Near F50 the 23rd and JG51 tangled and promod and I engaged in a game of chicken in which neither one of us flinched, and thus, neither of us won. I lost my vertical stab and an aileron, and rapidly losing control of my P-39, I hit the silk somewhere below 20K. As I serenely floated down about halfway to terra firma, a 109 came at me, guns blazing. As I was just a couple hundred feet from touchdown, a 109 once again made a pass at me, this time hitting me and a "pilot killed" message appeared in the buffer. But...I did continue down to the ground and a "bailed safely" message appeared....I guess my bullet-riddled corpse impacted the ground at less than terminal velocity?
So. Either one of two things happened here.
1. Some foolishly bloodthirsty Luftwobble thought that it was worth wasting ammo and perhaps pranging themselves into a hillside to shoot at a guy in a chute.
OR
2. They didn't know that I was a guy in a chute and mistook me for a plane.
I'm giving the benefit of the doubt and assuming it's option #2. With the short icon ranges, you can't tell what that dot is that you're approaching until you're in firing range....you get range info first in country color then plane ID. Compounding the problem is the fact that sometimes a bailed pilot doesn't render as a chute but instead as the plane they bailed from. I think that's the case here, as on my FE, I didn't see a chute above me, but instead what looked like a chunk of my rear fuselage spinning in space above me.
I'm curious to know what those 109s around me saw vis a vis my chute and could provide an explanation of what they were thinking. I had acmcam running, but unfortunately the cam follows the plane and not the pilot and my plane came down well before and out of range of when and where I was shot at, otherwise I'd be able to ID who it was that shot at me.
I'm also curious to know how this will be scored. WIll it show in the log that I was KIA? Not that I'm a score-whore, but it is kind of a sucky way to get knocked off the top of the S6 survival rankings if I was shot at because a glitch in the game made someone mistake me for a plane.
I will say I was cursing the fact that we no longer have the .45 to take pot shots while in a chute, would've given me at least some false hope of defending myself.
