1Sascha Posted May 12, 2022 Posted May 12, 2022 (edited) 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 Posted May 12, 2022 Posted May 12, 2022 You know I'm not a great fan of the AI... But you could chalk this up to real life incidents, also.
1Sascha Posted May 12, 2022 Author Posted May 12, 2022 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. ? 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 Posted May 12, 2022 Posted May 12, 2022 30 minutes ago, 1Sascha said: ? 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 Posted May 12, 2022 Author Posted May 12, 2022 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. 1
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