just curious what everyone would think about adding emergency arresting wires to runways for air battles
- yes for all br’s
- yes for 8.0+ only
- no
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Would have to be checked how it could be abused, and of course would need possibility to manually lower the hook (which has been requested a lot anyway, btw).
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I can’t see any way it could be abused, at least that I can think of
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Yeah, probably not more than people already “abuse” gear-up landings to speed up turnaround time during matches, come to think of it…
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Arresting barriers would be a better option
Our airbases have both irl. Why not adding both 😉
Arresting wires are only going to benefit handful of aircraft.
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= )
“both, yes both is good”- TF2 Heavy
Hm, but then barriers have an issue that they should always be at the end of the runway, and this depends on wind. As wind is not simulated in WT, where should it be?
Would hate to land over erect barriers…
it would make sense if the barriers were at the far end of the runways, but there are also the issue of aircraft potentially exploding when they hit the barrier, and then how would they get aircraft to interact with it unless they give all aircraft some kind of weird looking ghost hook that only hooks stuff midair and have the barrier be made up of a few midair arresting wires.
personally i think only arresting wires should be added rn, the code already exists and it wouldn’t be obstructive to normal landings like barrier could be, it would also give a damn use for the tail hook which is useless unless you get an occasional Normandy in GRB or Malta/Wake Island in the 5.0-6.0 era of props
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F15 F14 F16 and many other planes without parachutes would benefit massivley
low tier naval planes would benefit to as it would be great as it takes forever ingame to stop on brakes alone
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for example F15A with flaps airbrakes and brakes takes half runway to stop
meanwhile F-16 taking the whole runway if you come in fast
god their brakes are pitiful
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Come in at proper speeds then… ;-)
Just my view (again): I don’t see a necessity to add the arresting cables to runways, as IRL they are just an emergency measure, and certainly not a commodity to shorten landing length in normal operations. Just as I’m opposed to arresting gear equipped landbased aircraft (like F-104, F-16, F-15, Tornado,…) to be able to land on aircraft carriers. It’s just unrealistic and should - again in my personal view - not be “a thing”.
(Or to put in another perspective: I’d rather hope Dev’s add/correct stuff that is actually realistic and relevant, as working bombing computers, RWR’s etc., instead of “novelties” like the proposed arresting cables on runways…)
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WELL, we already have most people landing just hard enough to break their landing gear, in order to reload/(repair) more quickly. Imo, there should be a MUCH longer cooldown/repair time for those who break their landing gear. I see much less of an issue adding a airfield arresting wire that exists IRL. Even the US Air Force has them, not just land based US Navy air fields.
this would shorten landing times as you can land and take off faster when landing your at your most vunerable
I agree, not really needed. And given the way people will attempt to use them, they would realistically break the arresting hooks anyway.
most carrier planes wouldnt care