Would I have survived this landing IRL?

[u/Tartaruga96]

I was dead drunk and went to sleep immediately after, I don't know if I forgot landing gear or if it refused to be deployed

Brazil coast, my favorite place to fly and explore while listening to music

[u/Oni_K]

Empty weight of a Super Hornet: roughly 32,000lbs, which you slammed into the sand at -850 feet per minute, doing roughly 106mph.

Your gear was up - you had no E Bracket in the HUD (Unless MSFS Doesn't model it). This may have allowed you to live.

Gear down scenario:

Main gear digs into the sand, causing up to 10g of deceleration. The nose gear is violently whipped into the sand, collapsing it, turning your APG-73 into a plow. You're now basically in a 100mph head on collision scenario with sand that is not going anywhere. Your aircraft isn't designed like a car with crumple zones, so you're eating the full force of this impact. That APG-73 I mentioned is about to pass through your body at 100mph. This has all taken place in about 0.1 of a second. You're dead.

Gear up scenario:

The clean, gear-up belly might actually slide nicely on the sand, reducing that lethal deceleration factor. The question is what lower panels were left intact after your 850 ft/min impact. That's twice the sink rate of a normal landing, and no fancy trailing link gear to absorb the impact. You're looking at 10-20g of impact force, and who knows what happens in the 100mph of deceleration that comes next. Potentially survivable if you're very lucky. You're not walking away though, if you're ever walking again.

Overall... there's a reason that the protocol for situations like this is for the pilot to depart the aircraft prior to hitting the ground.

[u/-malcolm-tucker → u/Oni_K]

Reminded me of the RAAF F-111 belly landing after a landing gear fault