Originally posted by gofaster
Some tips:
Fly a P-47 for maximum load-out, but you're better off with a Corsair or Hellcat because you can drop the gear as an air brake when you dive down.
When you get to the target, cut throttle all the way back and drop a notch or two of flaps before you roll over.
Drop your bombs first.
Drop your load at 5,000 feet, rather than 1,000 feet.
A question was asked of an old AW player that was a real fighter pilot in WW2 about dive bombing and what he said was kind of interesting. One of the things he said was that he would dive on his target at full throttle with WEP on, usually starting from 12,000ft and at a steep as an angle as possible to ensure maximum accuracy.
Don't fly the P-38 as a jabo plane until you feel comfortable with compression.
Since I'm sure you don't fly the P-38 often in here, but you really do have to work at it to get it into enter compressability and again, compressability in the P-38 is also altitude dependent. So if he isn't starting his dive at high altitudes (above 20,000ft), compressability isn't that much of a factor, unless you let it become one.
Again, the same AW player that was a WWII pilot also flew the P-38G in the MTO (he also flew the P-47 and P-39) never had a problem with compressability and when he got the P-38G, was never even told about any problems with compressability. But he never used the P-38 in the dive bombing role and also never dove screaming down on an enemy plane from high altitude.
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*hehe just read Grimm's post and it seems we're talking about the same post we read from the same guy. Viva Earl!
