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[ANDYTOTHED]

this evening, I got as close to real night-fighting as I'm probably ever going to get.
I was using cy6's command and control, the team Daedalus bf-110 leak and  cy6 and aheshouse happy valley map
anyway I caught the Lancaster on the radar after being directed, for the best part of 10 mins, towards a decoy.
As I approached I couldn't see the lancs so I restarted my approach, the diagram on the Lichtenstein radar posted by Melissa was very helpful here,  the radar caught site of them to my right and I followed it until I could no longer see the blip.
than, as is night fighting, 3 of them just seem to materialize out of the darkness, just like ghosts.
I followed them for a bit slowly gaining altitude so I was level and then unload my double 20 into a lancs bottom.
that is my story, feel free to share your own. 

[RGA]

At moonless night I must throttle back as much as 50% when gaining on target, since if I'm flying too fast, it's good chance that I will overshoot him without even making visual contact. Attack from above is hardly possible, since you cannot see the target at all. For the sake of realism, AI bombers should have empty loadout, otherwise stealth appoarch is next to impossible. Searchlights make life for night fighter pilot much easier, no wonder the Luftwaffe used the "helle Nacht" tactic with success during the war. In full moon night, things get much better. I can detect the bomber from 1km away, the rest is just a piece of cake.

[Wildchild]

Its alot easier when you can see the exhaust flames

[razor1uk]

True, unless they have dampened exhausts that work.
  I have yet to leave stock 4101 so far, getting training in on flying with G damage and newer full aircraft realism, it is a pity the standard missions haven't been given 4101 treatment with nav aids, and maybe some more evening/night missions...

[ANDYTOTHED]

Its alot easier when you can see the exhaust flames

I have never seen the exhaust flames,is there a mod for it?
I don't usually throttle back unless I'm flying the standard BF110g4 with shrage musik (just so I have more time to pepper him)

[stranger]

Its alot easier when you can see the exhaust flames

I have never seen the exhaust flames,is there a mod for it?
I don't usually throttle back unless I'm flying the standard BF110g4 with shrage musik (just so I have more time to pepper him)

quoted. i'd like to know if this has been addressed in UP3 or, if not, if it will. espc. lancaster. i mean, ingame strutter, fumes, flames...bit as CloD

[Wildchild]

The reason i said it was easier is because its true, although not in IL-2. In the Dogfights episode "Flying Tigers", they had 2 P-40's that were able to find betty bombers by looking for there exahust flame and useing the moon as a backdrop

[ANDYTOTHED]

I saw that episode!

[Wildchild]

 

[ANDYTOTHED]

I saw the proper night fighter episode as well, and I have always wondered why they didn't include any Germans.

[melissa]

On the size of a mark of an air target on radar screens, it is possible to define the approximate size of the purpose and its class (heavie bomber, twins, 1 motor fighter). But nevertheless I want to pay attention, single-motor fighters can be marked a radar at range no more 1500-2000m, to that-that because of their small sizes the weak impulse comes back. Excuse my English

[Killer Ghost]

Its alot easier when you can see the exhaust flames

I have never seen the exhaust flames,is there a mod for it?
I don't usually throttle back unless I'm flying the standard BF110g4 with shrage musik (just so I have more time to pepper him)

there is one that gives the flames to the spitfire and p-51