Not so. I'm willing to bet that A20 pilots didnt carry binocs while searching out enemy tanks to bomb. Also, the A20's knew to where within a few hundreds yards where they were going to bomb, their targets were mostly preset before launch.
The spotter aircraft went up *looking* for the enemy. They were flying slow enough to look, look again, and triple look, and then some, with binocs, all in the same pass.
If anything, HTC should make the icon ranges relative to the speed of the aircraft, but then again which aircraft can fly 100mph well enough, have the same visibility, and was designed to do what the Storch did? But more so, that is probably a major coding issue.
This is adding another dimension to AH. Perhaps people should try it out first before performing their best imitation of Chicken Little. 
your right, they might not have, but you don't know that. However, that's besides the point. neither did the Storch or L-Bird pilots... there is a second seat in the planes for a reason... for the observer that was on every flight. Only he would have the binocs.
Now, if there was a binocular mode for the storch, then by all means, i would support that. If bombers are vulnerable while in the bombsite, the same should be for storches while spotting.
Speed has nothing to do with how far you can see and that would be even gamier. I can see the same distance if I'm traveling 100mph or 200mph, the only difference is how long i have to react or identify something. I can still see it though.
This is random, but why did we even get the storch? Every request i ever saw for a liaison aircraft was for L-Birds.
