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Re: Plane braking
Posted: 2008-09-16 09:32
by Panzar
Yeah, I can easily land short, say ill swoop down just near my base, at around 700mph, and slowly stop, its not hard
Re: Plane braking
Posted: 2008-09-16 10:23
by Mongolian_dude
I dont think its a bad idea at all.
You might find that some aircraft are alot less willing to stop on the runway than others.
Notably the SU-30 and the GR4 pilots will have to sacrafice their lives every time they attempt to land, jumping out to keep it on the runway.
...mongol...
Re: Plane braking
Posted: 2008-09-16 11:04
by LudacrisKill
Just practise... landing is fine. No need for parachutes.
Re: Plane braking
Posted: 2008-09-16 11:25
by @bsurd
imo landing is very fine. You only have to know the landing speed and the trust you set up. Get on a training server and after a day you can land this things blind...
Re: Plane braking
Posted: 2008-09-16 14:13
by Waaah_Wah
Landing is fine if you have a joystick with the ability to control throtle. I dont, and landing is really hard for me
Re: Plane braking
Posted: 2008-09-16 14:23
by Chase Armitage
PlatinumA1 wrote:the cables aeren't connected to a large spring , but this type of machine that pulls back on the cable when a jet lands. I watched a couple documentary's on the Nimitz class carriers' and i never seen a large spring of some sort when they're talking about where the arrestor cable goes to
In mechanics a spring is basically everything that can absorb/store kinetic energy without warping and it does not necessarily have to look like what you know as a spring.
Re: Plane braking
Posted: 2008-09-16 15:27
by Zimmer
maybe instead we should get a longer runway 100 metres or something like that
Re: Plane braking
Posted: 2008-09-16 18:12
by Lorfah
markonymous wrote:
i dont like the idea but i do like arguing about it.
those arent f-16s those are eurofighters.
First pic was of a Norwegian F-16, they are fitted with brake-chutes in case they have to land on one of Norways many short runways. They seldom do though, that pic was from a rare practice back in 1984-85 somethin'
Re: Plane braking
Posted: 2008-09-16 21:52
by Scot
Guys, I never said it didnt happen, but I was asking if he had proof
Re: Plane braking
Posted: 2008-09-17 09:45
by justman2005
Waaah_Wah wrote:^^Reehehehehealy??
loving the ace ventura quotage
Re: Plane braking
Posted: 2008-09-17 12:40
by Waaah_Wah
justman2005 wrote:loving the ace ventura quotage
That film is sooo awesome
Re: Plane braking
Posted: 2008-09-17 14:33
by arjan
Lorfah wrote:First pic was of a Norwegian F-16, they are fitted with brake-chutes in case they have to land on one of Norways many short runways. They seldom do though, that pic was from a rare practice back in 1984-85 somethin'
Isnt it dutch?, if you look at the patch.
Re: Plane braking
Posted: 2008-09-18 20:43
by Lorfah
arjan wrote:Isnt it dutch?, if you look at the patch.
Look further back in topic, you'll see I posted a pic of a norwegian
But yeah, the pic you're thinking of is dutch, saw it on an aerobatics-show in Norway this summer along with some other dutch F-16's, two german F-4's, NATOs E-3 AWACS and some other cool shit
