Shoot the chutes

[croduh]

I don't need no stinking prisioners

[captain1ma]

All's fair in Love and War. sometimes i shoot chutes, sometimes i dont. just depends on how I feel at the time. my 2 cents

[Elfie]

I never used to shoot chutes. I shoot them all now simply because once they bail they have the option to tower out. If they don't tower out immediately I assume they are staying in their chute because they either want to stay and give check 6's or....they want to be shot in their chute. 

I bail all the time from crippled fighters, then I tower out so I can up faster for revenge. 

[Masherbrum]

Uh, if you fly in fighter mode, and come upon the need to gun some ack/buildings, or shoot a troop transport, or go ona PT boad turkey hunt, you won't get any credit for it in fighter mode. So every sortie should instead be flown as "attack".

Uh, you realize you proved my point to a "T" right?   

 

[BaldEagl]

I fly fighters to protect my attack score.

[BnZ]

Hey, if you're gonna fly into ack, GV fire, and gawd-knows-what else, to shoot something on the ground, it might as well at least show.

Me, I've gone to flying all my sorties, no matter what I'm doing, as "attack", because I sort of got caught the notion that I always have bad luck/screw up when flying them as "fighter". I understand this is completely irrational superstition, but man does not live by rationality alone. This does not make for a great fighter score, but no one cares about anyone's score anyway.

[SmithyUK]

The only time I shoot troops is either whe, like most people said, the chute is near an enemy maproom. OR if the chute comes from a base attacker and is obviously telling his country what is upping and how to divert to avoid the defending fighters.

Other then that I ive them a little airshow/

[trax1]

I don't understand why people ride there planes all the way to the ground, when your plane is missing a wing and falling to the ground bail and tower out to give credit to the guy that killed you.  I always bail after my plane is no longer flyable, not because I care about my score, but as a sign of respect to the guy that killed me, to make sure he gets the credit for killing me, instead of riding my plane down from 10k, I'll bail out but won't open my chute, I just tower out.

[Spazzter]

Uh, if you fly in fighter mode, and come upon the need to gun some ack/buildings, or shoot a troop transport, or go ona PT boad turkey hunt, you won't get any credit for it in fighter mode. So every sortie should instead be flown as "attack".

Bnz,

I am strictly talking about K/D ratio not whether or not I receive points for shooting buildings.  I measure the success of my flying by K/D ratio and kills per sortie and work to get the highest number possible in those categories.  Everything else is irrelevant.  I don't care if I drop bombs on a town and receive points, if I did then I would care about my rank, which I don't.  By flying all my sorties in fighter mode I get an accurate measure of K/D and Kills per sortie.  I could do the same if I flew everythig in attack mode also.  My point is that a lot of people fly limited sorties in fighter mode and vulch to get a high K/D so they can have a high ranking.  My argument is that if you want to really measure your skill fly all sorties in fighter mode and see how you do then when everything counts against you.  Hope that explained my thought clearly, if not I apologize.

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Spazz

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One thing though, if your flying in fighter mode and say you kill a gv, you don't get any credit for it, you don't even get it added to your kills, the only way to have gv kills added to you k/d ratio is to do it in attack mode.  Say I know that I'm upping a heavy fighter to kill a gv, you need to score it in attack mode for it to be added to your k/d ratio, otherwise it's like the kill never happened.

[bongaroo]

I'm still trying to get a kill with that 45 pistol.  People always shoot me in my chute when i've bailed near a field 

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I'm still trying to get a kill with that 45 pistol.  People always shoot me in my chute when i've bailed near a field 

Hold off on opening your chute until your only 1k off the deck, gives them less time to shot you.

[NOT]

to make sure he gets the credit for killing me

unless he dies before you hit the ground, he will get credit for the kill. if he dies before you hit the ground, he doen't deserve to get the kill.







NOT

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unless he dies before you hit the ground, he will get credit for the kill. if he dies before you hit the ground, he doen't deserve to get the kill.







NOT

Yeah, but I just feel like it's a show of respect to bail out after your plane is no longer flyable to give the guy that killed you the credit, plus whats the point of riding my plane all the way to the ground, I mean I will if I'm only a couple K off the deck, but above that I'll bail and tower out.

[Yknurd]

You're kinda slow aren't you?