Real World BoB Hurricane Pilot's views on SOW

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by mazex

My worst IRL incident as a pilot happened 24 years ago (i just described it in the YAK-thread):

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...8&postcount=26


So if I remember an incident like that where no one got hurt, why should not a BoB pilot remember what is was like back then?

Because each sortie would merge into the next like sugar in water. Apart from episodes of considerable interest/excitement/danger etc, I can't see a pilot remembering everything as clearly as one might in such an incident as yours.
I do, however, think that their combined recollection of different episodes is enough to give a pretty damn good impression IMO Although if, for instance, you asked the pilot about tracer; would he be able to distinguish between the different types he may have used? I'm not sure.
I think a veterans perspective is the best evidence to give. At the end of the day, if you can fly a sortie in SoW and come about with nearly exactly the same images as the pilots of 1940, then that is (for me) a near perfect sim