The Meaning of Airfield Crash

[Nicholas Bell]

I see a lot of aircraft crashing on their home airfields where the pilot/crew are killed or wounded, but their aircraft is okay. It would seem to me that if the crash were so violent to kill or injure the crew, that the aircraft should be a write-off, ie destroyed. I don't think every crash should necessarily destroy the plane, nor should every crash kill or injure the crew. I just don't think it is very real to kill the crew and the plane is fine.

I would hazard a guess this effect is a left-over from changes made to decrease the number of aircraft lost while landing, but the code regarding the crew was not also changed.

[Hard Sarge]

No

and is in fact, what happened

a plane is much easier to fix up, then a pilot or crew is

for me, I would like to see more of the crashes end up with WIA then KIA (but, I am partsal to my crews)

[harley]

<in response to Nick, not Ron!>

umm, no...

There's always a chance a shot-up plane will land and be salvageable, but one or more of the crew is dead. Perhaps the pilot died in the attempt to get the bird back home to save the rest of the crew? Maybe the pilot was already wounded? Maybe the plane ran off the runway (or hit a crater), flipped and broke the pilots neck. The plane is probably repairable...

either way, there's been no change to this part of the code, it's been like this since adam.

[Nicholas Bell]

Okay.&nbsp; Thanks for your thoughts.&nbsp; Just need to change how I look at it&nbsp;[:)]

[otisabuser2]

Reminds me of a sad tale in a book I was reading over the weekend.

New pilots training in Tigermoths or Tutors ( or something ) similar flipping on the ground after landing. The pilots becoming elated to find that though upside down, the planes were not completely wrecked and they were not only alive, but unhurt. It was not uncommon for them then to want to hurry out, undo the straps, but then fall out braking their necks in the process.

[Dobey455]

I just think of it as simulating crews wounded or killed by enemy fire in an A/C that returns safely. (ie a bomber returns having several crew members shot up and replacing these with new crew.)

That idea doesn't hold for the single seaters, but it's enough to keep the mmersion factor up for me.