Post some of your flight sim mishaps. Mine just happen to be from IL-2

The perils of target fixation. I still didn't get the Hurricane I had lined up on either !!!


I may need to work on turning the aircraft around without tipping it on its nose.



Wheels

Very nice! Love that first shot. Looks like he got out in the nick of time.

Rob

Thanks, I was flying on the Online4Summer map so the clouds were below the height of the mountains. I had just crested one and was chasing the Hurricane to the valley when I got tagged from my 6. I took one last shot at the Hurricane before I bailed out. The you are seriously wounded message made up my mind to give up the ghost and bail.

Considering how often .trk files don't work properly I was happy to get the shot I wanted during playback. I forgot to re-set the video options to Perfect though.


Wheels

Got the hang of take offs, it's landings I have yet to perfect...















Also, tip for beginners, stay clear of your own bomb blast





And, not all flak is harmless



But this is my favourite..."Hey, where did my machine gun go?"

Good ones Heinkill.



Wheels

I may have let my P-39 get just a wee bit too close...



Wheels

The unfortunate result of target fixation..

Did not notice how low I was getting until I caught my undercarriage on the copse of trees behind my plane and went for a ride.

Love the thumbs up!

Me too.


Wheels

Looks like a post-wreck move in a race like NASCAR.

"...and he signals he's ok!"



The Jedi Master

Some old mishaps from me:

Problems with my traffic generator in FS9. The first time this happened scared the hell out of me as it passed.



If bad weather and low visibility weren't enough, there is also a tree to contend with.



New to the game and just ejected from a Black Shark I watched with interest to see if they had modelled a chute tangling with these cables...



I never found out because the chute did not hit a cable at all and floated at a slight diagonal through and clearing them all.



My old computer had some issues with the PMDG screenies sometimes.



At the time I never saw this coming and suddenly found myself at the centre of a dissipating orange glow. A rewind revealed the cause.



I was totally baffled when I got the friendly kill message in this. Again, a rewind revealed an interesting strike of bad luck.



From another angle:



Looking forward to many more in COD, heheh.

Good stuff everyone. Keep them coming.


Wheels

Here's a repost from the CLOD forum

In FS-WWI I flew right into a cow with a Bleriot XI during a botched landing...







Also in FS-WWI I attempted to try an land a Caproni 33 on the deck of the U.S.S. Langley, forgetting the Caproni 33 lacked brakes!

Lol, I see a steak dinner in that pilots future Argon.

Taking out a Zero the hard way.



Wheels

"...yeah, but looking on the bright side, we had a great breakfast, it's a nice day, and for now we're still flying straight and level---"

Ouch!!!

Hi Mom,

I found something beneath the runway while taxiing.... (from my fist online-test of CoD)

That's a very cool shot Maj_Alvega.


Wheels

Just in the nick of time.



Wheels

I've had a few of those. Here's a collection from various sims. Some of these go back almost a decade, so you may have to excuse the lower resolution presentation. There might even be some you're hard pressed to figure out..

You are right Boilerplate, I don't recognize some of those sims.

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Here is my latest.

I'll bet they wish they hadn't hit me. The B-17 tail gunner shot me but my plane continued flying and flew into the B-17.



That fireball between the two Japanese plane wings in front of the B-17 is what's left of my rapidly disintegrating Zero.


Wheels

Mapped the wrong key on my PC Dash2, instead of "lower prop pitch", it was mapped to "set taxi condition". Whith set power to climb, this results into burning engines immediately in the Jetstar.

Some of Boilerplate's screen shots are of Janes WW2 Fighters! I've still got that on the hard drive, I might fire it up. I even have some mods on CD I bought a long while back...

Give that man a Cuban!

There are still a few out there playing it. But it's been over 4 years since the last time I fired it up. The add-ons made a big difference. The mission builder was pretty good too.

Sadly after all these years, the Jane's WW2 Fighters website will be closing at the end 2011. You might want to scramble over there before they draw the curtains.

www.ww2fighters.org

And here's a little known secret:

http://www.simplyhifi.com.au/AWPUpdates.htm

It's sad to see all that history is going to disappear at the end of the year.


Wheels

Another perfect landing...


Wheels

I like it Panther. Kick in the afterburner and you should be good to go.


Wheels

Dilemma: Either jump to your death, or remain trapped in a precarious position, forever!

I chose the former

You picked the short runway there...



You're in good company actually. More BF-109's were lost to ground handling problems than to enemy fire.

Then I should have fit right in, I am constantly having ground handling problems with the 109.


Wheels

How about some new ones ??


Wheels

I am getting better at the head on passes.



Wheels

There needs to be a wingman command for "Stay away from me you idiot!"



I've lost count of the number of times my useless wingman has crashed into me. Of course he ejected with lightning reflexes, while
I flipped upside down and ejected straight into the ground.

It seems no matter the sim the AI always find a way to crash into you.
From the looks of that screenshot the AI pilot came very close to ejecting into you. He was almost too fast on the ejection handle.


Wheels

Sometimes mishaps are good,



here two kills in a row

Cheers

I always like it when a couple of planes I have a few round in take each other out.


Wheels

as economists say: it's good for business!!

Cheers

I couldn't understand why the LSO was going nuts when I tried to land without a tailhook...



Wheels

Didn't survive landing shockingly enough.

You got it all the way home and crashed while trying to land ?


Wheels

Yep, I wasn't able to use the speed breaks while attempting to slow down. If I did only one would deploy. So I attempted to set her down while going faster than I should have, botched it up and it ended up as a burning mass in the middle of the runway.

Those are killers. You nurse your crippled plane home and instead of bailing out like you know you should you try to land and end up a smoking crater. Normally those are the missions that I did a great job, right up until the end...


Wheels

Takeoff went just fine but I need to work on the landings....






















Wheels

Given the paintjob, it's the best landing I can think of for that plane!

JK. Lovely.

Ouch wheels that skin is a real misshap

Lol, I blame Dart for unleashing it on the community. It's been a while since anyone actually used it though.


Wheels

It's the ultimate insult to injury when you get shot down by hello kitty though

That would add insult to injury.


Wheels

Cannon did the skin.

I just distributed it.

I have fun with it offline. I would never take it online since I can't fly worth a hoot. Now if I was "all that" I might be mischievous enough to try it.

I've seen another Hello Kitty skin and I used to have it for the Go-229. I saw it in a skin contest thread at Good Old Games a couple of years ago.


Wheels

Edit:
Lol, I forgot it won the contest.
Go-229 Hello Kitty: http://static03.gog.com/upload/forum/2009/03/f408823c4201ec6aae574fcb9f0b40a2ad147097.JPG

If you read through the entire thread you will see that ElPixelIlustre changed his username to Andresito_epi.

Here is a link to the 4 skins that he uploaded to imageshack. Only one of them is a Hello Kitty skin.

Splat?

I had one of those oops's last night.


Wheels

Flak was a little more accurate than I expected...

I am going to have to tone it down some for anyone to have a chance to survive the mission.


Wheels

Flak did me in again.



Wheels