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Originally Posted by Sauf
re ammo counter, its on the lower left hand side off your dash, counter's for cannon rounds and lights for all guns when empty. Radiator indicators are on the wing roots, bit difficult to see as they are close to cockpit.
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+1 on the ammo counter. There's two rotating number cards which indicate the amount of rounds in the cannons. There's also a way to see exactly how many rounds you have in the cowl-mounted machine guns, toggle the mouse cursor on and hover it over the ammo counter panel, you will get a pop-up telling you the exact amount of MG rounds left.
Combining these two (the actual instrument read-out and the pop-up) you can be absolutely certain about your ammo supply.
A similar instrument exists in the 110 but it doesn't have the pop-up indicating MG rounds, it's limited to displaying remaining cannon rounds. It's located on the upper right part of the instrument panel, left of the clock-type instruments that indicate the prop pitch position.
The interesting thing with that one is that it doesn't only tell you how many rounds are in the cannons, it will also tell you if the gunner has reloaded a replacement drum (there are three drums of 60 rounds each for the 110, reloaded by the gunner in flight): when ammo runs out you get a red light turning on for each cannon, when the reload is finished the lights turn off and the counter indicates 60 rounds per gun again.
Also, a nice little detail is that the guns don't reload at the same time but in sequence, so you can easily have a loaded and an empty cannon at some points during a mission.
Pretty useful to plan your attacks, for example knowing if you should make that diving pass or wait until your cannons are reloaded.
