Unfortunately the majority of blue side is still floundering on the deck and feeding bf109 f4 K/ds
It is in fact at 3.7 and is the exact same flight model. I find it to be more stable than the d28 but i could be crazy.
Im just entertaining a concept. If you have an advantage, why not use it?
I didn’t see this was a sim thread so its my bad
In defence of that, visibility is utterly atrocius.
Even perching at just 3 km, I cannot see anyone that’s under 500 meters. Often, I’m flying circles above an A point, hunting for an enemy and I can’t find anyone and the A point is in a deadlock or worse, I see fighting in combat log but have no idea where
I finally descend to 1 km altitude and what do I see? Planes circling in the tree tops. This is extra nice on Winter Stalingrad because black dot against black blob for low LoD trees or Port Moresby where the ground is very dark.
Most of the objectives occur in the 0-4 km band. In fact, A point cannot be contested at all above ~5.5 km atmospheric altitude (which means on high elevation maps, you are forced even lower relative to the ground).
Tunisia is probably the only map where you can see ground-level enemies from 3km, and even then it’s sketchy depending on lighting and exact position.
I don’t fly jugs, Mustang MkIa/P-51 and corsairs, and occasional hellcat. I find it’s sufficient to stick at 1-3km altitude band to contest bf109s.
Respectfully what are you talking about? Turn down sense of flight to ruduce blur. if you’re above contrail height then they have produce contrails to attack you. Looking for a black dot against a white cloud is a lot easier than finding a black dot against the terrain.
No sense of flight enabled.
Obviously, screenshot is lower quality.
This is at ~2km altitude. All screenshots are from the replay so don’t judge the turn coordinator - it always says you’re slipping in replays even when flying straight in trim.
Do you think you could spot the black dot just over my right canopy frame if I was at 4+ km? No. They’d blend into the ground. Only reason they’re even visible as is is due to their wingtip vortices as they’re fighting.
Even from sub 1 km altitude, that low-flying IL (iirc it was an IL or a german attacker) is barely visible:
If I was up at 4km, I’d have never intercepted them.
More targets that if I was higher up I would not have seen, maybe here on tunisia but not against winter stalingrad or port moresby black forests.
Also there’s these scenarios as well:
And also. Winter Stalingrad. Even at low altitude I regularly lose planes flying over the literal black ice of a river
I will legit be flying circles above the river, watch as the A point is static and unmoving or worse turning red and my allies are dying and I am not seeing anything until there’s some tracer fire at last.
