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Title: C-47 Icon: Eng. off, on the ground.
Post by: TerryRF on July 13, 2017, 01:36:17 PM
A question came up and looking for the answer.

Situation: Enemy C-47, on the ground, engine off, just outside of town waiting to release troops.

At what range does its' icon show? Is it the same as if it were in flight?
Title: Re: C-47 Icon: Eng. off, on the ground.
Post by: SPKmes on July 13, 2017, 02:22:49 PM
No... in fact it is more like finding a shut down GV in the trees.... you can see them but they are hard to find and you only get a flash of icon at certain angles..and D600.... but the icon is more at ground level almost under ground

This is my observation over the years...not an official word on it..... a few years back they were often easy to spot by a shimmer they had against the ground detail...in this version I find it much hard to spot them when landed...even when I know the approximate vicinity they landed
Title: Re: C-47 Icon: Eng. off, on the ground.
Post by: lunatic1 on July 13, 2017, 06:47:19 PM
it's 600ft.
Title: Re: C-47 Icon: Eng. off, on the ground.
Post by: icepac on July 13, 2017, 09:56:47 PM
I find them all the time and usually a second time a few minutes after I killed the first one.

Hang out in a town often and you will hear airplane engines without seeing a flying plane.

That is the raging clue.

Depending on whether town is deacked and white flagged or not, I usually chute out outside of town to not give a proxy and stand on a hill in town looking in the obvious direction.

Then I walk over and pistol whip the plane to bolivia.
Title: Re: C-47 Icon: Eng. off, on the ground.
Post by: SPKmes on July 13, 2017, 09:59:42 PM
I find them all the time and usually a second time a few minutes after I killed the first one.

Hang out in a town often and you will hear airplane engines without seeing a flying plane.

That is the raging clue.

Depending on whether town is deacked and white flagged or not, I usually chute out outside of town to not give a proxy and stand on a hill in town looking in the obvious direction.

Then I walk over and pistol whip the plane to bolivia.

You have way too much time on your hands
Title: Re: C-47 Icon: Eng. off, on the ground.
Post by: atlau on July 14, 2017, 10:17:29 AM
I find them all the time and usually a second time a few minutes after I killed the first one.
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Hang out in a town often and you will hear airplane engines without seeing a flying plane.

That is the raging clue.

Depending on whether town is deacked and white flagged or not, I usually chute out outside of town to not give a proxy and stand on a hill in town looking in the obvious direction.

Then I walk over and pistol whip the plane to bolivia.

Manchester