stupidest thing ever!

[PuppetZ]

just did the noobest thing EVER! Took off from a cv in a f4u-1d(manual takeoff). Climbed to 12k. tried an attack run on a lower b24 box. while diving I spot a 109. turn to engage. At first merge, snap stall. I go, geez not again! second turn same and I dont seem to be able to handle that plane anymore. Fight with the stick a little , stall a bit more and get shot down by the 109. Now, what happened I ask. So I go to film viewer. It happens I was flying that thing with the gear DOWN. Stupid me  And the best part is I never realized it. Im surprised that he could take the shot. I would have been laughing so hard.

note to self : dont open the radio until the gear is up!

Feel free to share your stupidest moment ever with us

[M0nkey_Man]

disoing 2 seconds before a 262 kill in a P-40

[Tupac]

Auto climbing just after rotation in a 262.

Worst part is I've done it more than once.

[Melvin]

I had been playing for about a week or so, when the opportunity came up for me to fly a goon to a base-take.

I took off with about 3 other goons in trail. As goon leader they all followed me in a slow climb to the left. As we went along, someone came on vox and asked, "Uh, where are we going exactly?" I had no idea.

A big hill was rapidly approaching in the windscreen.

The last thing I heard was, "I hope we make it over this hill."  We didn't. 

Left a pile of smoking wreckage all over that hill, and I felt like a total dufus. My friend, who was sitting next to me, still gives me a hard time about that one.

Live and learn.   

[ImADot]

I've seen people use the Corsair's gear as airbrakes quite often.  Nothing funny, other than you forgetting to raise them in the first place.

[PFactorDave]

It isn't the stupidest thing I have done, but recently I was flying a P38J in a base defense situation.  On the deck with bad guys everywhere.  I have bad guys crossing my guns left and right and I am taking snap shots all over the place, and seeing hit sprites constantly.

Assist, assist, assist...  I can't get a kill to save my life.

Then a squaddie asks on VoX what our fuel states are.  That's when I realized that I still had my drop tank on and selected so the little squirts of snap shots were without the 20mm.  Dropped the tank and scored several kills right away.  DOH!


The stupidest thing was probably dropping the troops on the airfield instead of on town when I was a 2 weeker and offered to fly the goon for a Falcon23 mission.  But in my defense, I was new and didn't know any better.   

[BillyD]

Bout three years ago I joined a POTW mission and our flight lead flew the whole attack package into a mountain trap. Someone filmed it it was hilarious epic fail.

[ebfd11]

OK here is a NOOBISH thing I recently did.

We were fighting over a base for a good 2 hours when we got the upper hand. I volunteered to take the goon. I had set my goon on auto climb while I went and did some necessary drainage of the the alcoholic beverages I was consuming. Well the phone rang and it was a friend who was at the time flying for another country. I sat there and got tied up in the conversation when he asked me what I was doing, well I was a dummy, with a capital DUHHHH, I told him. he says to go look at my screen and tell me what I see.

I go to my computer and I see I am surrounded by approximately 15 enemy planes, now not being one to let them get the upper hand i turn slightly to see if they would shoot at me they didn't. I asked my friend where he was and he replies "which plane is wiggling their wings" .. I identify it to him and he say "yuppers that is me" , he then informs me that I have one chance to turnaround and RTB. I in type in my squad channel what is going on, my squad comes over and protects me and shoots down all said enemy planes.

After going through all this I make it to the field we were attacking  and I open the doors and set my salvo to 10 and let the "Field Suppplies" fly.

All I can say is "WTF.... DUHHH you schmuck. I did not live that down for along time."


lawnDart

[RTHolmes]

rearmed a 262 the other day w 4 kills. rolled down the runway while chatting to squaddies and completely forgot I wasnt on auto-takeoff. only realised when it was too late and I was 1/2 mile off the end of the runway, steaming towards some trees at about 200mph.

doh!

[Getback]

OK here is a NOOBISH thing I recently did.

We were fighting over a base for a good 2 hours when we got the upper hand. I volunteered to take the goon. I had set my goon on auto climb while I went and did some necessary drainage of the the alcoholic beverages I was consuming. Well the phone rang and it was a friend who was at the time flying for another country. I sat there and got tied up in the conversation when he asked me what I was doing, well I was a dummy, with a capital DUHHHH, I told him. he says to go look at my screen and tell me what I see.

I go to my computer and I see I am surrounded by approximately 15 enemy planes, now not being one to let them get the upper hand i turn slightly to see if they would shoot at me they didn't. I asked my friend where he was and he replies "which plane is wiggling their wings" .. I identify it to him and he say "yuppers that is me" , he then informs me that I have one chance to turnaround and RTB. I in type in my squad channel what is going on, my squad comes over and protects me and shoots down all said enemy planes.

After going through all this I make it to the field we were attacking  and I open the doors and set my salvo to 10 and let the "Field Suppplies" fly.

All I can say is "WTF.... DUHHH you schmuck. I did not live that down for along time."


lawnDart

This I have done!

Yesterday, maybe 3 times, I forgot to put my gear down. Once I told my squaddies I'm rearming only to belly land.

[LCADolby]

Almost like LawnDart, except I once dropped 10 vehicle supplies on a town

[Noir]

rolling supps to a base and just land when you get on the concrete, without dropping the said supps of course (happened several times).

[Becinhu]

One of the first times I flew a 262 I rolled in on a low set of b-26s.  I passed by there tails at warp speed and proceeded to make a large crater on the beach.  The 26 pilot sent me a friendly PM along the lines of "dude, what the hell did you just do?"  After I got over being pissed it was pretty darn funny.

[Changeup]

Bout three years ago I joined a POTW mission and our flight lead flew the whole attack package into a mountain trap. Someone filmed it it was hilarious epic fail.

That was Krupcake...he doesnt get to lead missions anymore...

Changeup

[coola4me]

When i finally earned enough perks to up a 163 i took one up to attack a box of lancs headed to the HQ! was at a high 3 about 5k over then turned to make a pass on all three! Well as you know a 163 compress rather easily. I did all i could think of to get it under control as i plummeted downward from 20k at mach 3 hahaha! If craters from crashes were modeled i would bet it would have been a crater of epic proportions!