Rearm Pads

[Shifty]

     Yes, because it's completely impossible that there would be a ready use ammo storage in a hot pad
area that wasn't completely dependent on ammo bunker storage.  After all, it's important to stack all
your BBs in the same bunker so as not to make the enemy attacker's run more difficult 

 

[gyrene81]

     During a hotpad, the aircraft are ready to be rearmed.  Now it's been almost 30 years, but I
distinctly remember the engines running during the refuel.  I can't remember if they shutdown
to reload the nosegun, but I imagine they could at least shut down number 1 <left engine> so
the weapons crew didn't need to be concerned about it though.

     Oh yeah, we also didn't wait for ord to be shipped from the "ammo bunkers" to be loaded on.
Now this is in the early 1980s, and it wasn't like we were the first ones to try it.  Also it is
primarily meant as a wartime tactic for boosting sortie rates, and we were at peace.

no you wouldn't have been the first ones to try it but you weren't dealing with a big spinning propeller and hot exhaust blowing back over the wing root...the one thing you do not want is gas fumes being ignited while trying to refuel a piston engine aircraft.

jets vs prop planes...try again.   

[bustr]

Make a requirement that your hot pad rearm won't start until you shut down. Plane or GV. But, then that means you cannot go to full throttle and scoot if needed. You are stuck a bit longer paying the piper for not towering on landing.