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Originally Posted by bw_wolverine
If there are any 109 pilots out there who actually only take 50% fuel or less to simulate not having much fuel over England, then I tip my cap to them.
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Unfortunately, I am afraid a lot, (at the server I play most of the time) I suspect they do, what is the motivation of flying all the way back home when you can be nice and light dogfighting at 500m altitude [historically correct? Noooooo!] and there is no threat to spend the rest of the war at the prison camp in England (or in Canada)? LOL
(@Krupi:
Just do not get the idea to start a new poll !!!!!!!!! 
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For the Bf109-E4 the max allowable take off weight, if I remember well, means around 60% fuel.
Agree with you Wolverine, in any case they definitively do not do it in order "to simulate not having much fuel over England"...
~S~
PS. Tomcat, I have a better score: Yesterday in my E1, I killed the four bombardiers out of the five Blenheims en route to France... my aiming is crap; I was going for the pilots ROFL!
To be a bit more serious though, for the memoirs of German pilots I have read, they used to take a long time to get into position for the attack and got well out of range before initiating the next attack. In real life you only have one life and take no risks. In this game, if my plane gets hit or I die, there is always re-fly...
This explains the "un-historical" success rate.
01-09-2012, 08:11 PM
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