Bombers, twin-engined and multi-crewed aircraft: Issues and suggestions.

[rga]

Type: Suggestion


Aircraft: every bombers


Description: currently, players flying bomber have to do the workload of at least two people: pilot and navigator, in certain situations bombadier, gunners, spotters and flight engineer as well. IRL, multi-crew bombers enjoyed the team work of the whole crew.


Tested: N/A


Workarounds: Simulating the working environment inside the bomber by adding certain commands for the crew. For example:
- Bombadier: turning on/off the running commentary function, which automatically activates within 10km from the target (visual range). Bombardier will constantly tell the skipper to steer left or right, or keep height and airspeed when these two vary too much. Also bombadier will comfirm the effect of impacts.
- Navigator: commands to inform pilot of 1. current position, 2. direction to the next waypoint, 3. time to the next waypoint, 4. maximal flying time left
- Gunner: commands to scan the sky or the ground. Also commands to track the movement of the closest contact (like: fighter, unidentified, 6 o'clock, closing). All commands should be able to be given to individual gunner.

All information should not be always correct. For example, gunner can lose contact of enemy fighter hiding under the fuselage, or navigator can make wrong calculations.

Additional Information: Modders already did this in IL-2