30.06.2010, 19:32
Yesterday I went back at flying the Mig-15bis over Korea winter and could not get any good shot without getting shut down, mostly because of the
WANTED enemy No1: the AI's from my own side. (See WANTED POST ). So today I was in a better mood and decided to try again.
All was going well, managed to shot down two F-86 escort planes ( 2 out of 8 ) before any AI stole them from me, pursued and shot down four F84F's and four
Panther's in bomber config. ( I asked my team to rejoin so they would not interfere), after the kills I sent them home. Then went to the US airfield and destroyed
11 planes on the ground with limited ammo and fuel (no AAA). I knew at this point there was still an enemy aircraft intact down there
and ammo in some of my guns, but decided that the fuel situation could turn nasty on me and ruin it all: so I called it a day and turned back.
I cruised 340 kmh all the way and I arrived at the airfield a low speed of 280 kmh, there were still four 'friendly' migs landing, and I was asked to go around.
I throttled up to regain some altitude and make a go around. On the next pass to land I was given the OK, so I lower the gear and bang the gear was lost .
I noticed, a bit late, that my airspeed was now 540 Kmh !
I was stuck in the air, with thoughts of bailing, but felt it was a chicken way out. In every past experiences trying to land the Mig-15 without gear, the result was
a very big ball of fire... So I flung myself around, in and out of the airfield until I felt good enough to touch down, broke the aircraft apart in bits and survived:
final tally 22 aircraft destroyed including my own ! It was all going so well, I just forgot a tiny detail...
Worst of all, is that I was recording this game with my best result so far, then had to messed up. :|
WANTED enemy No1: the AI's from my own side. (See WANTED POST ). So today I was in a better mood and decided to try again.
All was going well, managed to shot down two F-86 escort planes ( 2 out of 8 ) before any AI stole them from me, pursued and shot down four F84F's and four
Panther's in bomber config. ( I asked my team to rejoin so they would not interfere), after the kills I sent them home. Then went to the US airfield and destroyed
11 planes on the ground with limited ammo and fuel (no AAA). I knew at this point there was still an enemy aircraft intact down there
and ammo in some of my guns, but decided that the fuel situation could turn nasty on me and ruin it all: so I called it a day and turned back.
I cruised 340 kmh all the way and I arrived at the airfield a low speed of 280 kmh, there were still four 'friendly' migs landing, and I was asked to go around.
I throttled up to regain some altitude and make a go around. On the next pass to land I was given the OK, so I lower the gear and bang the gear was lost .
I noticed, a bit late, that my airspeed was now 540 Kmh !
I was stuck in the air, with thoughts of bailing, but felt it was a chicken way out. In every past experiences trying to land the Mig-15 without gear, the result was
a very big ball of fire... So I flung myself around, in and out of the airfield until I felt good enough to touch down, broke the aircraft apart in bits and survived:
final tally 22 aircraft destroyed including my own ! It was all going so well, I just forgot a tiny detail...
Worst of all, is that I was recording this game with my best result so far, then had to messed up. :|