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Offline CurtissP-6EHawk

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« on: July 13, 2004, 05:02:32 PM »
Was making a slow taxi and hit the wingtip on a building at refeul pad, wing came off and ac exploded! Heck I figured the crew chief coulda just put some duck tape on it and be on my way :eek:
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« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2004, 07:18:36 PM »
And the ground loop will usually end up in a fireball - even if you were just slowly taxiing out.  Don't try to land with any kind of damage to the landing gear either.
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Offline TequilaChaser

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« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2004, 07:41:03 AM »
F4U1C and F4U1D have been bitten....in patch 5 they are impossible to land with damage to gear, landing with gear up....as you come to nearly a complete stop on the runway they suddenly rol or flip and u end up crashing instead of anything successful........was not like this in previous patches...:(
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« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2004, 08:24:04 AM »
in case you didnt know if you pull 25% back on your stick it now locks the tailwheel.
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Offline TequilaChaser

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« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2004, 12:11:52 PM »
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Originally posted by WilldCrd
in case you didnt know if you pull 25% back on your stick it now locks the tailwheel.


yeppers WilldCrd, I use that when taking off til my speed gets over 100 or so, it is when I am near less than 10 mph almost stopped, then suddenly the plane flips or rolls when belly landing ( damaged gear )
as if there is a chunk out of the concrete runway right where I come to a stop and the fuselage dips in and grabs holt throwing it over..................I have had 1 ocassion where it grabbed but didn't flip it broke both wings off but was sucessful..all while being almost dead stop ( near dead stop is the key here) I could understand if it happened at say 50 IAS or something similar, but near stopped don't make sense......:confused:


edited: going to make a film of repeated belly landings........
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« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2004, 02:56:06 PM »
Dont mean to be obvious, But have you guys tried landing, and then hitting auto-pilot, as soon as you touch down? letting the A/P control the plane to a stop. (you still have to brake of course)

my favorite way to land a damaged F4.
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