![]() ![]() Once i started doing this routinely, my accuracy automatically improved as well, no matter what i was flying. SBD units were also instrumental in winning the fight for Guadalcanal. During the battle, a two-man Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber crew consisting of pilot Ensign Norman Vandivier and S1 (Radioman) Lee Keaney from the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier are in the first wave of dive bombers attacking and sinking a Japanese carrier. Navy and Marine SBD squadrons were credited with sinking Japanese carriers in the Battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal. It sank more Japanese shipping than any other Allied bomber. This naturally forces the pilot to hold that aim longer for effective bullet hits before pulling out. The SBD Dauntless was the most effective U.S. I sort of picked this up by accident some years ago after reading more about how WW2 pilots used their guns to aim in DB. but if you hold the AOA longer as if doing pinpoint strafing, it ensures a higher accuracy rate. If you pull out too fast, the ordnance follows your pull just enough to land a bit long of the target. The ordnance weight algorithm is not perfect, so the bombs follow the flight angle of your plane a second or two longer after release than in the RW before gravitational weight kicks in and affects the trajectory. Although nicknamed Slow But Deadly by its pilots, the SBD was a precise dive bomber which used special perforated dive brakes to make slower. It was responsible for more enemy ships sunk in the first half of the war than any other aircraft or ship in the fleet. The Douglas SBD Dauntless was one of the best American Naval aircraft in the earlier years of the War in the Pacific, before more advantaged aircraft were built like the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver. I had to learn in CFS2 to aim as in a near vertical strafing attack and hold that same angle of attack for a minimum two seconds after release is what works best, no matter what mount i fly. The SBD Dauntless was the Navy’s most effective dive bomber of World War II. The Dauntless was a legendary dive bomber that, in one day, contributed to one of the biggest turning points of the war. ![]() In the real world this may work with a high accuracy rate (with good aim), but in a simulator things are different. The natural temptation in DB is to pull the stick back immediately after release.
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