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Title: Bombers Left?
Post by: DEAR98 on March 16, 2008, 09:47:06 AM
Bombers are very rare. Most of the time bunch of newbies bombing cant hit eney thing and whine about it.
Are there eney "good" bomber pilots left?
Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: thndregg on March 16, 2008, 09:50:12 AM
Here. :salute
Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: Bronk on March 16, 2008, 10:02:50 AM
Bombers are very rare. Most of the time bunch of newbies bombing cant hit eney thing and whine about it.
Are there eney "good" bomber pilots left?
Pfft bring up a TT map, or just circle a CV. You'll see a plenty.
Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: Spikes on March 16, 2008, 11:26:08 AM
I'm good in buffs.
Proud buff dweeb since tour 69
Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: oTRALFZo on March 16, 2008, 11:47:15 AM
Bombers are very rare. Most of the time bunch of newbies bombing cant hit eney thing and whine about it.
Are there eney "good" bomber pilots left?

Most dont like high alt bombing. It takes too much time and most of the time, the dar it puts up is a clear sign to up a 262 and shoot them down. Its rather demoralizing to the newbies. On the other hand, it takes 3 good bombers to decimate a feild and prove to be very effective with fighter support. Im with ya on the issue of not enough bomber pilots
Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: Soulyss on March 16, 2008, 12:14:20 PM
I'm sure there are some very accurate bombers still flying these days... to me though it's the guys (and gals) who flew bombers back when they had the more complex calibration routine that really earned their stripes.  What we have now in the MA is toned down significantly.

Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: Flayed1 on March 16, 2008, 12:16:47 PM
 Here :salute   

<----- Showed Thndregg most of what he knows.   :D
Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: smokey23 on March 16, 2008, 12:24:15 PM
<------ B-24 was my first ride in AH ive had a soft spot fer that big ugly duck ever since  :D from 1K or 30K i rarely miss. Unless Vans is doin the yo yo thing in his spitfire behind me then i might miss somethin. Its like tryin to swatt an annoying fly off youre nose that just keeps commin back. :rofl  :rock
Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: Strip on March 16, 2008, 12:30:12 PM
999000, 707200, tatertot, and many others. We are still around but the gene pool has been deleted. I am capable of doing most bombing feats but its just not the challenge it once was. If you can see it.....you can hit it....everytime.

IMHO I think your seeing good buff pilots fly other planes more and having an increased amount of new pilots in buffs. There still out there tho.

Strip(er)
Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: Estes on March 16, 2008, 01:46:34 PM
I'm sure there are some very accurate bombers still flying these days... to me though it's the guys (and gals) who flew bombers back when they had the more complex calibration routine that really earned their stripes.  What we have now in the MA is toned down significantly.


I'm no good in bombers, but since they dumbed down the calibration process I can hit what I'm aiming for. At this rate, they are going to go back to the point and click bombing we had back in AH1. It's pretty much the same IMO.
Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: Latrobe on March 16, 2008, 01:47:31 PM
Anyone who has gone on AATalen's bombing mission is a decent bomber pilot.
Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: tatertot on March 16, 2008, 03:20:10 PM
Nope they have all been killed due to major whine threads sorry  :cry
Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: SuperDud on March 16, 2008, 04:15:31 PM
Anyone who's been here more than 6 months is good in a bomber.
Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: chris3 on March 16, 2008, 04:24:51 PM
here too  :salute

i love high alt, long time bomber missions. But in the last mouths i do not have time for it  :frown:.

in the old days i prever the b17 at 33k, she is real fast and a 262 did have real trobel to get in these altitude
since the new patches.

cu chris3
Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: blkmgc on March 16, 2008, 05:15:34 PM
Bombers are very rare. Most of the time bunch of newbies bombing cant hit eney thing and whine about it.
Are there eney "good" bomber pilots left?

Depends on the company you keep I suppose. For me, the hi alt bombers in this sim are second to none.Probably because the escorts AC are correctly modeled, and the interceptor AC are as well. Always a good time when we fly. :)
Title: Re: Bombers Left?
Post by: John Curnutte on March 16, 2008, 11:32:25 PM
 Well in (+) Precision we all bomb and bomb well indeed  , we hold on target and do the job/game and hit what we need to .
I love bombing , shutting down fields etc . its what makes the game fun . :salute