Bird Strikes in Canopy

[bluepilot76]

I have just learned about birdstrikes from another thread...

 

This is not really a "wish" but something that might be quite cool (although probably quiet annoying if it happened more than once a year...):

 

How about other sorts of birdstrikes, for example windshield. It could be a big bang in one of the sections of glass, and the glass goes all cracked and hard to see out of, with a nice smear of red and some blood and feathers running back over the the canopy. It would provide a nice challenge to land without being able to use one of the windscreens!. Perhaps sometimes it could be in combination with a rough running engine, as no doubt some of the bird would end up going through one of the turbines.

 

Anyway, prob best to get the AI / ATC sorted out first.

[Impact]

I have just learned about birdstrikes from another thread...

 

This is not really a "wish" but something that might be quite cool (although probably quiet annoying if it happened more than once a year...):

 

How about other sorts of birdstrikes, for example windshield. It could be a big bang in one of the sections of glass, and the glass goes all cracked and hard to see out of, with a nice smear of red and some blood and feathers running back over the the canopy. It would provide a nice challenge to land without being able to use one of the windscreens!. Perhaps sometimes it could be in combination with a rough running engine, as no doubt some of the bird would end up going through one of the turbines.

 

Anyway, prob best to get the AI / ATC sorted out first.

 

The windshield is resistant to small arms fire, so I dont think that a little bird will cause any problems to it.

[bluepilot76]

Good point Impact,

 

Although I suspect that "resistant to small arms fire" does not mean the glass wil lbe completely undamaged, just that it will resist a complete penetration of the bullet. Dont know though.

 

Anyways, my glass was broken (on the exterior model) just be flying the aircraft gently into the refuelling boom, so Im sure a bird could manage it!

[Shinigami]

Good point Impact,

 

Although I suspect that "resistant to small arms fire" does not mean the glass wil lbe completely undamaged, just that it will resist a complete penetration of the bullet. Dont know though.

 

Anyways, my glass was broken (on the exterior model) just be flying the aircraft gently into the refuelling boom, so Im sure a bird could manage it!

 

Well I don't know if the glass will break but the smell in the cockpit has to be unbearable, probably the pilot catapult himself. :D

[Frostiken]

Regarding the bird strikes in the engines, honestly I think the best, easiest way to simulate it would be to simply have an animated sprite play once the game determines you've hit a bird. The dice roll, they come up snake eyes, then a sprite plays that shows a small black bird whisking by the canopy into the engine.

 

You wouldn't be able to avoid it since the game already determined you hit it, but would at least serve as a notification of what happened. My first bird strike, for all I knew someone forgot to screw in a panel and the engine sucked it up.

[Santini]

I've said this before and I'll say it again. Flight is tough enough without "bird strikes". The difference between getting hit by a dove and a Berkut eagle is vastly different.

 

"Unless a nation straps a Sparrow missile onto a pigeon and trains it to dogfight I say just make the birds "eye candy".

[IanHx]

I have just learned about birdstrikes from another thread...

 

This is not really a "wish" but something that might be quite cool (although probably quiet annoying if it happened more than once a year...):

 

How about other sorts of birdstrikes, for example windshield. It could be a big bang in one of the sections of glass, and the glass goes all cracked and hard to see out of, with a nice smear of red and some blood and feathers running back over the the canopy. It would provide a nice challenge to land without being able to use one of the windscreens!. Perhaps sometimes it could be in combination with a rough running engine, as no doubt some of the bird would end up going through one of the turbines.

 

Anyway, prob best to get the AI / ATC sorted out first.

 

 

Thought 'Hogs were only vulnerable to rear hemisphere bird strikes ? :)

[Advicepuppy]

One 7.62x39mm 154 grain round: 2,056.3 J of energy

 

One 8 pound bird traveling at roughly 350 knots: 5,8821.8 J of energy (That's if the bird was still. Add/subtract 20-40 knots depending on direction)

 

 

I'd take the bullet.

[AlphaOneSix]

That's a bad comparison, the bullet focuses that energy on a small point, while the bird spreads it out over a much larger area, so obviously the bullet will cause more damage.

[Wolf Rider]

 

F-16 canopy

 

 

 

UH-60

 

 

 

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[b0redj0rd]

.. and another on a Harrier