Here I am, in a bomber minding my own business
last night when out of the blue comes this Me163.
Now, this 163 wasn't there to say hi..he wanted to
hurt me . . . .like I ever did anything to him.
Of all the nerve..
Anyways, as I'm jumping from gun position to gun
position I got quite annoyed that I had to track
all over the sky to re-aquire this unwelcome suitor.
Needless to say that such a condition put me at a
severe disadvantage.. . . and I died.
I assume that bombers are theoretically manned
by a complete crew and that jumping into a gun
position in effect is replacing a gunner who is already
there with a 'live' person.
Gunners in bombers weren't just sleeping at their
positions. They were actively scanning and tracking targets
waiting for them to attack or enter their effective
firing range.
Why then, when the pilot jumps into a gun position,
does he have to twist and twirl to find a target that
the crew gunner would have been tracking anyway?
My idea is that, when you enter a gun position while
piloting a Buf...or when you change positions either as a
gunner or pilot...that the guns should be trained on the
closest enemy contact, mimicing the fact that the
crewman formerly in that position would be doing just that.
The gun shouldn't be pointed in some obscure direction that
is more representative of a vacant gun position being occupied
for the first time or the replacement of a dead crew member.
When you jump into a gun position while piloting a buf,
the guns should be pointed at the nearest enemy contact.
Once you occupy the position, the 'lock' would be released
and the gunner would have to manually track the target.
This would be far more realistic than how it is now...
Do bombers have only 1 crew member that
runs from the bomb bay back to the pilots position
and then to one of the gun positions? That would
make for one exhausted pilot! Or are they fully crewed
in theory.
Now I'm not asking for automatic guns...just that the
guns be pointed at the enemy when the position is
initially occupied. Is that possible?
Just a thought. I hope I got this idea across well.
Now, let the well-reasoned and courteous discussion
begin.
David "96Delta"
