Beware that this can damage your plane too. Keep your bomb bay closed until you are ready to drop the bomb, then drop them! If you have an enemy plane go under your bomber and stay there, open the bomb bay doors and release a bomb. They can also make a big boom when the are hit with a bullet. These things make a big boom when they hit the ground.

Best thing you can do in that case is don’t worry about it and replace them. If you are close to your home base, don’t bother. If somebody is knocked out, send someone to revive them with a medkit. If the pilot or important crew member is injured, knocked out, or killed, send someone to replace them. If a crew member is injured, send them to the medical bed. Having a crew is important, right? Try to keep them alive. without it, the guns will not move and the landing gear will not deploy. breaks down mid-landing? you better fix it. lose this in the middle of a fight, you better fix it. Hydrualics: objectively the most important system, this is what makes guns and landing gear work. i bet you can guess what it is for, but if you can’t, it is what lets the crew breathe at high altitudes. Oxygen: this system is only useful mid-to-late game, where you reach higher altitudes. you can operate without it, but it is harder to detect planes. Lets go from least important to most importantĮnergy: energy is what makes the radar work.

Ignore it (not recommended) if you run out of fuel, order your crew to bail out.

Send somebody outside to fix the fuel tank (crew members are easier to kill this way, and making your pilot do tricks makes them fall).

Transfer your fuel from the leaking tank to the tank on the other side.

If a fuel tank is hit enough times, it will start to leak. Without it, the engines don’t work, and your bird becomes flightless. There is one last thing about that you need to know, then we move on. So I have covered the areas around the wings. Nope! Keep in mind that I have only tested it on the us bomber missions dlc, and with all but one engine knocked out, but if you have your plane use a leaner fuel mixture (the mechanic can toggle this) on final approach, you might just be able to save that plane! Fuel, Systems and Fires If you lose both of them, you are toast, right? You need wheels for that, or do you? If just one wheel is gone, you might be able to keep your bomber, but you also might not. When you are flying a plane, landing is important to your survival. Improve the odds of survival by making sure the bomber crashes near the crew members and by using pigeons or inflatable rafts! Wheels If it lands on the red slice, the crew member dies. If the arrow touches the green slice when the wheel stops spinning, the crew member lives. When the mission is over, a spinning wheel will show up next to a crew members’ name.

But, what happens when you do lose all of them? Order your crew to bail out (you can do this from the pilot’s special abilities or manually telling your crew to grab parachutes and jump out.) Do not bail out if you have lost most of them. Is that one left engine still going? You can still make it back home. But you knew that, right? Anyways, you can lose all but one of your engines and still fly.

Bomber crew landing with one wheel