I’ve been flying plans, jump out and can’t deploy a faarken parachute any one no how we can or is it just not a part off the game, wouldn’t make any sense if it wasn’t due to the fact you can up grade the pilot weapons
I don’t think it’s part of the game, and it probably shouldn’t be, because people would then either spawn as a pilot with the ONLY intention being to parachute down to behind enemy lines to flank them from behind, or it would be used to deny people kills who actually manage to shoot down planes. That said, former president George H.W. Bush was a WWII veteran and while bombing strategic radio towers in the Philippines to disrupt Japanese efforts there, he got hit bad by AA guns but still managed to bomb the tower before turning his badly damaged plane towards US ships. He ultimately ejected and parachuted down to the waters where he struggled for some time to keep his head above water but thankfully there was a life raft nearby which he eventually got to, filled up, and used it to keep him and his water-logged pilot uniform from sinking into the Philippine Sea, or whichever sea it was that he landed in.
From there came a four-hour effort to paddle AWAY from the island while the current pushed him there, and the Japanese sent boats to try and capture him but thankfully the US Air Force scared 'em off. Eventually he was saved. In the early 2000s, it was discovered that those of his Air Force buddies who ultimately were captured, some were cannibalized, with Japanese officers in one instance cutting out a liver from one of the dead US soldiers and handing it over to his cook. They thought it was “Good medicine for the stomach.” A president-to-be was nearly cannibalized by Japanese officers in the Philippines.
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Not a part of the game, at least for the time being, and I am not sure if it will be implemented, seing as so many games suffer from para abuse. It is my understanding that you will be able to land a plane, though, but this is currently also almost impossible. Crash-landing is always an option, and I did actually get a chance to use my pilot’s weapons a few times, but it’s not really worth it as of right now, just suicide and spawn another squad.
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Yup, I’ve successfully survived a landing (generally a crash-landing) several times, though unlike yourself I’ve yet to manage to get my pilot into combat before being killed for being out-of-bounds. And yeah, I would anticipate parachute abuse, in terms of people becoming pilots probably just planning to drop their ordnance, hopefully not immediately crash, and then parachute out of their plane ASAP to try and flank the enemy. Tsk… maybe if it was made so that you could only parachute if your vehicle is badly damaged? On fire, some part (or parts) of it is in the red, or something like that?
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Great story man,
But when your plane catches fire from being shot, I think you should have the option of ejecting, as even the ejection time would take some sort of skill to land in the designated area
Yeah getting killed for being out of bounds is what happens to me most of the time 
Well, WAS happening, I should say, 'cause now I just suicide so as to not waste time.
I suppose only being able to parachute if badly damaged is an option the devs should look into, it could potentially open up new gameplay mechanics.
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aren’t you suppose to swim on your back when in a waterlogged flight suit so you use the least amount of energy trying to keep yourself afloat?
Classic Dogfighting Lesson
lol 
Thanks, recently watched a video by Simple History, actually recently watched LOTS of videos by them, specifically yesterday, and that one stood out quite prominently in my mind. Thought of giving some sort of proof that pilots could use parachutes in WWII, and there’s an example.
Yeah, I think something needs to be done about pilots landing outside of the zone. I created a thread with that topic before, and also had given consideration to the idea of it being abused.
That bothers quite a lot of people, it would really be better if you tried to stay airborne as long as you could. For one, that makes more sense, and for two, you would then get better over time as you learn how to maneuver, and what the planes in the game are capable of. Plus you’ll get better at using the rockets/bombs, and you’ll get better at dog fights. It’s so damn rewarding to gun an enemy pilot down and get that vehicle kill, though now that I use a big-ass bomber, that happens a lot less frequently and I myself am gunned down much more often than I used to be. I think, possibly, if you set your flaps to ‘combat’ mode, it seems to diminish how fast you can go but might actually help you in turning faster. As you can see, I’m still learning too, but let me tell you this; with that bomber, it is not uncommon for me to get 7+ instant kills from one bombing. Then, I swing around and go to restock to bomb the location again. Managed to get 3 stars in one game for my pilot before, and have gotten to the top of the boards several times.
Actually, recently, I was in a tank an ENTIRE game, a ‘Jumbo.’ Got wounded several times, by the end of it I had no tools left and only one tanker. My tank got destroyed but one of my tankers managed to survive, I joined the fight with my M3, and as I recall, took part in the fight until dying RIGHT at the end, at which point we won and I could not respawn. I was #1, not just on my team but #1 in the entire match. Felt pretty damn good…
I really don’t know, but the story went that there was an inflatable life raft nearby which he inflated to help him, but the tide was sending him towards the Japs who were occupying the Philippines so he had to kick and paddle in the water with the raft for hours to try and stay out of their (as it turns out) cannibalistic hands.
That’s not what I meant by “suicide”. I am a decent pilot, I don’t suicide-bomb, I suicide by going into the menu and selecting the suicide option in case if my plane is already going down. It just saves me a few seconds.
Admit it, you’re not saving time, you’re trying to deny the other player a kill. 
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yea i guess if the tide was carrying me towards the japs shore at that time id be treadin water like a fuckin great white was behind me 
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Nah, if the dogfight was good and I see proper skills, I always let them have it But if it’s one of the cases where I get hit by my own bomb or something like that, or if a guy just straight up rams my plane - no-no-no, you don’t deserve that kill, you cheeky bastard
Just to comment on the initial point on ejecting with a parachute, it might be realistic but you staying alive doesn’t add much to the game. Perhaps it would if you parachuted down and got some XP for it but were then returned to the spawn menu. Then the enemy player should still get points for downing your plane (which I think they already do, at least it shows two separate kill messages).
well if you chute down into the battle zone and are able to make it to the ground without being turned into a floating piece of swiss cheese you could get a few kills since you can deck out pilots with some pretty sweet gear 
they’re basically assaulter’s gear wise
in a manner of speaking parachutes aren’t even all that difficult to code in… you just add the image of a parachute above the character it really doesn’t even have to be animated cause who’s looking up while parachuting lol and then you reduce fall speed while the chute is active by 0.75 as for movement just disable the walking animation but keep the ability to move active and there you go steerable parachutes that reduce fall speed
if they want they can make the parachute an item that takes up a backpack slot or they could just make it default to every character either way its a simple thing to add
if you were to ask me id vote to the make it an item you have to equip in your backpack so people can use them in an urban setting also like jumping off the top of the church or that big mansion to flank behind an advancing squad lol idk thoughts? i can already think of like a hundred ways id use the parachute in berlin lol
Right, but as already mentioned that would be too much of an incentive for pilots not to play like pilots. The game has already decided there are different roles with different functions in a battle, and in that sense incentivising pilots to bail out and join the battle as infantry breaks that framework. That said, I’m not opposed to airborne infantry actually airdropping into the AO.
(and perhaps if Gaijin decided to abandon realism and immersion altogether and go for an unapologetically Arcade shooter then having players jump from buildings with parachutes is a good start)
well i guess if you wanna keep to pilots only being able to use parachutes then they could just be default to the pilot’s and to prevent them from being used in the bounds of the map say if a pilot landed on a building would be to add a ceiling where parachutes cant be activated so it would give people a reason to try to land their pilot after ejecting instead of just straight up suicide bombing or jumping to their death before crashing the plane 
adding a ceiling parachutes have to be above to activate would incentivise people to eject at a higher altitude so they could use their chute
i still think there should be a system where paratroopers can parachute spawn when someones flying a transport aircraft like the C-47 in the game
I was with you pretty much 100% until that point. Reminds me of Far Cry. Now while that’s a very fun game and I enjoy being able to use the parachute and the wing-glider or whatever it’s called, I don’t regard that as being particularly realistic use of a parachute. I mean, you don’t even have to re-pack it, nor do you have to cut yourself away from it. I think it best to relegate it to the use of pilots and make it single-use, but once the pilot touches feet on the ground (for example, if they successfully landed their plane thus got on the ground without using their parachute) then the parachute is unusable. Also, I think the type of chutes used in WWII required speed to implement and it took a certain distance to fall before it decelerated you to the point that you won’t outright go splat. I think attempting to use a parachute from a building that’s only a few stories tall and isn’t a skycraper is asking for broken legs and/or death. But hey, maybe the type of parachutes used in WWII were super awesome and I’m wrong, but I just have the suspicion that jumping off a building in the game and using it would not end well. The huge church tower that’s just a couple points from the marshlands, maybe, but c’mon. Doesn’t seem historically accurate for a WWII pilot to land their plane, get into action, climb up a church tower, and for some dumb reason create a spectacle as they jump from the church tower to hover down to the ground. Is it only for convenience? I can’t see it as being tactically useful because… well… you might as well have a MASSIVE white arrow looming above you while you’re TOTALLY exposed in the air for anyone with any firearm to start blasting. An SMG or MG would make, as has been mentioned, Swiss cheese out of such a clown.
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yea that’s why i followed up with the ceiling idea to only allow you to pull the chute when your above a specific altitude, i figured the C-47 paratrooper spawn idea would follow the same logic and only allow spawning when the plane is above the ceiling
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Observe.
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