Oboe, try flying MP rooms in IL-2 FB/AEP with limited or no-icons, and you'd understand.
It's a valid tactic in AH, but just not effective enough to practice, or initiate on purpose, for all what it's worth.
The gunnery range is longer than RL, gunnery itself is easier in terms of accuracy than RL, and the result of successful gunnery immediately drops the target plane through structural failures, unlike RL.
In short, fighting group of enemies in a Luftberry is just no different from engaging 3~4 enemies in your P-51D, who are way lower than you. If your gunnery is higher than average, with each high-speed pass, sending a burst of .50s from 400~600 yards out, it will down one plane. That's why the great pilots in AH can just do that all day and kill all the enemies single-handedly as long as he has the alt.
It doesn't work that way in FB/AEP - you need to get in close, you need to land concentrated blows. The view outward is more limited, and usually there's no "dar" to cover your rearend for you. It's possible to kill things with very few shots in FB/AEP, like landing HE shells on the engine block, or killing the pilot, but usually, enemy planes take a lot more punishment than in AH.
In that environment, the Luftberry actually works.
