What about a bomber pack?

[ATAG_SKUD]

On 4/27/2020 at 8:02 PM, Retnek said:

Looking just for the basic needs of mainly tactical bomber operation - no dreams about strategic bombing and heavies:

 

All need:

- proper details for airfields (electric lights, light beacons, ground control with direction-finder-installation)

- marker and illumination bombs

- cluster bombs

- supply container w/o chute

- torpedoes & mines

- navigational assistance for the pilot depending on qualification of his navigator and radio operator

- recon mission procedures for mission builders

- supply mission procedures for mission builders

- area bombing target procedures for mission builders

- some kind of radio assisted targeting (Knickebein, Gee, Oboe, Gee-H)

 

Luftwaffe

- removable frontal MG for the Ju-88

- usable Ju-88 observers position, not that extremely limited view

- without Ju-188 there's a need for upgraded late-war Ju-88 bomber-models (Ju-88 S)

- He-111-transporter-models

 

 

To fly bombers and transporters in somewhat realistic scenarios and set-ups there's not that much to do. So my "bomber upgrade pack" consists of

- B-25 flyable

- A-20 upgrade, observer position & late bombing models

- IL-4 flyable

- Blenheim flyable

- Ju-88 upgrade, S-model OR Ju-188

- He-111-transporter upgrade

- DC-3 / C-47 / Li-2

- airfield operations upgrade

- weapons upgrade

 

Together with some upgraded sim-functions that pack would allow realistic bomber, recon and transport operations for all theatres from 1939 - 45.

 

Two  (and 1/2) more things  I would like to request for the bomber aficionados:

1. 15 km rendering of building and damaged buildings. Currently at 6 km altitude mid size buildings don't render until they have disappeared under the front gunners view. Damaged buildings don't render until you have already had to drop. So many times I've hit the button only to see the buildings through the bombsight change from solid to damaged 10 seconds after the drop. One hour wasted.
2. On the Ju 88 -Make the invisible box my head is in bigger so I can see my supercharger setting, right engine boost, RPM, oil pressure etc gages. It feels artificially small.

and perhaps later--add a historically correct bombsight and a Stuvi for dive bombing?

skud

 

 

[Antiguo]

and ..... improve or correct the "automatic" mode of the German bomber sight.

I don't know if you suffer it, opening the map when you are in the bomber sight and then closing it, it becomes almost impossible (you have to press the ESC key).

I also suffer from the "jumping" sight error. Almost always flying the second mission and the only way to solve it is to exit the game.

But if I would love more level bomber planes, I think we are a little "abandoned" group of pilots ...... waiting for the "fighters only" trend to change ....

Greetings to everyone who, like me, loves bomber planes.

[ATAG_SKUD]

4 hours ago, Ala13_Antiguo said:

and ..... improve or correct the "automatic" mode of the German bomber sight.

I don't know if you suffer it, opening the map when you are in the bomber sight and then closing it, it becomes almost impossible (you have to press the ESC key).

I also suffer from the "jumping" sight error. Almost always flying the second mission and the only way to solve it is to exit the game.

But if I would love more level bomber planes, I think we are a little "abandoned" group of pilots ...... waiting for the "fighters only" trend to change ....

Greetings to everyone who, like me, loves bomber planes.

I have had the sight jumping issue. I have observed that there seems to be a correlation to graphics card temps causing this. Perhaps related to thermal throttling. I have reduced the frequency of it in the past by directing a fan on my machine and then almost eliminated it completely by swapping out the stock GPU cooler with an Arctic Air Cooler. Still happens once in a while on hot days.

skud

Edited May 19, 2020 by ATAG_SKUD

[DN308]

I vote for that pack idea too.

We need some bombers for the allied side. A-20 is not enough for the historical credibility. The B-25 at least with the cockpit and the bomber sight is a minimum. A B-26 also.

 

It would not be a great addition but a must have on this sim evolution 

[Killroy-98]

We need the IL-4 at least!

[354thFG_Rails]

Bump!

[354thFG_Rails]

@Jason_Williams after normandy!? It's a great idea! ?