Following some recent discussions about the statistics that there have been on TeamSpeak3\In-game chat I've made some tests in the last days trying to find if it was possible to determine precisely if a pilot is leaving the aircraft as per normal ( bailing out ) or if he is using the so hated ( by some players ) " ALT+F2 " combination of keys to leave the plane all of a sudden ( trying to avoid to suffer pilot\crew kills ) and how the air and land abandons system works precisely...
The reply is yes...there is definitively a way to understand all this...the stats system works in this precise way:
Every time that you bail out " as per normal " ( or that you leave the plane using " ALT+F2 " ) you will get an " Air abandon ".
Somehow if you leave the plane as it should be done normally ( or rather bailing out and waiting until the parachute is safely on the ground or until your pilot reaches the ground if he do not deploys the parachute and then pressing the " ESC " key to escape to the Briefing menu and then clicking on the flag replying " Yes " to the question " Are you sure you want to leave this plane? " ) you will get also a " Land abandon " on the ATAG Statistics page.
To understand how many times a pilot have used the " ALT + F2 " you simply need to make the difference between the " Air abandons " and the " Land abandons " ( and the number of landings if any ).
For example:
I have flown actually 11 sorties on the ATAG main server at the moment I'm writing this.
I have 9 " Air abandons ", 8 " Land abandons " and 2 landings.
So if you make 9 ( Air abandons or rather the times I've bailed out in total) minus 8 ( Land abandons or rather all the times that I've bailed and I've waited until my pilot have touched the ground ) you will get the number 1 ( 9-8 = 1 ).
The number 1 indicates, in this case, the number of times I have left the plane using the " ALT+F2 " combination of keys.
So to resume I've bailed 8 times waiting that my pilots reaches the ground, 1 time I've used " ALT+F2 " to leave the plane and 2 times I've successfully landed.
Making the addition 8 ( Land abandons ) + 1 ( Air abandon using " ALT+F2 " ) + 2 ( Successful landings ) the total given is the same as the total number of sorties flown ( 11 ).
Total sorties flown: 11
8+1+2 = 11
In this way it's possible to know precisely and without any possible doubt how many times a pilot have used the so hated " ALT+F2 " combination of keys to leave the plane and the times that instead the pilots has left the plane in a " realistic " way ( or better said in a " virtual realistic way for the ones interested to act in this way ).
Be clear, at least in my opinion, everyone is fully and completely free to leave the plane in the way he likes more ( everyone is free to get his personal fun in his personal way ) but in the last days I've heard really a lot of wrong and misleading comments ( about this matter ) by the ones affirming that they like to play the game acting in a " Realistic way " as much as possible.
I hope this should clarify the situation once and for all! ( avoiding so to say stupid things about the way in which " Air and Land abandons " works or by making doubtful and pretentious assumptions against the behaviour of a\some pilot\s! ).
This should also stop some " IL2 Cliffs of Dover Urban Legends " I've heard, recently, about how the statistics works on the ATAG main server!
My best regards to all the community members,
Salute!!!
Personal note
This topic is NOT pointed against no one in particular!
My intention was ONLY to clarify, for the ones that could have still doubts about it, how the statistics system works about this particular matter and to possibly be of help for the ATAG community members\pilots to understand more easily how the statistics system works!
Hals und Beinbruch! ( Good luck! )
Maj Robert Mölders,
Gruppenkommandant,
Stab I./JG 51
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