Refuel/Re-arm pad

[Infidelz]

The troops as they are now look pretty silly. Perhaps litttle yellow pack men would be more appropriate. 

[Infidelz]

The troops as they are now look pretty silly. Perhaps litttle yellow pack men would be more appropriate.  

[Grape]

What if you up in a low ENY bird with 25% fuel and during your sortie the numbers change enough to keep you from being able to re-plane at a base with hangers up? It would be nice if you could hit the hot pad and select a different fuel load out as the situation dictates. My favorite plane is the Spit XVI and I hate it when this sort of thing happens to me since I fly it exclusively. You all know how cool it would be if I could get 100% fuel on the hot pad for me and my squadies (who fly La-7's and Niki's, too) so that we could bring the horde to the enemy and by doing so, cheat the ENY system until the horde is whittled down. Good idea, but...Bad things will happen in the end.

[Nemisis]

Pilots didn't have C-47's fly in ammo and fuel for their fighters parked on a dirt strip they found while flying. If you want to have it so fuel and ord must be up to have both of those reloaded then OK, but I think mg and cannon ammo were stored seperatly from the bombs and rockets.

It isn't a way for anyone to "game" the hanger status. If you flew to your field, only to discover the hangers had been destroyed, you would land and say to the ground crew "gas and ammo", regardels of whether the hangers had been destroyed.

And another reason you might want to change the fuel load out for wrong way: Hangers are down, flying an La-7 with limited range, see the fight is getting higer requiring more climging, hey look at that, after a while 50% just ain't gona cut it.

[rough_wood]

I like the idea

It's akin to pitstops in racing games. You can choose tyre type, fuel loadout, but can't choose a new car etc etc.

[Nemisis]

Well, the newb just gave them a new reason to boo the idea  . Now everyones going to equate it to taking a pitstop.

[stodd]

Well, the newb just gave them a new reason to boo the idea  . Now everyones going to equate it to taking a pitstop.

[USRanger]

 

[AWwrgwy]

What if you up in a low ENY bird with 25% fuel and during your sortie the numbers change enough to keep you from being able to re-plane at a base with hangers up? .

Why on Earth would you up with 25% fuel to begin with?

Properly plan ahead.  Always assume you will need more fuel than you think you will, just like in real life....


wrongway

[EskimoJoe]

No.

You can't replane why?

and

100% fuel, no matter what.  

You can never tell how long a sortie is going to be or if unforseen circumstances will keep you on patrol longer than anticipated.


wrongway

I'm not going to re-plane in a special event and lose my one and only life due to something like a fuel leak.

I'm not going to take 100% fuel up for capped base defense, that's just stupid.

[guncrasher]

think he was talking about upping from a clear field and do a one hour patrol/mission.  Some people like that, me If i dont see action within 4-5 minutes its just a waste of time.  just a matter of preference.  I usually up with 50%fuel max plus extra tanks I fly the spits (I know i am a super dweeb) so that gives me around 40 minutes flying time, not like i like to use all that time in one flight .

semp

[bravoa8]

This would be handy. +1 

[stodd]

This would be handy. +1  

Bravo....is that a cat with cheese on its head??? hehehe

[AWwrgwy]

I'm not going to re-plane in a special event and lose my one and only life due to something like a fuel leak.

I'm not going to take 100% fuel up for capped base defense, that's just stupid.

Obviously I'm missing something here.

A.  You would change the amount of fuel you took off with in a special event if you landed to rearm?  If you had a fuel leak you would refuel with less fuel than you originally took off with?

Don't special events try to be historically accurate?  IE:  100% fuel, and often drop tanks, on take-off?


B.  You take off from a capped field with 50% fuel.  You want to re-arm/re-fuel at the same capped field and expect to do so successfully?  And, you want more/less fuel than you took off with originally?


Help me to understand.


wrongway

[grizz441]

Obviously I'm missing something here.

A.  You would change the amount of fuel you took off with in a special event if you landed to rearm?  If you had a fuel leak you would refuel with less fuel than you originally took off with?

Don't special events try to be historically accurate?  IE:  100% fuel, and often drop tanks, on take-off?


B.  You take off from a capped field with 50% fuel.  You want to re-arm/re-fuel at the same capped field and expect to do so successfully?  And, you want more/less fuel than you took off with originally?


Help me to understand.


wrongway

I don't see what the big deal is.  You can already up whatever % of fuel you want from the hangar, there should be no 'realism' restriction on how much you can get refueled.

That being said, I don't really see much use out of adding the wish.  You can't manage your fuel tanks in the hangar currently so being able to do it on the runway seems like a bit of a stretch.  I guess it wouldn't be bad to be able to have the option to change your fuel loadout but I doubt there are really that many situations where you would actually need to change your fuel loadout.  I doubt HiTech wants to code something so negligible and arguably pointless since you can just replane.