P38s and pilot wounds

[Roundeye]

Is it just me, or does everyone seem to get more PW in P-38s?

I do not fly them anymore unless I am required to by a special event or squad mission.  I stopped because it seemed like every time I upped, it ended with a PW.  I rarely get them in the other rides I normally fly.

Last night in FSO, what do I get assigned?  yep, P-38.  I figure WTF, I'll give them another try.  We get up and I keep my alt.  We then tie up with a pile of Zeros and I maintain my speed and alt advantage, but as I make a run at one, of course he turns hard and I am forced to blast by to keep my speed up (and not get suckered into turning with them), someone gets a quick snapshot and what do I see spattered in my cockpit?....you guessed it.

I head for home but our field looks like a red hornets nest and I'm blacking out, so of course it's lights out.

*yawn* 


So, Is it:

1.  I just have bad luck in Lightnings.
2.  The Lightning in this game has a bullet-magnet cockpit made of plastic.
3.  (Insert comment like "you should just avoid the bullets" )

[Morpheus]

It depends on the night for me I guess. Some nights that's all I do is get pilot wounds. Other nights its rad hits. Good thing about the 38 is its got two of pretty much everything, except pilots.

But yeah, I guess I do seem to get pilot wounds more frequently than in other rides.

[pipz]

I recall one time when I was in the 475th.Two other guys and I were attacking some buffs in 38s.All three of us went away with pilot wounds.At times I felt I was almost guaranteed a pilot wound while attacking buffs in a 38.It always gave me the impression that it was more prone to pilot wounds than the other planes.


Pipz

[Roundeye]

Fits in line with what I've been hearing in the MAs.  So, was the P-38 that flimsy in the cockpit in RL, or is it a modeling thing?

Kinda sad because the plane is an otherwise great aircraft.

[Murdr]

[CAP1]

I GET EM FAIRLY OFTEN IN THE 38S.

 i still keep lflyin em, as it's the only way i'm gonna get better in em.

[save]

How many mm's  of armour ?

Survivability increases man times with increased armour.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

The armor itself is pretty thick, capable of resisting most anything short of armor piercing 50 BMG or cannon rounds on its own.

Note that the sides are without armor. However, you'll almost never see a hole in the side, when you get wounded. Further, flak bursts are not directional, the shrapnel goes in all directions, yet the pilot is wounded, but no damage done to parts of the plane in other directions.

I've just grown to accept it. Sort of like driving a cab over truck, where you're always the first one to get to the wreck. I don't drive those trucks anymore. In real life you really die.

[E25280]

IMO layer of armor is a poor substitute for having a fuselage in back and a large engine block in front.

[Anaxogoras]

I've noticed this to be true in general of aircraft with twin engines: the pilot is exposed.

[Spikes]

I've been getting them less and less strangely. I used to get them almost every other flight.

[Roundeye]

IMO layer of armor is a poor substitute for having a fuselage in back and a large engine block in front.

[B4Buster]

I think it's just because you don't have an engine/prop infront of you to stop some bullets

[Murdr]

Bong once rtb'd with 18 mg strikes on his seat armor after he had dropped in the middle of a tail chase as a decoy to allow the other P-38 (with one engine running) to escape.

[Anaxogoras]

Bong once rtb'd with 18 mg strikes on his seat armor after he had dropped in the middle of a tail chase as a decoy to allow the other P-38 (with one engine running) to escape.

30 or 50 cal?