  The plane hung there a moment and then slid down the transom, remaining stuck to the hull.

Towered and got the land. (?)
Title: Re: Ahhhhh! a ditch, wait landed??
Post by: Shuffler on November 09, 2009, 12:38:07 PM
Shuff are you sure that was a runway and not somebody's driveway? Maybe you pureed the blender one too many times.  :joystick:

Dang.... everyone is on to my secrets...  :neener:

 :rofl
Title: Re: Ahhhhh! a ditch, wait landed??
Post by: Latrobe on November 09, 2009, 07:03:20 PM
Latrobe were you moving along with the carrier or you just skidded inside it and .ef'ed quickly? Nicely done.

The carrier was pulling me along with it. I sat there for a good 10-20 seconds observing the inside of a carrier, not sure where they keep all the extra ord and planes though  ;)
Title: Re: Ahhhhh! a ditch, wait landed??
Post by: save on November 10, 2009, 06:00:17 AM
Well I collided with an own supply truck while taking off yesterday . "you have crashed"

mmmmmmm
Title: Re: Ahhhhh! a ditch, wait landed??
Post by: pervert on November 10, 2009, 07:13:39 AM
Nothing sucks more than the carrier being sunk as you are about to land or have just touched down especially with a pw  :(