Is This An Fs2004 Feature Only?

[Nick Tselepides 1]

Here was I, coming in to land at Athens airport, in virtual cockpit view in Kirk Olsson's wonderful F-16 VIPER, all dirtied up and with dive brakes open to boot,as my approach was steep and I had to cut down speed fast. Lined up on center line nicely,I noticed at the moment of touchdown sparks flying off from under the nose of the aircraft into the air.. :o :( .Had I let the gear down? Of course, I had! B) But then again I thought I had repressed G again, but wasn't sure. Unwilling to change to outside view for the moment of truth, and half-curious to see what would happen if indeed I had made a belly landing, I let the aircraft roll, sparks and all, until it started to do jumps and cartwheel-like tricks, when, Lord O Lord, I finally decided to press G and see if the gear would come out. I was stunned : the gear came out, the plane rose slightly, and the roll was normal--me still in virtual cockpit view, all within seconds and no time to look at the speeds on the HUD.Like all expert pilots, this was my 75th belly landing, I thought...Swtiching to outside view, I saw my F-16 still rolling nicely on its wheels, so I veered off the runway and pulled the parking break. I then used the Instant replay option for 80 seconds, to see what I had done properly. Belly-landed of course, BUT when I pressed for gear out during the roll, the gear did come out and the plane went back on its legs nicely, as if nothing had happened.None the worse for wearand not a dent anywhere.. :D Only my simmer's wings had been trampled a bit and somewhere in my mind a voice told me that this was not the first time, must be more careful next time round.

 

But I had through this experience discovered a feature of FS2002 I did not know. Now I wonder if it happens to other aircraft as well, like the default ones, for example.I can try and see what happens, unless some of you fearless pilots out there have tested things and know better.

 

 

Nick Tselepides from Athens, Greece.

[Guest MrMudd]

I had to try it with the king Air. I thought it was pretty funny i could grind away but not damage the props..lol Spark and Go!

[PG_Raptor 0]

lol, I tried that too, got the same thing. But what was really weird, I tried a gear up landing in the 737 at LaGaurdia. It did the whole sparks flying thing, and I came to a stop. Then things went weird. I started to accelerate. backwards. I didn't have any reverse thrust, i was at idle. yet here is my plane accelerating backwards. weird. Anyways, I put down the gear and used the brakes to stop somewhere off one of the taxyways. What a weird landing.