Ditching

[Pei]

Originally posted by Soda
Hate to drag this up, but are their plans to change the current ditch model.  It's a little bit generous right now, to the point of being comical.  Had three different incidents in the last week where someone slammed their aircraft into the ground at 300mph+ and slide to a stop.  Only restriction seems to be that you don't actually hit something solid and that your angle at impact is shallow.  Can't imagine that ditching into the water at those speeds is "survivable" regardless of how gently you touch down.  Old model just seemed "better" to me.

-Soda

Seconded

[Gwjr2]

My fav is when you shoot off 1 wing and badguy corkscrews in at 45 degrees and still gets a ditch  

[LePaul]

Nah, you're right, its getting silly.

I was upping a Yak9U from a field under attack.  My wing was shot off immedicately after takeoff, i crashed inverted onto the runway and skidded to a halt.  I was able to "Land safely" on that one.  Tried again, same thing but augered in off the side and was given a ditch.

Someone must be pretty ticked they didnt get two honest kills