il2crashesnfails Posted March 5, 2020 Posted March 5, 2020 Anyone have a strict rule to when to bail? Particularly a min altitude? 2 7
Pict Posted March 5, 2020 Posted March 5, 2020 Any bail out is a good bail out as long as you can walk away from it You'd have been ok in the first one if the ground hadn't been there As a side note, on your second bail you got shot down by a Stuka...that 7.7mm rifle round ammo did an impressive job of flipping your Jug on it's back, or was that part of your bail out routine? If not, I wonder what @Legioneod would make of it 1
Raptorattacker Posted March 5, 2020 Posted March 5, 2020 THAT is comedy GOLD!! The guy at the beginning looks like a human cannonball, absolutely brilliant. I love the way he takes the 'Irish Traditional Dancer' approach and keeps his arms firmly clamped to his sides!! 1
Legioneod Posted March 5, 2020 Posted March 5, 2020 That Stuka pilots bailout was on point. 10/10. If only he survived. 1
69th_Mobile_BBQ Posted March 5, 2020 Posted March 5, 2020 (edited) 9 hours ago, Pict said: ...that 7.7mm rifle round ammo did an impressive job of flipping your Jug on it's back, Look closer. It was a collision that cut his vertical stabilizer fin off. No vertical stabilizer, no flyable plane. Edited March 5, 2020 by Mobile_BBQ 2
Legioneod Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Mobile_BBQ said: Look closer. It was a collision that cut his vertical stabilizer fin off. No vertical stabilizer, no flyable plane. You can do it but it's very hard. I've flown and landed a 190 without it's vertical stabilizer. 1
69th_Mobile_BBQ Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 1 minute ago, Legioneod said: You can do it but it's very hard. I've flown and landed a 190 without it's vertical stabilizer. You experienced a miracle that day! Usually a 100% lost vertical stab is instant loss of control. Once the plane starts to spin or goes inverted, the chance of recovery is next to 0%. 1
Legioneod Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 Just now, Mobile_BBQ said: You experienced a miracle that day! Usually a 100% lost vertical stab is instant loss of control. Once the plane starts to spin or goes inverted, the chance of recovery is next to 0%. Yep, I'm surprised I didn't crash and burn that day. I didn't realize I had lost my whole vertical stabilizer until I went back and looked at the track. 1
MadKerbal Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 Why's everyone saying the Stuka Pilot didn't survive? That was his plan all along, to play dead until the train crew moves on, then make his way back to German Lines for a bottle of schnapps, a new Stuka, and perhaps an Iron Cross or two. Such is the life of Hans 'Cannonball' Schmitt. 1
il2crashesnfails Posted March 6, 2020 Author Posted March 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Legioneod said: You can do it but it's very hard. I've flown and landed a 190 without it's vertical stabilizer. That would be awesome to watch. I have yet to have that happen and land. Did you land? or was it a crash landing?
Legioneod Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, il2crashesnfails said: That would be awesome to watch. I have yet to have that happen and land. Did you land? or was it a crash landing? Yep I landed. I had a screenshot of it and the track but I have no idea what happened to them. I thought I had posted a screen in the screenshot thread but I haven't been able to find it yet.
il2crashesnfails Posted March 6, 2020 Author Posted March 6, 2020 9 minutes ago, Legioneod said: Yep I landed. I had a screenshot of it and the track but I have no idea what happened to them. I thought I had posted a screen in the screenshot thread but I haven't been able to find it yet. I have landed missing a horizontal stabiliser never the vert. Did yours get shot off be cannon?
Legioneod Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 2 minutes ago, il2crashesnfails said: I have landed missing a horizontal stabiliser never the vert. Did yours get shot off be cannon? No idea how it happened but I remember having no yaw control whatsoever and I could barely keep the aircraft flying. I managed to get it back to base though. 1
Pict Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 15 hours ago, Mobile_BBQ said: Look closer. It was a collision that cut his vertical stabilizer fin off. No vertical stabilizer, no flyable plane. Indeed it was now you mention it It appears he didn't call himself @il2crashesnfails for nothing 1
Monostripezebra Posted March 8, 2020 Posted March 8, 2020 (edited) The point is always less altitude, but movement vector and time.. if your movement is pointing upwards, you can have time, but even with a modern 0/0 ejection seat you can have no chance if the inherited downward vector is unrecoverable. Edited March 8, 2020 by Monostripezebra 2
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