Why the P-38?

[LePaul]

P-38 carries a nice bomb and rocket package plus the centerline guns/canon.  If you like the air-to-ground side of the game, it brings some firepower to that front (oh to pop GVs ) while some decent gunnery to battle the aircraft.

How some of the 38 sticks fly the thing amazed me. 

It also has a great internal fuel load for long loiter times.

[Rich46yo]

But you DON'T see most good 38 pilots at 15K or above. I find most at 10K or below, often maxed out at 5K even. Most good 38 pilots are down where the fight is, spoiling for a fight. Cruising in at 10K, I'm above most of them.

To me 10k is "High Alt". Thats precisely where I begin my dive bomb, between 12k and 10k. The other night I took KI-67s up to 19k to bomb and airfield that was 6k up. It was a large field and I knew I night need 3 passes to shut it down as a bomber base. I bet thats the Highest Ive ever been in this game, except for squadron Strat formation runs.

There aint nothing up their but clouds in the MAs.

I love the P-38 so much it kinda makes me emotional.

[shreck]

That is false... I have a dual throttle and except at the top of a hammerhead or recovering a spin, 2 individual throttle control grants you no better turn rate or radius.

From time to time (if I am very slow) I can use rudder in one direction and cut the throttle on that side for close to a 90 degree snapshot. That is usually followed by the P38 departing on me and I usually reserve for a last ditch effort.

Yeah! but cutting one engine to flat turn wings level to the ground then throwing some vertical in, is impossible for a single engine ride to follow! Face it ! the 38 when flown by an experienced and skilled pilot is waaaaaaaaaaay better than the same experience and skill level, flying a single engine ride ! IMO 

Now it is a barn door that attracts allot of attention!! I'll give ya that!

[Bosco123]

I've had a first realy good experince with a P38 the other day. I began a sortie in a 38 like always, little more alt then the cons, so on. I get a spixteen and to find only, I've wasted half my bullets. the next 5 kills seem to be realy short burst, and awsome snapshots. I finally look down to see that I still have 50 cannon rounds left! I decided that because of the increasing cons that I'll rtb.
The fact is, the guns are some of the best guns in the game, next to somthing like a Mossie or a Chog.