Water good enough to ditch on and swim

[baboeska]

DCS needs water and damage good enough to ditch a plane on and then bail out, ie skidding/skipping/skimming on to a beach, etc.

[cfrag]

Mhh. So we can achieve a "Sully"? That would indeed be a great challenge, although AFAIK most pilots (in RL) would eject before attempting a watering (in jets, of course).

I'm not sure that DCS currently has a fully modeled sea (meaning: sea surface is modeled beyond visual waves, so touching the body of water is calculated correctly, mostly it seems that you get a splash if your plane's CG goes below 0, and little else is modelled).

[Gunfreak]

Water ditching should have been worked on when DCS got warbirds.

And with ww2 carriers and carrier aircraft coming soon(TM) water ditching is kinda important.

If not the actual physics get modeled them some simple place holder, like landing on water while moving slower than 100mph automatically count as pilot surviving.

[twistking]

1 hour ago, Gunfreak said:

And with ww2 carriers and carrier aircraft coming soon(TM) water ditching is kinda important.

this

[draconus]

On 1/6/2024 at 5:14 PM, cfrag said:

I'm not sure that DCS currently has a fully modeled sea (meaning: sea surface is modeled beyond visual waves, so touching the body of water is calculated correctly, mostly it seems that you get a splash if your plane's CG goes below 0, and little else is modelled).

I did end up in water many times in DCS, even submerged after that. Maybe it was changed, maybe the aircraft changed, idk, but it wasn't fully simulated or anything reliable.

[SharpeXB]

 Now that we’re getting WWII era carrier aircraft I look forward to ditching them in the sea

[Nodak]

Yes, since eventually float planes must show up in a Pacific setting, since they played a huge part.

[draconus]