J'ing out on airfield not working

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This function makes me lose my mind. Why is it that it sometimes works, and sometimes it doesnt? I had countless games in which i landed on the support airfield (both broken and intact) and upon holding J i was able to respawn at the main airfield with different loadout. Sometimes, this doesnt happen and instead i am considered dead and taken back to hangar. Is there any logical reasoning for why this happens? Can anyone explain how does this mechanic actually work?

For instance, i have also seen people doing this more than 10x times a game in order to not be spawn killed. I really cannot wrap my head around this.

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It always works.

You have to be undamaged, and stopped on the airfield.

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I’m pretty sure you have to be still, fully repaired, and fully rearmed to change your loadout and not kill you. Every time I don’t meet one of those criteria, it always kills me. I could be wrong, though; that is what works for me.

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nah that aint possible. I always belly land in my mig21 and damage myself doing it. I basically never land undamaged, and it still worked many times

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I think the only criteria is being undamaged. I sort of remember being able to do it while damaged ever so slightly but I’m willing to bet there’s either a threshold or I’m remembering wrong. Just wait until you’re repaired at the minimum.

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Then stop belly landing.
Your problem was self-caused.

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interesting, since i definetely did it even while damaged after belly landing. Could there be a limit to damage you can have to still respawn?

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Can u share a video?
Afaik if u damaged even slightly then its gonna make u leave the game

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Nah, all you gotta do is not recieve any damage from enemies on your airframe or not be severly damaged due to your own flying in order to J out and change your loadout. Also consider J-ing out only after you are fully stopped and after the rearm timer appears

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don’t get damaged by anything, problem solved.
even a slightly scratch the HUD doesn’t show (no yellow part/orange part/black part) basically counts as damaged and can count u as killed.
just land and be sure u fully stop (0km/h, and wait 2secs after fully stopping since the wobble of the plane can ACTUALLY count as ejection and eject u from the plane).

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You can’t, Even an AA can shoot you and deny you your insta repair.
The worst part? Sometimes the plane’s x-ray in the left bottom corner won’t pop up.

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I believe you can J out at <30km/h. But I always check by tapping J to see if it says if by doing so a kill may get credited to someone. If it just says leaving aircraft, I think it’s safe.

Though I don’t think it has ever failed me, it may also not work if I have to believe some people in random matches. Maybe server desync or something, or damage not showing as you say, idk if the latter can be verified checking the J out warning.

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The criteria is damaged by someone else. Self damage doesn’t count, but sometimes you can’t respawn neither you get a death, for whatever reason. And as said before, sometimes slight damages, especially from AI, are invisible.

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i still remember at least 4 times i got killed by an AI AAA that shooted my engine and since the damage isn’t modeled then i crash cuz my engine died in the middle of the match.

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Sometimes I J-out undamaged but the game doesnt let me back in, it’s very rare, but it’s happened to me a few times at least. No clue why it happens.

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No damage
Fuel remaining(?)
Below 30km/h

I regularly slide on and J out at 20-ish km/h and am able to respawn fine

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Not rearmed, I use it to skip the long reload/ refuel time on low skill crews, but otherwise that’s pretty much the criteria that I have experienced, there might be some leeway for speed, but I just stop to be on the safe side

even taking a hit that doesn’t show any damage will return you to the hanger in my experience with it