So you get all shot up out at sea in your Wildcat and you're too low to bail out, so you ditch, just like it says in the manual. And then you sink, explode and die. Is there a dismount key? A climb out on the wing and inflate life jacket key? The ooo option doesn't work for me when I'm on the water. My pilot just sits there and takes what's coming. Any pointers?
Thanks for the help.

at see I dont think theres anything you can do, but on land if you bring it in gently enough you'll grind to a halt in one piece and survive

Yes you're all correct, the sim designers didn't think this one all the way through or maybe they just didn't care what happens to us after we go in.  My guess on this is that we are just supposed to exit the mission immediatly after the plane comes to a stop as has been suggested earlier.

In reality, an average WW 2 fighter didn't sink quite as fast as CFS 2 and they certainly didn't always blow up after submerging.  A pilots biggist hazard was being knocked unconcious on impact. Even though they were strapped in, they often hit their head on the gun sight.

As for the best chances of surviving a wheels up landing or "Watering" as the case may be, I've found that applying some flap then turning everything off: Main Switch, Gas, Mags, Feathering the prop so it comes to a complete stop then  taking care to set it down under 80 knots with the nose up will usually assure servivability and at least on land, it won't blow up at all.  Nothing I've tried seems to keep the ship from blowing in the water which strikes me a pretty stupid but then I could go on for a few pages about what I think is wrong with M$'s approach to military flight sims.

L.J. Over...

Well lads in CFS2 you can survive a bail out a very low level. You just gotta hit O 3 times very very fast.

I also find that having the canopy open in a scrap helps you to live. As it saves time and altitude. As long as your parachute is opening your fine to fly another day.

You might want to play around with this file.
Cfs2 warp n' ditch by C.Burgess. It's over at Flightsim.com goto search and file exact is:

warpitch.zip

It's a .dyn but can be inserted into missions (not free flight or qc)

Hope this helps. Bertie

If you are gonna belly in and land, you should try to get your prop to stop moving. That is what causes the mortal prop strike. Stop the prop, save a life!

to all you flyers out how do you open the canopy without bailing out????  what  key needs to be pushed.

michaelmichael

Actually, it is possible to survive a ditching in the missions, But you must modify each mission in order to do so.  A while back I used to build missions for CFS2 and I released a set which I called the "Ditch Test" which included 3 missions where the objective was to ditch the plane under certain circumstances.  I managed to do this creating a set of "triggers" and "events" in the mission which allowed the mission to end if the plane came to a complete stop at an altitude of 0 (in the water).  The mission would end simular to if you had bailed out over the water.  If you would like to see these missions I made (feel free to open them in mission builder and incorporate the technique into the stock missions-if you want to spend the time).  The mission is located here: http://www.simviation.com/cfs2missions5.htm.

I plan to modify all the stock missions and release them with this ditch modification when I get the time.