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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: eskimo on July 18, 2000, 04:31:00 PM
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Auto pilot shouldn't rip wings off a B-17, but it does. Here is why it shouldn't; A B-17 has a crew of 10, in AH you must do all 10 of those jobs. When you leave the pilots seat to do another job, such as gun, navigate or drop bombs, auto-pilot becomes engaged. In real life, the pilot, or copilot, would not engage auto pilot just so that the gunners could gun, espescially when the planes attitude is dangerously fast or steep, and could rip the wings off if engaged. Auto pilot in a B-17 (or B-26) should at least simulate a copilot who is intelegent enough not to immediatly yank back on the stick hard enough to rip the wings off! Perhaps a 2G limit should be put on the auto pilot. The aircraft that are most likey to lose their wings in AH due to autopilot level are the very planes that whould have enough of a crew to prevent such stupidity.
eskimo
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ARGHHHHHHHHH hate it when that happens .. but i've learned to avoid doing it .. but still it suxs at high speed you can jump into a gunner position without worrying about the wings going AWOL.
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Agreed, I also hate putting the B-17 in auto climb (speed), or auto climb (angle) and then moving to a gunner postion only to have the plane fly level. Quite often I will put a B-17 into a gentle dive to try and get seperation from an attacking fighter, or at least to ruin his speed advantage, hit 4 to go to the tail, and have the wings pull off as my now speedy B-17 trying to run away goes to auto level.
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Originally posted by Downtown:
Hals und beinbruch!
D'oh, thats my quote!! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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Agree 100% on this one ,,,,,, the auto pilot on all AirCraft is way to extreme in its activation. THe sudden wild JERK you get when engaging auto is not very user friendly. The fact that Buff drivers have to do IT ALL makes auto more of a hendrance than asset. Buff should be able to have multi Human gunners, & Bombadier-Nav. or atleast be able to stay in auto climb while in a gunner Pos.
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I have been using that quote on AH since I finished reading "Blonde Knight of Germany."
That was some point in the open beta. I have been known to change my quote. I am thinking of going back to...
"People who think they know everything are especially annoying to those of us who do."
On WWIIOnline I am using...
"The Convergence of an infinately annoying difficulty and a non-frustrateable object." Seems that life is always trying to get me down, and I have become imune to getting upset everytime I am faced with another setback.
BTW this is a punt.
I think HT and Pyro should be forced to fly B-17s all of next tour.
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Wrecking Crews "Drag and Die Guy"
Hals und beinbruch!