Tracers on Buffs

[shotgunneeley]

I clicked "no tracers" in the flight options. When I upped a formation of b-17's, I noticed that the lead buff fired without tracers but the drones still fired with tracers. Is this supposed to happen or shouldn't they all fire their guns without tracers?

[RTHolmes]

did buff gunners always/never/sometimes use tracers IRL?

[guncrasher]

They always did in b17.  Actually most if not all pilots had them.


Semp

[shotgunneeley]

That's why I wished for this: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,291352.0.html

99.9% percent of my flights (fighter or bomber) have been with tracers enabled. Since we have the option to either enable or disable tracers on whatever aircraft we want, I disengaged the tracers to see how it effects my gunnery in fighters. I thought it might be advantageous to disable the tracers so I could get the drop on bandits sneakin up behind me, but when I upped some buffs, the lead buff did not fire tracers while the two drones did.  The question is, shouldn't all three buffs in the formation fire without tracers if I disabled them?

Here's a quick film of what I'm talking about:

http://www.mediafire.com/?fijrz2nying