aircraft repair and rearm

[perdue3]

Whats not hard is to change your loadout. Us 109 dweebs dont always want gondies or DT's. It would be nice to leave the DT (and rails) off or take gondies off at rearm pad. Add some minutes, IDC.

[guncrasher]

I think you're right Slade, and honestly a bet only a few people would go to the trouble of trying to have minor repairs done and then refuel when you can just tower out and respawn.   And I would imagine that many repairs (engine hit, landing gear damaged, part of wing shot away) would be so severe as to either prevent  the ability to taxi to a repair hangar or just considered to be too big a repair job and the plane should just be a write-off.   

But it does depend on your point of view - when I tower out and respawn I consider myself to be in the same plane, not a fresh plane, if I am using the same skin.   But others don't see it that way, and I guess neither way is right or wrong.   

well in that case if you get shot down then that's gamey since you will get to up a brand new untouched plane with full ammo.  you guys are right, let's get rid of this I get killed, i get a new plane exploit.  from now own you only get one aircraft, it gets destroyed than you must wait 10-15 min to get another one. 

semp

[oboe]

I think it's important to note that the OP's idea did not involve 'forcing' everyone to do a certain thing.  Nobody would be forcing pilots to use a repair hangar or rearm pad - the OP was just asking for the opportunity to have it in game, available for use if pilots chose to.

Just the same as your example- we have the option to wait 10-15 minutes to get a new plane after we get shot down, if we choose to.   But nobody is forced to use that option if they don't want to.

Still, I don't think the repair hangar is going to happen.    But it is interesting how the idea keeps coming up, and how people divide into two camps about it, aint it?  

[321BAR]

Whats not hard is to change your loadout. Us 109 dweebs dont always want gondies or DT's. It would be nice to leave the DT (and rails) off or take gondies off at rearm pad. Add some minutes, IDC.

smart idea

[Babalonian]

+1 to Spinach for pilots on the rearm pad.

Although I may be biased in my view: attacking pilots if wounded still need to survive the long flight back, and defending pilots wounded during a heavy attacking wave that's successfuly defended against (but that crippled all the FHs) can hit the runway for a minute or two and then get back up to meet the next wave.

[nrshida]

I think it's a great idea and it would add a new dimension to trying to keep a run going. Doing a 'New York Reload' with aircraft as we do now is equally unrealistic. It's just a game after all.

Yes, well, go back to watching Source Code. It seems a better use of your time than logical reasoning, eh?

For someone as sensitive to insults as you Krusty, I found this comment rather rude to the poster.