Pilot rescues

[Doomgiver]

how do i rescue a pliots, i know i have to be at stopped but how far away can i be or do i need to be right next to them

[swash]

Sorry no answer, but I would like to add another question to yours.

Can we pick up enemy pilots as POWs?

My crew shot down several Vals and Zeroes on our return trip and I tried to pick up a couple of downed enemy pilots, but it was a no go. I got close, all stop, used the Binocs to center a pilot and the "Rescue Survivor" icon never would click.

[Nokia]

You just have to look at the pilot through your binoculars and press the "cirkle" icon (furthest to the left i think) at the "bridge" station or something. And there you go more renown :D. Hope this helps.

[swash]

yup. Just rescued 2 pilots in the Midway quick battle.

Center a downed pilot in your binocs on the bridge and the Resuce Survivor Icon will turn yellow. Click it and you'll get a message of the rescue.

You don't have to be right along side of them either, nor at all stop. I recovered one pilot while at slow speed. You'll know you're in range when that icon lights up and you have them centered in the Binocs.

Before I could rescue the other 4, I got bombed by a flight from the carriers:nope:

[Tobowsi]

On a related note, any idea if the pilots hang around a while or do they despawn? I'd have to wait for these destroyers to disappear before I can surface to pick the pilots up.

[Gildor]

They die after awhile. Time frame not determined but they do disappear.

[Tobowsi]

Well, I'm surfaced now and there are blue "survivor" squares on the map, but every time I go to one, there's nothing there.

I'd think there should be. I'm at the spot less than an hour after the time shown (when I presume they were shot down) and it's not like this is the North Atlantic. They should be able to survive an hour in that water.

[JuicemanJ]

It seem the square is just close to where they are if you use sonar u can get right on them then surface and you will see a parachute thats him.

[Skubber]

After recieving a request to support our action at Guadalcanal, I spied two downed fliers just around the port of Honiara.

It was kinda cool - there were two parachute icons on my map, and then they changed to "boat" icons once they were in the water.

Even though it wasn't my original mission, it appeared I was still able to pick them up.
Got close to one while under fire from two destroyers, but I couldn't slow down enough to get to get him out of the water. Kinda preoccupied by trading fire with the destroyers.

Finally one ship was almost on top of me. One shell nicked our hull just above the propellers. Dove to the bottom of the bay.

We never did succeed in the rescue. Could no longer risk my whole crew for two pilots. But I guess they got to see a pretty good firefight before swimming to shore. :)

I am really enjoying the possibilites for variety in the campaings, as opposed to the constant "track, aim, shoot" routine.

[jason210]

Can we pick up enemy survivors? I hate leaving that jap pilot all alone in the middle of the Pacific.

[switch.dota]

Can we pick up enemy survivors? I hate leaving that jap pilot all alone in the middle of the Pacific.
Do him a favor and shoot him instead. At least he would've died by his enemy's guns instead of drowning.


I tried picking up a downed jap pilot -- with no success. I tried shooting him with the deck gun -- nothing. I even tried aiming the AA battery low -- again useless. I even tried running him over with the sub -- only to hear steel-on-stell screeching (would've been funny as hell to take damage 'cuz of that on top of the wierd sound).

The only thing I didn't try was torpedoing him!

[SteamWake]

This is one of the most aggrivatting "missions" in the game.

The best way to find them is to submerge a bit past Periscope depth and get a fix and race to the position.

For some curious reason you can hear life rafts on sonar.

Problem is that the life rafts skitter around like frightend cockaroaches.

I got this mission once spent many hours on it. Finally gave up and returned to base.