Tell me you’ve never landed an F-16, F-15, MiG-29, or M2K before, without telling me.
try belly landing a Me 262 without destroying the engines. I have:) made it to where I only needed a rearm.
what does that even mean rofl
It will just kill you. I broke my gear while landing, I crashed into the ground I flew up like 10m and blew up. 100% real.
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that is not true anymore. Airfields are now symetric.
GRB maps and SRB maps have the old airfield, so it’s still relevant.
The new airfields still have the same issue, but less so if you go the correct way.
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I’ve been practicing with new sim controls in custom battles, so I’ve been crashing my planes a LOT on landings.
Observation: If you land with landing gear and perform too much of a navy style landing ™, you don’t explode even as your landing gear shatters into smithereens.
Might be worth considering as an alternative to belly flop landing?
Navy style landing is meant as a joke based on videos of carrier planes landing on runways, but basically it’s landing with a pretty high descent rate (in my case: enough to smash the gears of even my navy planes of F4U-4 and F2H-2 and F3H-2) and ~+15% over stall speed.) (descent rate is prolly like 10-15 m/s)
Plane also seems to stop nearly instantly after these.
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I had no problem landing wheels-up on the carrier.
I have the same issue, sometimes its fine but most of the times its bugged out, gaijin please fix this issue
I mean you’re landing at anywhere from 260 to 410 kts… you could do this before without blowing up?
I believe the F-16 landing speed is under 200 kts, probably closer to 150.
Why are you doing this?
It’s faster to just land at a normal speed, it’s easy to bleed airspeed with a couple quick turns and just land, no need to do this - if your gear is damaged, you should land slower unless flaps are damaged but you’re landing at 3 times the normal landing speed with no gear…
I bet if you land wheels up at a normal landing speed you’ll all be just fine - the “bumps” are probably some physics glitch but as far as a simulation it works just the same as if you touched down at those speeds in those airframes you’d be smeared on the runway just the same.
TL:DR - It’s a skill issue.
Did you guys checked the health of your pilot? If it is Red, it is hard to survive a belly landing
I still have yet to have any issue landing quickly using the wheels and the few times i’ve had a “crash landing” i’ve been able to fully repair. Even with pretty hard crashes.
So im still not even sure there is an issue.
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The runways feel way more bumpy atm. And it feels, like the planes have no suspension with dampers modeled. That’s why they bounce at take off and landing so much.
Sometimes your plane jumps back in the air. And if you are too slow, you hit the ground quite hard.
Again, not really noticed this issue. Only thing I can think off is that im landing far softer and at a much lower airspeed than you or others are.
Generally, im touching down at around 150-200kts (around 270-350kph). Often using throttle to adjust my glide angle, so im practically landing in a controlled stall.
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In the F-5s you will explode no matter how you try to do it gear up. Spontaneous explosion at 70 km/h
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The airfields literally kick you off the ground into the air.
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Well… Just tested it, was able to replicate the F-5 exploding on landing with min loadout and min fuel. But did the exact same thing in the Tornado Gr4 with max fuel and 12x bombs, nothing, no issue at all belly landing.
Something I did notice in the F-5 tests though. I think they have modeled the airbrake colliding with the ground. I bounced WAY more when I had the airbrake deployed vs when I retracted before touching down.
Im getting some of the boucning, but it isnt necessarily a death sentence. I think things like flaps and airbrakes now hit the ground instead of just clipping. I can greatly mitigate the bounce by retracting flaps and airbrakes if they extend below the aircraft
I posted it earlier, it’s not normal behaviour.
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I feel like its modeling the aircraft actually “colliding” with the ground, but its clipping the runway slightly. If you try to land on the grass, no bouncing.
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