Change to Pilot Wounds

[Flayed]

  i would just have it turn off any autopilot and combat trim while locking the throttle and stick at what ever it was set at.    Having the combat trim off will allow the plane to roll over and die eventually, and think of the ones where the pilot was pulling the stick over or back.   Would make for some interesting death flights.  I would give the option of just bailing out and letting the plane do it's usual fast dive into the ground and give the pilot a You have been killed message.

[Ack-Ack]

I'd like to see fires modeled in the cockpit in which if not put out quickly would burn the pilot alive.  Of course it would go without saying that the screams as you're cooked should also be included.


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[Captain Virgil Hilts]

All that is necessary is to code it so that a dead pilot always slumps onto the controls, forcing the plane out of any possible auto pilot or auto trim condition. He can slump forward, forward left, forward right, what ever, just make the pilot slump onto the controls to full deflection in any direction(s) and the plane will crash, regardless of trim or auto pilot.

[Kurtank]

You are forgetting something. If my assumption is correct, then the plane's existence is dependent upon the pilot being alive and flying. Consider the following;

A pilot is pinged by a .303. He dies instantly. The fact that he is gone means the plane is not in existence anymore. No player = no input to the controls.

or;

A pilot is bashed in by a tater. The coad has been worked over to allow for persistent planes. He gets towered while his ride is still hitting the ground. Now, this particular pilot was flying way up at 30k. What he was doing? I dunno. Maybe fighting a buff hunting 152. But now his plane is falling from 30k. He ups another one. WHAT HAPPENS?!


It's gonna take some pretty fancy-pants coad to sort the whole thing out. If you wanna see a plane fall, try not to hit the pilot.

[Motherland]

You are forgetting something. If my assumption is correct, then the plane's existence is dependent upon the pilot being alive and flying. Consider the following;

A pilot is pinged by a .303. He dies instantly. The fact that he is gone means the plane is not in existence anymore. No player = no input to the controls.

or;

A pilot is bashed in by a tater. The coad has been worked over to allow for persistent planes. He gets towered while his ride is still hitting the ground. Now, this particular pilot was flying way up at 30k. What he was doing? I dunno. Maybe fighting a buff hunting 152. But now his plane is falling from 30k. He ups another one. WHAT HAPPENS?!


It's gonna take some pretty fancy-pants coad to sort the whole thing out. If you wanna see a plane fall, try not to hit the pilot.

Just make planes disappear/explode as soon as a pilot begins his next sortie, like ordinance.

[E25280]

You are forgetting something. If my assumption is correct, then the plane's existence is dependent upon the pilot being alive and flying. Consider the following;

A pilot is pinged by a .303. He dies instantly. The fact that he is gone means the plane is not in existence anymore. No player = no input to the controls.

or;

A pilot is bashed in by a tater. The coad has been worked over to allow for persistent planes. He gets towered while his ride is still hitting the ground. Now, this particular pilot was flying way up at 30k. What he was doing? I dunno. Maybe fighting a buff hunting 152. But now his plane is falling from 30k. He ups another one. WHAT HAPPENS?!


It's gonna take some pretty fancy-pants coad to sort the whole thing out. If you wanna see a plane fall, try not to hit the pilot.

If you bail at 30K, and immediately re-up, the plane is still falling. So a plane falling from a pilot kill shouldn't be any different.

[The Grinch]

Hey All,

Don't know if anyone agrees (or disagrees), but why do planes explode when the pilot is killed? I'd much prefer to see the aircraft tumble out of the sky and explode on the ground, and if anyone wants to follow them to their firey grave, that's their choice.
Any chance we can have the aircraft fall from the sky, instead of magically explode due to pilot death?
Thanks!

Or, brake in two.

[Ghosth]

You guys are forgetting that the moment the plane and pilot separate, you now have 2 things to track network wise not one. So you adding overhead for no real result.

[PFactorDave]

You guys are forgetting that the moment the plane and pilot separate, you now have 2 things to track network wise not one. So you adding overhead for no real result.

Doesn't that already happen when someone .ef from falling plane?  The plane still completes its journey to the ground, even though the pilot is back in the tower.

[5PointOh]

Verse always blacking out, why not direct hits to the body? Example: Hit in the arm less control of the throttle or stick inputs, or hit in the leg less rudder input.  Still I don't think that if you are in a bomber that has bombardier that you should black out in the sight unless the front gun are taken out.

[GuyNoir]

You guys are forgetting that the moment the plane and pilot separate, you now have 2 things to track network wise not one. So you adding overhead for no real result.

Why do anything?  Like I said, 4-poly pyramids instead of the mountains we have would save resources and still get the point across, but it's not as immersive.  We already have falling planes from bailing out...  These would just fall more realistically (instead of that wacky aileron roll).

[saantana]

A pilot death is a pilot death. I do not believe that when you die by getting hit by a car on a pedestrian crossing, you can then see the good samaritan running up to your dead body and picking your wallet 

However +1 on the plane continuing to fly without a pilot. I believe all control inputs should be left as they were on pilot death, which will eventually lead the plane to crash as in RL.

[hitech]

The only thing I would consider is something like the bail out. And the plane would not last long.

But quite frankly I like the exploding plane, simply because I find it gratifying to know he is done.

HiTech

[321BAR]

hiteecccchhhhhh... if ya liike the explosions then i guess we're stuck.... hahah

[Mister Fork]

The only thing I would consider is something like the bail out. And the plane would not last long.

But quite frankly I like the exploding plane, simply because I find it gratifying to know he is done.

HiTech

Could we make it a player preference?  Similar to auto-takeoff? Check "Pilot Kill" - stay with aircraft? If unchecked plane goes boom.