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Title: how often do you bail out?
Post by: udet on May 02, 2003, 02:09:06 PM: 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?
Title: how often do you bail out?
Post by: Ack-Ack on May 02, 2003, 02:23:13 PM: I don't recall ever bailing out, why spend the time in a chute when you can spend that time taking off in a new plane?

Having said that, I do like the fact that others bail out since it gives me another target to shoot at.

Ack-Ack
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Post by: sax on May 02, 2003, 02:25:07 PM: never, like ack-ack says, rather get a new plane and get at it.
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Post by: Berra85 on May 02, 2003, 02:34:41 PM: I hardly ever bail out any more, even when i do i get poeple shooting at me anyway :)
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Post by: Linz on May 02, 2003, 02:53:16 PM: I guess it depends on what you see Aces High as - a shooting game, or a combat flight simulator.
To me it's a combat flight simulator, and i'm trying to fly as realistic as possible. So my first priority is to survive. If i'm crippled, i try to limp home, bail or ditch. I don't like to "go down with my ship" :)

And when i bail, i always opens my chute as low as possible, due to folks like ack-ack. I've been playing Warbirds for over a year, and was killed in my chute ONE time, but after playing Aces High for a few weeks, killed TWICE!

Man, i HATE chute-killers...(http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/angryfire.gif) (http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/madgo.gif)
Title: how often do you bail out?
Post by: Gloves on May 02, 2003, 03:07:49 PM: As often as I get my plane shot out from under me - which happnes quite a bit :). I stay with the plane until it's not flyable (ie missing a wing - found those to be important). I love robbing people of a kill by bringing home a bird that's barely flyable. As far as chute time, I try to pop the chute as low to the ground as possible. Seems like I usually go splat.
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Post by: AWMac on May 02, 2003, 03:10:32 PM: Chutes? We got chutes???

:D
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Post by: Berra85 on May 02, 2003, 03:13:27 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Gloves
As often as I get my plane shot out from under me - which happnes quite a bit :). I stay with the plane until it's not flyable (ie missing a wing - found those to be important). I love robbing people of a kill by bringing home a bird that's barely flyable. As far as chute time, I try to pop the chute as low to the ground as possible. Seems like I usually go splat.

I found the best way to do it....Well it works any way. Turn ground clutter on, as soon as you see the clutter, open the chute :)
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Post by: Saintaw on May 02, 2003, 03:14:56 PM: Do us a service, PLEASE BAIL !

Thank you, I need the target practice.
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Post by: Pongo on May 02, 2003, 03:16:46 PM: When my plane is done I bail out.
I thought that was the general idea. Maybe I missed something.
The real issue is when do you pull the cord.
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Post by: Linz on May 02, 2003, 03:24:38 PM: I remember my first bails in Aces High...in Warbirds, the chutes opens automatic - in here, they don't... :D splat...:eek:
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Post by: Karnak on May 02, 2003, 04:06:43 PM: I abandon the plane only after the plane has abandoned me.
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Post by: Furious on May 02, 2003, 04:57:12 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Linz
...And when i bail, i always opens my chute as low as possible, due to folks like ack-ack. I've been playing Warbirds for over a year, and was killed in my chute ONE time, but after playing Aces High for a few weeks, killed TWICE!

Man, i HATE chute-killers

I'd be happy to change that number for you.
Title: how often do you bail out?
Post by: WldThing on May 02, 2003, 05:00:25 PM: I bail a couple times, but nothing consecutively..
Title: how often do you bail out?
Post by: Dead Man Flying on May 02, 2003, 05:03:44 PM: 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
Title: Re: how often do you bail out?
Post by: FTndr on May 02, 2003, 05:06:40 PM: Quote
Originally posted by udet
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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Post by: Steve 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.
Title: how often do you bail out?
Post by: udet on May 02, 2003, 05:53:23 PM: I'm not sure either, but I think they are counted differently...
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Post by: Saintaw on May 02, 2003, 06:12:00 PM: Furious, I spot something on your chin.
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Post by: Suave on May 02, 2003, 06:35:37 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
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 .
Title: how often do you bail out?
Post by: Arlo on May 02, 2003, 06:48:39 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
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
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Post by: Nilsen 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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Post by: DoctorWho on May 02, 2003, 08:59:32 PM: i bail shortly after the bullets run out:D
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Post by: Ridge 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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Post by: Suave on May 03, 2003, 01:11:37 AM: How many that bail for realism use combat trim ?
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Post by: Ack-Ack on May 03, 2003, 01:30:43 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Suave
How many that bail for realism use combat trim ?

All of them :D

Ack-Ack
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Post by: Nilsen 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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Post by: Yorba on May 03, 2003, 03:06:28 AM: I try to stay airborne longer than the guy I collided with :D
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Post by: Linz 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
Title: how often do you bail out?
Post by: Flyboy on May 03, 2003, 08:27:27 AM: Hi linz

what was your endle in WB
i dont remember you :confused:
Title: how often do you bail out?
Post by: lazs2 on May 03, 2003, 09:16:55 AM: i don't have a key mapped to bail. I'm glad others do tho since i enjoy shooting chutes... i never miss.
lazs
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Post by: Linz on May 03, 2003, 10:23:11 AM: Same as here, flyboy. Still got a limited account there. And maybe you can't remember me since i normaly fly axis planes, and you are allied pilot, right? :)
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Post by: bigUC on May 03, 2003, 04:06:22 PM: Last time must have been at least 15 years ago, when the woman I left the bar with nodded and smiled to one of my less hygenic friends... :D
Title: how often do you bail out?
Post by: aac on May 03, 2003, 04:31:57 PM: YES BAILING COUNTS AS DEATH, but if you die and you have some kills you only get 1/4 of the points for the kill, if you bail you get 1/2 of the points and if you can ditch sucessfully you get 3/4 of the points. So it helps in that aspect.
Title: how often do you bail out?
Post by: Arlo on May 03, 2003, 10:49:32 PM: Quote
Originally posted by lazs2
i don't have a key mapped to bail. I'm glad others do tho since i enjoy shooting chutes... i never miss.
lazs

I'm yer Huckleberry. :p
Title: how often do you bail out?
Post by: udet on May 03, 2003, 10:56:39 PM: Quote
Originally posted by aac
YES BAILING COUNTS AS DEATH, but if you die and you have some kills you only get 1/4 of the points for the kill, if you bail you get 1/2 of the points and if you can ditch sucessfully you get 3/4 of the points. So it helps in that aspect.

so-when calculating my k/d ratio bail-outs are considered as deaths?
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Post by: Saintaw on May 04, 2003, 05:20:57 AM: This thread just gave me a fresh idea for my Avatar:D
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Post by: Arlo on May 04, 2003, 06:41:51 AM: I noticed that. I think mine fits most any occasion, however. :D
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Post by: Suave on May 04, 2003, 07:03:37 AM: OMG, bugUC your avatar is hilarious .
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Post by: Flyboy on May 04, 2003, 10:23:37 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Linz
Same as here, flyboy. Still got a limited account there. And maybe you can't remember me since i normaly fly axis planes, and you are allied pilot, right? :)

hehe yea i flew mainly allied
you LW guys all look the same from my gunsigt tho;)

hard to get use to this all vrs. all thing in HA
allso much more dweeb acts :rolleyes: