Landing?

[xNikex]

Originally Posted by elneilios

I just landed in Simulator mode at the start of the Dover mission and my engine has turned itself off. Problem is I can't turn it back on again and fly off? Is this supposed to happen?

Maybe your props struck the ground and killed the engine. I've done it like 30 times(on purpose of course!).

[elneilios]

Originally Posted by xNikex

Maybe your props struck the ground and killed the engine. I've done it like 30 times(on purpose of course!).

I think your right, I just had several more attempts, and hitting the props definately did it. I managed to land without killing the engine so I think that proves it. HOWEVER.... according to Anton, you explode if your plane is too damaged to take off again, why didn't I explode??

[xNikex]

Originally Posted by elneilios

I think your right, I just had several more attempts, and hitting the props definately did it. I managed to land without killing the engine so I think that proves it. HOWEVER.... according to Anton, you explode if your plane is too damaged to take off again, why didn't I explode??

That happens sometimes and it will usually say you 'crash landed' and then the camera will zoom out. If it didn't, then you just got lucky.

[elneilios]

Originally Posted by xNikex

That happens sometimes and it will usually say you 'crash landed' and then the camera will zoom out. If it didn't, then you just got lucky.

Yeah no zoom out, just was sitting in the cockpit not going anywhere fast. (Except if I shot the guns I would manage to creep backwards!)

[xNikex]

Originally Posted by elneilios

Yeah no zoom out, just was sitting in the cockpit not going anywhere fast. (Except if I shot the guns I would manage to creep backwards!)

Yeah, that was a neat feature I also noticed the other day lol. As far the camera not zooming out, I guess you made one hell of a landing.

How did you manage to break your wing off and come to a stop anyway?

[The_Goalie_94]

Wow, that reminds me, i think this is the first game with a real dense forest. I landed and broke my wing off a tree in a forest, and was sitting their in the forest just admiring how real it actually looked.

[xNikex]

Originally Posted by The_Goalie_94

Wow, that reminds me, i think this is the first game with a real dense forest. I landed and broke my wing off a tree in a forest, and was sitting their in the forest just admiring how real it actually looked.

Lucky...

The other day, I had broken my wing off on a tree and just spiraled only 10 meters above the ground for like 10 seconds until I hit a house.

[Patchou]

Originally Posted by elneilios

I think your right, I just had several more attempts, and hitting the props definately did it. I managed to land without killing the engine so I think that proves it. HOWEVER.... according to Anton, you explode if your plane is too damaged to take off again, why didn't I explode??

Well, I can confirm that you can crash without exploding.

In Sim Mode, in Tiger Hunt, while I was looking for the Tigers but desperate to find them, I decided to land in a small river, to smoke a cigarette and eat my sandwiches before going back to my Tiger hunt. Well, I finished in the trees undamaged but landed

I decided to take off, quiet difficult with a tree in front of me. The game finally decided that I was crashed and i had a Zoom out, the occasion to admire my shining Mustang from above which looks like a grey cross at the end of the zoom out

Patchou

[SleepTrgt]

So you landed not crashed?

[Patchou]

Well I first landed. but I was blocked in the trees. (damned planes there is no reverse function)

When I attempted to take off using the WEP during, let say 3-5 sec, without really moving, It says that I was just "crashed".

But the plane didn't blew up and I didn't have the mention "crash landed" as others had.

EDIT: So yes I didn't crash