B-25Cs in the MA

[Bruv119]

i thought that soon as you jumped into the gunner position it puts you on level auto pilot?

[Donzo]

Originally posted by Rich46yo
One thing tho a hard climb will often open your bomb bay doors so make sure you close them after.

A hard climb causes the doors to open by themselves?

Is this some new modeling with this newer bomber?

I've never had the doors open by themselves as a result of a "hard climb".

[Donzo]

Originally posted by Bruv119
i thought that soon as you jumped into the gunner position it puts you on level auto pilot?

It does if you jump to a gunner position from an auto take off auto climb.  After an auto takoff if you break the auto climb and reactivated it by hitting Alt-X, the plane will contine to auto climb while you are in the gunner seat.

[Bruv119]

cool problem solved thanks donzo.

I guess  I jump in the gun late from external view and hop around shooting stuff to notice something like that.  Probably because the bombsight is auto level I assumed gunner positions were the same.

[Rich46yo]

Originally posted by Donzo
A hard climb causes the doors to open by themselves?

Is this some new modeling with this newer bomber?

I've never had the doors open by themselves as a result of a "hard climb".

                 Yep, sure does in my bombers when you climb hard after hitting alt/X. Set speed to 130 in B-26s then hit Alt/X while your going full speed. Happens in 26s, KIs, 25s, A-20s. And yes it does put you back into level but the exception is the Alt/X command. You can sit in the gunners seat and climb using Alt/X, however, Ive never been able to do it with Alt/X mapped to my X-52 controllers while in gunners seat. Ive always had to use keyboard, tho Alt/X works while mapped if in F1, and If I remember right, F3.

              The normal method I use to defeat these attacks is to go to rear top turret/F3 view and when the con is close enough I hit Alt/X and then jump into the actual gunners seat to gun while the plane is climbing. Eventually your going to have to hit "X" twice to avoid a stall and put the plane into level flight again. Often I'll put the bomber into a shallow dive to get speed back up, then level it out, and then Alt/X the incoming con again should I need to.

           Gunning from a rear gun after hitting Alt/X takes some getting used to and it always helped me putting targets up in the TA and practicing. Even better use a buddy in an actual fighter.

          Ive aced a lot of fighters who's pilots hit the chutes wondering how in heck I was able to get guns on them while they were in the attack angle they were in. I shot the wing off an F4U once who was directly under my B-26s.

[lyric1]

Originally posted by Rich46yo
Ive never been able to do it with Alt/X mapped to my X-52 controllers while in gunners seat. Ive always had to use keyboard, tho Alt/X works while mapped if in F1, and If I remember right, F3.

               

Same here.

[Krusty]

If the bomb bays are opening when you engage auto climb, you've got something screwed up in your control mapping.

It's never done that for me, ever, and 90% of my deaths in the B-25 have been G-load related so I've had plenty of opportunity to observe this.

Bruv: The -H has a tail gun position in addition to the dorsal, and may have waist gun positions (I can't remember)

[Donzo]

Originally posted by Krusty
If the bomb bays are opening when you engage auto climb, you've got something screwed up in your control mapping.

It's never done that for me, ever, and 90% of my deaths in the B-25 have been G-load related so I've had plenty of opportunity to observe this.

That what I thought.  I've never, ever had the bombbay doors open by themselves when doing any type of climb.

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Donzo
That what I thought.  I've never, ever had the bombbay doors open by themselves when doing any type of climb.

I do. I'm in gunners position in Lancaster, hit alt-X = doors open. Hit again: doors close.