Landing gears to strong

the real issue seems to be within the shock absorbers IMHO. In a "patched" version of IL-2 I have the reworked FM for the BF109 which behaves properly, and trust me, the plane bounces around and torques on the landing gears like it's supposed to! Apparently the reason is a mistake in the FM coding, or so the guy explained me some time ago in " a certain other forum"

Let's hope they fix this.

Landing on a grassy field is VERY dangerous business, cos you never know what the ground is actually like (soft, bumpy, ditches etc..), that's why you should ALWAYS go for a wheels up landing outside a landing strip (unless you're using a road).

Tiger Moths landing gears are VERY rugged, in order to break one you will probably have to break the joints on the fuselage first!

Having said this, I've seen videos with Hurricanes literally bouncing off the ground with the gears down, that's definitely overmodelled..

[b101uk]

Just be aware that lots of UK grass airstrips during ww2 were not just grass, they had Irving grid mating all over them to help make them more all weather yet with grass still growing threw which helped hide them from aerial photos, also they could be laid down quite quickly yet be functional and lots of grass fields were done as auxiliary airfields and were never used especially in the midlands in 1939/40.

A good many of the old ww2 era grass airfields even today if you dug down a few inches you would find ww2 Irving grid mating which I can tell you now from personal experience are a pain to revert to arable use even though it can be quite lucrative in scrap steel.

[drewpee]

Originally Posted by b101uk

Just be aware that lots of UK grass airstrips during ww2 were not just grass, they had Irving grid mating all over them to help make them more all weather yet with grass still growing threw which helped hide them from aerial photos, also they could be laid down quite quickly yet be functional and lots of grass fields were done as auxiliary airfields and were never used especially in the midlands in 1939/40.

A good many of the old ww2 era grass airfields even today if you dug down a few inches you would find ww2 Irving grid mating which I can tell you now from personal experience are a pain to revert to arable use even though it can be quite lucrative in scrap steel.

Very interesting,thanks for the info.

[drewpee]