The pilot is simply saying that if you sit behind a group of bombers like that you wouldn't last 5 seconds. When faced with a group you flew through them to break them up. Some would turn around and leg it, others would carry on. The force would then be weakened and the ones that were alone picked off.
If possible you would aim for the gunners. Then you would take the engines out. Sometimes the gunners would be taken out on the first pass leaving the plane undefended. Other times they were too busy trying to get themselves out of the plane to fire back. Attacks like this would last a matter of seconds because there would only be a few seconds worth of ammo and sitting still taking aim made you an easy target for a 109 that might sneak in behind.
These are well documented in many autobiographies and I have been reading them for over 30 years. It doesn't matter how good the sim is you will never replicate real world situations exactly by simply lumping AI in categories of Rookie, Veteran etc etc.
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11-07-2010, 08:10 PM
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