This cant be realistic - 500+ hits, plane still flying??

[pupo162]

around 40 20 mm on a hurri once....

and you complain about 303 fired from dead six

[Fjordmonkey]

I've completely stopped doing Tail-shots on bogeys when I'm flying british fighters, to be honest. I always try to do either deflection-shots where I can rake the cockpit with my 303's either from above or from the side, or I aim specifically for one engine.

Directly astern-shots on most german aircraft does nothing, with the exception of the 109's, and then ONLY if I hit the radiators.