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Helicopters fall on their sides and dont explode
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Description

this happens quite a lot and it seems like it happens when you land on a hill side and for some reason there is a lot of drag on the chopper and it falls over and stays that way

Details

Legacy ID
1943745048
Severity
None
Resolution
No Bug
Reproducibility
Always
Category
Game Physics
Steps To Reproduce

landing on hillside

Event Timeline

Mcbosher edited Steps To Reproduce. (Show Details)May 15 2013, 9:50 AM
Mcbosher edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
Mcbosher set Category to Game Physics.
Mcbosher set Reproducibility to Always.
Mcbosher set Severity to None.
Mcbosher set Resolution to No Bug.
Mcbosher set Legacy ID to 1943745048.May 7 2016, 2:07 PM
Koala added a subscriber: Koala.May 7 2016, 2:07 PM

In real life helicopters/choppers don't simply explode, if they fall on their side.

b101uk added a subscriber: b101uk.May 7 2016, 2:07 PM

Just because a helicopter falls on its side even when running on or close the ground at low speed and e.g. gets the rotors snapped off etc etc doesn’t mean it should explode or even catch fire, given many military helicopters have fire suppression systems.

Youtube is littered with helicopter crash videos showing low speed crashes, crashes from low/stationery hovers caused by tail rotor failures or rotor entanglements, even helicopters striking the ground at ~60kph at low angles, which show they don’t explode unless there is significant speed and high angles involved at point of impact, even fire doesn’t happen that often.

Having everything explode at the merest provocation is very Hollywood

We are very sorry, this issue was closed as no-bug.