An apology

[-kier-]

Sorry that my comment on the "chute strafing 51 puke" on open channel last night caused such a stir. I stayed out of it after the my opening shot, but others carried it on ad nauseum. Had I known the end result I would not have said it...  


'Course I still do think the guy was a puke for strafing my chute!  

[Downtown]

Of course he was a puke for strafing your chute.

It will lead to more chute strafing.

Just remember its hard to hit a chute, he has to get slow to be effective.

Going slow in a air combat environment is not a smart thing.

Perhaps HT should give downed pilots functional pistols.

Also remember don't pull your ripcord till you are close to the ground.

Something has to be done about the ground clutter, them damn little bushes and light grey rocks look too much like sheep.

Lets just say that I twice made an impression on the ground thinking they were sheep.

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"I could feel the 20MM Cannon impacting behind me so I made myself small behind the pilot armor" Charlie Bond AVG
lkbrown1@tir.com
 http://www.tir.com/~lkbrown1
Very Opinionated Person.

[Swager]

I don't mind being strafed in my chute;

1)  I get to replane faster

2)  As DT said it slows a guy down so one of my country people can waloop him/her.  If they want to pay attention to me instead of a real threat, then so be it.

3)  Let that pilot waste ammo on my floating body,  less for him/her to shoot at my countrymen with.


I will do a close fly by a floater, but I have yet to shoot.


Notice I wrote "yet".    

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Damn Ghostrider!  This bogey is all over me!!

[Heater]

Better to shoot him than hit him with the prop  
HT where the hell is my crew chief cause cleanin my prop off is getting a bit old!  

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Shit Happens All The Time

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[This message has been edited by Heater (edited 11-01-1999).]

[Mr.ED]

Hey AH gods, make our 45's work, so we can shoot back at them dweebs!

Shooting someone in their cute was against the Geneva Convention, and scould be a treated as a war crime.

It amazes me in AW how out numbered 4-5:1, I'll get a couple of them, run out of fuel or ammo, or lose the elevator, and punch out, and the other 3 fools will circle me for 10 minutes trying to grease the chute, geez thats not even sporting.

One trick I learned was if you punch out above 3k, dont open your chute until 2k-1500ft, the free fall time, helps you seperate from these type dweebs and the determined one, can hit tera-firma when tryign to grease you at low alt.

Mr.ED
327th FG
"coming to an arena near you"

[-kier-]

hehe

Ironically the first time I bailed I was at 30K+ and was totally unmolested all the way down. It was the second time, when I pulled the cord nearly in the sheep, that a 'stang (with two spits hot on his tail) turned into me and fired.

I don't really care. At the time I thought it was a dweeb act (still do, really) but no harm was done. My mistake was saying anything about it. Only a fool argues with a fool....    

[rosco-]

 Hee Hee kier   good point. The very same thing happened to me yesterday. A spit killed me omw down, I didnt even have a chance to even open my chute! I just shook my head and laughed to myself, called him a looser "to myself, not over the radio" and hit fly again. My skills in this sim are below average, but even I dont suck that bad that I must resort to shooting people after they bailed   AS Jim Carey would put it...looo hooo....hooo ser.

[val]

Every nation in WWII was guilty of chute strafing. It was common for combat pilots to delay chute opening to the last possible minute to avoid such a horrible death.

I guess it is just a case of history repeating itself.

val

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Scott (val) Valline
Dweebs of Death

[Werewolf]

Well chute strafing confirmed by other pilot should lead to punishment.
Just give the "criminal" nothing else than a Stuka, Swordfish or Fieseler Fi "Storch" for one hour.

Werewo

[Mark Luper]

Can I fly the Feisler Storch? Please?


( I don't shoot chutes either, but would like to fly the Storch )


MarkAT

[-floo-]

The ONLY time I actually attempted to strafe a chute was when I found a lonely c47 pilot flying along down one of those canyons. Just as I got close to guns range he jumps out of his undamaged plane to avoid being killed. So naturally I came back around and gave him a 20mm enema  

However, on a normal basis, I just don't chute shoot...makes for bad kharma

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-floo- fangs out
333rd Red Dawgs
JG 5 Eismeer

[Pyro]

Don't pull the ripcord until the last possible moment and then you don't have to worry so much about it.  Don't be surprised to find yourself targeted if you make yourself a target.  And if you've never gone chute shooting, don't knock it til you tried it.

It's up to you if you want to dish it out, but at least learn to take it.  Some people used to think that it was poor sportsmanship to shoot down a plane that had no ammo.  Therefore, if they called out that they were out of ammo, it was supposed to be a free pass to go home and land safely.  Not in my book.  I just didn't expend a lot of effort in a dogfight while somebody was expending all of their ammo in my direction so that they could call fight's off and go home.  The biggest mistake I've seen people make over the years with online flight-sims is expecting everybody else to play the game the way that they play it.  It just doesn't work that way.  Once you realize that, the game becomes more enjoyable because you've just removed a lot of frustration from it.



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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations

[ArcTangent]

Downtown wrote:

" Something has to be done about the ground clutter, them damn little bushes and light grey rocks look too much like sheep.

Lets just say that I twice made an impression on the ground thinking they were sheep."

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LOL !!  

Ok Downtown, I gotta ask...

Are you targeting sheep via freefall in hopes of one them softening your landing?
(Perhaps a High Velocity mating ritual?)

Or

Do you routinely go out on covert "Sheep Spy" straffing missions?

(You never know if that innocent looking sheep is special forces in disguise)

LOL.
Inquiring minds wanna know.


Arc T

[-kier-]

Last night I should have been strafed...

I was doing my first C-47 flights. I mean my very first! I was trying for F22 and had an escort... we meet with a Spitfire, and my buddy buys it. Great, only a matter of time now... I go ahead and make for F22 (what else could I do?) and am close to the field when he gets to 1.3 away. Time to get the troops out! So I hit my button #2. Again. Again. Hey, that's me falling! I forgot I had mapped the secondary button to eject! To his credit the spit went elsewhere... I called on open I screwed up, but whoever you were, sorry!