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?
Straight-in approaches are high-risk in contested airspace.
You’re better off doing the following:
Maintain altitude and speed until you can dive down to runway threshold.
When in range, cut throttle and dive down to ~100 meters over runway treshold. No airbrakes yet
Once within range of AAA, airbrakes if you have any and coast down to end of runway
Once end of runway (or earlier if appropriate for speed), hard brake-turn to the left - aiming for 3-5Gs of turn.
Line up with runway again, reapply power as needed, remove airbrake as needed. Maintain 100 meter altitude
Apply flaps as needed.
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
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).
(And I’m also someone who shakes head at those guys trying to bellyland at 450 knots even in sim…)
Never had any issue with landing damaged aircraft with partially or fully (fingertrouble happens to me too) broken gear, and don’t remember getting killed doing emergency landings. Also in case of damaged or missing gears, landing with reasonable speed really helps wonders, not surprisingly.
No landing gear other than a ski, also a horrific idea. Made the Komet nothing more than a slightly less likley to explode Baka piloted bomb with its own gun
