No pilot in cockpit

[Hopper64]

I shot down a bf109 g14 yesterday in my P51 and the bf109 went out of control and crashed. I checked the flight record and there was no pilot in the stricken plane. I typically see a pilot slumped over in this scenario. I can provide a screenshot at some point if necessary.

 

Anyone else seen this? Thanks.

[Cybermat47]

Most likely the game just deleted the dead pilot model after a while for performance reasons.

[Hopper64]

Yes but I have never seen that before. Thanks.

[LukeFF]

5 hours ago, [Pb]Cybermat47 said:

Most likely the game just deleted the dead pilot model after a while for performance reasons.

 

Yes, this is the reason why. 

[69th_Mobile_BBQ]

I saw this happen with a Ju-88 rear gunner once.  I checked the external cam because I couldn't tell if I hit my shot and saw the back seat totally vacant.  It was about 30 seconds after I took the shot that I looked.  At first, I thought he somehow tumbled all the way down to the lower gunner's area but, no. He totally disappeared.  Haven't seen it happen any other time.  It might just be one of those 'fluke' things with a low rarity of occurrence.