Request concerning Chutes

[Torque]

 

Originally posted by hazed-:
hey how about we put flowers in the end of our guns?  

personally i dont shoot chutes because i once saw an interveiw with an american pilot who described a german shooting bomber crews in their chutes.His eyes glazed over with something akin to pure hatred and disgust and then went on to describe how he shot the 'dirty bastard' down but made sure he didnt destroy his plane.Sure enough the german pilot bailed and he said he flew around him lined up and fired his mg's at him
'.50 cals sure make a mess of a guy in a chute' 'and that was that'.

hazed

Hazed, I saw that too, pretty kewl how he describe the whole affair. Hey did you see the other show mainly about RAF and LW pilots on chute strafing? Most RAF pilots said it was common practice for LW pilots to chute strafe. One RAF pilot describe how he got a Gerry's chute hungup on his left wing and slowly yawed AC to slip chute off no to tear it and save the LW pilots life. I also remember one RAF pilot saying "hell ya I killed them in their chute they were trying to enslave us"

[Karnak]

People in 'chutes should have their text imput blocked.

A penalty of some kind for shooting 'chutes would then make sense.  But not before.

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[AKDejaVu]

 

It would be kinda cool if you had a "backup" chute, like modern parachutists do. That way, you could bail at 20k and pop the chute and be an arty spotter, and if a plane came at you, pop the chute off and fall fast and away so he couldn't hit you. Then pop the backup just before landing.

This wouldn't work for many reasons:

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• I allways go for the chutist.. not the chute
• The average terminal velocity of a falling body is less than 200 mph
• My plane flies faster than 200 mph[/list=a]
  
  I'm an opportunist/defensive chute shooter.  I only kill em if they are right in front of me or have any kind of e advantage.
  
  AKDejaVu

[AKDejaVu]

 

His eyes glazed over with something akin to pure hatred and disgust and then went on to describe how he shot the 'dirty bastard' down but made sure he didnt destroy his plane.Sure enough the german pilot bailed and he said he flew around him lined up and fired his mg's at him
'.50 cals sure make a mess of a guy in a chute' 'and that was that'.

I imagine this would be similar to the hatred the German pilot had for the individuals manning a craft that planed to drop bombs on his homeland... indiscriminantly killing anything nearby.

Strange how one case of chute shooting is justified when someone sees his countrymen being slaughtered.. the other isn't.

AKDejaVu

[This message has been edited by AKDejaVu (edited 01-02-2001).]

[mrfish]

what would you do if someone dropped 6000 lbs of bombs on your house? not *A* house but *YOUR* house and killed your wife, dog and lil' timmy too?

imagine now that you were near that bomber in a fighter and you shot the guy down and got to watch him bail - what would you do then?

que patriotic music: "tally-ho old chum, jolly good battle - i feel so chivalrous here is a heart-felt salute! Bully ol boy!! here, let me go land and toss up a tent where my house was and then we will chat about our brave battle and how you waxed my family and we will have tea and maybe greco-roman wrestle...."

no you would kill the chump! i shoot chutes because i am evil and it is fun but if you ever needed justification there ya go-

[PakRat]

Jeeze. Again, what a bunch of bunched-panty girls.

"Don't shoot my chute! It offends me!"

The guys here asking what is the big deal, pointing out the ego issues, and especially the ones pointing out the strat of a nice high chute over an enemy base being shelled - kudos. Your panties ain't bunched.

The rest of you losers will look good in silk spattered with your unworthy blood.  



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