0 on your altimeter is sea-level. Not all ground is at sea level!

It's not supposed to have a use on Tiger Hunt. It just shows your altitude over sea level like it does in a real WWII aircraft. Apart from that I never check my altitude when I do a strafing run - at least in this game you have enough visual information to see when you have to pull up.

I was wondering why that tree was getting bigger...

This seems like strange logic to me... If a rule was decided to be implemented in the game whereby anyone that is too damaged to carry on flying explodes, why did the developers decide that sustaining *new* damage when reaching the ground was required to trigger this? I would have expected that just simple contact with the ground should = explosion in this case.

Of course it would make much more sense that if the damage sustained from the crash had affected the engine / fuel in some way that an explosion would occur, but if say the landing gear fell off, that shouldn't really trigger a bang. But I guess this goes back to the old argument over being able to ditch the plane...

Edit:
With this logic in mind, does that mean its actually entirely possible to ditch the unflyable plane without exploding as long as its a very smooth crash?? I think someone here posted a Belly Landing video in fact, I just assumed it was a flukey game bug that allowed it.

check out my belly landing man!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4i4chG2T7Y

Please don't post your video in three threads, it has it's own thread.

Thanks

Thanks for posting a screen shot of the goals screen. I notice that Robert Johnson is one of the listed pilots. Is this a coincidence or what? Robert Johnson was, I believe, the second highest scoring ace for the US in WW2.

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

So you landed not crashed?

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