HT we had several ghosts in the arena tonight. We had at least 70 pilots in the arena. I know I had atleast 17 B17s.
On the way north, somewhere around field 3, other members of the formation were calling out that there was a bishop P51 in the middle of our formation of 17s, just riding along and checking things out. A couple of them told me he was about 3k off my six (I kept asking where he was) but I couldna see him anywhere. One of our escorts dove through our formation and took him down.
After crossin the mtns into the north land, after we ran into the main LW force, it got even more interesting. There six calls both on Roger Wilco and in the text buffer, but I couldna see any bandits. The first bandit I saw just popped into existance at d4.1k and dove on a 17 that was a little low on my left. He crossed under me, got out to about d3k and his wingman appeared.
Then I'm being shot at, I jump to the tail, only see friends and 1 109 at 4k or so. Then a 109 appears at 1k (he's the one shooting) and I open up in time to get a couple of hits before the 2 17s he was between blew his 109 outta the sky =)
Then Hollywd appears outta nowhere at d800 and before I could even get the guns to bear my 17 was a cloud of burning, falling debris (and I hope it hit ya canopy wood =)
I was also seeing explosions in the formation, sometimes a B17, others just an explosion in midair with no aircraft there, and seeing kill msgs scroll the buffer.
I'd guesstimate that probably had at least 60 aircraft inside of a 20000 yard diameter shpere of sky before the bullets started flyin =)
All in all though, I had a great time getting everything going
Time to start planning the next one =)
