Give us pilots an Increased chance of survival!

DavidP · Post by **DavidP** » 2007-09-01 02:39

Please dev's give us heli pilots a higher chance to survive when left alone in enemy territory.

I dont ask for any drastic changes just an extra field dressing and binoculars to scout ahead of our route for enemies.

Also a special icon on the map for us downed pilots would be nice.

BetterDeadThanRed · Post by **BetterDeadThanRed** » 2007-09-01 03:15

How often have you actually bailed out over enemy territory? I only have once and that was because I accidentally pressed E when my hand shifted over a key.

S.P.C-[Reality]- · Post by **S.P.C-[Reality]-** » 2007-09-01 04:51

BetterDeadThanRed wrote:How often have you actually bailed out over enemy territory? I only have once and that was because I accidentally pressed E when my hand shifted over a key.

same with me, i usually die in my aircraft. i would either save it or die in it

. my point is, i have never bailed out in the enemy territory.

DavidP · Post by **DavidP** » 2007-09-01 05:28

BetterDeadThanRed wrote:How often have you actually bailed out over enemy territory? I only have once and that was because I accidentally pressed E when my hand shifted over a key.

A couple of times.

1. My heli is empty other then myself and i come under attack so i bail

2. My heli is burning and i cant fly back to base

3. I have a heli full of my teamamtes and i tell them to bail over water whilst i move the heli away to a safe distance to jump out.

CAS_117 · Post by **CAS_117** » 2007-09-01 08:02

I usually say I'm "going down for repairs" and then "misjudge my landing" by about 2500m onto the turret of the nearest AA vehicle, at least until I have some bombs to accidentally jettison on top of the afore mentioned AA vehicle so my wingman can accidentally press his trigger at the precisely incorrect moment that would place a missile right into the tail pipe of the unluckiest MiG-29 pilot in PR. So logically, by giving the F-16 bombs, we could reduce these unfortunate accidents and allow pilots to eject safely... and some binoculars would help I guess.

Kruder · Post by **Kruder** » 2007-09-01 13:17

I wish they'd removed parachutes from pilot kits and u ask for extra shit

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As we all know heli pilots dont have parachutes...
Since there are only 2 maps with planes i think captain must go with his ship...
They can keep the redsmokes though.

Post by **Outlawz7** » 2007-09-01 14:29

OT, but related: what I find really ridiculus, when two pilots bailed out on Jabal from a BH, because they had the nerve to fly over the MEC controled area with AA and .50 cal equiped Vodniks everywhere and got show down. They parachuted down on the road next to MEC main and sat there for 10 minutes, just waiting someone to pick them up instead of starting to walk back (West Beach is what, 500m away? And theres enough Humvees parked there.)
'I just did something stupid that ended up in me bailing out, will my team all of a sudden launch a super important operation to save my nub *** behind enemy lines, while they are busy fighting, while Ill just wait here and do nothing'
I think, they commited suicide, got found and shot or just got themselves killed...

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-09-01 14:38

another filled dressing probably wouldn't hurt but you will just want to stay out of combat and sneak back to an area you can with any luck get extracted

Eddiereyes909 · Post by **Eddiereyes909** » 2007-09-01 14:39

IRL, dont heli pilots get some sort of SMG in the canopy incase they crash,

but then again maybe its just Black Hawk Down,,,

Leo · Post by **Leo** » 2007-09-01 14:44

Kruder wrote:I wish they'd removed parachutes from pilot kits and u ask for extra shit .

As we all know heli pilots dont have parachutes...
Since there are only 2 maps with planes i think captain must go with his ship...
They can keep the redsmokes though.

Right, because you'll really need extraction if you don't have a parachute to bail from your chopper, right?

G.Drew · Post by **G.Drew** » 2007-09-01 15:00

now this may sound really quite stupid, put could helo pilots be equiped with a PDW, say an MP-7?

usually guys run up to a helo/jet and request the kit from there, well y not that pilot kits requests from a helo get a PDW, while from a jet its the usual pistol

Bonsai · Post by **Bonsai** » 2007-09-01 15:34

G.Drew wrote:now this may sound really quite stupid, put could helo pilots be equiped with a PDW, say an MP-7?

usually guys run up to a helo/jet and request the kit from there, well y not that pilot kits requests from a helo get a PDW, while from a jet its the usual pistol

I think this has been suggested before?

And in my opinion it would encourage too many people to land their helicopter somewhere, jump out and engage the enemy?
Pistol is fine.

El_Vikingo · Post by **El_Vikingo** » 2007-09-01 15:35

So the MP7 is better than 48 rockets from a flying machine?

Bonsai · Post by **Bonsai** » 2007-09-01 16:57

El_Vikingo wrote:So the MP7 is better than 48 rockets from a flying machine?

...what about transport helicopters?
They are used to transport people nowadays very often.
If you give the pilot a MP-7 i`m sure there will be a lot of players that use the transport version of the helicopters as one-man taxi to the front, bail out, crash the team asset and try to fight with the MP-7.

Post by **Duke** » 2007-09-01 17:23

i honestly dont think theres enough occasions where one bails out and needs to use their sidearm to warrent giveing the entire pilot class PDWs. Leave it with pistols and give em another field dressing in my opinion.

CAS_117 · Post by **CAS_117** » 2007-09-01 17:28

'[BF2 wrote:Bonsai;474091']...what about transport helicopters?
They are used to transport people nowadays very often.
If you give the pilot a MP-7 i`m sure there will be a lot of players that use the transport version of the helicopters as one-man taxi to the front, bail out, crash the team asset and try to fight with the MP-7.

Or we could just...

A) Make miniguns effective.

B) Give utility helicopters some rockets, or missiles. (Not the stupid littlebird).

That way, instead of getting bored and having to helplessly watch apcs and tanks waste friendly troops, pilots could actually use their helicopters the way god intended.

BetterDeadThanRed · Post by **BetterDeadThanRed** » 2007-09-01 17:34

What about helo wrecks spawning an SMG kit?

Waaah_Wah · Post by **Waaah_Wah** » 2007-09-01 17:40

If you find yourselve behind enemy lines you just kill some lonely wanker and take his kit

jackal22 · Post by **jackal22** » 2007-09-01 17:49

^ lol

but yeh i dont think ive seen more then 1 pilot bail from a chopper, normally they try to get back to base even if they wont make it.

but if your going to crash... why not smash the chopper into an enemy?

Post by **ZZEZ** » 2007-09-01 18:07

They should make it that pilots are unable to bail out of helicopters unless the helicopter has landed, I mean - how exactly can pilots bail out of a active helicopter when theres a rotor above them?
Pistol is fine, maybe another field dressing thats all