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F/A-18 shot down by Messerschmitt


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My "default" test mission in another sim that has terrain that overlaps the Georgia map is to fly an Me 109 on a free flight over Novorossijsk / Gelendzhik where I usually land at the Gelendzhik airport.

 

Some year ago I did a DCS mission over the same area in an F/A-18C instead to compare them. I also added two Messerschmitt 109's to the mission...

 

So now I found the mission and had forgotten what I did and started it. Fooled around for a while and then went in to land on Gelendzhik. Just as I was preparing to turn in on final approach my plane was ripped in pieces in a second. What? Had forgotten about those 109's that had probably been chasing me for a while - and then got the prefect kill while landing. Just the way that the Mustangs and Tempests killed the Me 262 jets during the war :)

 

Kudos to the 109 AI pilot. Perfect intercept of a target that never saw him coming ;)

 


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You forgot to eject. :smilewink:

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You forgot to eject. :smilewink:

 

I was minengeschoss shocked :)

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That kinda reminds me of the scene from the Final Countdown when the Tomkitty's got into a BFM fight with the two japanese Zeros.

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My "default" test mission in another sim that has terrain that overlaps the Georgia map is to fly an Me 109 on a free flight over Novorossijsk / Gelendzhik where I usually land at the Gelendzhik airport.

 

Some year ago I did a DCS mission over the same area in an F/A-18C instead to compare them. I also added two Messerschmitt 109's to the mission...

 

So now I found the mission and had forgotten what I did and started it. Fooled around for a while and then went in to land on Gelendzhik. Just as I was preparing to turn in on final approach my plane was ripped in pieces in a second. What? Had forgotten about those 109's that had probably been chasing me for a while - and then got the prefect kill while landing. Just the way that the Mustangs and Tempests killed the Me 262 jets during the war :)

 

Kudos to the 109 AI pilot. Perfect intercept of a target that never saw him coming ;)

 

 

 

and this is why you always plant a couple SAM's to defend your home airfield. Just in case you "forget" about any AI assets in case they decide to follow you back to home.

 

so situation like these never happen.

 

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Happened to me a few times right after I started flying the F-18 when I missed an Me-109K4 with an AMRAAM. Not sure how he had the energy, but I lost sight and took off at 450 in a climb. He came up and popped me from dead six.

 

 

That's when I figured out AI aircraft don't (or didn't) fly by the rules. Of physics.

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That kinda reminds me of the scene from the Final Countdown when the Tomkitty's got into a BFM fight with the two japanese Zeros.

 

Yeah, they had trouble tailing them because they couldn't fly as slow. Then when they started to strafe the boat....

 

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