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Down goes the second Fortress.
The good news is that return fire knocks down one of the attackers. The remaining five B-17s plough on. My gunners cannot make verbal reports this being CFS3, so I turn on the TAC to keep track of the 109.
Here he comes again!
My own bomber's gunners haven't fired a round so I decide to see if I can do any better. The two problems with this are that it's hard to be at the right guns at the right time (as you have to cycle through them) and that when I leave the cockpit, the pilots put us into a dive.
For a while, the 109 orbits well above us, so high I can't elevate the top turret's .50 cals enough. I get off a few rounds when he goes low, then try to pick him up again from the ball turret. it's all a bit disorienting.
Eventually we descend below the cloud base and the 109 seems to lose interest. Perhaps you're supposed to engage an autopilot before leaving the cockpit, I've forgotten. This shouldn't really have happened!
Anyway, I get back into the cockpit and after levelling off, quit the mission at that point, rather than warp back to Bassingbourn and land. Thanks to sim-outhouser NSS, I had applied the FJ Belle-Firepower compatibility update, but I installed Firepower second, so perhaps I need to re-install the update to get the target re-appearing, I dunno - it correctly enabled both JF and FP Belles to co-exist, JF's Bassingbourn to work and both sets of Belle missions are now there. Or maybe I just got lost! Anyway I'll need a bit more practice before venturing out again in the Belle, of either brand!
The good news is that return fire knocks down one of the attackers. The remaining five B-17s plough on. My gunners cannot make verbal reports this being CFS3, so I turn on the TAC to keep track of the 109.
Here he comes again!
My own bomber's gunners haven't fired a round so I decide to see if I can do any better. The two problems with this are that it's hard to be at the right guns at the right time (as you have to cycle through them) and that when I leave the cockpit, the pilots put us into a dive.
For a while, the 109 orbits well above us, so high I can't elevate the top turret's .50 cals enough. I get off a few rounds when he goes low, then try to pick him up again from the ball turret. it's all a bit disorienting.
Eventually we descend below the cloud base and the 109 seems to lose interest. Perhaps you're supposed to engage an autopilot before leaving the cockpit, I've forgotten. This shouldn't really have happened!
Anyway, I get back into the cockpit and after levelling off, quit the mission at that point, rather than warp back to Bassingbourn and land. Thanks to sim-outhouser NSS, I had applied the FJ Belle-Firepower compatibility update, but I installed Firepower second, so perhaps I need to re-install the update to get the target re-appearing, I dunno - it correctly enabled both JF and FP Belles to co-exist, JF's Bassingbourn to work and both sets of Belle missions are now there. Or maybe I just got lost! Anyway I'll need a bit more practice before venturing out again in the Belle, of either brand!
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Dogfight doubles, oh the memories!
