What gun load do you select for your given aircraft (if you have a choice).

[Dinger]

You folks are forgetting one key area where the .303s beat the .50s on spits:
base defense.
the cloud of 303s is great for perforating soft targets like the ones that dive out of c47s.
Yeah, and I use the MGs as extreme range "ticklers" too.  You'd be surprised how many runners decide to burn E evading BBs.

[Hangtime]

P51D, 6x.50's.

Routine: Point the plane at the enema. Depress guns button. Spray liberally at knits. Repeat as necessary. I try not to fly into the wreckage on the blow thru.  

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   TDY from Warbirds Pale Horses Squadron

[This message has been edited by Hangtime (edited 03-16-2000).]

[Minotaur]

 

Originally posted by Vermillion:
Mino, its real simple .....

Units    

Shaw uses imperial (English/American) units, while I used Metric units.

I found it simpler to use the metric, when I started adding the explosive content into the equation.

Actually; I had that notion.    

Keep in mind, and I do believe that it is simpler, Shaw bases his lethality on a WW1 30cal MG.  This gun had a lethality of 1.  This is the base value for all other lethalities relative to it.  

So a MK2 50cal MG was 6.4 times more lethal than the 30cal.  The 20mm MK2 is 4 times more lethal than this 50cal.  Etc...

IMO just easier to visualize.

If you get really bored, could you pop out a conversion factor to convert your lethality figures into Shaw's?  IE:  Shaw Lethality = Verm Lethality x (Correction Factor)

It would be really nice of you.  


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Mino
The Wrecking Crew

[Rojo]

I'm in the minority that almost always take gondolas in the 109 (usually the G10, btw).  Since I always fly B&Z in a 109, and very conservatively at that, I've found the extra firepower extremely satisifying (plus in makes up for my marksmanship  ).  It's especially fun when someone decides they can risk a HO against the single cannon most people carry in the 109.  Plus it's a personal challenge to fight and win with the handicap incured by taking the gondolas.

For the Spit, I usually take the .303s.  For everything else, the standard load out.

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Sabre, a.k.a. Rojo
(S-2, The Buccaneers)

[Creamo]

 

Originally posted by Hangtime:
P51D, 6x.50's.

Routine: Point the plane at the enema. Depress guns button. Spray liberally at knits. Repeat as necessary. I try not to fly into the wreckage on the blow thru.    

Don't forget to pull out in time not to crash into the airfield spawn point.

[Minotaur]

 

Originally posted by Creamo:
Don't forget to pull out in time not to crash into the airfield spawn point.

Nor stall out, by being just a little to greedy in the midst of so many easy kills.  


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Mino
The Wrecking Crew