Give me some "holy sh... did that just happen" ideas

[djwolters]

It would be nice to have at the start of a career a set of training missions to simulate you working up your skills on a new aircraft. Perhaps landing one of your training missions in some danger (being jumped by an enemy flight, having to try to get away in your unarmed training kite).

Same goes for when a campaing transfers you to a new aircraft type: some familiarization with the new airframe would probably be realistic before being thrown into combat with it.

Not all missions should have to result in combat (in reality it was often 1 in 10 that got into a shooting situation). Idealistically, a non-combat mission can still be made exciting, perhaps by making the scenery interesting (seeing/reporting ship movements, rail or road traffic, other aircraft).
Also weather changes can make a mission interesting: incoming fog or rain-squalls can make the navigation challenging, and result in an adrenaline-raising landing.

With respect to navy shipping: historically these guys were shooting at every airplane (shoot first, ask questions later), especially in reduced visibility. 1C might consider to recreate this AI behaviour; it will ensure that everybody respects navy ships

[Sturm_Williger]

Originally Posted by djwolters

With respect to navy shipping: historically these guys were shooting at every airplane (shoot first, ask questions later), especially in reduced visibility. 1C might consider to recreate this AI behaviour; it will ensure that everybody respects navy ships

I like this one.

[Richie]

The mouse in Gunther Rall's cockpit. When he gets up to altitude for oxygen all of a sudden this mouses head pops out from behind the instrument panel gasping for air. That really happened. "Companion."

http://www.kondorgallery.com/mh01.htm

[gonk]

Have us vectored to an Un-Identified plane... Upon closer inspection we work out it is a Allied Bomber.... all shot up... smoking... but no one on-board...as they all jumped over France/Germany... It just keeps flying west....

or

We are vectored to something very fast..... a test V1 screaming west which does not stop. Might not be historically correct ... but would be interesting.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by gonk

Have us vectored to an Un-Identified plane... Upon closer inspection we work out it is a Allied Bomber.... all shot up... smoking... but no one on-board...as they all jumped over France/Germany... It just keeps flying west...

Had such an encounter on the BoB server.

I went to check out an unidentified bomber which was smoking and leaking fuel, flying a huge circle in front of our base.
It was a 111.
The reason it flew circles was because of the autopilot was still engaged - and there was a huge hole in the starboard wing.
The they didn't bail, they were all dead - there was blood all over the place.

That was the first and so far only time IL2 managed to give me the creeps.

[Blackdog_kt]

Wow swiss, that's an awesome occurrence. I bet you have been snapping screenshots or a track

Gonk, very nice idea by the way.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Wow swiss, that's an awesome occurrence. I bet you have been snapping screenshots or a track

I wish I had mapped this function then.

[Upthair]

Show the non-tracers during offline track playback:

It will be great to have the option to see every bullet's behaviour when playing an offline trk record - for analysing your own gunnery. I mean, in IL2 we can see how a tracer round misses the target aircraft, but we never know exactly where the non-tracers have gone.