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Originally Posted by xnomad
Helmut Lipfert describes in his book how he got lost on the Eastern Front and had to land his bf109 G in a field to get directions from some peasants. He then took off again but forgot to put on his seat belt. He subsequently crashed into a building (I think he ran out of fuel) and what saved him was that he was not wearing a seatbelt as he was flung from the wreckage.
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Agreed, I've read several stories in Flight Journal Magazine that pilots landed in a field to get directions, or even pick up another down pilot and subsequently taking off without any major difficulty at all..
Obviously, the field would have to be pretty smooth and so forth, but my point is that landing in a field back in those days wasn't unheard of at all, compared to IL2 sturmovik which leads me to another question:
Some of the airfields back then were simply a large grass field with hangars spaced around it. Will we be able to conduct those large squadron take-off's that we've seen so many times on youtube? Or will they still take off like they do in IL2? (Something that's highly unrealistic imo)