"You have landed successfully."

[SIK1]

I take it as a matter of pride being able to land what ever it is I'm flying in the virtual skies. As a matter of fact one of the ways I get use to a new flight model is to do take offs and landings. I also try to do the landing the way it's suppose to be done, i.e. three point landings for tail draggers, correct speeds and flap setting etc.
Being able to land the plane and taxi is probably more important to me, than it is to the average MA player. Since I pretty much  only fly scenarios, FSO, and similar events where it can be a real benefit to re-arming, as opposed to re-planing.

[icepac]

I only land gear up when one or both mains are damaged.

Doing it because you are in a hurry is full on dweeb mode.

[Guppy35]

I've been playing AH for right at 10 years, now, and I can count, on one hand, the number of times I've intentionally landed with undamaged gear up. 

I still revel in the feel AH has, from taking off to landing.. and especially with one of the add-on sound packs.

And I don't come close to some sub-cultures in the game that are purists.
   

Well I've been here for 10 years and I can count the times I've intentionally landed with the gear down!

[M0nkey_Man]

what about the 163, kinda hard to land with gear down 

[PFactorDave]

Well I've been here for 10 years and I can count the times I've intentionally landed with the gear down!

Ya, but nobody expects you to land wheels down...  That's just silly talk!  

[SIK1]

Well I've been here for 10 years and I can count the times I've landed with the gear attached!

Fixed.

[Shane]

Well I've been here for 10 years and I can count the times I've intentionally landed with the gear down!

amateur....  

this is how you do it...  and i keep my gear... 

and to be fair, I had to create my own damage.  

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,318573.msg4145650.html#msg4145650  

neener, neener, I can drive backwards, and park... almost... 

[BigR]

I like to belly land into the Vehicle Base indestructible. I AM WHATS WRONG WITH ACES HIGH.

[LCADolby]

"Any landing you can walk away from is a good one"

I don't think it matters.

[captain1ma]

during a vulchfest, landing with the gear up, is the only way to survive! you need to be able to stop quickly, before someone shoots you on the ground(yes, there are dweeby people that will do that), therefore its a necessary tactic.

[coombz]

I'm a newbie but I always land gear down unless it's been shot off...

Has everyone been laughing at me trundling along on my wheels?

[Devonai]

Subscriber since 2006 here, and I've never landed gear up if undamaged.  I can certainly see the merit of doing so if trying to land at a hot airfield, but unless I'm flying on fumes I'd rather try for another pass than belly in.  After all, don't you know what those prop strikes do to the engine?  Your crew chief will murder you in the face.

As for landing Spits, I did have some trouble at first but that's why you can use C and V to brake separately.  Jamming on the spacebar is a guaranteed way to spin out on the tarmac.

[Rich52]

Sinces its been mentioned I think gears up cant even be compared to these vulch-fest conga line-fests we still see way to often. Ive seen them go on for 20+ minutes with no, or very little, effort to actually take the base. Usually there is a self-apointed Air General calling out who can take what helpless plane on the runway, him most of all. And thats it, running up easy perks against planes sitting or taxiing on the de-acked runways. Then they land to the chorus of attaboys as if they actually accomplished somthing. And Im not talking noobs here. Or did you think you make top ranks without vulchfests, spawn camping, and milk running ?

And against such a vulchfest I'll land an IL2 belly down every time just to deny these heros an easy kill. In fact I'll even sit on the runway and wait till some vulcher is almost on me before clicking off. Theres a difference between a contested, fair fight and a vulchfest. If your trying to land at a base being shamelessly vulched then you dont owe anyone an explanation for anything.

I remember once some dimwit in a P-51 followed my 17s across 3 sectors staying 2,000 out and refusing to attack. When I aproached my base he dissapeared and I figured he just went home so I put gears down and started rolling in. While I was rolling, with guns turned off by game, who do you think appears buzzing the runway shooting up my bombers ? After refusing to fight cleanly for 3 sectors? After that smelly episode I changed my mind about belly ups. Honestly we have some players who think you owe them an easy kill no matter what.

[PJ_Godzilla]

yeah, yeah, bullhockey, bullhockey, my line:

I don't care so much about the successful landing rule. It's acceptable. OTOH, last week, I shot up an F4F to the extent that he had to ditch in the ocean. I figured I'd get the kill. Wrong. It went down as a ditch for him. I'm not sur eif this was due to proximity to his CV or what. I'd like to know the rules of this. I owned that ponkety-ponk and forced him down. I should've just shot him where he sat.

[SmokinLoon]

Maybe HTC could add another 1-2 point/perk levels to give credit to those who land "properly"?  I think it shows something when a person takes the time to land an aircraft in a proper manner.  It isnt like we have to taxi on up to the hanger and go through the shut down checklist.

It is just one of those gamey things the flash-bangers do.