Hot Pad vs. Sortie

[Slade]

Hello,

I was wondering if you could help me understanding something please.

Why are 2 or more hot pads considered just one sortie?

I am not saying it is good or bad, just want to understand why.


Thanks,

Slade 

[Lusche]

Because a sortie ends when you end it. It's the time between entering your plane and exiting. As long as you are not back in tower, you are still "in flight".

[Slade]

Lusche,

Thanks I had to think about that a while.  I am slow.  Is that how they tended to do sorties in WWII, using hot pads?

In WWII, was it a Pacific theater practice vs. a European theater practice?

How did that work?

Thanks again.

[Lusche]

This has nothing to do with "real life". It's simply a gameplay definition, and it only has a meaning in terms of score.

In RL, hotpadding was sometimes used too, though of course it wasn't as quick as in Aces High. For example, late in the war fighters taking part in the Defense of the Reich would often land to refuel and rearm on a different field to attack the bombers again on their way back home. I don't know if those were counted as separate sorties, or if it did even matter at all.

[Traveler]

Lusche,

Thanks I had to think about that a while.  I am slow.  Is that how they tended to do sorties in WWII, using hot pads?

In WWII, was it a Pacific theater practice vs. a European theater practice?

How did that work?

Thanks again.

I think it depended more on theater of operation and what was happening at the time rather then a set policy.

[icepac]

Without refuel/rearm, you cannot ferry a plane............as they did in the war.

[Nypsy]

In Viet Nam we did hot pad refueling when traveling cross country. No engine shut down just stick the fuel hose in the tank and fill er up. It was considered one sortie as I remember it.                     This was on UH-1N helicopter gun ships in the 20ths S.O.S. (Special Operations Squadron).

[icepac]

They probably did that to keep down the medal count.

[oboe]

From Wikipedia,

In military aviation, it is used to indicate the total usages of individual machines, so that (for example) one mission involving six aircraft would tally six sorties.

The use of the term for military aircraft originated in naval usage. In French, sortie literally means "exit". It has evolved to mean a short period of conflict, as in the time when the vehicles and vessels are away from their carrier or local berth.

Seems to me that each time you roll down the runway for take off you should be starting a new sortie.

[Traveler]

In Viet Nam we did hot pad refueling when traveling cross country. No engine shut down just stick the fuel hose in the tank and fill er up. It was considered one sortie as I remember it.                     This was on UH-1N helicopter gun ships in the 20ths S.O.S. (Special Operations Squadron).

What year, you might have chauffeured my team Nov 67 through May 69.

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

used hotpads ALL the time for base defence when flying a A20G

I wish the hot pad has a sound effect played with it.

I would change it to a nascar's sound of air wrenches, sounds of buzz saws and sledge hammers hitting metal. Maby with mixed human voices yelling things like "common get that ammo in faster, where the heck's that fuel truck!?" 28 seconds later end the sound clip with "GO GO GO!" Punch it and hit wep and off ye go. 


-sighs- i love the A20G

[Dichotomy]

best suggestion EVER!!!! 

[FiLtH]

  It just takes too long. Id rather land, re-up.

[Getback]

Think of it as mid-air refueling.

I enjoy rearming. It's a great feature of the game. Then the takeoffs are fun in themselves.

[icepac]

How else would you see a 163 on a front line field?