This is going to be like shooting fish in a barrel....

[Digitalvole]

....Oh god I can’t even hit the barrel!

 

So there was me thinking shooting up trucks on a road in the Mossie was going to be much easier than trying to shoot down a 109K in a Spitfire. Wrong!

 

My only successes so far have come by flying all the bullets directly into the truck at once, this works ofc but I don’t feel like the kamikaze approach is in keeping with RAF tactics of the time, and keeps making my poor old virtual mum very sad. 
 

Does anyone have any advice to share on how to fly this plane effectively? Good curves for a TM Warthog? Boy that pitch is sensitive and I’ve never messed with curves before. Any help/links and or reading material would be hugely appreciated, by me and my poor old virtual mum, she doesn’t want any more telegrams telling her her son is scattered across another French field (but at least he took a truck with him!)

 

Thanks
 

 

[Gunfreak]

I have a winwing F18 stick with extender, so the pitch doesn't brother me, but i notice even when I trim as good as can, the sight "migrates " left or right,  and if I try and compensate with rudder ut all goes to hell. This effects bombing as well. And aerial gunnery to some degree. 

 

But then I was never good at hitting ground targets,  not with the spit, not with the P47 or even the P51

[ftmch]

4 minutes ago, Gunfreak said:

I have a winwing F18 stick with extender, so the pitch doesn't brother me, but i notice even when I trim as good as can, the sight "migrates " left or right,  and if I try and compensate with rudder ut all goes to hell.

I've had some success correcting the drift with the rudder trim wheel rather than stepping on the pedals, but I might also try putting a heavier curve on my pedals.

[Gunfreak]

5 minutes ago, ftmch said:

I've had some success correcting the drift with the rudder trim wheel rather than stepping on the pedals, but I might also try putting a heavier curve on my pedals.

 

I already have 20 or 25 curve.

But my rudder is from thrustmaster and it "sticks" which makes it that much harder to get smooth rudder. 

[ftmch]

Gentle taps on the trim wheel help, but I'm still finding it harder to line up gun runs than the Spitfire.

[Gunfreak]

Correction, I had put 25 curve on the pedals, but they hadn't taken or been deleted, so I was flying with zero curves, I added 25 and it feels much better now.

[Digitalvole]

7 minutes ago, Gunfreak said:

Correction, I had put 25 curve on the pedals, but they hadn't taken or been deleted, so I was flying with zero curves, I added 25 and it feels much better now.

 

Right, I’ll be doing that then. My rudder pedals seem to sensitive in every aircraft I own (CH Pro pedals) Just need one for the pitch now, I can’t nose down at all without the engines cutting out.

 

Is there any good books or YouTube vids on how to fly Ground attack missions in this period of history? There’s loads of stuff on dogfighting on the internet but can’t find much on this subject. I’m wondering what altitude I should be at, shallow dive or steep dive, best way to roll in on the target without the engines having a quick tea break etc etc.

[dokken1212]

 

Hey Digitalvole - not sure this is any use to you and I know its not precisely what you were looking for but does give a few pointers in the meantime if you havent already seen it.

[Digitalvole]

10 minutes ago, dokken1212 said:

 

Hey Digitalvole - not sure this is any use to you and I know its not precisely what you were looking for but does give a few pointers in the meantime if you havent already seen it.

Thanks dokken1212! I’ll take anything I can get, knowledge is power and all that

[dokken1212]

6 minutes ago, Digitalvole said:

Thanks dokken1212! I’ll take anything I can get, knowledge is power and all that

LOL - I hear you loud and clear

[No1sonuk]

Just remember that whichever of the top 4 bomb switches you turn on, you MUST switch on at least one of the two bottom fusing switches!
I've forgotten a few times and dropped bombs that don't explode!

[NO.20.W.M_Thomson]

10 hours ago, Digitalvole said:

There’s loads of stuff on dogfighting on the internet but can’t find much on this subject.

Every sim I fly very few ever want to drop bombs and do any of the objectives. Guess it's too hard to do for most so they do the easy dog fight thing. We're a rare breed for sure. 

[No1sonuk]

I'm gong to need the delayed fuse bombs...

[ZeroReady]

14 hours ago, Gunfreak said:

 

I already have 20 or 25 curve.

But my rudder is from thrustmaster and it "sticks" which makes it that much harder to get smooth rudder. 

If you have the TM TFRP pedals, the ones where the pedals ride along the metal rails on the sides, then you would really notice a big improvement if you took them apart and applied just a little bit of Nyogel 767a on the contact points that touch the rails. It doesn't take a lot, less is more with that stuff. It complete eliminates the sticktion and makes them really smooth.

[ftmch]

8 hours ago, No1sonuk said:

I'm gong to need the delayed fuse bombs...

Until they come along, pull up hard and break as soon as the weapons are released and you should be fine.