Gun convergence on Bf 109

[VO101_Tom]

Originally Posted by zapatista

...(eg his wing tip will fully fit in the reticule at for ex 200 meters)...

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