hey guys. so i took the betty for a spin around the DA furlball lake earlyer, to test out how the plane held up in combat and how strong/accurate the guns are. i thought i'd give my review of what i thought of it. please feel free to do your own aswell. thnxs to bullet, dedturn,flood, and RAVAH for the fun fights and helping me out.
first off" looks. the betty(in my opinion) is an ugly plane,im not insulting AH(pyro's?) modeling,they modeled it well. i just think its an ugly plane in general.the inside tho looks nice. i like the style of the cocpit. except for me, sitting so low makes it a little hard to land on the runway, ususally have to raise up to do so.
performance: i havent tested out its bombs yet or what its capable of doing in the bombing role,but its speed seems decent, and its fuel capability is very nice. climbs good.no real complaints here i guess.
armament: the armaments effectiveness kind of depends on the era of plane your going up against i think. bulletIV was in a spit8 i believe, the small guns couldnt really do any noticable damage to his plane, but once he got on my six and i opened up with the 20mm, i finally shot him down(after he got two of my bombers) the horrible thing about the guns are, they use ironsights. this personally makes it hard for me to aim. the 20mm seems very good at taking engines out than actually ripping pieces off a plane. but overall the armament was low, and i couldnt do anything to stop the hordes of temps/spits/47s.
survivability:just horrible.this is by far the worst bomber ive ever tryed to survive in, it seemed like it only took 2-3 20mm shots from bulletIV to make my entire plane blow up. even floods spit1's .303s were ripping parts off easily.
the plane easily rips apart or catches fire, but one thing i noticed was that the left wing usually catches fire more easily than the rest of the bomber, this may be a modeling bug or something. but out of the 7 sorties i made, 5 of them i was killed from the left wing catching ablaze. frankly this plane has no survivability. 1 flak burst is strong enough to allmost take out all 3 bombers if it hits dead center.
all and all, what was the point of having this plane put in? ik its a nice nostalgic plane to have, but it fills no obvious role i can see, its bombload is okish. its survivability is allmost nothing, its armament is low only things holding it up is its range and the torpedo option, but frankly the bomber isent strong enough to survive the ack long enough to get close to drop.
i believe it will replace the ki67 for the few who like flying that bird, but overall, itll become another hanger queen, where the only action it can see and engagements it could survive will be in the EW. to me, this plane has no use.
everything stated above is MY review of the plane on how I feel about it in my own opinion, even tho ive talked bad things about the plane, dont be scared off from giving it a test flight, everyone likes diff planes, so i could be dead wrong or dead right in your mind.
allso, feel free to right your own review, and tell ppl why you love/hate this aircraft.
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