ATAG's 1st Bomber Night this Weekend

[klem]

Jumped on for a quick sortie late Saturday morning UK time.
Soon after takeoff from Maidstone my Hurricane was shot at head on by a Spitfire before the culprit went on to actually shoot down another Spitfire in the circuit. It was someone who has made a lengthy post in this thread following his own experiences, so I don't know what was on his mind at the time! I was able to locate the Lewes Train Depot after a bit of searching.

Had a second one hour sortie from about 11pm UK time. Same route to Lewes then from Wilminton point across towards Boulogne. About 1/3 way over I spotted two dots behind me and I reversed to check them out. Closing on them they looked like Spitfires. One came at me in an aggressive head on, fired at me, hit me somewhere then flashed by ......... a Spitfire! He must have realised because he didn't do it again. Carried on across the channel and up to Cap Gris Nez before rtb Maidstione.

I didn't see any enemy on either sortie.

I'm afraid some guys need to sharpen up on their a/c identification, I didn't meet any enemy but then I didn't need to!

Ref Navigation: it isn't too easy but then it isn't in RL I guess. I went mainly by major towns like Tonbridge, Tonbridge Wells, Crowborough and by river shapes especially the wriggly river running to Lewes plus peering round the stick at the floating compass when I felt the Gyro had drifted. Got a little lost between Dungeness and Maidstone on the way home but keeping a general compass heading I was able to make out the Airfield and wood fairly easily. Its worth having a good look around when you take off for familiarisation and landmarks, woods shapes, towns etc. near your base.

Ref RDF: Would it be possible to place ground AI a/c around the coast, just standing there, to stand in for the missing RDF towers. Alternatively, someone told me that the Towers that come with the maps don't do anything but Towers placed by the mission builders do work properly. Don't know if that's true.

Looking forward to tonight with the rest of our guys. 8pm UK time.