Machine guns not working

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

I programmed the machine guns to the main fire button on the joystick but they don't fire (either aircraft.) Re-programmed them to the spacebar and still nothing. Programmed and attempted to re-load all guns then fire.......still nothing. Restarted, did it all over again, and now stumped. The GUI is recognizing all of my inputs.

[LukeFF]

Is your engine on?

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

Nope, thanks. Why does the cannon work but not the machine guns? All is well now that I'm up in the air.

 

It wasn't like this during the second week when I first did my first test fire on the ground to confirm my settings were working.

 

Maybe the engine was turning then? Don't remember. Nonetheless, I'm up!

Edited December 28, 2013 by HerrMurf

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

the machine guns are electrical fired.

Synchronization gear

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Synchronization gear

The synchronization gear of a Messerschmitt Bf 109E is adjusted – a wooden disk attached to the propeller is used to indicate bullet trajectory (January 1941)

Place of origin Germany / France Service history In service 1915–mid 1950s Wars World War I
Spanish Civil War
World War II
Korean War

A Synchronization gear, or a gun synchronizer, sometimes rather less accurately referred to as an interrupter, is attached to the armament of a single engined tractor-type aircraft so that it can fire through the arc of its spinning propeller without the bullets striking the blades. The idea presupposes a fixed armament that is directed by aiming the aircraft in which it is fitted at the target, rather than aiming the gun independently.

There are many practical problems, mostly arising from the inherently imprecise nature of an automatic gun's firing, the great (and varying) velocity of the blades of a spinning propeller, and the very high speed at which any gear synchronizing the two has to operate.

Design and experimentation with gun synchronization had been underway in France and Germany in 1913/14, following the ideas of August Euler, who seems to have been the first to suggest mounting a fixed armament firing in the direction of flight (in 1910). The first practical, (if far from reliable) gear to enter operational service was however that fitted to the Eindecker monoplane fighters that entered squadron service with the German Air Service in mid 1915. The success of the Eindecker led to numerous gun synchronization devices – culminating in the reasonably reliable hydraulic British Constantinesco gear of 1917. By the end of the war German engineers were well on the way to perfecting a gear using an electrical rather than a mechanical or hydraulic link between the engine and the gun, with the latter being triggered by a solenoid rather than by a mechanical "trigger motor".

[BeastyBaiter]

Synchronized guns only fire when the engine is running. Propellor hub and unsynchronized wing guns can fire any time. It has been like this since week 1.

Edited December 28, 2013 by =LD=King_Hrothgar

[Finkeren]

777 developed the most realistic model for machine gun synchronisation in any CFS, and this has been transfered to BoS. If you fiddle around with prop rpm while firing the MGs you can actually hear the rate of fire change, as it oscilates in-and-out of synch with the rpm. It's not as noticeable as in RoF, because the synchronisation gears used in WW2 were more advanced, giving several firing impulses per propeller revolution as opposed to the single impulse on most WW1 systems, where you could get as much as a 50% reduced rate of fire at certain points on low rpm.

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

Fair enough. I have been educated. I am a Lagg killing truck mauler again.