Forgot a setting

[Krusty]

exit in flight for "chute" needs to be on. It is off. To hell with floating down from 10k. I alt f4ed and stayed gone.

Just thought I'd mention/request it.

[Oldman731]

Originally posted by Krusty
exit in flight for "chute" needs to be on. It is off. To hell with floating down from 10k. I alt f4ed and stayed gone.

Just thought I'd mention/request it.

Um, just so you know, Krusty, I don't think I'll do this, and I don't believe that other people have done it either.  The only exit-from-vehicle setting that's generally enabled is the manned guns.

Two theories at least to back this up.  

First, it's more realistic.  I post this so that other CMs can claim it is their justification, and it is plainly the most objectively accurate reason.

Second....heh....the reason SOME of us have is that bailers ought to suffer.  

- oldman

[allmetal]

Originally posted by Krusty
exit in flight for "chute" needs to be on. It is off. To hell with floating down from 10k. I alt f4ed and stayed gone.

Just thought I'd mention/request it.

 everybody is thinking this so i might as well say it...........try not getting shot down.

[storch]

besides it's fun chuting at anything that asks to be chaat.

[Slash27]

Dont pull the ripcord so soon?

[Krusty]

Well if it comes to waiting 10 minutes to get down or alt f-4ing, I'm alt f-4ing every time, and I think others might too.

[Slash27]

How exactly is it taking you 10 minutes to get down Krusty?

[Krusty]

ever bail at 10k?

Ever lose a tail at high alt and to drifting down because you don't want to bail (I wonder which is faster, riding the plane carcass in or free falling?). It still takes a while.

[Slash27]

Ride the wreck down then bail. Unless its in a flat spin you should get down pretty quik.

[Bear76]

or be a man and ride it in:p

[Krusty]

You're missing the point. Often it takes forever to "ride it in". It has nothing to do with "being a man". If I get shot down so be it, but there's no reason I shold have to wait for a mini eternity just to get back down, in the tower, and able to reup. It takes long enough to find a fight most of the time, and I'm more likely to be shot down than to do the shooting, so it's a big issue for me, mkay? No offense to anyone else, but it's a hinderance.

[Sundiver]

HALO

[Slash27]

Well, no offense back but,  what planes are you flying that take "forever" to crash? Give a better example if you can. I really just dont see the problem.

[Krusty]

you lose a stab or tail and you're basically in a flat spin. Example? Sure. I was in a yak at 12k or os and lost half my plane around me. I was mostly in a nose up attitude and floating down. Past experience shows this will take forever. Hell you can waste 60 seconds "riding it in" from just a few thousand feet. 10-12k? Fuggeddaboudit!

[Karnak]

Well, just bail out.  If you don't pull the cord it only takes a short while to reach the ground.  What I usually do is try to time opening the chute so that I just barely slow down enough to survive.  I can't recall spending more than a minute, if that, bailing from an aircraft unless I messed up and opened the chute way up there.