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- From: Ian Catlin <catlin@iosg.enet.dec.com>
- Subject: Re: Leyte Bug - That's No Bug!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.134345.25654@rdg.dec.com>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:43:45 GMT
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- Re: Leyte Bug - That's No Bug!
- In article <2QBVBK6K@cc.swarthmore.edu> Luke Hankins,
- hankins@cs.swarthmore.edu writes:
- >>On another note, I had a most disconcerting experience this evening.
- Coming in
- >>to land on my carrier - I'm about 100 feet (give or take a few :-))
- above the
- >>flight deck, nicely centred for a touch down, when all of a sudden the
- damned
- >>carrier captian decides it's time to change course. So suddenly the
- carrier
- >>starts turning and I have to do some rapid thinking and tricky flying to
- >>actually hit the deck. I touched down OK (just), but boy would I have
- been
- >>pissed off if I'd muffed the landing because of that ;-)
- >
- > Yea, this happened twice in two straight games in the Ammo Dump
- >mission. It's a _weird_ effect to have the carrier start to pivot in
- front
- >of you. I just cranked the throttle up, put up flaps and gear and went
- >around to try again.. this time a bit more carefully... :-)
- >
- > -luke
- >--
-
- This happened to me serveral times, at least two of which were "dead
- stick" landings...
-
- Thanks Captain! :-(
-
- Ian.
-
- All my views are my own and not those of my company, wife, friends,
- relations and dog.
-