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Offline FTndr

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Re: how often do you bail out?
« Reply #15 on: May 02, 2003, 05:06:40 PM »
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as soon as the first bullet hits you? or do you wait and try to fight it out till the very end? do you consider your K/D ratio every time you decide whether to press CR 3 times?


I pull mine when I'm just about to lawn dart.

As an aside, I like to stay with it long enough to get a fellow country mate of the offending pilot's country to try and steal a kill as I flounder to the ground.  Nothing like a little resentment in the enemy camp to easy my brused ego :D

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« Reply #16 on: May 02, 2003, 05:08:39 PM »
Doesn't bailing count the same as a death?   I bail once in a while once my plane is destroyed..not sure why.  How does bailing as opposed to augering in affect score? I am under the assumption that it doesn't help at all.
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« Reply #17 on: May 02, 2003, 05:53:23 PM »
I'm not sure either, but I think they are counted differently...

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« Reply #18 on: May 02, 2003, 06:12:00 PM »
Furious, I spot something on your chin.
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« Reply #19 on: May 02, 2003, 06:35:37 PM »
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Bailing signifies that a person holds too much esteem for points and/or statistics.

Shooting their chutes demonstrates the contempt I feel toward such misplaced esteem.

-- Todd/Leviathn


Very well said .

I've only bailed out on accident :mad:  And when I wanted to walk around the runway with my little dude . Oh and the time we parachuted onto the giant pizza next to the shinerbock .

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« Reply #20 on: May 02, 2003, 06:48:39 PM »
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Bailing signifies that a person holds too much esteem for points and/or statistics.

Shooting their chutes demonstrates the contempt I feel toward such misplaced esteem.

-- Todd/Leviathn


LOL .. I didn't even know it "helped" someone's points. Thanks, Todd. Now I got even more reason than getting one or two proximity kills from the guys trying so hard to get my chute that they auger in. Funny as hell watchin' `em spray away, zoom past, bury their plane then type "Huhuhu I crashded" on Ch 1. Two thumbs up. :D

Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #21 on: May 02, 2003, 07:43:56 PM »
I use the chute when im tumbeling down in flames, not that it matters i just like the halfway realism to it.

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« Reply #22 on: May 02, 2003, 08:59:32 PM »
i bail shortly after the bullets run out:D

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« Reply #23 on: May 03, 2003, 12:52:28 AM »
I also fly as full realism as possible. I dont just point her downwards and cheer and wave my cowboy hat as I ride her in, I try to land my kills.

The only chutes I shoot are goon troops. Good fun for an M16 all alone on a base that I let get beat up for a while. Then a lone goon shows up, and I open her wide up :D

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« Reply #24 on: May 03, 2003, 01:11:37 AM »
How many that bail for realism use combat trim ?

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« Reply #25 on: May 03, 2003, 01:30:43 AM »
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How many that bail for realism use combat trim ?




All of them :D


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« Reply #26 on: May 03, 2003, 02:48:40 AM »
No combat trim and sometimes i turn off my monitor for some REAL nightfighting :D

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« Reply #27 on: May 03, 2003, 03:06:28 AM »
I try to stay airborne longer than the guy I collided with  :D

Offline Linz

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« Reply #28 on: May 03, 2003, 07:37:48 AM »
I don't need  to use the trim.

I've got a Microsoft Force Feedback 2. In the "Force" - settings, i,ve adjusted the "Return-to-center tension" to the lowest level.
 Now when my plane wants to go up, i just move my stick a bit forwards, and keep on flying.

So i don't have to adjust trim in flight at all...:D

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« Reply #29 on: May 03, 2003, 08:27:27 AM »
Hi linz

what was your endle in WB
i dont remember you :confused: