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Originally Posted by 609_Huetz
Well, it's a bit harsh to say they are almost perfect and then say you served in the Air Defense. I did so too for years, any be assured, neither a .303 nor a 3,5 cm tracer will ever look like this.
It is a small dot of light flying away from you, nothing more. No lasers, depending on the round no smoke and definately not any shake,vibration or spin to it. A tracer round also does not have a ray of light sticking out it's back.
That's my issue with them: they are not only to thick but also way too long. I doubt the tracers 65 years ago looked that much different from what they do nowadays. Well, at least they got the colors right 
*EDIT* This is by the way not meant as insult or a whinng post on what's wrong with CloD, however it's a sim, it should try to model reality as close as possible. |
Well, maybe some of it has to do with the kind of round fired, i don't know. All i'm saying is what i saw was almost identical to what i see in the sim (apart from the thickness issue) with the kind of guns i fired.
The length issue is just image retention in our eyes combined with the positioning of the guns being fired: if i'm looking down the sights i see a little dot of light, if i'm looking at someone else firing from a few meters away i see a bit of a streak (up till now it's exactly what you derscribe), but if i'm sitting next to the gun at point blank range and looking where the gun is pointed i get a bigger streak effect.
If i have a bank of guns mounted parallel with my head (in the wings) i will get a bigger streak effect than if i have two guns on the cowling aligned with my line of sight and to be honest, that's pretty much how firing in the 109 looks to me. There's also the very noticeable transition from streak to dot which is also visible in reality as the rounds get further away from the observer.
I would do a bit of an MS paint depiction to better explain it but it's 2AM and i have some stuff to do that could be helpful to people struggling with the Blenheim and CEM: i finally managed to find a PDF copy of a Blenheim V pilot's notes online and i'm reading it as we speak to see how much of it is applicable to the Mk.IV we have in the sim.
Up to the point i read there are only minor differences in terms of control and gauge placement in the cockpit, the Mk.V has constant speed props while our Mk.IV has two-stage props, but the engines are the same so i guess we can use the same operating limits. More on that in another post, probably in the gameplay questions subforum