Did anybody try the Spit Dunkirk deadstick beach 3point Landing?

[indiaciki]

I failed :D

[ShamrockOneFive]

Challenge accepted

[indiaciki]

Show me )))))

[Guest deleted@30725]

First time landing the spit. Came in too slow the first time and hit the prop, but got the end of the beach.

 

Second attempt needing the loo and in a hurry got it more on land than I wanted, but engine running and only lost some fairings as I put the gear down at too high speed while in air.

 

I can probably have it more how you want with more attempts though.

Edited September 2, 2017 by deleted@30725

[indiaciki]

That's not landing on sand :D I can land her on the grass of an island. Tom Hardy landed on sand )))))))

 

Edited September 2, 2017 by indiaciki

[unreasonable]

Hardly surprising you crashed considering the speed you were going - but even if you stall it onto the ground at 85mph it still tips over.   Obviously this is above the tide mark sand.

Edited September 2, 2017 by unreasonable

[216th_Lucas_From_Hell]

The secret is to time the turn towards the Stuka just right. That way you bleed enough speed as you line up with the beach and set yourself up for a perfect approach.

[indiaciki]

I tried landing on a dock.didn't work. Sama with bridges. I think Jason once told me that landing on "objects" isn't possible.

Please go on trying. I don't think beaches are objects. I noticed there are 2 kinds. 1. Sand - not possible 2. Pebbles - i landed and list control after tochdown.

Edited September 2, 2017 by indiaciki

[indiaciki]

I forgot the Stuka :D probably in a dive at 600-650 km/h )))

[US63_SpadLivesMatter]

I didn't try the beach, but finally managed a landing on the runway with no groundspin at the end.

 

Love the new ground handling thanks to the new FM.

[Bilbosmeggins]

If you're looking to emulate Tom Hardy's feat then it doesn't count unless you've flown up and down the beach with no fuel for an hour and a half.  Oh, and don't forget to include the successful pot-shot at the Hun part way through.  The landing is the easy part 

[Royal_Flight]

I'm waiting for Monostripezebra to post a video showing us how it's done.

[[APAF]VR_Spartan85]

If you're looking to emulate Tom Hardy's feat then it doesn't count unless you've flown up and down the beach with no fuel for an hour and a half. Oh, and don't forget to include the successful pot-shot at the Hun part way through. The landing is the easy part

Yeah, I literally threw my arms up and yelled "oh come on!?" In that scene..

I dunno, maybe there were some serious updrafts or thermals at Dunkirk at the time...and apparently the spit was a glider..

 

And sorry, last rant, why didn't he just land near the rest of the troops on the beach???!!

OK I'm done..

 

And yes, landing the spit is now delightful with new fm

Edited September 2, 2017 by spartan85

[LLv24_SukkaVR]

Didnt try that, but i found out that the docks arent good landing spots

 

http://i.imgur.com/sGczPRC.jpg

[-TBC-AeroAce]

Quite upset that some objects are not land able. Like the parade at Sochi. It is a perfectly flat deck but when u land on it u just sink into it. Same with some of the objects in Stalingrad like the power\utility thingys that u should be able to fly under but can't. It kinda takes some of the more fun aspects of flight sims away imo

Edited September 2, 2017 by AeroAce

[Guest deleted@30725]

Yep, I noticed that today. Most of the green bits are solid, but the sandy sections - at least where I was testing the plane falls through the map. I wanted to get a cool shot of the plane parked looking out to the waves, but just as I left the green and went onto the sand the plane was swallowed

 

This happened in a bunch of places so I guess no dipping your wheels into the sea and no dramatic water spraying beach takeoffs.

 

EDIT - I was going 3kmh in the spit when it just dropped off the map in the second picture.

Edited September 2, 2017 by deleted@30725

[ShamrockOneFive]

I've tried landing on all of the sandy surfaces I could find and the plane digs in and crashes each time. I guess they programmed it that way

 

Mind you, none of us are Tom Hardy either! 

[AndyJWest]

I've tried landing on all of the sandy surfaces I could find and the plane digs in and crashes each time. I guess they programmed it that way

 

Mind you, none of us are Tom Hardy either! 

 

Looks like it. I've just tried landing by the lighthouse. It appears to be quicksand, from the way my Spit flipped over and sunk beneath the surface in a few seconds.

[Guest deleted@30725]

Looks like it. I've just tried landing by the lighthouse. It appears to be quicksand, from the way my Spit flipped over and sunk beneath the surface in a few seconds.

 

Now that I know I can't land on the beaches I want to do it more than ever, but I guess it's designed this way.

Edited September 2, 2017 by deleted@30725

[J2_Trupobaw]

IIRC spits were supposed to always belly land if ditching and undercarriage was only used on proper airfields, for exactly this reason...

 

 

If you're looking to emulate Tom Hardy's feat then it doesn't count unless you've flown up and down the beach with no fuel for an hour and a half.  Oh, and don't forget to include the successful pot-shot at the Hun part way through.  The landing is the easy part 

It's all in settings. If you to turn on unlimited ammo and invunerability but leave unlimited fuel off, a hidden "easy 3-point ditches" setting enables itself  .

Edited September 2, 2017 by LsV_Trupobaw

[Finkeren]

Yep, I noticed that today. Most of the green bits are solid, but the sandy sections - at least where I was testing the plane falls through the map. I wanted to get a cool shot of the plane parked looking out to the waves, but just as I left the green and went onto the sand the plane was swallowed

 

This happened in a bunch of places so I guess no dipping your wheels into the sea and no dramatic water spraying beach takeoffs.

 

EDIT - I was going 3kmh in the spit when it just dropped off the map in the second picture.

Maybe the Kuban map is actually located on Arrakis and your Spit got taken by a sandworm?

 

Edited September 2, 2017 by Finkeren

[Guest deleted@30725]

Maybe the Kuban map is actually located on Arrakis and your Spit got taken by a sandworm?

 

 

haha, maybe... I did a couple of times creeping to the waters edge and shwump - down it went under the map never to be seen again.

[ShamrockOneFive]

Had this been months ago I suspect nobody would have even tried to do a beach landing. Now we're all doing it... calling it the Dunkirk Effect! :D

[Monostripezebra]

I'm waiting for Monostripezebra to post a video showing us how it's done.

 

I haven´t bought BoK because of the Bufferman bug.. at the moment I can only play minutes online before the game crashes. So not going to happen soon.

[indiaciki]

Spitfire Emergency Procedures - forced landing / ditching:

 

Hood should be jettisoned or opened, no ditching if bailing out possible, flaps...bla. They didn't know about Tom Hardy flying Nolan's Spitmobile :D

Edited September 2, 2017 by indiaciki

[unreasonable]

Quite upset that some objects are not land able. Like the parade at Sochi. It is a perfectly flat deck but when u land on it u just sink into it. Same with some of the objects in Stalingrad like the power\utility thingys that u should be able to fly under but can't. It kinda takes some of the more fun aspects of flight sims away imo

 

I agree - sometimes unrealism is more fun.  In RoF it was possible to land, taxi and take off on the water in the lake map.   Silly, but amusing.

[=WH=PangolinWranglin]

 

 

Maybe the Kuban map is actually located on Arrakis and your Spit got taken by a sandworm?

Land without rhythm and it won't attract the worm.

[Pharoah]

Don't forget Spit pilots were taught to do 3 point landings where possible (just stall it and pop your nose up to land on all wheels). Stops the bouncing. I do it in DCS on Normandy all the time (okay i may have broken landing gear once or twice but hey...any landing you can walk away from....).

[JaffaCake]

Spoilers.

 

 

I honestly wonder why did he bother to land, burn his plane and surrender when instead he could have just jumped or water landed, or beach landed next to the ships to get picked up and delivered home? Sigh... movies...

[Finkeren]

Spoilers.

 

 

I honestly wonder why did he bother to land, burn his plane and surrender when instead he could have just jumped or water landed, or beach landed next to the ships to get picked up and delivered home? Sigh... movies...

 

 

He was too low to bail out when his engine cut out, and ditching on water is always incredibly dangerous and something you should never do unless you have no other option - so that actually made sense (a lot of the rest of the stuff didn't though)

[sergio_]

Edit: I deleted my text because of spoiler, I am in my mobile and don't know how to Mark a text as spoiler nor delete it

Edited September 5, 2017 by LF_Amnesic

[sniperton]

@Finkeren: He could not have been that low, his altitude was 500+. Remember, he could intercept the diving Stuka. On the other hand, probably no pilot would jump if there's a possibility to land.

 

What I still wonder why such an unrealistic climax was chosen for a movie which is rather realistic otherwise. I mean the deadstick attack on the Stuka. Why not this:

 

- realizing that going out of fuel, pilot decides to jump/ditch/land in Dunkirk instead of having a bath in the open see;

- arrives just in time to intercept the Stukas;

- goes out of fuel;

- jumps, or ditches, or lands.

 

I understand that once his fuel went out, he may not have had the altitude to make a full circle and to land close to the troops.

I also understand that Nolan explicitly wanted a burning Spitfire on the shore, so another ditching was not welcome.

And I'm pretty sure that the unlikely wheel-landing was the direct consequence of using RL aircraft. Belly-landing a vintage Spitfire was simply not an option.

 

P.S. Is it possible to ignite an all-metal aircraft with no fuel by a single flare pistol shot to the effect that it fully burns down?

Edited September 5, 2017 by sniperton

[JaffaCake]

He was too low to bail out when his engine cut out, and ditching on water is always incredibly dangerous and something you should never do unless you have no other option - so that actually made sense (a lot of the rest of the stuff didn't though)

 

 

Dunno tbh. I can buy the "too low to bail" point, but you can't land on a beach next to the ships that are right there? Sigh... 

 

Also ditching is not that dangerous, the sea was calm and you had plenty of people to help you out if your release got stuck. It only becomes a significant issue for larger aicraft. (Modern glider pilots would actually prefer to ditch into the water if the field landing is too dangerous - doesn't happen very often as nobody wants to dry the glider for weeks after the event).

Edited September 5, 2017 by JaffaCake

[indiaciki]

Riddle solved: You have to land at the Dunkirk beach :D 

 

[RNAF_RiderOfTheStorm]

I did the landing but somehow I slided into the water and became a spitboat it was pretty funny to see , looked like very fastshark fin trough the water.

[SYN_Skydance]

I was flying in a Squad coop mission the other night, in a P40, when I got my engine shot us by the rear gunner of a Bf110. I was out at sea and had to belly land it on the beach of a long, thin, island. I didn't sink into the sand, like others have experienced, although I did break a few parts off .

 

I actuctually had to sit there for a few minutes whilst I was admiring the waves rising up and then washing up the beach.

Edited September 7, 2017 by SYN_Skydance