by Boikat » Wed Sep 29, 2010 2:36 pm
Some more environmental stuff..
Water was mentioned. I'd like actual, rolling waves. I want whitecaps when the wind is strong enough. I whant hit-knuckle waterlanding in a Goose.
For that matter, ditching. If you ditch right, you should not crash, even though ditching is technically crashing, or rather, and emergency water landing. Add to that (though it would be part of the model), life rafts popping out and passengers disembarking (Heck, that'd be nice for the air-stairs....)
Come to mention it, even crashing should be doable. A nice gear-up belly landing should not result in "end of game" so to speak. Of course, it basically *is*, but you should have all the time you want in order to admire your handy-work, be it a "soft as a baby's bottom skid to a stop, or a towering pillar of smoke and fire comming from a crater.
No "crash" if you brush againt a tree-top with your wing tip. By all means, "crash" when you actually crash, but winging a twig shouldn't be fatal. Damage the aircraft, sure, to the appropriate extent. Again, that probably needs to be built into the model.
Two words: "Bird strikes".
Just more thoughts.....
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