Mossie pilot wounds

[thrila]

I flew it a lot yesterday and was getting pilot wounds a lot more frequently than i do in other rides i fly.

In the clip below i received a pilot wound when 1 .50 cal round hit my let wing and another my right at 5 seconds in. I'll look to see if i saved any others

[The Fugitive]

You dive in on B17s in a wooden plane and are surprised your getting pilot wounds?

[thrila]

When in flight, traditionally a mossie pilot did not sit on the port or starboard wing.

[The Fugitive]

I always thought return fire was an approximation of what was really happening. The data packets accurately register the hits, but do not graphically portray them.

[SirNuke]

When in flight, traditionally a mossie pilot did not sit on the port or starboard wing.

 

[Lusche]

When in flight, traditionally a mossie pilot did not sit on the port or starboard wing.

It's about where the B-17 gunner is hitting you on his front end ('screen'). When he hits you in the cockpit, you will get damage in the cockpit, even though it may seem to you he had hit your wing. If you both combined lag is high enough, it may even look like he had missed you plane, yet you will get the damage.

[icepac]

I pretty much see the bullets hit exactly where the damage ends up except in situations with an opponent who has really bad lag to the point that I'm taking hits long after he has blown past me on a ho merge.

Other than that, wherever the tracers coming at me land is where I take damage.

If the sim were as far off as some of the people above state, then there really isn't any reason to fly it and that hasn't been my experience.

[Karnak]

You dive in on B17s in a wooden plane and are surprised your getting pilot wounds?

Not saying there is a bug, but what does being wooden have to do with anything?  Given the thickness of the Mossie's skin I'd wager it took more energy to pierce it than it did to pierce an aluminum aircraft's skin.  That said, in neither case is it very significant amount of energy required to pierce the skin, which is why both wooden and aluminum fighters had armor.

[icepac]

Mossies had pilot armor and armored glass.

It's not like there is only plywood between the pilot and the enemy.