Ground-Egress Logic for Boneheads

[MachNix]

Disable bailout option when "End Sortie" is green on the clipboard.

Last night at the end of FSO I was sitting on the runway in my pristine P-40N about to end flight.  I started to type something in the text buffer before going to the tower but changed my mind.  Instead of tapping the Backspace Key like I wanted to clear the buffer, I was tapping the Enter Key and ended up standing in the middle of the runway holding my gun.   I did not stick around to find out if my paints were up or down, but my face was definitely red.

I cannot think of a reason why someone would rather bailout than accept a successful landing; but if there is, it would be nice to have an intermediate step like opening a textbox that said:

Possible Bonehead Detected at Keyboard!
Are you a bonehead who wants to bail instead of land successfully?
YES/NO (No is the default.)

Clicking YES bails you out.
Clicking NO stops the bailout process.
The NO would be the default in case there are a lot of Enter Key presses still in the keyboard buffer.
 

[Vraciu]

Or you can do what I did and remap the bailout key to the ENTER key on the number pad. 

Having done what you did more than once I sympathize.

[Ack-Ack]

Either rebind the bail out key or unbind it.  I removed the key command when I first started AH and haven't bailed out in 17 years.

[oboe]

I've done that more times than I care to admit, both in WarBirds and here.   Even in a scenario once.

'Escape' seems like an overwhelmingly logical candidate for key remap here, but what key then makes sense to bring up the clipboard?

[caldera]

Or you can do what I did and remap the bailout key to the ENTER key on the number pad. 

Having done what you did more than once I sympathize.

That's the same key mine is programmed to.

[FLS]

Ctrl-Enter is another good alternative for "Enter"x3.

[Vraciu]

Ctrl-Enter is another good alternative for "Enter"x3.

Requires two fingers.   Not easy to do knife edge above the trees with one wing.  Lol

[bozon]

wait what?! we can bail out in this game?! 

[Mongoose]

  When I first started, way back in Warbirds, I was in the middle of a fight when my cat walked across my keyboard.  Suddenly I was out of my plane.

   I learned to keep the cat away from my keyboard.