Still Soooo Porked

[tools4fools]

Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber

Try adding incendiary rounds...

My ammo belts are 4 guns nothing but De Wilde. 4 guns AP and tracer.
Attacks from sides, above, underneath, tried even dead 6 for a change, normally not my style. I never shoot further away than about 170-180 and closing in to under 100. Convergence at 150.

As said a good precise attack needs less than 100 hits to down that He 111. Often I need 150-250, but that is due to rather less than perfect shooting and is the combined hits of 3 passes or so.
Rarely I need 400-500 hits. Rarely.


While I agree and am happy that there isn't fires all over the place it still strikes me a bit odd that in approx 40-50 test attacks on a Heinkel 111 drone I was never able to start a single little fire.
Kabooms, yes, pilot kills yes, thin white stream (coolant, fuel), think black stream (engine oil), loads of holes in the wing areas, ailerons kaputt, elevators shot away, etc, etc.
But never a single little fire.

Now if the tanks are hard to set on fire that's fine with me. But never?
Next would be the engine. Never. No engine fires either?
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[tools4fools]

OK, was able to flame quite a few Heinels and Stukas with the G50. Then used the 109 and flamed some Stuka using only the nose MG's.

Now differences with Hurricane:

If Hurricane hits the vulnerable spot (fuel tanks for example) it does not burn - it does kaboom immediately; because you hit it with 4 / 8 MG's at once (instead of two of 109 or G50).
It's more difficult to hit vulnerable spot with Hurricane; ideal distance seems 180/170m in terms of convergence, if you go any closer the guns do not converge at one single spot anymore.
However at 180m aiming and hitting vulnerable spot is difficult as you are still far away - and if you are inside 150m difficult to hit a particular spot as the guns will hit left and right of where you aim.

De Wilde and Incendary work fine, try it on a Wellington, the fabric starts to burn easily all over the plane.

Maybe another odd thing is that you can easily get thin white 'smoke' coming out of the wings - fuel leak I would say. But if you clobber than wing heavily with De Wilde and Incendary afterwards this seems not to result in fires.
Those wingtanks were not really small targets either:
http://www.germanmilitaryhistory.com...64564564_1.jpg
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[gimpy117]

I've been on fire In my G.50. Just throwing it out there.