Spitfires vs. Bf-109s at the White Cliffs of Dover - Youtube vid by me.

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Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

German gunsights only have one setting. I'm not entirely sure if it's calibrated based on the Spit or Hurricane (i guess they have fairly similar wingspans anyway), but it's a case of "when Spitfire/Hurricane wings touch the bars target is X meters away", where X would be a suitable value ( not more 200-300 meters i guess).

From that point on it's approximations by the pilot: double the wingspan for a twin engined bomber so that when wings touch the bars it should be about 2X meters away, and so on.

Eklund comes to our rescue with a nice little visual guide as to how we should understand the German sight:



I didn't look too much into the German sight, though, so I cannot confirm this myself. And isn't there anything at all we can do to adjust the bars in that sight?