4.12 Patch - Comments

[Woke Up Dead]

Originally Posted by Kittle

A lot of the new ditching a gear bits I think will really shine in a campaign. Nursing my wounded bird home to find out one of the main gears will not lower and having to make a realistic belly landing will add to the immersion ten fold.

Definitely, I experienced it with a Pe-8 mission recently. AA hit me and I saw one of my main landing gears dropped. I lowered the other gear then raised it again, but the damaged gear stayed down. Later, on approach, when I tried lowering the other gear again, it wouldn't drop; I'm guessing the hydraulic fluid leaked out? I had to make a landing on just one wheel, the slide mark on and off the runway behind my plane looked cool.

Does the Pe-8 have a hydraulic pressure gauge?

[Woke Up Dead]

Originally Posted by IceFire

I think you'll see a bigger difference between planes that had good diving capabilities and those that don't. The Mach effect, and forgive me if I get this wrong, has a lot to do with the drag of the airframe... so a clean aircraft like the Mustang will accelerate to its dive speed more quickly than something that isn't as aerodynamically clean. The J2M3 was fairly good at aerodynamics (if I remember right) so it may not give you a good example. Mustang compared to a A6M5 Zero might be a different story.

Makes sense, thanks.