1- Someone is about to gun you down in the airfield. But because you landed without any damage, you can leave the jet immediately after stopping without waiting for repair and spawn again whenever you choose.
2- Similar to #1, you want to change your loadout, its faster with a propper landing because you don’t need to wait for repair before J’ing out.
3- You don’t have repair/repair rank skills and it is much faster to J out and spawn again than waiting for the repair to rearm/refuel.
4- You are about to land in Afghanistan. Because of the high altitude, it’s risky to belly land because of a combination of higher approach speeds (less lift at altitude) and server desync that might kill you on your attempt.
If none of these apply, belly landing is meta. Don’t forget to bind the drop chute because you can still use it in belly land if it is available.
I land wheels down exclusively and have never run out of runway, even on those super slow to decelerate aircraft like F16s/F15s. Nor have I had to empty my gun to help slow down or anything like that.
What are you doing? Coming in at just below landing gear rip speed no flaps and touching down halfway down the runway instead of at the end? I aim my touch down point to be just after the runway lights at the very beginning of the tarmac, normally stop with several hundred meters of runway left even in F-15s.
I see this similar to the guy you responded, he mentioned the brakes (see my first quote in this post).
And even if he mentioned crappy landing mechanics:
We talk about a pure fantasy environment in Air RB - landing with or without gear doesn’t matter - u get in 10 seconds a factory new plane. Therefore everything related to reality in this thread is nice, but irrelevant for this mode.
And the problem is not the landing itself - the game is somehow filled with guys trying to shoot each other down.
Try to play Air RB with early German jets (He 162 and the 6.3 & very rare 6.7 Me 262s): You play often on pure prop maps with very short runways. On the prop version of Mysterious valley you have to consider fog / clouds 50 meters above the runway, and it is surrounded by mountains.
And even if it’s clear weather:If you even think about slowing down before landing on airfields without Roland af aaa you get swarmed by guys who don’t care that they got killed by af aaa one second after he killed you.
This looks for me like a request to enlarge the repair zone - so guys crashing 200 meters before the repair zone or guys which overshot the runway due to whatever reasons.
I don’t understand why i see stuff like skill issue when a guy is asking for extending the pure fictional repair zone in a pure fictional mode.
What nobody mentioned in this thread is that the “inactivity timer” starts when you touch the runway. So even if you made a perfect landing you have to consider the time until repair / reload begins and on top your time until you have extended after take-off and you get the “take-off RP”.
The bug report section is full with complaints about bugs in this mechanic, just a single example:
Some maps I have landed like maybe 60 feet from the airstrip and the person gets a kill from me not being close enough but generally most maps are extremely forgiving.
Imho you killed your thread and also your credibility with such a remark.
You post in the section “Realistic battles” with the tags “air” & “air battles”.
There is no need to fly in Air RB with a HOTAS - the turn & handling advantage of a HOTAS vs a mouse aim player exists mainly in rather rare pure 1 vs 1s and becomes irrelevant the faster the planes get as mouse aim has clear advantages in head-ons.
So if you decide on your own that your pilot skills are good enough to compete with mouse aim pilots you can’t blame others to use the way easier approach.
Even as i was rather open regarding the general idea - there is no need to insult mouse aim pilots with such remarks.
Btw: I played 20.707 matches on xbox exclusively with the certified Thrustmaster HOTAS…
What the hell does runway size have to do with anything? Landing is easy, people just belly land because it’s way faster than trying to slow down to a reasonable speed to land normally.
Every plane has thayer landing speed, witch garante you safty landing. I hate when someone land on belly and is not anyhow damiged. Airfields are big enough to land any aircraft in the game.
And siriously its not that hard to learn something about the plane. Its not the game, its the players. And even that F15 that as you said has bad breaks, witch isnt true, can land when flown at the right speed.
Belly landing is fricking comical, I can land at 500 km/h without any serious damage/fire, but some tent or wooden stick instantly blow my entire plane.
There could be many different situations, like getting chased by enemy aircraft, or enemy aircrafts are swarming the airfield (since base AA is very weak) and you need to rearm/repair ASAP and take the fight to the enemy
True. I would land sucessfully, then I would break my landing gear by “drifting” since repair time is the same, and it’s way faster/safer with lower risk of overshooting the airfield.
The brake also is very weak. I land swirling left/right, flaps deployed, airbrakes deployed, landing gear deployed, brake full held, wing “swing” to left/right etc.
I wasn’t aiming at you, but generally am confused about the community as a whole: On one hand we have the people that write hundreds of entries in the forum because an engine or other has a few pounds thrust missing, on the other hand the people who even in sim don’t bother to use even loosely realistic procedures.
I understand the reasoning why people use belly landing to save time and hassle, but me coming from a Sim background can not do that…
But then that’s also nice about WT, as it offers a home for players with widely different preferences, whereras other products cater to only much smaller communities on the edges of the spectrum. Be that DCS which is deeply complex and not very accessible, or WoWP which is very accessible, but not deep at all.
Performing belly landings is a thing of the uneducated anyways. If you’re on the airfield without out any damage whatsoever, then you can J out and respawn instantly. Belly landings obviously damage your plane, and mean that even on plane like the A-4 with super weak brakes, using your gear is faster.
And btw, when I say no damage, I mean that even damage that isn’t enough to make the bottom left indicator appear will boot you from the match if you J out with it.
