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Survivability: Gunners VS Pilots


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Monostripezebra
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Just an observation or preliminary finding, but as I have just begun experimenting with BoS, and said experiments include planes physically getting in touch with other planes, I made the folowing discovery:

 

In mid-air collisions, the gunners and airservice-personal seemingly die like the flies on the smallest interactions, while the pilots survive significantly more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CYQJtYdfhY

 

 

video is just one of many, and for illustration purposes only. So far it seems to be a consistent occurencethrough various mid-air touches.. Note, this is not a complaint, just an observation.

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216th_Lucas_From_Hell
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Reported by a few people, it seems something is killing gunners as soon as the aircraft are listed as destroyed. Sounds like an X-File.

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Reported by a few people, it seems something is killing gunners as soon as the aircraft are listed as destroyed. Sounds like an X-File.

 

They die of shame because they have failed the Fatherland.

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Monostripezebra
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They die of shame because they have failed the Fatherland.

 

Following that logic, we can assume pilots simply know no shame...  considering the average pilots ego, that seems a totally realistic modeling!

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Following that logic, we can assume pilots simply know no shame...  considering the average pilots ego, that seems a totally realistic modeling!

They are Gulag meat!

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I nosed my Pe-2 on landing and my top gunner died. Guess they don't have seat belts?

II/JG17_HerrMurf
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I'm OK with whimpy gunners. They have been far too hardy in a couple of AC here and most of them in '46. Relatively few gunners have armored stations. A wafer thin sheet of aluminum should not stop a .30 much less a 20-23mm round. Most gunners wouldn't do well in a crashing AC because they, precisely, do not have seatbelts.

 

Here's your flexible mg, Anton, remember to duck and hold on!

216th_Peterla
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Yeap is a bug. They die as soon the engine is stopped or in case crash landing, wherever is hard or soft.

Monostripezebra
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Yeap is a bug. They die as soon the engine is stopped or in case crash landing, wherever is hard or soft.

 

I noticed that, too.. I mean, I´m used to passenger complaints, but dying out of shame because the fuel ran out seems a little bit defeatism-ish. Relax, guys.. Don´t worry, I crash better then anyone I know!

 

 

 

 

 

(so, who is nerdy enough to spot the moviequote here? ;=) )

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