movement in the grass

[Robo76]

I suppose the inability to land on grass or get stuck in grass while taxiing is a bug. These aircraft (like the Su-25) were designed to operate from grass airfields.

[gulredrel]

That's not specific to L-39, it's a general DCS issue, where everything else than concrete or asphalt is like muddy glue. Don't know if this will change or not.

Grass airfields on WWII maps should work. I have no idea how the terrain characteristics are modeled.

[Johnny Dioxin]

People have been complaining about it for many years, I doubt anything will change. I thought it had been fixed a while back, but seems not.

[Robo76]

I don't have WWII, so I don't know how it's adapted there, but if it goes there, why shouldn't it go throughout DCS. Maybe it would be possible to modify an area using zones on the map and limit the speed and landing gear endurance on those zones so that DCS would treat it as a "grass runway", which would prevent F-15s, F-16s, F-18s, Su-27s, etc. from taking off over other grass areas on the airfield (which is happening), but allow machines that were suited for it to taxi and take off from the grass runway. If the point of DCS is faithful simulation, the ability to take off on grass is also a strategic feature of the aircraft that becomes very apparent in MP missions where the "red" machines are not just reliant on the airfield. Military eastern doctrine counted on their airfields being destroyed. Western military doctrine dealt with this largely by way of STOVL aircraft.

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[Munin]

I've been operating out of the grassfields in Normandy since they were added. Works with Viggen too (not IRL).

 

[Robo76]

[hsth]

We've been asking for this since the LockOn introduction. Unfortunitly, ED has been developing the takeoff/landing capabalities based on western planes like the A-10.