Does putting down in water stop fire?

[Voyager]

Does putting the plane in a river or lake stop fire in Flying Circus? I seem to recall being horribly disappointed to find out it didn't in the Rise of Flight days. (Nothing quite like burning to death in a lake...) 

 

Haven't had the 'opportunity' to test that hear, so was wondering if anyone else has? 

 

Thank you, 

 

Harry Voyager

[40plus]

Water landings are instant death anyway so why bother?

[No.23_Gaylion]

Yeah and life.

[US103_Baer]

(In the sim) It takes about 2-3s to put out a fire in the air, why bother with the watery stuff?

[Enceladus828]

On 1/25/2022 at 1:50 PM, 40plus said:

Water landings are instant death anyway so why bother?

Which is what I really hate about this game. 

See my thread here:

 

 

[=IRFC=kotori87]

If you're on fire, there's a distinct possibility you're wounded too. Kinda hard to put out the fire if your pilot can't kick the rudder properly. While it's highly unlikely you'd be able to put down in the water quickly enough, this is just one more immersion-breaking way for your pilot to die.

...that said, I'd rather they spend effort on fixing wing spars, control jams, overly-sensitive pilot collisions, and other major game-breaking bugs. If they choose to fix this instead I will be mighty disappointed.

[RNAS10_Mitchell]

8 hours ago, kotori87 said:

If you're on fire, there's a distinct possibility you're wounded too. Kinda hard to put out the fire if your pilot can't kick the rudder properly. While it's highly unlikely you'd be able to put down in the water quickly enough, this is just one more immersion-breaking way for your pilot to die.

...that said, I'd rather they spend effort on fixing wing spars, control jams, overly-sensitive pilot collisions, and other major game-breaking bugs. If they choose to fix this instead I will be mighty disappointed.

Agree 100 percent.    All those items are annoying (also seems a pilot should be able to avoid capture when setting down behind lines on occasion), but please fix the wings/jams/etc first.

[J2_Trupobaw]

On 1/28/2022 at 6:29 AM, kotori87 said:

If you're on fire, there's a distinct possibility you're wounded too. Kinda hard to put out the fire if your pilot can't kick the rudder properly. While it's highly unlikely you'd be able to put down in the water quickly enough, this is just one more immersion-breaking way for your pilot to die.

 

Theodor Rumpel would disagree  . When burst from a Camel broke his arm bone, threw the broken limb outside the cockpit and into the tugging slipstream, *and* punctured his fuel tank, he used his left and legs to stabilise the plane, cut off fuel pump, perform some aerobatics to throw his limp right arm back into the cockpit so his broken bone stops being flapped by the wind, disengage, glide home and land on his aerodrome. Of course, for every Rumpel there are many pilots who succumbed to pain and failed to save themselves, but it was absolutely possible.

Edited January 29, 2022 by J2_Trupobaw