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Offline RTHolmes

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no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« on: July 11, 2010, 04:19:10 AM »
prompted by a recent discussion about bailed pilots being used as FACs ...

radios were fitted to aircraft, not carried by pilots so once you bail you should lose the ability to use radio/text/check6 until you are in the tower again.

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Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2010, 04:46:52 AM »
maybe in FSO?
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Offline RTHolmes

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Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2010, 04:48:07 AM »
I was thinking across the board.
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Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2010, 08:20:41 AM »
Actually this would remove the last reason to ever shoot anyone in a chute.

And for that reason I'd agree with it.

Not that some wouldn't use TS or Vent to get around it.
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Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2010, 08:40:55 AM »
well  a bailed pilot would have radio.(i forgot what you called sorry) to radio for help :aok

 then why would you need to shoot people in there chutes if they cant do the only the useful for
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Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2010, 08:57:17 AM »
really, WWII pilots had portable radios? what radios did they use?  :headscratch:

I trained on a larkspur A41 field set which was heavy and bulky, and that was a '50s design. find it hard to believe there was something way smaller and lighter with better range available in the '30s/'40s ...
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Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2010, 09:05:05 AM »
Quote from: RTHolmes on July 11, 2010, 08:57:17 AM
really, WWII pilots had portable radios? what radios did they use?  :headscratch:

I trained on a larkspur A41 field set which was heavy and bulky, and that was a '50s design. find it hard to believe there was something way smaller and lighter with better range available in the '30s/'40s ...




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Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2010, 09:10:31 AM »
and most if not all portable radios during the time werent good for nothing the darned things couldnt transmit for crap!
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Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2010, 11:33:37 AM »
bad idea.  Find the chutes and kill them all.

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Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2010, 12:32:41 PM »
Quote from: olds442 on July 11, 2010, 08:40:55 AM
well  a bailed pilot would have radio.(i forgot what you called sorry) to radio for help :aok
If you're thinking about the BC-611 portable handset, that was U.S. infantry issued only, and it had a short range.

Otherwise things like this would have to be lugged around.




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Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2010, 12:43:40 PM »
Quote from: RTHolmes on July 11, 2010, 08:57:17 AM
really, WWII pilots had portable radios? what radios did they use?  :headscratch:

His information is based more on fantasy than fact so don't look too much into him.  :)
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Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2010, 02:54:57 PM »
Everyone knows they had iPhones back then.  They just kept the technology a secret until they sold it to Jobs.
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Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2010, 03:25:03 PM »
wolfenstein anyone?
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Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« Reply #13 on: July 11, 2010, 05:25:13 PM »
name the server and I'll be there ;)
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Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
« Reply #14 on: July 12, 2010, 12:20:06 AM »
Quote from: olds442 on July 11, 2010, 08:40:55 AM
well  a bailed pilot would have radio.(i forgot what you called sorry) to radio for help :aok

 then why would you need to shoot people in there chutes if they cant do the only the useful for

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