Author Topic: In a Corsair, which guns are my primaries? (Read 408 times)

gofaster · « **on:** June 13, 2002, 08:45:26 AM »

Corsair has 6 guns in pairs: inboard, middle, and outboard. Which ones are my primary guns and which are my secondary? What I'd like to do is have the primaries set at a farther convergence for "spotting" my lead and then have the secondaries set closer to drill the target. But which guns are which?

Ghosth · « **Reply #1 on:** June 13, 2002, 10:56:02 AM »

Go to the TA, go on the runway, external view.
Fire primarys only, see which ones are primary.

Apar · « **Reply #2 on:** June 13, 2002, 11:05:02 AM »

Was going to make same suggestion,

gofaster · « **Reply #3 on:** June 13, 2002, 01:33:41 PM »

Ok, next question: how do I get to the external view?

snafu · « **Reply #4 on:** June 13, 2002, 02:33:16 PM »

F3, Then F8 to go into Pan & use view keys to adjust your viewing angle. (F1 to return to internal view).

(Only works offline and in TA, Bombers only in MA)

TTFN
snafu

gofaster · « **Reply #5 on:** June 13, 2002, 02:47:11 PM »

Cool! Thanks!

fuzeman · « **Reply #6 on:** June 14, 2002, 04:36:27 AM »

Now that you already figured it out probably...
F4u has primarys outboard opposite of the Mustang where the inboard are the primary guns.

fuzeman

gofaster · « **Reply #7 on:** June 14, 2002, 07:41:34 AM »

Yep, I learned that last night about the Corsair, but didn't know it was different for the Mustang. Thanks for telling me - I figured all 6x.50 cal gun arrangements were set up the same.

fuzeman · « **Reply #8 on:** June 14, 2002, 08:08:01 AM »

Nope they're different. I wonder if it is a Navy , Air Force [Or AAF back then] thing. Navy planes have the primary outboard, F4u and F6f, while the 51 has primary inboard. I believe the P47 has its inboards as primary also but I don't have enough Jug time to remember [confirmed, P47's primary are inboard also].
There is a 'Select Primary' weapon like secondary but when I tried that , the results I got were sooooo waacky I never do it ingame.

fuzeman

Kevin14 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 16, 2002, 08:21:02 AM »

How do you 'Select Primary'?

J_A_B · « **Reply #10 on:** June 16, 2002, 02:00:11 PM »

"Nope they're different. I wonder if it is a Navy , Air Force [Or AAF back then] thing. "

No, it's an AH thing, considering that real P-51D's only have but a single trigger on the control stick and have their guns charged prior to taking off (in other words they lacked the ability to fire individual sets of guns).

AH's gun set system is designed for player convienience, not for realism. I'd venture to suggest that the F4U's and P-51 have different setups because they have different ammo loads.

J_A_B

fuzeman · « **Reply #11 on:** June 21, 2002, 01:20:39 PM »

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Originally posted by Kevin14
How do you 'Select Primary'?

Per The AH manual [I know.. the 'what'??] :
SELECT PRIMARY WEAPON [\]

I didn't want to answer this too fast, as it was easy to figure out.

fuzeman

gofaster · « **Reply #12 on:** June 21, 2002, 02:31:23 PM »

On the cockpit instrument panel, you'll see two readouts in the upper left (I think that's where it is) that shows "MG" and then "450" or whatever in one square, and "MG" and "750" or whatever below that. Your primaries are the upper display and the secondary/alternate load is the lower display.

My joystick is set up so that the trigger fires only the primary weapon, the 2nd joystick button fires only the secondary weapon (useful for dropping bombs and firing rockets) and the 3rd joystick button shoots both.