Lobotomized AI in Winter

[1Sascha]

I almost feel bad telling on these guys... kinda like pointing your finger at the slow kid in class and laughing at him ...

 

Tried to do a career mission in Bodenplatte. Date was late Jan 45, so it was snowy and we were taking off from a grass-field. I nearly didn't make the take off myself ... had to apply full right rudder *and* right brake just to keep the Dora straight during the run-up - which I usually never have to do in that bird.

 

Anyhow... I noticed my wingmen's "airborne" radio-calls weren't coming at all or way later than they usually do... so I checked the field and found this scene - this was probably three or four minutes after I and two of my less dumb wingmen had made it into  the air:

 

 

Probably not much to see here until YT is done with at least the 1080p version.

 

Since I couldn't get out and take off the other planes for them, I left those guys and went ahead with the mission. When I had nearly reached waypoint two (probably another 3 to 5 minutes later) I checked on them on external view and saw that two of them were still busy:

 

 

I think three out of seven never made it into the air and probably despawned after a while?

 

Not sure if this is possible, but could this be related to this particular airfield? I've flown a ton of missions in this career in G-14s, K-4s, 262, A-8s and Doras and on other snowed-in grass fields and I never ran into this behavior before...

 

S.

Edited May 12, 2022 by 1Sascha

[Rodwonder]

You know I'm not a great fan of the AI... But you could chalk this up to real life incidents, also. 

[1Sascha]

2 hours ago, Rodwonder said:

You know I'm not a great fan of the AI... But you could chalk this up to real life incidents, also. 

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Yeah... but like I said: The field felt different to me on T/O as well. And I don't mean because it was snow-covered. Like I said: I had taken off from this sort of field in these conditions before, but I never had to apply full rudder *and* right brake. With the usual amount of right rudder I would use in the Dora, the same thing that happened to those AI-pilots would've happened to me. So I'm wondering if there was something wrong with this particular field.

[Rodwonder]

30 minutes ago, 1Sascha said:

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Yeah... but like I said: The field felt different to me on T/O as well. And I don't mean because it was snow-covered. Like I said: I had taken off from this sort of field in these conditions before, but I never had to apply full rudder *and* right brake. With the usual amount of right rudder I would use in the Dora, the same thing that happened to those AI-pilots would've happened to me. So I'm wondering if there was something wrong with this particular field.

 

I see your point that the problem could be with the field. Wow... 

[1Sascha]

4 hours ago, Rodwonder said:

I see your point that the problem could be with the field. Wow... 

And just looking at the 2nd video again now, I realized that the guy *was* using right rudder... but probably not enough to keep the plane from breaking loose. Weird...

Usually these guys are super efficient when they're taking off. If I mess up my own run just slightly, the ones behind me will take off above my head.