How Often do you crash? BE HONEST!

[TacitBlue]

One thing that bothers me about the crash detection in FS is that every little contact your plane has with anything else causes a crash. Even if you clip a tree top. In real life, you could do that without causing serious damage. I think there should also be damage detection. I don't know how, but there was one time that I noticably damaged my plane, but didn't get the crash banner. I came in a little low on final, hit a hilltop, and ripped the landing gear off of the default Mooney. It kept flying, and pieces of debris flew out all over the place, then when I landed, it acted as if I had landed with the gear up... if there damage detection already?

[ashaman]

Dream on, TacitBlue, dream on...

I'd like that too, but things as are M$ is not going to satisfy us anytime soon.

[Jm_]

Just for Fun  ;D

[Moach]

usually if i can see the runway, i can bring 'er down safely (specially on the 737 ) even after some mid-flight mishaps like not realizing the AP was off untill the ATC says you are way past your flight level, and performing a (unwanted) gut turning dive back to altitude  :o...

modt of my non-intentional crashes happen during taxi, specially on planes with bad contact points or unreasonably unstable gears

the Moach Man

[universeman]

Not too often, although I did yesterday morning bringing a BA 737 into Manchester in a thunderstorm.  Some idiot ATC allowed a 767 to taxi onto the runway, and true to AI form, just sit there.  ATC never issued the go-around either.  Of course, it was all my fault for thinking I could land over top of him.  Clipped the tail, I did, and spiralled in.  Ah well.

[beefhole]

The last two posts demonstrate exactly why I think it's pointless to have crashes on (at least for guys who fly commops)-how is it fun to fly 5 hours, only to crash on landing due to bad contact points, or stupid AI?

(btw Universe all you have to do to fix that is set AI traffic to 0%, hit ok, then move it back up to 100%)

[ashaman]

A fast answer to Beefhole from the connection of an internet caf

[beefhole]

Well, that's mesing with the time which is unacceptable to me, plus it might reload the aircraft too, and if you're on final, it'll act all funky-I personally think it's safer to just reset the traffic.  But that'll work too

And good point-I just still refuse to fly with crashes on, it would ruin my flight if something stupid happened. (I don't crash, and I absolutely HATE having interruptions to a flight-I like flying it straight through, I'll feel like crap if I have to load a save)

[universeman]

Oh, I know I could have removed the AI any number of ways and landed, but there wouldn't have been as much fun in a normal landing, as opposed to skimming five feet over the guy waiting to take off.  If anything, the passengers would have had a great time!

[Saitek]

Never - I have the settings on no-crash mode.
Nothing more annoying after a flight that might be a couple of hours long than to have the sim restart itself.  :-/

[beefhole]

Never - I have the settings on no-crash mode.
Nothing more annoying after a flight that might be a couple of hours long than to have the sim restart itself.  :-/

EXACTLY.  Thank you

[lifter]

long time since I last logged in, I was the one  with a pirate copy of FS9, since bought a legal copy, am I forgiven! Any way  regarding crashes ,I find after a five or two hour flight to smash into the runway is a bit of a failure, and it always seems to be a opensky 747, not, I must hasten to say a critiscim or blame  of opensky, just my crappy 747 landing skills, out of interest how many crashes outside the  landing phase  ie; hills, mountains.

[Whitey]

[quote]long time since I last logged in, I was the one

[ashaman]

out of interest how many crashes outside the  landing phase  ie; hills, mountains.

A less harried answer than before, because this time I'm using my laptop via GPRS and paying by traffic and not a king's ransom by the minute.

The answer is: only if the weather is acting up or I'm fooling around.

The main reason I passed from that horrible thing that is the integrated weather of FS9 to AS4 first, then 4,5 and now ASV with a fully registered version of FSUIPC is that the winds with the integrated weather were liable to make full 180 degrees in less than a second keeping its speed (thing that by my reckoning never happens in the real world), thus making me stall and crash after a long fall, no matter how hard I tried to regain control over the plane.

Happened more than one time. Was never my fault, but of M$. Was the last time I had a serious crash in FS.

[RHeite]

It might be sad and sadistic...but I do enjoy loading up FSPax and trying to bring that thing in after flying through a war zone...just to see how f*&#ed up I can get it and still land.