What happened to belly landing?

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Cant say anything about the F-5, but the J35 seties is well known to not take the shock of a belly landing well in the slightest

If you’re going to do a belly landing too, im sure you know how to, but its also not really safe to do with aircraft that have round bottoms (like the F-16 or J35)

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If that was the case the airframe would show black color or downright explode. It’s a game bug.

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I know how to gear land. I used to do it before I went belly.

It’s a realism issue that the landing got so buggy because planes could belly land irl

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#Nerf Belly Landing

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And buff brakes

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Totally, I would not be able to stop without the parachute. Especially as in the Jaguar Gr.1 it is falling out of the air at 300kmh and needs a fast touch down.

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This problem belongs to a lot of planes, especially Delta Wings. And it’s not the shock of the first touch down, it’s because they have a lot of AoA at low speeds, and even if you touch down smoothly, you also have to bring down the nose smoothly, otherwise you risk a pilot knock out.

Belly landing in the current state of the game is perfectly fine. There is only one bug: AF runway is a one way street. High speed belly landings from the other direction are not possible, you explode instantly.

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I havent had any issue with belly landing lately. Though I only belly land if I physically cant land gear down due to damage anyway. The few times Ive done it were all successful, even missing half a wing.

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literally some planes are just horrible to land for example anything without a drag chute which is quite a few top tiers now a days

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The only aircraft ive ever had issue with is the Hunter F6. Which might need a brake buff based upon some primary docs (report) but otherwise ive not had issues.

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we just gonna forget the F16

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What about it, been a while, so just tested it, one of the easiest aircraft ive landed in a while, That thing has really good low speed handling, you can do a massive flare before touch down to bleed loads of speed

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Ik that the J35A’s pilot hitbox clips thru the bottom, so that could be it (which is a bug) but idk abt on other drakens

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I haven’t had issues with prop brakes. Granted, I always land like 5-10 km/h above stall speed so I’m usually very slow going in anyway. Which planes have issues with runway length?

I’d contest this advice though @TIGER_TANK_1

Straight-in approaches are high-risk in contested airspace.

You’re better off doing the following:

  1. Maintain altitude and speed until you can dive down to runway threshold.
  2. When in range, cut throttle and dive down to ~100 meters over runway treshold. No airbrakes yet
  3. Once within range of AAA, airbrakes if you have any and coast down to end of runway
  4. Once end of runway (or earlier if appropriate for speed), hard brake-turn to the left - aiming for 3-5Gs of turn.
  5. Line up with runway again, reapply power as needed, remove airbrake as needed. Maintain 100 meter altitude
  6. Apply flaps as needed.
  7. When wingtip/missile rails/tailplane (depends on plane) aligns with end of runway threshold again, initiate turn towards runway. By this point, you should be ~20-30 km/h above stall speed
  8. Manage power and attitude to land with ~5-10 km/h over stall speed.

Done properly, it’s pretty fast and avoids people chasing you down while you land as you retain full energy to dogfight until well within AAA range.

It’s also realistic (Overhead break), although afterburning/WEPing until last second is less so.

If steps 7/8 give you too much altitude to work with, input opposite roll and rudder to “forward slip” (idk how viable it is with mouse aim, but works excellent with sim controls. Doing it right basically lets you drop a ton of altitude with minimal speed gain).

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There is really no point in belly landing with jet that have drag parachute.

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Don’t belly land the same direction as take off, it will crash every time for some reason.

But I have noticed my planes randomly jumping off the runway when I’m sliding.

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I do belly landing then deploy chute because it’s fastest

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Explains everything.

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You deserve to crash then tbh
Belly landing for no reason deserves this kind of thing

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