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The default loadout uses both Observer rounds and Tracers (and in a very odd gun pattern), which seems to be at odds with historical sources I have read and no where near as effective as custom loadouts. The Observer rounds are as useful as disc brakes on a tortoise!

The problem is that all the stock missions/campaigns use this default loadout and the only way to overcome that is to create custom loadouts and then edit the mission files using notepad or the FMB to use one of those instead.

There are quite a few threads on how to do this as well a example loadouts that work far better than the default one - best search the forum and have a read.

Multiplayer is not such a problem - create your loadouts, name them and save but there is a bug in the way you exit the loadout menu which prevents the custom loadout being saved - all the info is in the various 'loadout' threads.

Ang yes. Bombers are more difficult than IL1946 so convergence, etc, is important,