Belly Landing - how to ?

[Wehner]

When I try this, the sim halts, I get a "crash detection" message, and cannot watch the sparks and debbries going off. I do not know which settings to change. I have the visual damage activated in the aircragt.cfg, though.

Any hints ?

Michael.

[Point-man]

What is your airspeed when you touch down? You may be going too fast when you hit.

[46th_Terror]

You definately have to ease here in to avoid the crash. Make sure you are at full flaps and set her down as easy as possible.

[Wehner]

oh, ok, if that's the point - so fs9 determines a point where the plane crashes, and before, you can damage it and see the debries etc. ?
Well, I thought I'd be gentle enough on touchdown

Thank you both,

Michael.

[cflord]

Michael,

I took these two screen shots of me doing a belly landing with a P-51.
In FS2004, Settings, Realism, I had Ignore Crashes and Damage
"checked". I also landed with a rate of sink between 200-300fpm.

Keep the shinny side up and the dirty side down!

Cliff
Ret SMSgt C-130 Flight Engineer




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[Wehner]

Cliff, you had checked to ignore the crashes ?
This would make sense, because otherwise on my system fs9 resets even on minor damages.
Thank you very much ! I already gave up on that thread here ...

[cflord]

Wehner,

Yes I checked ignore crashes!

Keep the shinny side up and the dirty side down!

Cliff
Ret SMSgt C-130 Flight Engineer

[Wehner]

Wehner,
Keep the shinny side up and the dirty side down!

... love that qoute.

I actually succeeded in my first belly landing with detect crashes "on".

Michael.