Barton

Thanks for the application! Our fearless leader should be in contact with you shortly!

I'll probably pick this one up. They still use F5s for opfor at Top Gun

Paint me like one of your french operatives...

^ this is the truth

Bomber and recon is very risky especially without a good escort or tail gunner. Even with these an unlucky flak burst can undo anyone. But, still, great reward is available to a bomber pilot with the right targets. One bomber pilot took home the Knight's Cross with Swords with a single amazing sortie in which they killed 10 ground targets. And that was one SORTIE. It is worth noting that this was awarded posthumously as that pilot was taken out by flak trying to return over the front lines too low, but the total kill streak was 15. Just one good run on a train away from the Blue Max. I will say it is much easier for ground attack pilots to get awards after the altering of the kill requirements for victory awards as they were needed. But killing 20 of anything isn't a cakewalk. We do need to supply our bomber pilots with better escort, but the way the flak is you can do everything right and still die. I do hope to see a bomber pilot with the Blue Max.

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Congrats!

Congrats to all!

Thanks everyone! Hopefully I can keep it going this Saturday. Been practicing my gunnery in the N28

That would be pretty cool. Have to see what I can do.

I edited out some of the bits of chat that may have been less than professional about some pilots. I've always left pilot names in in all of my videos. It's not about shaming one pilot or another or anything, and I'll be damned sure to display the name of whoever ends the streak I'm on.

Tracking a bandit is a hard thing to do a lot of the time. You have to build a 3d model of what's going on in your head and a lot of times you have to predict where they're going to go. I still lose a lot of planes especially when they're low or distant, and especially both. Thanks for the kind words, guys. Couldn't have done it without Britchot and Luft calling out bandits. And I do need to work on AC recognition. Watching my video after the fact when I was putting it together I facepalmed a couple times lol. That first fight had me stressed out big time.

Jeebus. LOL totally got that one wrong. Annotated.

Episode 2: Episode 3:

Here's a quick video going over the most basic questions asked by every nub in multiplayer

ThanKs and congrats to the other awardees! My first ever wound badge!

I now have all of them but the russian heavy

Sweet! Thanks!

I might have to pick up my heavies after getting a taste of level bombing in the DFW

Excellent! Good job!

This would be nice to have a person on GCI but I couldn't watch the whole video because I kept wanting to scream at the pilot through my screen. Even with the GCI this guy has marginal SA. Watching him intercept that A-10 was painful.

It was good to fly with you the other day! We have many vets in the squadron (myself included) and always happy to see another!

Thanks for the application, Vladimus. Klaiber should be in contact with you soon!

Thanks guys! The scissors is hands down my favorite maneuver. I have used it to turn the tables many times mostly with 109s but even with the Zeke when I was flying Axis in the Pacific Theater in IL-2 1946. Looking for the next fight that I can turn into Ep. 3

It's been far longer than I'd hoped or anticipated since making the first episode (for IL-2 1946) but HotLead's mini series got me motivated again and I got a really good fight to break down.