Just a question about birds and BMS
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What did you want birds to do? Are we talking about homing pigeons or bird strike to simulate engine failure? How about migratory patterns?
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@Vespa said in Just a question about birds and BMS:
Hello all !
This question is more for the dev BMS team.
I know you have a lot of work. It’s just a question (no bad intentions)
Do you think there’s a way or is it possible to implemented birds in BMS?
Thank you! And thank you for all your fantastic work
you say like this
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@VIPER-0 I suppose we don’t see them in real flight but that can add some realism. In real life I suppose you can’t do low fly where you want with the risk of bird strike. Near to the beach too, etc…
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@spotdott bird strike to simulate engine failure.
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@Vespa YES!!! Definitely!! Ok, it would be fuckup when returning from mission and you hit the bird…but why not!?
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@Vespa - nothing, really…
…I was part of the Fleet Introduction Team for the T-45A at NAS Kingsville for a year, and was expecting to see a LOT of bird strikes in that area, mainly due to op-tempo and being only two miles inland. I never heard a single one reported in that year.
OTOH, I’ve been operating jets in the middle of the Mojave desert for over 30 years, and once we had an F/A-18C hit a flock of 5 pelicans (pelicans - in the desert???) on takeoff…the pilot aborted to airborne, and then managed to get the jet back down safely on the runway after a go-around. The birds about took the whole windscreen off the jet, and messed up an intake pretty bad.
Moral of the story - you don’t have to be anywhere near a beach to strike birds. Personally, I’d be just as happy to see this risk added to BMS, along with civilian traffic as appropriate.
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@Stevie and what about Europe ?
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@Stevie Sure Civilian traffic is more important or perhaps “Aerian military corridor” (perhaps there is a specific word in english for that, english is not my mother language)
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Birds , cows ….
I think we might have much more important things to implement or fix in a combat simulator
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@Vespa said in Just a question about birds and BMS:
Hello all !
This question is more for the dev BMS team.
I know you have a lot of work. It’s just a question (no bad intentions)
Do you think there’s a way or is it possible to implemented birds in BMS?
Thank you! And thank you for all your fantastic work
Not sure we need more animals than bugs.
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@Stevie said :…an F/A-18C hit a flock of 5 pelicans. The birds about took the whole windscreen off the jet, and messed up an intake pretty bad.
Were the pelicans okay…?
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@Aragorn Yeah, they went to a better place.
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@Aragorn said in Just a question about birds and BMS:
@Stevie said :…an F/A-18C hit a flock of 5 pelicans. The birds about took the whole windscreen off the jet, and messed up an intake pretty bad.
Were the pelicans okay…?
They dropped hot, invisible flares and flew away. (camels do the same. And they spit on SA10 missiles inbound.)
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@Mav-jp tha’s what I said in an other post. That’ S why this is just a question.
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Bugs ! A sim is not a sim if you don’t get a bug splattered on your windshield. Even Test Drive in the 80s had them!
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@Vyper37
Well each sim these days has enough bugs, point is that’s not easy for devs to splatter those little buggers.on the serious note, while I understand it’s gonna be low priority, getting into BMS all those little things that rl pilot has to take into consideration is a huge + for me (including birdstrikes, system/weapons failures etc …)