How About Landing Gear?

[Tom21]

How About Landing Gear for your Airship?? You Know Most Aircraft Have Them??

[Phoenix Cat]

Airship Landing Gear - No longer required as Airships no longer receive damage when landing.

[roterfelsen]

English (translated by google):
Technically speaking, airships aren't airplanes, they're ships.
And in reality, today's airships don't have landing gear either, because they don't need one.
And if the damage during landing has now been repaired, the issue itself is obsolete, but if you descend slowly, nothing happens. At least not for me.

German:
Rein technisch betrachtet sind Luftschiffe keine Flugzeuge, sondern eben Schiffe.
Und ganz real betrachtet haben heutige Luftschiffe auch keine Fahrwerk, weil sie keines brauchen.
Und wenn der Schaden bei der Landung jetzt entfernt wurde, ist das Thema zwar an sich obsolet, aber wenn man schön langsam runtergeht, dann passiert auch nichts. Bei mir zumindest nicht.

[Coops]

The ramp can act as a landing gear.

[ChanceGateau]

You technically don't need to "land" at all. Sure, it's easier, and it keeps those scrapwing hatcheries from latching onto your airship (there are ways to prevent them if you know how), but it is unnecessary. You can "hover" and use the boarding plank to go up and down from the airship; as they were sort of intended for in the first place.

[Redeemer]

Originally posted by ChanceGateau:

You technically don't need to "land" at all. Sure, it's easier, and it keeps those scrapwing hatcheries from latching onto your airship (there are ways to prevent them if you know how), but it is unnecessary. You can "hover" and use the boarding plank to go up and down from the airship; as they were sort of intended for in the first place.

I put railings all around, and those dang things keep coming; now they glitch into my engines so I cant get to them; SUPER frustrating.. having to remove stuff just to take them out!

[Antaiir]

Originally posted by Tom21:

You Know Most Aircraft Have Them??

You know, no airship has them?

[Tom21]

OK then What are thos? https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a26797827/goodyear-blimp-wingfoot-two/

[Zeev]

Originally posted by Phoenix Cat:

Airship Landing Gear - No longer required as Airships no longer receive damage when landing.

Well but we players still love the "thrill" of landing and taking off, me at least, whenenver I try to approach landing "pad" I am doing it slowly as I approach.
Some sense of "realism" and that we have landing gear will be great, in my opinion.

[Antaiir]

Originally posted by Tom21:

OK then What are thos? https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a26797827/goodyear-blimp-wingfoot-two/

When you see those on _one_ bicycle, following your logic, _every_ biycle has them: https://bilder.obi.de/1419000d-0d4d-4350-8a59-794baff284cc/prZZK/image.jpeg

That said, usually a "blimp" is not really an "airship" (technically).

Your turn. :-p

[Redeemer]

Originally posted by Zeev:

Originally posted by Phoenix Cat:

Airship Landing Gear - No longer required as Airships no longer receive damage when landing.

Well but we players still love the "thrill" of landing and taking off, me at least, whenenver I try to approach landing "pad" I am doing it slowly as I approach.
Some sense of "realism" and that we have landing gear will be great, in my opinion.

It would be nice to have some little feet or something for it to stand on, but really, the frame that extends on the bottom is substantial enough. Not to mention, the feet would make climbing back into it more difficult, especially with some of the areas you land on (giant lily pods etc.) I want less, not more, underneath the ship when landing.

Its not a "plane" so landing gear (tires, struts) arent really necessary, as its not "speeding" to a landing (unless you do that yourself), and it doesnt "roll" when it gets there. (Im a former Aircraft Mechanic)

[Mayor]

I would still like some landing gear so that you can always land level, how it is currently if one tiny leaf or pipe blocks the way you don't "land" and are technically still flying.

[w1l3ecoyot3]

Real airships DO have landing gear, generally to facilitate moving (being towed) into and out of hangars, negative buoyancy and ground friction helps this because a 5 knot wind has a LOT of force when it is affecting 100s of square meters of balloon...