[Brophmeister]

Don't forget that these are crappy WWII parachutes, not super-duper high tech specially shaped parachtues

[Zoltann]

Dont worry about crappy,

The chutes I used (exit 1100 feet) werent much different from WW2 chutes. Wanna steer clear of a tree? Hang on your risers! No fancy civil Squares, emergency chute had to be opened by pulling cord and then throwing the reserve away from you, WITH the wind. Unfortunately, a bloke in the stick next to me had bad chute (line-over: one of his lines came over the outside of his canopy, so his chute looked like a bleeding bra.) He used his spare by hand but mistakenly threw the package INTO the wind: it fluttered, smacked back in his face and was cought between the other lines....Well from 1100 feet the trip is at least short. He was badly injured and damn "lucky" to recover to walk again. After shouting on the tops of my lungs "Reserve !!Reserve!! I was happy that I just had qualified for them bleeding insigna, pffff.... hock:

Sorry, got carried away a bit. Anyway I think the IL-2 Bailout is quite simpel and only related to a certain altitude, not hor or vert speed. I can live with it, but would prefer a somewhat lower level to be survivable. I remember a passage from "The First Team" USN Combat history by John B. Lundstrom in which one of the Navy guys has to bail out of his F4F below 500 feet and remembers during the drop his instructor: "NEVER bail out below 500 feet", his chute opens, and in the first dangle he hits the water.. (unharmed)

Cheers, Zol.

[Trooper117]

Don't forget that these are crappy WWII parachutes, not super-duper high tech specially shaped parachtues

Not sure how you are basing those comments, probably not from experience, but I've jumped the British WWII parachute type many times before our new Low Level Parachute entered service, I can tell you it wasn't crappy, and I had at least 200 descents using it.. It was rotatable only by pulling down on the lift webs, had no capewells and was permantly attached to the harness, which had the standard Second World War release mechanism, which incidently was the same design as the RAF's..
I have jumped it many times under 600ft with not a single mishap.. You can't make a statement about 'crappy WWII chutes' when you haven't any experience using it..
Even the new LLP I have described doing tests on is still very much the same as a basic WWII canopy and operates the same way. it has more modern harness and container gadjets for the paratrooper to make his life a little easier.. but the way it deploys and operates is still the same as the early WWII design.

[Bearcat]

Look guys... the sim is what... 6 years old... the engine is 10 years old... ennhhh :roll:

I'm juts sayin....