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Title: bailing out..
Post by: titanic3 on June 15, 2008, 12:16:54 PM
  Have you people ever realized that when you bail, it's ALWAYS a perfect bail out, no matter what, even when you hit the tail/wing of the airplane. I'm thinking of a new damage section, the canopy. if the canopy is damaged, you can't bail out. If you repeatedly press bail out, there might be a chance of success in bailing. But even when you do manage to get out of the plane, if you hit any part of the airplane, wings, tails, (my favorite) propeller, you get instant death.
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: angelsandair on June 15, 2008, 12:21:14 PM
Yea that's wierd. In A-20s (or A-26s, not too sure) when you'd bail out, the tail was so big, it would hit ya and kill you.
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: Cajunn on June 15, 2008, 12:43:28 PM
you wouldn't know there was a big red bail out button from the way some ride there planes to the ground. Almost every night I see one or two get shot down and like the captain of a ship they stay with there plane all the way to there death.
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: Cthulhu on June 16, 2008, 09:11:25 AM
Quote from: Cajunn on June 15, 2008, 12:43:28 PM
you wouldn't know there was a big red bail out button from the way some ride there planes to the ground. Almost every night I see one or two get shot down and like the captain of a ship they stay with there plane all the way to there death.
Holding the trigger down the whole way, no less. :huh
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: Yossarian on June 16, 2008, 10:10:29 AM
angelsandair, I'm not sure about this, but at the time when you pass the tail of an A-20 after bailing out, I wouldn't think that the relative speed between you and the plane would be enough to kill you.  Of course, this would all depend on your position.

Quote from: Cthulhu on June 16, 2008, 09:11:25 AM
Holding the trigger down the whole way, no less. :huh

What's wrong with that?  If I think I'm too low to bail out successfully, I'll always hold my trigger down.

<S>

Yossarian
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: Rambo Fan on June 17, 2008, 06:56:18 PM
I think we should have a sound of the glass breaking when you bail out if its been damaged there, and your thing is stuck. Plus we should add another system to the list when you press control plus d. Like eject system, and if a bullet hits (RARE) it won't work, so obviously your stuck? Or you break through glass and use that cool glass breaking noise?  :lol ;)
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: Masherbrum on June 17, 2008, 07:33:16 PM
is lame.   Instead of hitting the sissy silk, ride it in.
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: chrish483 on June 17, 2008, 07:58:33 PM
Quote from: Rambo Fan on June 17, 2008, 06:56:18 PM
and your thing is stuck.

 :noid
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: NoBaddy on June 17, 2008, 08:23:16 PM
Quote from: titanic3 on June 15, 2008, 12:16:54 PM
  Have you people ever realized that when you bail, it's ALWAYS a perfect bail out, no matter what, even when you hit the tail/wing of the airplane. I'm thinking of a new damage section, the canopy. if the canopy is damaged, you can't bail out. If you repeatedly press bail out, there might be a chance of success in bailing. But even when you do manage to get out of the plane, if you hit any part of the airplane, wings, tails, (my favorite) propeller, you get instant death.

....and why is anyone supposed to care??? :huh
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: Widewing on June 17, 2008, 11:00:15 PM
Time spent floating down in a chute is better spent getting airborne in another fighter... Ride it to the ground and waste less time.


My regards,

Widewing
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: Motherland on June 17, 2008, 11:02:49 PM
<enter><enter><enter><o></><.><e><f>


pretty quick.
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: Rambo Fan on June 18, 2008, 01:20:57 PM
Quote from: Motherland on June 17, 2008, 11:02:49 PM
<enter><enter><enter><o></><.><e><f>
Press 5 you moron, then 6 to 8 for 9 to activate 12, 14, 178mfb8163hfb37, then your done for the first few 0.000001% of the work.

pretty quick.
Agreed. :aok
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: Motherland on June 18, 2008, 01:51:47 PM
That's a pretty simple keystroke... :huh
In case you didn't know, <enter><enter><enter> bails you out, 'o' opens your chute, and /.ef is the . command equivalent of opening your keyboard and hitting end sortie.
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: BaldEagl on June 18, 2008, 02:05:29 PM
Quote from: Motherland on June 18, 2008, 01:51:47 PM
That's a pretty simple keystroke... :huh
In case you didn't know, <enter><enter><enter> bails you out, 'o' opens your chute, and /.ef is the . command equivalent of opening your keyboard and hitting end sortie.

You can skip the opening your chute part.  <enter><enter><enter>.ef<enter>
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: Saurdaukar on June 18, 2008, 02:07:15 PM
Im just thinking out loud here... but it might be kind of neat to have to set up the bail out to avoid hitting the airframe.

In other words, instead of just tapping a key three times and being teleported out of the A/C, maybe allow the process to take a few seconds longer (open canopy, release belts, etc) and encourage negative elevator input prior to the bail by killing the pilot if he strikes the vertical stab?

Dunno... good idea?  Bad idea?
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: whiteman on June 18, 2008, 02:09:07 PM
Quote from: Cthulhu on June 16, 2008, 09:11:25 AM
Holding the trigger down the whole way, no less. :huh

I was killed by one of those guys once, not cool. LOL
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: Cthulhu on June 18, 2008, 03:32:36 PM
Quote from: whiteman on June 18, 2008, 02:09:07 PM
I was killed by one of those guys once, not cool. LOL
Reminds me of a story from my early days:

SHawk blows the tail off my Ta-152... so I find myself falling backwards facing straight up. :huh  Some other enemy guy in the "horde" dives straight down to finish me off (you ever been HO'd while in reverse?). So naturally I give this guy a face full of 30mm and watch him explode before I bail. :D
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: whiteman on June 18, 2008, 04:02:48 PM
LOL, what sucked about mine was i took his tail off and he spun around made a lucky cockpit shot.
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: Cajunn on June 18, 2008, 05:42:36 PM
One of the guys I fly with said there is a HT film on Utube and it shows a guy falling in a chute and kills a guy in his plane with his .45, I havn't seen it but he says its there!
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: dirt911 on June 27, 2008, 08:44:33 PM
iv watched videos of people bailin out and they got hit by the rudder and it killed them
Title: Re: bailing out..
Post by: SlapShot on June 28, 2008, 08:06:23 AM
It was a sad day when HT let you type in .ef while in the silk.

I always loved to see a guy bail out at 10K after I shot him ... watching him slowly float down ... and then seeing him on CH1 begging and pleading for someone to shoot him. I would hang around until he got to about 1K ... and then pop him.