actually a lot of the vehicles your thinking of have landing hooks for wires that were on runways and aircraft carriers. The f-4C/E , the f-15’s, the f111’s, and the f-16s are a few examples
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those hooks are for emergency or very short runways. iirc they are for if your wheel brakes completely stop working
yes they were but they were also used to completely stop the aircraft on some shorter runways
fair enough, i just think it would be best if they just increased brake pressure. why let me put my gear down in the F-15 at 300kts if its gonna take me almost the entire runway to slow down >:((((
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airbrakes help a lot on landing actually, I don’t even use landing flaps most the time just use the airbrakes instead
yeah lucky the F-15’s airbrake is very effective cause its wheel brakes certainly are not
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Perhaps, but again, Id say that is a brake strength issue.
Just did it in test drive:
No, belly landing hasn’t been removed.
However, you need to be careful which side of the airfield you belly land on.
Here is a video explaining it:
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The only aircraft I find tricky to land is the hunters where you can’t have landing gear + airbrake deployed at the same time. In that instance, brake pressure needs to be upped
(Hunter F6 can also be changed to the F6A for a drag chute)
makes sense
Hunter F.58 can deploy drag chute while belly landing.
Look up “Overhead break”. This will let you land on even short runways and minimize time spent slowing down.
It takes some practice and bit harder with mouse than stick, but worth learning.
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Yep, FGA9 is the same. Those are easy to land
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Wasn’t removed, works fine for me. I had belly landed a couple of times yesterday in different aircraft.
However, some aircraft in the past have been glitchy with this.
For example the me163 would explode sometimes randomly on landing and take off.
If this is happening to you, you should record and post it, that way it can start being tracked instead of just seeing as a random complain someone is doing with no way of determining what the bug is or if it is even real.
I’m not saying that you are lying, I am just saying there is no way to determine the problem you are facing.
it was not removed but actually made better, graphics and effects are much better now
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the only time I belly landed and bounced is when I came in at 500km/h and ground effect happened and I let Jesus have the flight stick.
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I tested it on all testflight maps with F-16, its unpredictable. You can touch the ground with any speed even with the slightest angle, and with luck you only get damaged. Most of the time the plane jumps up and explodes.
Doesn’t matter if you land on the concrete, on the gras or any angle to the runway.
The jumps look more like 30%PL.
Even at 100kph it can happen and there is no lift at all. Feels more like steps in the concrete, but with gear there is nothing. The smotthest concrete ever.
Bf109 explodes at 60kph after 200m scratching the ground.
Looks like the bug we had at takeoff on the Me 163 a while ago. If you not lifted the tail wheel you exploded instantly.
I exclusively do belly landings ever since they removed the realistic damage model for this arcade one where it just feels like plastic toys, and brakes are less effective than Fred Flintstone in the passenger seat.
Seems like another bad implenetation of airfields with crappy hitboxes, there is zero reason for there to be bumps on an airfield.
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Runways aren’t perfectly flat like a piece of paper, they certainly can have bumps. Of course if you aim for realism which isn’t a common theme in ARB.
Gradual slopes would be one thing, not a bump that kicks the plane off the runway.
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