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Originally Posted by zapatista
...(eg his wing tip will fully fit in the reticule at for ex 200 meters)...
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This is true only, if the plane wingtip is 20m (medium bombers). The fighters wingtip is ~10m, so if you see a fighter, which wingtip fully fit the circle, it is 100 m distance.
U505
very simple the calculation: wingtip meter X how fit into the circle X 10 = distance
You can download the Horrido - Des jägers Schiessfibel engish translated document from here:
http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...etails&id=3663. Read it, you will learn everything, what you want to know from air gunnery (it was published in 1944).
I think the bigger problem is the inaccuracy of the guns. Now totally unnecessary playing with any convergence settings, if the gun just shots around the target:
http://youtu.be/2EBTP6IEUbU
(I was landed with 30° Flap, retracted gear, so the 109 nose pointed low enough to able to compare the shots with the canvas. The distance is 100 m (measured in the FMB). The function and using of that canvas explained here:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...8&postcount=10