But have you ever driven to the hospital with two 20mm rounds in you? Had to jump out of a ditch before the can pops with a broken leg and lacerated arm?
I know, I know, those are extremes....... I feel what your saying but I cant see how that would help you in game......
To top it off with what you said..... "many good fights ruined by a pilot wound." A pilot death would also, and instantly, ruins that same good fight.
No way your going to convince me that a wound from even a 20 MM is worse then a severely abscessed tooth.
Ive you've never had one. but have had a tooth ache. Multiply that pain by about a million
An injury is an injury.
We tend to think it may feel worse because of how it happened.
That does not mean in actuality it feels worse because of how it happened. It doesnt.
I've smashed my finger with a 3 pound sledge hammer
And I've had my finger smashed in a car door.
Neither one hurt any worse then the other.
In fact, often the lessor injury is more painful then the larger one.
Ever had a paper cut?
At least with death. The fight is over.
Like I said. I'd rather have the option.
My biggest beef is with the insta total blackout BS.
There have been alot of pilots who have been severely wounded in combat and not gone into a total blackout where they had no Semblance of what they were doing or what was going on around them.
In fact the adrenalin probably prevented it or at least enabled them to fight through the pain.
When Pilot wounds first came out they had a head wobble then backout thing that got progressively worse and the flight went on.
This was by FAR much better then the total darkness we get now.
The wobble probably best replicated whatever initial disorientation you might have. Yet enabled you the opportunity to disenguage.
Now its blam, red on the cockpit, and 3 seconds later, total darkness for 10 seconds.
As GREAT as this game truely is. The PW aspect of is strikes me as nothing less then being done half ssd.
There has GOT to be a better way.
Took more tie to type the search (about 3 seconds)in the google bar then it did to find thew articles
"With a wounded pilot and a damaged plane, Soeriadarma also found himself in deep trouble: » I saw the aircraft of Tinkelenberg and Troost being shot down. We were now the only plane left and the Japanese fighters tried in turns to finish the "kill". We reached sea level so they could not attack as from below. Lukkien was wounded badly and had lost a lot of blood, but he somehow managed to keep the aircraft under control. He had to switch off the left engine because it received a hit and was leaking fuel. Our gunner had managed to hit one of the Zero's and after that they didn't make another attack. We saw them returning towards their base, probably thinking we were finished anyway. I gave Lukkien my first-aid kit and ordered the second pilot to fly the aircraft to the nearest airfield. I repaired our radio and sent an un-decoded message to Samiranda;"watch for enemy fighters". The fact that I transmitted this message un-decoded later gave me some trouble. When we finally reached Mangar airbase "on one engine and a prayer", Lukkien wanted to take control of the aircraft, because our second pilot, sergeant-vlieger Vermey, didn't know how to land the aircraft. Lukkien flew the aircraft straight in, which was a remarkable achievement considering his physical state. After we had landed all crewmembers ran to the cockpit to get the pilot out as quickly as possible. We made sure he was taken to hospital immediately and that probably saved his life. When we visited him that evening he was already feeling better. During the night a KNILM plane took him to Java."http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/specs/martin/b-10.htm"Everyone's skills were put to the test in one instance, when the medevac helo pilot was wounded when a bullet ricocheted, impacting his nose.
Despite the wound, the pilot flew the helicopter to the FRSS. Once on the ground everyone rushed to treat the wounded in the back of the helicopter. Yet, nobody had a clue to the casualty in the cockpit.
When the pilot stepped out of the helicopter, "Everyone stops … and stares in disbelief," said Lynn. The pilot "didn't have a face. I don't know how he picked up the wounded; and flew into Al Qa'im.
"The intestinal fortitude of that pilot to fly those wounded while he was (likely) dying was the most amazing thing I'd ever witnessed," said Lynn, "until we got him into surgery!"
Lynn provided fluid resuscitation and was "pushing lots of fluid and blood rapidly" to the patient while assisting anesthesiology with surgery preparations.
Surgery began with putting the patient's face back together.
"If it hadn't been for the surgeon and anesthesiologist, he would have died right then and there," Lynn said. "It was miraculous stuff."http://www.navy.mil/search/display_word.asp?story_id=34115Try page 178
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