I got some of my loadouts corrupted after joining a DF server (maybe they were overwritten by the ones used in the server's mission) so i had to go back and redo them.
The confusing part is that there's 3 separate screens and each one has a save function. The first one is actually about getting the guns on your plane.
As a side note yes, you can fly completely unarmed with the guns removed and this is reflected in the aircraft weight. As to why it's possible, i'm thinking it will be useful in the future for multi-role aircraft. Instead of each flyable variant having its own slot, we would be able to change a single aircraft to different configurations. So for example, you could swap the glass nose for a battery of 20mm and .303 guns or 20mm and radar to change your mosquito from a bomber to a fighter or night-fighter version respectively, same for the Ju88 and so on.
What happened to me was that after flying online my 110 didn't even have any guns installed. The default belt settings however were still visible in the options menu so i went into the loadout screen, added the guns and saved it again as the default profile.
The important part here is to press "ok", not "back", after you save it: even though you pressed save, if you click on the "back" button it will discard all the changes and will not save the loadout.
I didn't mess around with belt loadous and convergence, but i've managed to load bombs to the twin-engined aircraft in a similar manner.
What i don't know is how these configs are handled in the grand scale of things. If we knew about this it would be easy to figure it all out.
1) Are they treated as three separate loadouts that i have to save individually (guns, ammo and bombs) or does the save function in each screen store the information from the other two screens as well? For example, if i modify my bomb load and press save, does it also save my belt loadout from the previous menu?
2) If they are treated individually, how do we select separate loadouts for guns, ammo and bombs when the loadout selection screen in the QMB only gives us a single option? Do we have to name them with identical names so that they fall under the same "profile"?
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