30.11.2009, 00:39
I'd like to request a review of the AI code related to "emergency" landings.
1. Dead-stick landings - When an AI plane looses it's engine, it just randomly glides to a wheels-up crash landing anywhere even when there is an airfield or roadway within range. Could the AI be made to try to make a dead-stick landing at airfields if they are close enough?
2. Priority landings - AI planes in a flight will form-up in landing pattern even when one is badly damaged or on fire. This leads to the rediculous situation where the first undamaged plane in the flight begins to land while the plane in distress circles overhead. Could the distressed plane be given priority in the landing sequence by making it the first to land?
1. Dead-stick landings - When an AI plane looses it's engine, it just randomly glides to a wheels-up crash landing anywhere even when there is an airfield or roadway within range. Could the AI be made to try to make a dead-stick landing at airfields if they are close enough?
2. Priority landings - AI planes in a flight will form-up in landing pattern even when one is badly damaged or on fire. This leads to the rediculous situation where the first undamaged plane in the flight begins to land while the plane in distress circles overhead. Could the distressed plane be given priority in the landing sequence by making it the first to land?