Losing Control in aircraft from damage

[Zill]

Is it me or aircraft just giving up after being slightly damaged?
*get hit in the left wing tip*
Airplane:'welp there goes all control, guess we die now'

[-=GHS=-BoonDock™]

warthunder

[Zill]

thats stupid tho

[shadain597]

Reminder: the hits and damage you see while flying may not be the same as the ones the server registers. Just because you see a damaged wingtip doesn't meant the control surfaces weren't hit.

[The Warden]

the control wire could have been hit

[shadain597]

Originally posted by The Warden:

the control wire could have been hit

Whoops, that's more along the lines of what I meant.

[Zill]

Originally posted by shadain597:

Reminder: the hits and damage you see while flying may not be the same as the ones the server registers. Just because you see a damaged wingtip doesn't meant the control surfaces weren't hit.

that would be acceptable if the damage model would update accordingly but, at the same time I had an enemy plane slap wings with me and still only took the wing tip off only for me to just tumble out of the air. I definitely dont like the game saying im dead when im clearly still alive.

[Tomoko]

you never seen the PB4Y. Slight damages in a wing, or an engine. And it stalls. it stalls and goes into a flat spin. It stalls. at 240 km/s. When flying straight. With flaps at 15 degrees. And it barely goes any faster than 260-270 km/H. The flight model is bamboozled.

[shadain597]

Originally posted by Zill:

Originally posted by shadain597:

Reminder: the hits and damage you see while flying may not be the same as the ones the server registers. Just because you see a damaged wingtip doesn't meant the control surfaces weren't hit.

that would be acceptable if the damage model would update accordingly but, at the same time I had an enemy plane slap wings with me and still only took the wing tip off only for me to just tumble out of the air. I definitely dont like the game saying im dead when im clearly still alive.

You had a mid-air collision? Yep, that'll do it; that part of Gaijin's physics is REALLY bad and inconsistent. I've lost count of the number of times I've hit or been hit by another plane head-on where IRL there would be no survivors but in-game one plane became a fireball while the other flew away without a scratch.

[JuX]

It all depends how the game is feeling like doing. Iv flown and landed planes with half a wing missing.

[Edgrponce]

Originally posted by Zill:

Originally posted by shadain597:

Reminder: the hits and damage you see while flying may not be the same as the ones the server registers. Just because you see a damaged wingtip doesn't meant the control surfaces weren't hit.

that would be acceptable if the damage model would update accordingly but, at the same time I had an enemy plane slap wings with me and still only took the wing tip off only for me to just tumble out of the air. I definitely dont like the game saying im dead when im clearly still alive.

The sudden loss of weight and massive drag there could have sent the plane hard to the left and it couldn't recover and went into a flatspin. Thats my take on it

[HudsonM1A2]

Sometimes, a plane can take a massive load of damage and survive/be still flyable. It depends where it received a hit. If the enemy snaps your control cables, even though the rest of your plane is fine, you will, most likely, crash.

Also, the aerodynamics of planes can vary a lot. Planes with smaller wings do not tend to take well on losing "a bit" of very crucial flight control pieces. Planes with bigger wings and control surfaces can make it back to the base and even land with as much as half of the wing missing on occasion. Speed and other things such as payload factors in your odds of survival too.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Plane controls used to be much more resilient to damage years back and then at some point they changed the damage model to them making often ridiculously light damage completely lock up your controls, then they toned the ridiculous control loss back a little and left it there where it`s still pretty bad.

[flyboymb]

The Japanese tier ii heavies have some awe-inspiring damage physics. Get hit enough and escape, and you eventually start to fly sideways. I don't think that's aerodynamically possible.