stuka and artificial horizon where is it?

[il2crashesnfails]

Been flying the stuka more lately I got in some clouds something I dont usually do. Anyways when I went looking for the artificial horizon  I couldn't find it or anything that looked like it in other planes 

did they use something else?

 

anyways here is a vid of some shenanigans I got up to with the ju-87

 

 

[LukeFF]

The Ju 87 model we have did not have an artificial horizon - just a variometer. 

[Bremspropeller]

I thinks it's pretty safe to assume the Stuka needed VMC to dive-bomb anything, so flying through weather on any extensive scale wasn't really forseen.

 

There were Nachstschlachtgeschwader flying the good ole 87, though. They might have had the mods required in place.

[ZachariasX]

45 minutes ago, Bremspropeller said:

They might have had the mods required in place.

I thought they were supposed to follow orders and not instruments.

[il2crashesnfails]

58 minutes ago, Bremspropeller said:

I thinks it's pretty safe to assume the Stuka needed VMC to dive-bomb anything, so flying through weather on any extensive scale wasn't really forseen.

 

There were Nachstschlachtgeschwader flying the good ole 87, though. They might have had the mods required in place.

 

That makes sense that they didn't need horizon to bomb a target.  However, what if that got stuck in cloud getting to target?

[Bremspropeller]

29 minutes ago, il2crashesnfails said:

 

That makes sense that they didn't need horizon to bomb a target.  However, what if that got stuck in cloud getting to target?

 

You could fly "partial panel".

 

 

There was a bad crash just before the war, when a whole squadron of Stukas plunged into the ground during an exercise. Must have been a real confidence-builder, just two weeks before the war...

Synopsis: The actual cloud-ceiling was at 100m AGL instead of the reported 900m AGL...

 

 

You might use google-translate:

 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuhammer_Stuka-Unglück

Edited March 22, 2020 by Bremspropeller