Post by p3zman on Jan 24, 2018 14:03:33 GMT -5
Man, I just spent two hours trying to bomb a target in a He-111 with two 1000kg bombs. And guess what, it died.
First mission I couldn't get the bird off the ground. Drove it like a car for a while with engines roaring, flaps up, flaps down (tried them both - I was driving for a while), and in the end I hit the ruff outside the aerodrome and flipped her. One He-111 down, one to go.
Now, my engines were a little cold when I started to roll, so on the second attempt I waited for the engines to be warm before I would roll. Except I blew the fucking engine on the ramp. Son of a bitch... shutdown the other and save the bird. Try again.
Next attempt I didn't push the engines so hard on the warmup and was able to get them warm and ready before I rolled. I didn't put the flaps down, turned the bird toward the longest span of the aerodrome, and began to power-up the engines until I had enough MP and RPM to put good airflow over the control surfaces. Once there I rolled and was able to get her airborne... with flaps. Need the flaps with two 1000kg bombs and 1200 liters of fuel. No way around that. Maybe not if it's cold, but it's warm in T.A.W. right now.
Once airborne I put the gear and flaps up, adjusted the engines and radiators for climb, then set the trim for a nice easy 3-4 m/s climb at 220kph. Everything was great, started to get some good altitude and I needed to readjust the trim to keep the airspeed for the climb and on heading. Well, one of the buttons on my joystick that doesn't have an assignment apparently did - and it was the other two directions on the roll trim hat-switch. While adjusting my roll I accidentally hit "Hat-switch Up" and I dropped a bomb. Just outside of my starting airfield I dropped one of my 1000kg bombs... ok, I still have another. But I didn't know what button I had hit that caused me to drop the bomb, so I accidentally dropped the other bomb while continuing to adjust my trim.
No way, such bullshit, no way that had just happened to me. My third attempt to get the He-111 airborne and I dropped my bombs in friendly territory... probably on the schnapps stores for the entire Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht on the eastern front. Public hero number one right here.
So, I land and grab a combat mission, FRAGO1 my mission plan and choose a new target that is closer and quicker. I have wasted a lot of time by this point and cant make it to their depots in the back now. So I choose to attack one of the remaining artillery positions attacking our airfield with some tanks. Grab my bombs, do the whole damn process over again, get airborne, climb to altitude, get on course and monitor it so that I have no surprises when I arrive at the target.
Everything goes pretty good this time, run into a few friendly 109's patrolling some rear objectives, nothing major. All my course checkpoints are lining up great and I get an ID on the target area very far away. Everything was finally going my way. Get the bomb-sight set, double check my calculations and all the settings - everything is right on. Set up my bombs to drop in a pair at .25 seconds apart and braced myself over the bomb drop button. The sight was slightly off so I adjusted it a little further out to get the cross-hair on the target again. I am seconds from release when the damn site jumps up and past the target. Then it jumps back below the target. So I quickly put it back on target and it jumps off again! So I just dropped the bombs before I was really far off target. Luckily I hit the edge of the artillery positions and got three kills.
Well, turn back to base and "charlie-mike"2 , right? Well, I had set my gunners to engage at long range to give me as much time to attempt to escape as possible, and just then they started to scream. I was close to the lines, probably past it on the friendly side, so I wasn't completely discouraged. At least I could bail if shit got bad - which it did. Some asshole I-16 had been camped at about 5km waiting for some schlub like me to come along in an He-111 and he pounced. Lit up my aircraft, completely un-flyable, and my pilot was wounded too. Things were not looking good except that I was at about 4km and had plenty of time to bail-out. So I did. Decided to save the pilot before it was too late.
And you know what? The fucker died when he jumped out. Don't know what killed him, probably the He-111 since it was halved and tumbling to the ground violently. So, after all that complete bullshit I suffered through, I lost two He-111's and still died.
Fuck.
1) FRAGO: Stands for "Fragmentation Order" or a change in plans. You're already loaded for a mission, but you might change the target, so you just change a "Fragment" of your orders.
2) Charlie-Mike: is the phonetic alphabet for the letters C and M which is the abbreviation for "Continue Mission"
First mission I couldn't get the bird off the ground. Drove it like a car for a while with engines roaring, flaps up, flaps down (tried them both - I was driving for a while), and in the end I hit the ruff outside the aerodrome and flipped her. One He-111 down, one to go.
Now, my engines were a little cold when I started to roll, so on the second attempt I waited for the engines to be warm before I would roll. Except I blew the fucking engine on the ramp. Son of a bitch... shutdown the other and save the bird. Try again.
Next attempt I didn't push the engines so hard on the warmup and was able to get them warm and ready before I rolled. I didn't put the flaps down, turned the bird toward the longest span of the aerodrome, and began to power-up the engines until I had enough MP and RPM to put good airflow over the control surfaces. Once there I rolled and was able to get her airborne... with flaps. Need the flaps with two 1000kg bombs and 1200 liters of fuel. No way around that. Maybe not if it's cold, but it's warm in T.A.W. right now.
Once airborne I put the gear and flaps up, adjusted the engines and radiators for climb, then set the trim for a nice easy 3-4 m/s climb at 220kph. Everything was great, started to get some good altitude and I needed to readjust the trim to keep the airspeed for the climb and on heading. Well, one of the buttons on my joystick that doesn't have an assignment apparently did - and it was the other two directions on the roll trim hat-switch. While adjusting my roll I accidentally hit "Hat-switch Up" and I dropped a bomb. Just outside of my starting airfield I dropped one of my 1000kg bombs... ok, I still have another. But I didn't know what button I had hit that caused me to drop the bomb, so I accidentally dropped the other bomb while continuing to adjust my trim.
No way, such bullshit, no way that had just happened to me. My third attempt to get the He-111 airborne and I dropped my bombs in friendly territory... probably on the schnapps stores for the entire Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht on the eastern front. Public hero number one right here.
So, I land and grab a combat mission, FRAGO1 my mission plan and choose a new target that is closer and quicker. I have wasted a lot of time by this point and cant make it to their depots in the back now. So I choose to attack one of the remaining artillery positions attacking our airfield with some tanks. Grab my bombs, do the whole damn process over again, get airborne, climb to altitude, get on course and monitor it so that I have no surprises when I arrive at the target.
Everything goes pretty good this time, run into a few friendly 109's patrolling some rear objectives, nothing major. All my course checkpoints are lining up great and I get an ID on the target area very far away. Everything was finally going my way. Get the bomb-sight set, double check my calculations and all the settings - everything is right on. Set up my bombs to drop in a pair at .25 seconds apart and braced myself over the bomb drop button. The sight was slightly off so I adjusted it a little further out to get the cross-hair on the target again. I am seconds from release when the damn site jumps up and past the target. Then it jumps back below the target. So I quickly put it back on target and it jumps off again! So I just dropped the bombs before I was really far off target. Luckily I hit the edge of the artillery positions and got three kills.
Well, turn back to base and "charlie-mike"2 , right? Well, I had set my gunners to engage at long range to give me as much time to attempt to escape as possible, and just then they started to scream. I was close to the lines, probably past it on the friendly side, so I wasn't completely discouraged. At least I could bail if shit got bad - which it did. Some asshole I-16 had been camped at about 5km waiting for some schlub like me to come along in an He-111 and he pounced. Lit up my aircraft, completely un-flyable, and my pilot was wounded too. Things were not looking good except that I was at about 4km and had plenty of time to bail-out. So I did. Decided to save the pilot before it was too late.
And you know what? The fucker died when he jumped out. Don't know what killed him, probably the He-111 since it was halved and tumbling to the ground violently. So, after all that complete bullshit I suffered through, I lost two He-111's and still died.
Fuck.
1) FRAGO: Stands for "Fragmentation Order" or a change in plans. You're already loaded for a mission, but you might change the target, so you just change a "Fragment" of your orders.
2) Charlie-Mike: is the phonetic alphabet for the letters C and M which is the abbreviation for "Continue Mission"