With the recent fixes and upgrades, the P-51D looks stunning and flies great in the DCS World skies.
I have plenty of un-played content in the form of campaigns and one of those has the P-51 as the main airframe. One of my non-complete items of the P-51 pilot syllabus is bombing, which is needed in the P-51D Operation Charnwood Campaign (Bunyap Campaigns).
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The color palette in the P-51's cockpit has been fixed and gone are now the unnerving bright reds, which gave way to more hushed and lifelike tones. |
The P-51D is not a dive-bomber, not even a bomber
per se. But I gave up diving on it a while back and I have been entertaining the possibility of doing the so-called "glide bombing" runs, which were definitively a P-47 thing.
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With two bombs under my wings, I start a shallow dive in my P-51D. Watch for the airspeed not to exceed 300 mph. |
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The proper angle of the "dive" is around 30 degrees. |
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Line sight the pipper on the target, a bridge in this case. |
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Then apply some lead by raising the nose. |
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Release! |
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The angle ended up too shallow. In real life, these two beauties may have ricocheted on the ground. |
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But this was good enough, although not exactly precision bombing. |
Now, onto doing this in the presence of German AAA!
Cheers,
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