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11-03-2010, 03:53 PM
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Nice landing. Bravo for Yak pilot.
I like Yak50 - it is really lovley plane. BTW these video show how quickly plane with stopped engine lose altitude in glide. Yak 50 is quite a light plane. Last edited by Kwiatek; 11-03-2010 at 03:59 PM. 
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11-03-2010, 04:09 PM
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Although my impression is that he was avoiding a fence just before the flare - hence the 'drop like a rock' final landing.
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11-03-2010, 09:03 PM
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Thanks for sharing that video. It was interesting to see how much time he had to weigh up his options.
Good to see all that forced landing practice done during training actually works. Although, from memory, it was a lot less dramatic when you could push the throttle forward and climb away on final approach!  Cheers!
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11-03-2010, 09:07 PM
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That was one of the most stressful things I've ever seen.
Despite their professionalism, the pilot's tone of voice and head movements, and the voices of air-traffic control, along with what they choose to say, all reveal the stress of the situation. You can see and hear some of the thought processes the pilot was going through, and easily imagine what was going on on the ground, with the talk later of other planes looking for him and their relief when the pilot is confirmed to have landed safely. And while not wanting to trivialize the life or death situation the pilot was in, I have to say, having done similar things in Il-2 Sturmovik, I think I can relate at least in some way to what he must have been going through. Desperately checking all your options as every second they get narrower and narrower, until you have no choice at all and you have to commit... But with your actual life on the line! Bloody hell. And yeah, okay, before anyone starts (and I know no-one did), okay, we're all heroes and could have done what he did, only better, and he overshot the field he was aiming at and almost hit a wall, and it wasn't really all that dangerous, just doing what they were trained to do...whatever. That was a pretty good video of a pretty good landing and I think it's a testament to Oleg and the sim that at least one person in the world can understand, better than he would have otherwise, what was going on there. And thinking about it, the same thing can be said about WW2 air combat in general, though it's something I realized quite a while ago and not something I dwell on. Namely, I didn't have a clue, until I 'played' Il-2, just what those guys (and girls) went through and did back then, for real. But trying to do it myself, even in a 'game', has been a real education, that along with all the historical information that I've then encountered on the periphery of the 'game', via the forums etc. So, yeah, thanks Oleg, and all involved in that. As I said, I don't dwell on it, and will always be a bit of dilettante when it comes to the whole subject, but I appreciate what I've been able to learn through all this. And there, as a final point, I've just stumbled across what is, for me, the most important distinction between a game and a sim, especially one that deals with historical subject-matter. Sims can teach people how to relate to the experiences of others, by allowing them to have those experiences themselves, even if not for real. While games just teach you how to play games. Anyway. Will shut up now. Have been posting too much lately, caught up in all the excitement of BOB nearing completion. Should probably leave altogether before the sim comes out and this place turns into one big shitfight. Afraid to press Submit Reply now, but I think there was something worth saying/reading in all that and I can't be bothered editing it. Last edited by Les; 11-04-2010 at 03:53 PM.
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