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I don't bomb a CV with the intention of dying. I bomb it with the intention of killing the CV and living.
I don't have many points for killing CV's since most of my kills happened last frame and I hadn't listed the Typhoon or Hellcat as ATTACK.
Last frame I sank 3 CV's or Cruisers for every time I died. And very often I had to make two runs on a CV to send it to the bottom. A lot of time you get one hit and one near miss and a second trip is nessesary.
Almost every trip I made, I took damage from near misses by heavy flak. Most often I'd lose an aileron, a rudder, get a Rad punctured or oil leak. The Rad puncture is the worst for the Tiffie, it doesn't usually last more than a couple minutes after that. The Corsair and Hellcat take engine damage better, but they don't have the speed and I find I survive better in the Tiffie.
I would die on every mission, except that on the way down, I constantly roll, use my rudder to skid and only hold steady for the instant that I need to release the bombs.
I start at 10,000 feet, directly over the CV, usually release the bombs at around 4,000 ft. Starting directly over the CV isn't gonna help as far as the flak is concerned, that will get you whatever way you approach if you don't fly evasively. Being directly overhead is the best way to be sure you'll be able to hit the CV or Cruiser square with both 1K's. If you release lower than 4,000 ft, you are gonna likely die, since it takes at least 2,000 ft to pullout. At less than 2,000 ft range, you are gonna get creamed by the light flak.
As soon as I drop, I'm back to rolling like a madman, while I pull out in as diagonal a path as I can make. That is, across the aiming path of the guns and at the same time diagonally down.
I try to get down to the deck at about 1.5 distance from the TG. At that distance you are pretty safe from the light flak and the heavy flak doesn't usually shoot that low. Still you have to continue to roll and evade till you are at least 5.0 distance away.
All those of you who claim the kamikaze method is the only way of killing the big ships... you're wrong.
If you get hit by flak, and your bombs are not gone, then they explode with you. They don't continue down to hit the target.
And if you've held your dive to the point you aren't gonna be able to pull out, thinking you are guaranteed of a hit, then likely you will be hit by flak. That will throw you off course and you will again miss your target, even if you are still alive and able to hit the bomb release.
Hitting a CV and surviving takes planning and skill, and a certain amount of luck. If there is a CAP over the fleet, or someone manning the guns, then your chances of success are a LOT less.
