Water Landings

[a1]

ok simple and quick. when i land on the water sometimes the plane or ship just jumps up and starts flying again. why is that?
thanks

[dave3cu]

Sounds like your crashing with 'Ignore Crashes' selected in the Realism settings. If you turn on 'Detect Crashes...." you'll actually crash, rather than getting thrown into the air. The crash may be caused by a few different reasons.

Your landing to hard, exceeding the gears 'damage threshold'.....touch down easier.

Your landing in an area that has runways and taxiways for add-on ai water traffic (float planes, ships, etc.). AI traffic on water

[beaky]

Sounds like your crashing with 'Ignore Crashes' selected in the Realism settings. If you turn on 'Detect Crashes...." you'll actually crash, rather than getting thrown into the air. The crash may be caused by a few different reasons.

Your landing to hard, exceeding the gears 'damage threshold'.....touch down easier.

Your landing in an area that has runways and taxiways for add-on ai water traffic (float planes, ships, etc.). AI traffic on water  must have hard surfaces to land/taxi on. These are basically concrete surfaces hidden under the water's surface. If you run into them you can crash......avoid lanes you know are used by ai, at least 'till you slow down.

If you have a slower system, and change views while touching down/taxiing, you can get bounced around as the scenery is redrawn........don.t change views 'till you slow down.

Happy landings,
Dave

Never encountered these sunken runways and taxiways.... but I do know that you must have "detect crashes" on, or you won't be able to land on water in the appropriate aircraft.

[Ashton Lawson]

funny...  ive had crashing off, and i havent bounced around...  maybe its my terrain complexity - 0...

speaking of water landings, i don't suppose u hav my spray effects installed do u (makes the FS9 spray effects like FSX spray effects)...