I got sent on a 2 by 2 recon mission, Bone and Redbull going to cover the north and myself and Deja flying south - I am not sure what all headed south, but only thing we ran into was a squadron of B-26s on the deck without escort.
I came back to rearm - Bone was pinged up and lost one engines oil - and nursed the 262 back home, Myself Redbull and Deja then went towards the massive furball and didn't spot anything - either we arrived late and everyone was heading home or we missed them completely.
Given the alt the piston fighters were operating, most likely we were under everything - think we topped around 20k.
Axis were convinced the allies were defeated since 16 were in flight while the rest were in the tower, but sure enough allies waited till the last minute to launch an all out raid - we watched the numbers grow to 50/50 in flight.
We were running a race track around 40, one point I gave Bone a heart attack screaming "OMG they are all in front of me, buffs and fighters all heavy" - it was a joke - I was returning from A114 after checking some airfields out on recon.
Eventually a lone 28k Spitfire alerted every fighter to the 8.11.1 sector, I dropped from 20k to around 10k and ran into an entire squadron of 38s heavy diving towards A40, after a few turns - a set of Typhoons and tempest's came in - then P-47s ... then P-51s
Every 2-3 minutes a new set came in and a pretty nice furball erupted, I was lucky I looked at my fuel gauge, I was down to 5 minutes and 15 taters left, I didn't bother to re-arm.
I will say the view in a 262 is near terrible with that cloud setting, you can't see anything and far to easy you can fly over and not notice anything.
