--- a/hedgewars/uGearsHandlersMess.pas	Sun Nov 30 21:15:46 2014 +0100
+++ b/hedgewars/uGearsHandlersMess.pas	Sun Nov 30 15:30:51 2014 -0500
@@ -4770,7 +4770,7 @@
                     SignAs(AngleSin(HHGear^.Angle) * speed, HHGear^.dX) + rx,
                     AngleCos(HHGear^.Angle) * ( - speed) + ry, 0);
             flame^.CollisionMask:= lfNotCurrentMask;
-            flame^.FlightTime:= 500;
+            //flame^.FlightTime:= 500;  use the default huge value to avoid sticky flame suddenly being damaging as opposed to other flames
 
             if (Gear^.Health mod 30) = 0 then
                 begin
@@ -4778,7 +4778,7 @@
                         SignAs(AngleSin(HHGear^.Angle) * speed, HHGear^.dX) + rx,
                         AngleCos(HHGear^.Angle) * ( - speed) + ry, 0);
                 flame^.CollisionMask:= lfNotCurrentMask;
-		flame^.FlightTime:= 500;
+		//flame^.FlightTime:= 500;
                 end
             end;
         Gear^.Timer:= Gear^.Tag

--- a/hedgewars/uGearsList.pas	Sun Nov 30 21:15:46 2014 +0100
+++ b/hedgewars/uGearsList.pas	Sun Nov 30 15:30:51 2014 -0500
@@ -408,6 +408,7 @@
                 gear^.Radius:= 1;
                 gear^.Health:= 5;
                 gear^.Density:= _1;
+                gear^.FlightTime:= 9999999; // determines whether in-air flames do damage. disabled by default
                 if (gear^.dY.QWordValue = 0) and (gear^.dX.QWordValue = 0) then
                     begin
                     gear^.dY:= (getrandomf - _0_8) * _0_03;

--- a/hedgewars/uScript.pas	Sun Nov 30 21:15:46 2014 +0100
+++ b/hedgewars/uScript.pas	Sun Nov 30 15:30:51 2014 -0500
@@ -1144,6 +1144,22 @@
     lc_gettimer:= 1
 end;
 
+function lc_getflighttime(L : Plua_State) : LongInt; Cdecl;
+var gear : PGear;
+begin
+    if CheckLuaParamCount(L, 1, 'GetFlightTime', 'gearUid') then
+        begin
+        gear:= GearByUID(lua_tointeger(L, 1));
+        if gear <> nil then
+            lua_pushinteger(L, gear^.FlightTime)
+        else
+            lua_pushnil(L);
+        end
+    else
+        lua_pushnil(L); // return value on stack (nil)
+    lc_getflighttime:= 1
+end;
+
 function lc_gethealth(L : Plua_State) : LongInt; Cdecl;
 var gear : PGear;
 begin
@@ -1380,6 +1396,17 @@
     lc_settimer:= 0
 end;
 
+function lc_setflighttime(L : Plua_State) : LongInt; Cdecl;
+var gear : PGear;
+begin
+    if CheckLuaParamCount(L, 2, 'SetFlightTime', 'gearUid, flighttime') then
+        begin
+        gear:= GearByUID(lua_tointeger(L, 1));
+        if gear <> nil then gear^.FlightTime:= lua_tointeger(L, 2)
+        end;
+    lc_setflighttime:= 0
+end;
+
 function lc_seteffect(L : Plua_State) : LongInt; Cdecl;
 var gear: PGear;
     t   : LongInt;
@@ -2877,6 +2904,8 @@
 lua_register(luaState, _P'SetTag', @lc_settag);
 lua_register(luaState, _P'SetTimer', @lc_settimer);
 lua_register(luaState, _P'GetTimer', @lc_gettimer);
+lua_register(luaState, _P'SetFlightTime', @lc_setflighttime);
+lua_register(luaState, _P'GetFlightTime', @lc_getflighttime);
 lua_register(luaState, _P'SetZoom', @lc_setzoom);
 lua_register(luaState, _P'GetZoom', @lc_getzoom);
 lua_register(luaState, _P'HogSay', @lc_hogsay);

--- a/share/hedgewars/Data/Maps/ClimbHome/map.lua	Sun Nov 30 21:15:46 2014 +0100
+++ b/share/hedgewars/Data/Maps/ClimbHome/map.lua	Sun Nov 30 15:30:51 2014 -0500
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@
 	end
         flame = AddGear(x+fx, y+fy, gtFlame, gsttmpFlag,  fdx, fdy, 0)
         SetTag(flame, 999999+i)
+        SetFlightTime(flame, 0)
         Fire[flame]=1
 --        BoomFire[flame]=1
     end