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[SAS~Storebror]

How not to hunt tanks in an IL-2 part 2. We're getting closer. On the left you can see SAS~Skylla banking away from his attack run (click for full size image):



Cheers!
Mike

[SAS~Storebror]

How not to hunt tanks in an IL-2 part 3. Pulling out of the dive (click for full size image):



Note the small gap between the windshield frame and the pilot's sliding canopy.
This is one of the really nice features in IL-2 Great Battles Series: Gravity on all parts.
In this particular case, the canopy was open all the time, but when I dove down the canopy slid forward, if only just before the position where the handle would have locked it, so pulling out of the dive makes it slide open again.
Really nice detail!

Cheers!
Mike

[SAS~Storebror]

How not to hunt tanks in an IL-2 part 4. Oupsie (click for full size image):



Note the crack in the right wing and the fully deflected aileron (it wasn't me).

Cheers!
Mike

[SAS~Storebror]

How not to hunt tanks in an IL-2 part 5. Disappearing into the bushes (click for full size image):



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Mike

[SAS~Storebror]

How not to hunt tanks in an IL-2 part 6. Who put those trees there, have they been here before? (click for full size image):





Cheers!
Mike

[gerula]

Feel your pain Mike, did the same thing , twice, like a clown......beautiful screen shots, very educational

[LuseKofte]

Il 2 is excellent when you flown it 567 hours you stop doing that half the time, the rest I am afraid will end in a tree

[SAS~Storebror]

I think it's funny. I know not to do it, from many attempts where it happened before. I know that IL-2 needs some time to stabilize on the dive and I know that while it pulls out quite nicely, it's better to leave enough room to stay reasonable gentle on the stick. Yet then there's the tempting situation where, when you'd normally just pull out, the target is perfectly aligned in your gunsight, and then instead of goind around for another run, you take that extra split-seconds to place your shot and then... well then you get the screenshot series depicted here

How not to hunt tanks in an IL-2 part 7. Down like a clown (click for full size image):





Cheers!
Mike

[SAS~Storebror]

How not to hunt tanks in an IL-2 part 8 (final part). The aftermath (click for full size image):





Cheers!
Mike

[SAS~Storebror]

An ugly fat Henschel as intermezzo (click for full size image).
Flies like a filled bathtub, absolutely doesn't compare to an IL-2. It scares me to think of the "A" version of that plane, which just had 930 HP instead of the 1400 HP of this B-2 version.



Cheers!
Mike

[SAS~Storebror]

Next series. How not to take off with an Fw 190 part 1. The Focke is no Jump Jet and a bunker is no Ski Jump(click for full size image):





At my defence I have to say: That wasn't me

Cheers!
Mike

[SAS~Storebror]

How not to take off with an Fw 190 part 2. Doing the Focke dance (click for full size image):



Cheers!
Mike