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Old 03-17-2010, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by MBot View Post
What a great idea, the Catalina would be perfect to go along the new SAR mechanics that have been shown.
Amphibious aircraft cannot be accomodated by the game engine. An aircraft must be either a land plane, or a seaplane, it cannot be both. Hence if you took a PBY and made it a seaplane in the game engine and lowered the gear and tried to land at an airfield the engine would register it as a crash and you would in all likelyhood explode. The reverse is true if you made the PBY appear as a land plane to the game engine and had the gear up and landed on water the game would see it as ditching and the plane would sink.
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