Am I the only one who can't bomb in a plane without bombsights, without using F3? I just can't do it. I might get lucky, but I just can't bomb without F3.
Well I could never bomb or shoot while in F3. And I used to be in the top 3 or 5 with kills in it, tho mine were mostly GVs. I took fighters when they were stupid, and they often were. Shooting fighters at 1 to 1.5k is an awful stretch. You only have two cannon with slow ROF and thats a long, long shot. I wouldnt even waste ammo at that range. What I was good at was coming in at high angles on to tanks nd opening them up at 200 to 250 with a few shots. Now with far less SA, both of the air and of ground flak, I hardly ever fly it. We cant even use it as a last ditch defender when the FHs are down.
And as poor as a fighter stick as I am I almost never got shot down by an IL2, not even a F3 one. Any imbecile should have known that if you stay verticle against one the IL2 is helpless. It only had enough smash for one or two evasive moves and then it was flat and very slow, easy meat even for a noob.