#make seaplanes not sink

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minor estuary
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its so annoying that my seaplane just sink when i trying to do a soft landing

molten vine
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that sir is sadly, as i am sure some people which will begin typing here shortly, considered a "skill issue"

mild hill
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skil-

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jk

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just try to land smoother

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i recommend you to practice with a seaplane that has a high mounted engine

minor estuary
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i failed in a beriev a-40, which has high mounted jets

mild hill
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a good examples would be hughes hercules, boeing 314, dornier do x,…

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they are quite expensive

molten vine
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mbr

mild hill
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but they are easy to use

molten vine
mild hill
molten vine
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i know

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you know what you can use

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the icon A5

mild hill
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Grumman albatross

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icon a5 is small

molten vine
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the A5 is the MOST beginner friendly aircraft there is

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cheapest one too

minor estuary
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i have every licence in the game

molten vine
severe radish
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physics problem

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kinda hard to fix

round seal
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Definitely should be fixed

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Especially if it’s a small plane like the float scout

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For a glassy water landing you’re supposed to come in at -150fpm on the vsi

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In game if you try to do glassy technique you plow through the surface despite a very slow descent rate and your engine dies

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And also if you’re too slow you start skipping on the water which will probably kill your engine too so you have to come in way faster than you should

quiet mountain
severe radish
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Lun Class Ekranoplan:

quiet mountain
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Ekranoplans are easy but MBR and sea dart are pain

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sea dart is sorta easy

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but MBR is fucking impossible without drowning the rear jets

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Unless you do a long ass shallow landing

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which basically makes it unviable

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and if it was viable it would be more efficient than Hypermach for chaining

mild hill
quiet mountain
mild hill
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its not easy to find a cruise altitude

quiet mountain
severe radish
mild hill
severe radish
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Because of the incredibly low service ceiling

mild hill
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but 0.1-0.2 m/s VS

severe radish
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You can easily just stall and die

mild hill
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its not really hard if you know how to fly them

quiet mountain
mild hill
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i've ES'd mine

quiet mountain
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Really easy
Turning is harder but also relatively easy compared to landing the damn MBR

mild hill
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just use A/D

quiet mountain
mild hill
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not that much

quiet mountain
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So you have to re-align it or you will either stall or sink

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if you’re doing 90 degree turns you can plunge and die

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😭

mild hill
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if youre at 0.1 m/s VS it doesnt really affect your VS

quiet mountain
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but seaplanes can rotate earlier than other aircraft

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Which means you can keep it at the lowest throttle setting to maintain yellow speed, and then when you touch down, hold shift and decrease the throttle into the red

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and Itl instantly float

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the problem comes with planes like SD MBR
Doing this forces you to be at such a high angle of attack that the rear engines will always drown out

mild hill
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just fly at low throttle with a high AoA

quiet mountain
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MBR dies with that

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And sea dart

mild hill
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^^^ both have shitty engine placement

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those are exceptions

mild hill
round seal
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pain

molten vine
severe radish
molten vine
left loom
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Issu of skill indeed

round seal
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not a skill issue on small planes, those shits just kill themselves on the regular

molten vine