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Originally Posted by Stublerone
@theOden: Up to my knowledge, they had no time to circle an airfield. They had tasks to do and the flight time of a bf109 after reaching great britain was not very long to do such things. Perhaps on their way, they could take a snapshot under some circumstances, but depending on their tasks, it wouldn't be possible very often.
A bf109 in game has more flight time, than in real war, as far as I know (because the map is also smaller scaled).
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The map is actually 1:1 scale. The reason 109s can loiter longer in the sim is that they don't have to burn half their fuel zig-zagging over some bombers that are forming up deep in France at 200 km/h: we don't have Goering threatening us with execution when we fly (

) and since not many people fly bombers yet, there is nothing for 109 pilots to escort.
If anyone wants 109s to be constrained by something, one should go to the bugtracker and vote for fixing the Lofte bombsights and Ju88 gyrocompass. Then the bomber pilots will be asking for escort and the 109s will not be forced to bounce airfields to find action
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Originally Posted by von Brühl
German guncam footage is rare as a rule, but that's not saying the LW didn't get to shoot during WWII. Most of the film was lost/destroyed. However, I believe you are on the right track, the 109s did not as a rule spend time strafing airfields, they were kept busy at height.
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I recall reading somewhere that the bulk of Luftwaffe's celluloid containing gun camera footage was hidden at the basement of a church in Dresden. When the city was firebombed near the end of the war, the rise in atmospheric temperature got so much that the celluloid (which is flammable) combusted and blew the church up. The church has since been rebuilt, but the gun camera footage is gone.