A Question for the Experienced GV'ers

[Zoney]

At 1,500ft in a light aircraft you cant see diddly under a forests canopy let alone anything colored green. Maybe you could pick out a flash of chrome off a cars bumper if the lighting were right or a reflection off a cars windsheild, but your not going to see anything green.

A very valid point sir.  We do not however have anything near what I would call a "forrested canopy".  The trees are too sparse and too far apart.  Your eye does differentiate from natural shapes and the straight lines and angles that define the way our machines are made.  Your eyes will also look for differences in whether an object is moving or stationary.  Vision and perception are two different things that in combination help with the mental picture we interact with.  Take a look at some gun camera footage, at 1500 yards, even in grainy, jumpy, black and whit footage it is pretty clear what the P47 pilot is firing is rockets on.  And again, this is what I think the red icon makes up for that our 2 dimensional computer screens cannot render.

[Lepape2]

1- Tree clusters to hide (and protect) yourself from attacks (I managed to survive a dozen bomb drops in a troop loaded M3 this way once it was pathetic). If you see some blue sky, you are not hidden enough. You risk finding yourself upside down easily though so be careful hitting those bushes!

2- Terrain elevation. Stay on the edge of descending slopes. And move on the down slope if a bomb drop is imminent. Bomb blast don't cause damage if they hit a bit higher than your tank or are obstructed by terrain.

3- Destroy the nearest airfield's ords prior to sortie.

4- Don't fire any of your guns unless absolutely necessary (and I mean even if its for a 100yards out enemy tank... its no good shooting down some tank just to end up getting spotted by a nearby Il2 or A20...)

5- Experiment bombing yourself and find out what the hardest vehicles to hit are doing.

6- Don't up a perked tank, of course.

The trick is not to get spotted... if you are spotted, no matter what you do, you will be destroyed one way or another. I'm a pretty good tank buster from the air and trust me, there ain't nothing vehicles can do without air cover.

[shermanjr]

ya take out ord and if u can bring a flakker buddie alone

[SmokinLoon]

Best anti-aircraft gun in a tank is the M476.  Use the main gun for this.  Most experienced guys like Gravy1 and Belial are great at shooting you down with main gun.  Actually its not hard at all.  I just know that when these guys are near you bring your "A" game.

The .50 cal pintle gun on the M4A3 75mm and the M4A3 (W) 76mm are the same. 

The ability of a tank to shoot down a tank with its main gun is one of the travesties in AH.  That being said, if you low enough to get shot down by said gun you deserve to get shot down by the main gun. 

[Rob52240]

Destroy the ord bunkers at the base you plan to attack on the ground.  Then use a T-34/85 which in my opinion is a better tank than the Panther for facing enemy planes.  Without ords they will be forced to use cannons on you and this is where the T-34 really comes into it's own.  Just use the main gun because if they've got their guns lined up on you, you can have yours pointed right at them too.

I have had several 10+ kill sorties in the T-34 with all of them being against aircraft.