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To Crash or Not to Crash?

I'm persuaded by the “I know when I've crashed” and the “punitive scenery crash box” arguments. I'm less persuaded, however, by the “FS crash detection is unrealistic” argument. It is, after all, a computer game (oh dear, I'm in trouble now), and games must have rules. I've had CD on forever, and landed pretty hard without FS telling me I crashed, even helicopters on ships. If you're getting “FS crashes” when landing at perfectly good runways (or ships) without mysterious scenery “crash boxes” intervening, then, well, might I suggest you need to land more softly... :a1310:
 
CD off, I spend most of my time on carrier decks and got rather sick of taxiing into something that wasn't there on an old version of the Flying Stations Ark Royal. I beleive the most recent version of the model has these model artifact issues resolved however I just never felt the need to turn it back on, at the end of the day I know when I've crashed and when I havn't and can't be bothered being told I have when I havn't... :a1310:

Craig
 
I never turn CD on. It is buggy, problematic for scenery development, annoying when it detects something, and the concept of highly simplified crash boxes around scenery objects and AC is unrealistic and was already totally obsolete even when FSX was introduced. Our computers could do much better today.

I hope LM wil refine the crash detection / damage detection one day in P3D. Until that day arrives CD will definitly stay off on my system.

Cheers,
Mark
 
It would be good if CD could be limited to landings and over stress of the aircraft. The scenery crash box thing is a pain as well as unrealistic. As a student pilot (soloed) every landing is short of perfect and some can be quite ropy. No bent struts to report - yet.

As I do a lot of carrier ops in FSX, the landing is obviously critical -one of the most challenging things you can do in FS. If I have not done any traps for a while, my first one often is rewarded with a crash. The next ones are good. This suggests that at least for this purpose the CD feature is a useful indicator of that all essential prerequisite for military flying, maintenance of pilot proficiency. Lesson: practice carrier landings more frequently, keep your proficiency higher and you won't crash on the first landing.
 
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