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You can also set it in he SnapViews.lua which is more precise I guess. I have done it after the first flight in the P-51 and never looked back. look for *** SnapViews["P-51D"] = { *** (without the stars) and scroll down to *** [13] = {--default view ***. Then insert the following numbers: [13] = {--default view viewAngle = 75.000000,--FOV hAngle = 0.000000, vAngle = 0.000000, x_trans = 0.120000, y_trans = 0.0400000, z_trans = 0.000000, rollAngle = 0.000000, I think I also set the default FOV to 75, I dont know what the standard is. Just ignore it if you like.

I get this sound bug in the P-51 as well. Can you guys confirm?

Hans Joachim Marseille eg was famous for using flaps to outturn even Hurricanes in a Lufbery circle at very slow speeds. It was a common tactic in the day to use flaps in turns, one just needs to remember your energy is gone after trading it for angles in this way.

You gotta love EDs community interaction and working pace! You guys rock! Keep it up.

Awesome sound. :D

Glimmspur is the nighttracer variant and burns in dimm orange/ red. I has less Magnesium content than the daytracer (Leuchtspur) does. There are several different Leuchtspur variants, eg the Panzer forces and PAK sometimes used changeing color tracers for ranging purposes. Furthermore the tracers usually started when already ~ 100m away. But sadly there is a lot of documentation missing on this front.

Sounds perfect. Thank you!

Awesome news! Sith, would you be so kind to also ask for removal of those dreaded wing tire bulges. They were introduced in October 44 when all delivered Spits had E type wing armament already. It is mainly a Mk. XVI thing anyway and was accompanied by 4 spoke or even later type wheels. Another thing that comes to mind is the cannon fairings which are E wing type.

After about mid 44 the day/ nighttracer 30mm variants were readily available. Between mid 44 and October 44 ~ 1.000.000 shot MinenG L.Spur had been delivered to the front. I would assume from Me 262 footage I have seen that to some extend tracers were in the MK 108 mix. But it doesnt look like every second round. I really dont know about the 109. The round modeled is a Ausf. C Minengeschoss Leuchtspur (day tracer), a bright white tracer would be correct on this one. Afaik the 13 mm should also have white tracers. I posted about this some time ago in another subforum. Edit: Maybe I am wrong on the 13mm green tracers though, I am waiting on some docs that may clear this up.

I have posted these here before. The R4M timed fuse development was wrapped up with this final report on 1.3.45. This report contains every single detail about it, including material of connecter, security membrane, primer and explosives used. http://www.deutscheluftwaffe.de/archiv/Dokumente/ABC/f/Flakraketen/R4M%20Orkan/Text/Zeitlinie/1945/Mearz/Mearz%201945.pdf The main development/ testing effort was done in January and February 45. This document starting page 23 shows the main development process in January. http://www.deutscheluftwaffe.de/archiv/Dokumente/ABC/f/Flakraketen/R4M%20Orkan/Text/Zeitlinie/1945/Januar/Januar%201945.pdf The R4Ms that were used in operational trials by FW 190s starting March 45 had this timed fuse incorporated. In the following document the time to self destruct is measured in respect to ambient temperature. (+18°C, -40°C, +50°C) http://www.deutscheluftwaffe.de/archiv/Dokumente/ABC/f/Flakraketen/R4M%20Orkan/Text/Zeitlinie/1945/Februar/Februar%201945.pdf The R4Ms had a delayed impact fuze AZ R2 with VC70 delayed primer, similar in function to the delayed mine shell fuze of the Minengeschoss and a timed fuze in the connection section between explosive charge and rocket motor. If the DCS R4Ms do not have delayed impact and ~ 5-6 (mean = 5,67 sec) sec timed fuse mechanism, they are simply modeled incorrectly.

I think in the first picture of this thread, right upper hand is what you are looking for. :)

I think you guys misread what I said. I have never seen of heard of Brandgranatpatrone with tracer. All other ammo obviously did have Leuchtspur/Glimmspur. The late Ausf. C MG you posted much more readily than the Ausf. A that is modeled in DCS btw. PS: The Sprenggranate was afaik never used operationally in the MK 108.

Well I posted part of the Rechlin/WKW blueprints which were handed to the industry for production. If these don't show tracers, there were no tracers. Also if you calculate volume vs density/weight of the filler there is no space for a tracer considering the total weight. Pictures of original ammo don't have the tracer band painted on them. What better sources could you wish for?

Thanks, good info! +1

Ok, I catch you! :) Well I was just comparing WEP ratings (with MW) of engines and then the G6 AM would have some 1750 HP as well at roughly 100 kg less. It could also do well above 570 kph at MSL, so not much difference there. I really dont know what prop the Buchon was using, but probably it was a more developed one thus with better energy conversion. But yeah without the extra weight of radio and such the Buchon will obviously turn really well, not comparable with wartime 109s. Totally agree. Cheers!

Hey Manowar! You are usually spot on, but I think this time you are a bit off man. Or I may misunderstand you. :P The Buchon used a surplus Merlin 500 45 which was a redesignated, overweight (but more rugged) and downgraded (didnt have an intercooler eg) 1944 Lancaster engine. Furthermore the Buchon had heavy HS404 wing cannons as the merlin could not mount one through the hub, some even rocket hardpoints. Now just remember what german pilots said about the wing cannons on german birds. This severly hampered roll rate and turn performance. The Buchon weight actually about 100kg more than the G6/G14 while having almost 200 HP less and a sloppier (bomber) engine than the early 1944 G6 AM/ASM. It was in pretty much all regards inferior to comparable wartime 109s and by no means a step above them. Now I dont know if you are talking purely about post service/ modified Buchons, as these certainly will be lighter without the radio equipment and guns. But the operational Buchons were heavy and no joy to fly from what I have read. Cheers man, no unconstructive criticism intended. :thumbup:

Merlin 66 Spitfires never used the coffman starter. You would see a tear shaped blister on the cowling behind the prop if they did. I think Merlin 61 and 64 types had the coffman starter, or lets say I have seen some pictures of them having it. :) Edit: Maybe I am a bit off though and the thing I saw just looked like a coffman starter:

Maybe ground power by the Trolley Acc?

Good catch Krupi, didnt even notice the cannon fairings!

You can easily do it yourself. Everything will work perfectly except it doesnt pass the integrity check online. Go to: ...\DCS World\CoreMods\WWII Units\Bf-109K-4 look for: -- Nose MK 108 MK_108({ muzzle_pos_connector = "Gun_point_0", effect_arg_number = 350, mixes = {{1, 3}}, azimuth_initial = 0, elevation_initial = -0.069, supply_position = {0.024, 0.0, 0.0}, drop_cartridge = 0, ejector_pos_connector = "eject 1", ejector_dir = {0,5,0}, and change mixes = {{1, 3}}, to mixes = {{2, 1, 3}}, or if you want only mine shells which currently is more effective change to mixes = {{2, 1}},. 1 = mine shell 2 = mine shell tracer 3 = Brandgranatpatrone (which is mislabeled)

Hey Little_D! You are absolutely correct on the Brandgranatpatrone. But it didnt have a tracer in reality, that is a mistake in the german docs. ;) I opened a bug report about this some time ago. ED has actually modeled and mislabeled the M-Brandgranatpatrone as the Brandgranatpatrone. This one is a late war hybrid of the two most effective rounds in the german arsenal. Here you can find my report and also the official June 1944 loadout orders from LDv 4000/10: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=170408 MG 131 and Mk 108 rounds should cross vertical flight paths at around 140 m and 400 m. These numbers are taken from a G6U4 flight manual. Hope that helps.

Hello, if you like please read what I wrote in this post: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2947551&postcount=44 The problem I think is the combination of features being off. Cheers :)

Well, true, as long as they are projected in the same plane and into infinity. :smartass: I wonder though if you could model this correctly in VR or if you get weird eyes doing so. When getting close enough to the gunsight you should see two reticles and being offset to either side should let you only see one or the other. Obviously on a one POV/ one screen projection you need a simplified model to make it look realistic, else it would look as seen (by the single optic camera) in the photo above. Kind of a related real life vs sim problematic as the famous FW 190 bar/ windscreen refraction thing ( ), just way more unimportant. :P

I have spent so many hours in this cockpit and never noticed.. How come noone actually asked himself the same question all these years... Good job! Though maybe in real life when looking with both eyes the projections into in infinity overlap. Theoretically the parallax should become infinitely small, but I always sucked at optics and I honestly don't know.

These are obviously not the tracers, this is the incendiary compound. As one can clearly see the white phosphorus physically can not be ignited while firing but instead on impact fragmentation of the round when coming in contact with oxygen. Furthermore L.Dv.4000/10 explains this mechanism pretty well. The Panzerbrandgranatpatrone (phosphor or elektron) simply did not have a tracer compound neither for 20 mm nor 13 mm. It would be astonishing stupid to ignite a thermite charge (or Elektron as it was called in german) in a barrel btw, so nobody would use it as a tracer. Almost all the tracer components in german docs are clearly marked by areas with small crosses (=Magnesium). The MG151/20 in DCS uses Glimmspur instead of Leuchtspur which basically means nighttracers. This should be known to ED as its quite obvious. Furthermore some ammo types had a barium nitrate component, but if I remember correctly from anorganic chemistry in university this is used as an oxidizer. It must have been used this way when combined as Al-Mg-Ba(NO3)2 in an enclosed and therefore oxigen lacking shell. Maybe ED thinks because of the barium nitrate the tracer was green, which is clearly wrong as it is part of the HEI filler. German Luftwaffe day tracers were mostly consisting of a Magnesium filler (well and obviously a primer) and therefore burn in bright white to blueish.