Best Attack Position to Kill Bombers

[Simaril]

Steve --
I always tried to use that attack too, and had some really nice fights with thundregg using it! Great thing about that approach is that if its done right (particularly if you invert first so you're pulling "up" on the stick to dive down) - even excellent gunners will find it very hard to track. In essence, you're vertically over the top gun position, so most times the gun won't elevate high enough to hit you. Even if you're not quite that vertical, small adjustments in YOUR position require large turret azimuth rotations on his part...

[mechanic]

If you're flying a 262 or something with serious firepower, the side on angle from slightly below works a treat. Aim ahead of the lead bomber and keep holding the trigger down as the formation flies through your gunsite one by one.



but be prepared to take one 50cal to the head and explode, when flying a 262...

[mechanic]

low six oclock with little or no overtake speed

Am i the only one who thinks your were being sarcastic here? Sounds like suicide to me 

[crazyivan]

I prefer dead 6'o  at 200. And don't forget to honk the horn!

[Becinhu]

24s high slashing attacks aim for wingroot
17s and lancs high slash aim for wingtip
67s low slashing..20mm on top
of course if the gunner looks at you a tempest loses its radiator

[Gabriel]

Am i the only one who thinks your were being sarcastic here? Sounds like suicide to me 

I was being sarcastic lol

and some took it seriously 

[Steve]

I was being sarcastic lol

and some took it seriously 

Ya that was funny

[ink]

for the first time in AH for me, I took three bombers out in one pass a couple days ago

in my Hurri

[Shuffler]

I was being sarcastic lol

and some took it seriously 

I said nothing.... i just took it that you were a bomber pilot. 

[Steve]

Aim for this..aim for that.  That's a mystery to me. Why don't people just aim for the cockpit? They are big on the buffs and a pilot kill means *boom*

[ink]

Aim for this..aim for that.  That's a mystery to me. Why don't people just aim for the cockpit? They are big on the buffs and a pilot kill means *boom*

true that, every time i attack any plane bomber or fighter, in my head i say "aim for the pilot, aim for the pilot..."

[Simaril]

Aim for this..aim for that.  That's a mystery to me. Why don't people just aim for the cockpit? They are big on the buffs and a pilot kill means *boom*

You guys who can actually hit what you're "aiming" at always made me jealous...

[CAP1]

Am i the only one who thinks your were being sarcastic here? Sounds like suicide to me 

i knew he was.....but i was just pointing out a little known(i think) fact. 

[CAP1]

Aim for this..aim for that.  That's a mystery to me. Why don't people just aim for the cockpit? They are big on the buffs and a pilot kill means *boom*

well......some of us aren't good enough at our gunnery yet, to aim for a particular place on the aircraft.

i was being serious when i said i just aim for the big thing with the wings in front of me. 

[MORAY37]

First pass, I prefer 2 or 10 just above co-alt passes, rolling in from a dive set up about 1.5 or 2K away.  The dive gives more speed, lessening gunner reaction, and being just about co-alt allows me to go nose low or nose high, depending on where I think the gunner is sitting.

I dive from about 2K advantage, parallel to  buff flight path, roll in at about a 60 to 70 degree angle to pull lead, and aim for wingroot or cockpit on all types except the Lanc.

Lancs, depending on what I'm in, I do this always nose low, pull up and slash through the 2 to 3 oclock from underneath.  Why the brits thought a buff without a ball turret was a good idea, i don't know.

Second pass, depending on plane, I set up from the opposite side and make it look like I'm doing the same thing, but end up pulling further out ahead, and come in from low 12 oclock, through formation.  A low 12 pass seems to be difficult for most gunners to accurately target, after seeing the first pass....I don't know why this is, but I hardly EVER get hit in this pass.  (999000 is a glaring exception to that, but he's money in all positions in Buffs.