Ditching

Willy

Willy

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Occasionally I screw up and have to ditch. Some aircraft will ditch and others go into the crash mode once you're on the water. The ones that go to crash bother me as there's no way that you can successfully ditch one. I suspect that the difference is somewhere in the contact paints.

Anyone know how to make one ditchable? I've been flying the HJG 727-100 lately and at least would like the option of being able to ditch it if necessary rather than hit the water and go poof.
 
Willy,

most planes can be made 'ditchable' and contact points are the key as you suggest. Adding 'float' points to the underside of the fuselage and nacelles/wings will do the trick. A bit of trial and error is required as the ditch cannot be allowed to bottom out further than other non float contact points (usually scrape). This makes the plane act as a floater with retractable gear, problems arise when you try to add these float points to fixed gear planes in my experience.

I have added 'ditching' points to all the planes I was putting in to my installs before it all went south!!

Jamie
 
Don't the scrape points also make a plane ditchable? I seem to remember ditching one of the defaults after screwing up a takeoff from Meigs. You put down soft enough and the plane floats long enough that you'd be able to open a door if it was real. Some developers only put in enough contact points to make the gear work. At the very least, you should also have wingtip and fueselage scrapes, maybe even nacelle scrapes for the low-slung shop heaters.
 
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