Headshots?

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Originally Posted by Jasta 6

I just remembered something from my Red Baron 3D days, if you were a good enough shot, you could pour some lead into your opponent's cockpit and would be occasionally rewarded with an instant kill as he let out a scream (the fact that you could even hear this is ridiculous, i know, but RB3D wasn't winning any accuracy awards in its stock form.)

I've never played the original IL-2, or really any other combat flight sims other than the aforementioned, since I do my gaming on a PS3 these days, but was killing the pilot possible in IL-2? Will it be possible in BoP?

It is possible to kill the pilot. I killed a Stuka pilot in the demo. There is no indication or 'headshot award' but when a more or less undamaged plane goes down (no smoke trail) in sim mode after one burst, it's clear that the pilot died.