should you continue shooting at planes when engine has stopped?

[il2crashesnfails]

what are your personal ethics regarding this matter?

don't you think my plane was damaged enough to stop continued attack?

 

I think if a plane is obviously going down and the engine is knocked out, you should stop the attacks

 

 

 

[Aap]

Generally it is not advisable to shoot at friendly planes even when engine is working.

[BubiHUN]

When the engine is stopped, the plane and its crew is not a target anymore. Just leave them, save the ammo, and watch your six - Swift and Clean

Edited January 3, 2019 by -[HRAF]BubiHUN

[PA_Keko_]

That is good question and difficult Answer, but depend to the pilot, some will shoot and some will save ammunition!! In my case I don`t shoot a plane with the engine is dead.

 

[Heckpupper]

Ya'll got it wrong. Once the engine has stopped, wait for the pilot to jump out and then shoot him once he's defenseless. If the pilot refuses to bail out and tries to ditch instead, follow him down and then shoot his wing off once he's below parachuting altitude. That way you can ensure that the bastard bought it for sure.

 

While we're at it, devs pls add gore animations when shooting men in parachutes.

[Thad]

Yes, this is WAR (simulated).

 

Show (simulated) mercy and a surviving (simulated) pilot may come back later to shoot your (simulated) arse down.

 

Always make the other poor (simulated) bastard die for his country. ?

[mpdugas]

14 hours ago, II./JG77_Kemp said:

Generally it is not advisable to shoot at friendly planes even when engine is working.

 

 

This ^^^

[il2crashesnfails]

50 minutes ago, mpdugas said:

 

 

This ^^^

 

yes, I wont use a bf109 to attack a he-111 in future!

 

It was just a scenario we wanted to try out

11 hours ago, 4./JG26_Onebad said:

Ya'll got it wrong. Once the engine has stopped, wait for the pilot to jump out and then shoot him once he's defenseless. If the pilot refuses to bail out and tries to ditch instead, follow him down and then shoot his wing off once he's below parachuting altitude. That way you can ensure that the bastard bought it for sure.

 

While we're at it, devs pls add gore animations when shooting men in parachutes.

 

ruthless bro

[=EXPEND=13SchwarzeHand]

23 hours ago, il2crashesnfails said:

I think if a plane is obviously going down and the engine is knocked out, you should stop the attacks

 

I think you should bail mate.

 

There are people turning off engines and then gliding to the nearest airfield to deny the attacker the kill. I have no problem to continue hammering at you.

 

What‘s even worse I have seen people with dead engines that I wanted to let go start shooting other planes. That’s a def. chute kill for me.

[[CPT]milopugdog]

If I can tell he's going to crash land, I'll let him be. If not, I might just try to pepper him again.

 

The question of morals and ethics have been beaten to death before. You've got the party who get up on a soap box and act like we're actually harming people, then the other who doesn't really care because it's just a video game. I say who cares, play how you want.

[Pict]

Why would you attack a bomber from the dead 6 o'clock position in the first place?

[il2crashesnfails]

 

48 minutes ago, =EXPEND=SchwarzeDreizehn said:

I think you should bail mate.

 

There are people turning off engines and then gliding to the nearest airfield to deny the attacker the kill. I have no problem to continue hammering at you.

  

What‘s even worse I have seen people with dead engines that I wanted to let go start shooting other planes. That’s a def. chute kill for me.

 

 I think you are right bailing is probably the best option. I never thought about people turning engine off to get away.

 

40 minutes ago, Pict said:

Why would you attack a bomber from the dead 6 o'clock position in the first place?

 

It's the only way I can hit'em atm.

[Ehret]

Moral or not I avoid shooting at gliders because they are so slow they are a collision hazard. If target's engine stopped due to my fire then I will disengage immediately; no point to continue. More importantly, the longer you stay engaged the lower your awareness is going to be. There is no more stupid thing than getting shot-down when playing with a corpse...

[Bullets]

I’ve shot down a few of the pilots who didn’t finish me off properly or assumed I was done after my engine cut out. An example being up high I followed my attacker down as he spotted an even lower friendly who was blissfully unaware of his impending doom. I wanted to avenge my comrade (and myself) and the attacker after his bounce pulled up into a steep climbing draining all his speed and becoming a sitting duck for me.  One pass and a few good shots and his wing was off. 

 

I always shoot until an aircraft is incapable of fighting and a dead stick aircraft is still very dangerous. 

[Rjel]

Morality aside, damaged isn't destroyed. Even a belly landed A/C could be returned to service in RL.

[Pict]

On 1/4/2019 at 10:21 AM, il2crashesnfails said:

It's the only way I can hit'em atm.

 

Ok, that would account for it.

 

Bomber intercept is a favorite pastime of mine and I prefer the high sided attack, where you position yourself above and to the side of the bombers, then roll & dive into them perpendicular to their course. You can practice your defection shooting on the the way down and still have ammo to hit that massive wing area as it fills your windshield, then keep on going down till your clear and use all that energy to zoom climb up to the other side and start again. The bomber gunners have to track a fast moving target and you get the biggest and least protected part of the bomber to knock holes in

 

Shame that the quick combat missions have the bombers swirling around like fighters making it really difficult to practice this technique. You really need a mission with a few bombers in a steady stream to get the hang of it. Once you do, it's good fun and with a big cannon you can down a bomber almost on every pass.

 

22 hours ago, Rjel said:

Morality aside, damaged isn't destroyed. Even a belly landed A/C could be returned to service in RL.

 

Spot on. That'd be why some air-forces only awarded a kill if the aircraft was witnessed going in or going down in flames.

 

I only break off an attack if I see it going in, if it's on fire or if I come under attack myself. I would add out of ammo to that, but I've been known to ram them  

Edited January 5, 2019 by Pict