4-12 wish list (Merged)

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Originally Posted by Pursuivant

Tanks full of Avgas sort of act as flotation devices since oil is less dense than water.

Even so, oil/avgas are not lighter than air.
As such, draining both tanks(which would simultaneously fill them with air) would make for more effective floatation and less weight(thus higher on the water) than leaving them full.
Reducing overall mass would also reduce the damage caused by the initial impact into the water.

Originally Posted by Viking

I'd like to see longer wakes after the ships. More realistic.

I remember seeing something about a carrier pilot who had a lightning strike take out most of his instruments.
He actually found the carrier at night because he followed the algae churned up in the wake of the ship. So presumably large ships would leave behind quite a trail(even if not exactly a wake).