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Title: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: RTHolmes on July 11, 2010, 04:19:10 AM
prompted by a recent discussion about bailed pilots being used as FACs ...

radios were fitted to aircraft, not carried by pilots so once you bail you should lose the ability to use radio/text/check6 until you are in the tower again.

:)
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: Avanti on July 11, 2010, 04:46:52 AM
maybe in FSO?
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: RTHolmes on July 11, 2010, 04:48:07 AM
I was thinking across the board.
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: Ghosth on July 11, 2010, 08:20:41 AM
Actually this would remove the last reason to ever shoot anyone in a chute.

And for that reason I'd agree with it.

Not that some wouldn't use TS or Vent to get around it.
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: olds442 on July 11, 2010, 08:40:55 AM
well  a bailed pilot would have radio.(i forgot what you called sorry) to radio for help :aok

 then why would you need to shoot people in there chutes if they cant do the only the useful for
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: RTHolmes on July 11, 2010, 08:57:17 AM
really, WWII pilots had portable radios? what radios did they use?  :headscratch:

I trained on a larkspur A41 field set which was heavy and bulky, and that was a '50s design. find it hard to believe there was something way smaller and lighter with better range available in the '30s/'40s ...
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: AWwrgwy on July 11, 2010, 09:05:05 AM
really, WWII pilots had portable radios? what radios did they use?  :headscratch:

I trained on a larkspur A41 field set which was heavy and bulky, and that was a '50s design. find it hard to believe there was something way smaller and lighter with better range available in the '30s/'40s ...

(http://www.jproc.ca/rrp/rrp2/visual_flag_signals_semaphore.jpg)


Smoke signals tend to drift too much to be read properly.


wrongway
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: jay on July 11, 2010, 09:10:31 AM
and most if not all portable radios during the time werent good for nothing the darned things couldnt transmit for crap!
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: guncrasher on July 11, 2010, 11:33:37 AM
bad idea.  Find the chutes and kill them all.

Semp
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: gyrene81 on July 11, 2010, 12:32:41 PM
well  a bailed pilot would have radio.(i forgot what you called sorry) to radio for help :aok
If you're thinking about the BC-611 portable handset, that was U.S. infantry issued only, and it had a short range.

Otherwise things like this would have to be lugged around.
(http://www.craphound.com/images/wolfensteinpc.jpg)

(http://www.vectorsite.net/ttwiz_11_2.jpg)

(http://www.shoporiental.com/Images/Picproduct/16/Radio/DR_70327b.jpg)
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: Jayhawk on July 11, 2010, 12:43:40 PM
really, WWII pilots had portable radios? what radios did they use?  :headscratch:

His information is based more on fantasy than fact so don't look too much into him.  :)
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: Stalwart on July 11, 2010, 02:54:57 PM
Everyone knows they had iPhones back then.  They just kept the technology a secret until they sold it to Jobs.
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: jay on July 11, 2010, 03:25:03 PM
wolfenstein anyone?
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: RTHolmes on July 11, 2010, 05:25:13 PM
name the server and I'll be there ;)
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: Masherbrum on July 12, 2010, 12:20:06 AM
well  a bailed pilot would have radio.(i forgot what you called sorry) to radio for help :aok

 then why would you need to shoot people in there chutes if they cant do the only the useful for

Jesus Christ.   (http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs39/f/2008/358/e/7/facepalm_by_kYnQuinhe.gif)
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: guncrasher on July 12, 2010, 03:10:22 AM
That scene in saving private ryan when the captain is talking on a small portable radio (ok was about the size of a shoe box), seen it on several other movies, i Believe it had a range of a couple of miles. was that fantasy too?

As for the people in chutes that go all the way to the ground, is it really that common?  I only ask because I see one maybe once a month, if that.  If it happens rarely, then why make a big deal out of it?

semp
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: 321BAR on July 12, 2010, 05:55:54 AM
Jesus Christ.   (http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs39/f/2008/358/e/7/facepalm_by_kYnQuinhe.gif)
he's 12 mate...
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: Masherbrum on July 12, 2010, 07:45:24 AM
he's 12 mate...

I don't know every players age.  But WWII pilots did not have radios when they bailed.
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: Simba on July 12, 2010, 08:03:44 AM
Great idea, gets my vote - AYE!

 :aok
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: waystin2 on July 12, 2010, 09:43:56 AM
No!  Killing chutes is the Sport of Kings!
Title: Re: no radio/text/check6 while in chute
Post by: SlapShot on July 12, 2010, 12:42:40 PM
No!  Killing chutes is the Sport of Kings!

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