Code of Honour?
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:27 am
So, today I was flying in a server with historic missions. I shot some guy's bomber up pretty bad and he was burning badly and just above the water. Later I found out I had killed his engines as wel, but I didn't know that at the time. I turned into him again and shot his wing off.
After his bomber fell into the water and just floated there for a minute, the guy hit refly and so his plane disappeared from the water. Then he started complaining about me shooting him while his plane was burning and he had no engines. He said I could at least had let him bail out (or ditch, I don't remember correctly). And that I was messing up his K/D (I'm guessing that's his kills to deaths ratio? He wouldn't tell me. He said that I should know when flying like I did).
Now, thinking this over myself, he couldn't have bailed at that altitude and ditching... well, isn't that what he did anyway in the end? I guess he was just a bit annoyed by me killing him for the second time in a row.
But that's not what this is about. I'd like to know if there's some sort of 'Code of Honour' that honourable pilots follow in these kind of situations? I always try to respect other pilots and fly with honour, so if there are any 'unwritten rules' I'd like to know them...
Some times, when my enemy is shot up badly or he's signaling with his lights, I stop firing and fly on his wing for a second and flash my lights. I'm not doing it much, because 1. I'm not a very god pilot and 2. After you brake away from him there's a 50% chance of him trying to take a shot at you! It has happened to me a couple of times that I was downed by the guy who's life I had just spared!
Anyway, in this particular case I decided to finish the bomber, because he had a <1% chance of surviving anyway. I thought it wouldn't matter...
Your thoughts on this please.
After his bomber fell into the water and just floated there for a minute, the guy hit refly and so his plane disappeared from the water. Then he started complaining about me shooting him while his plane was burning and he had no engines. He said I could at least had let him bail out (or ditch, I don't remember correctly). And that I was messing up his K/D (I'm guessing that's his kills to deaths ratio? He wouldn't tell me. He said that I should know when flying like I did).
Now, thinking this over myself, he couldn't have bailed at that altitude and ditching... well, isn't that what he did anyway in the end? I guess he was just a bit annoyed by me killing him for the second time in a row.
But that's not what this is about. I'd like to know if there's some sort of 'Code of Honour' that honourable pilots follow in these kind of situations? I always try to respect other pilots and fly with honour, so if there are any 'unwritten rules' I'd like to know them...
Some times, when my enemy is shot up badly or he's signaling with his lights, I stop firing and fly on his wing for a second and flash my lights. I'm not doing it much, because 1. I'm not a very god pilot and 2. After you brake away from him there's a 50% chance of him trying to take a shot at you! It has happened to me a couple of times that I was downed by the guy who's life I had just spared!
Anyway, in this particular case I decided to finish the bomber, because he had a <1% chance of surviving anyway. I thought it wouldn't matter...
Your thoughts on this please.