Luftwaffe Level Bombing

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This video will show you how to perform level bombing using either the Ju88 or He111 in the Il-2 Great Battles flight simulator.
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[@cmsgtnelly5013]

Your videos have been extremely informative. Thank you for taking the time to do them.

[@RequiemsACTL]

Thanks Nelly :)

[@TheRaptorXX]

Dammit!!! My Auntie Mar was in there, at the Cash and Carry!!! Ah well, she's a hardy old girl, she'll be okay. Great video Req, makes me even think about having a go!!

[@RequiemsACTL]

Just like most German stuff...made to be easy :-)

[@gvii]

You make the best IL-2 series tutorials, hands down. I really mean that. I've been out of flight sims for a long while, and there's been some real disasters with me getting back into it again, especially trying to use rudder pedals instead of a twist stick. Your videos have helped immensely. So I really appreciate what you do.

[@RequiemsACTL]

Thanks Thor, good to know you're getting back into sims. It takes some time but it will all come back to you

[@Snowy57]

That makes it so clear, thanks Requiem

[@RequiemsACTL]

Good to know it's helped you out Snowy :-)

[@JAubrey11]

I did a testrun just minutes ago, works perfectly! Much easier to keep an eye at your target, especially in lower altitutes like 2k meters. Thanks very much for this great content!

[@RequiemsACTL]

Nice work! Great to know it's worked for you :-)

[@matswane]

Best KZbin subscription I have! As always - great work sir!

[@RequiemsACTL]

Thanks Andrei! 👍

[@dons3006]

Excellent video. Everything was clearly explained and demonstrated in less than 8 minutes.

[@bozo5982]

Needed an update, this was very helpful :)

[@Avetorro]

Thanks for this one too, no wonder I was struggling with manual!

[@atlehunekonge]

Great stuff, good tutorial!

[@RequiemsACTL]

Much appreciated!

[@stefanpoloboc1547]

Thanks a lot!

[@hartmannf4169]

0 dislikes! Good job as always! Keep it up👍💪

[@RequiemsACTL]

It never lasts though but that's ok :-) Thanks Hartman!

[@nightflyer40]

Great vid!

[@trevorgordon5530]

Awesome video!

[@RequiemsACTL]

Thanks Fade!

[@pnzrldr]

For steering, worth noting that the controls are the same as those for steering your plane when the 'auto-level' feature is turned on. I use the my mapped keys for that on the HOTAS rather than the mouse. Thanks - I used your PE2 vid to learn Russian bombers and have had a lot of success, including in TAW, and had really wondered how the auto-function worked on the German aircraft. Saved he hours of experimenting to get it right!

[@RequiemsACTL]

Yeah good point about the steering, if you don't want to click it use the shortcut

[@andrewsnowdon7536]

I greatly appreciate this tip about the "shortcut keys", as I usually find myself scrambling to enter information or adjust information (I'm a new pilot to the game and love the bigger birds) as I approach the target site. I know that I have had a couple misses due to using my mouse to adjust steering while it should've been over the DROP button waiting. Thanks!

[@5.stg1-dlmalloy43]

Back on KZbin and this is the first thing I see? I love it! Also, about time!

[@RequiemsACTL]

I've been doing a lot of background stuff ;-)

[@latein1148]

Wow this helps me do level bombing in the he 111 cause i used manual its alot of work plus since im new to the game would miss target by a few hundred meters or more

[@icterio1]

Very interesting. Does the game supports other bomb loads for the He 111? Like the external SC 2000?

[@RequiemsACTL]

It does support a range of bombloads like those huge bombloads...at that point though it doesn't matter exactly where you hit LOL

[@Jbroker404]

The bomb options for He111 are the SC 50, SC 250, SC 500, SC 1000, SC 1800, and SC 2500.

[@skidzholeshot1316]

great

[@Spartan18a]

Great video. I keep forgetting as I use bombers very rarely....

[@RequiemsACTL]

Yeah I don't get to use them often either. Maybe if there more airstarts for bombers I would probably go for them. It would save spending a long time just to climb up to altitude.

[@DBSTH0R]

With a large bomb load like that, it is better to aim at the front of the target rather than the center like you have done here. Also a good tip is to open the bomb bay doors a bit earlier as they can introduce small drag which slows you down and messes up your aim if you do it just before the bomb release. Excellent video btw.!

[@RequiemsACTL]

I probably would have been better off aiming in front of it rather than the center, but I find it hard to determine the bomb spread so I hedged it a little. It would have avoided that little bit of collateral damage to the house on the other side of the river. If I was using the higher number of 50kg bombs I would definitely lead in front of the target. Fair point about the bomb bay doors too, they could have been opened a little earlier.

[@dntlss]

This bombsight is very strange,i think i just dont get it quit yet, just have to keep practicing,i guess its the auto part i dont understand, once your values are inputted you should be able to see the town,click a button and it will start tracking and make its own corrections and once the town is reached bam!! bombs away, that would be auto to me,lol, making corrections till the last minute would be manual,i think when they designed this they just had to compromise to have the same bombsight on every plane with minor variations. During the war German U boats had a decent onboard computer of sorts that did some calculations, the ones we had (american subs) were bad to the bone, you almost had to only point and shoot after you inputted certain things,anyhow man love your videos,thank you for all the help you give the community.

[@thurbine2411]

Thank you for throw video the hardest thing for me is to get he wins right while doing everything else

[@RequiemsACTL]

Yeah getting the wind right is annoying for sure. Especially if it's all over the place...you need to start doing vector addition/subtraction if that's the case.

[@michabee]

Excellent tutorial, I watch your channel with great interest. Aviation is my passion. I have an important question for you, perhaps your answer will clarify an issue that is interpreted differently by many people. Whether the bombsight altimeter use QNH? We can set the QFE (it's AGL, 0 meters or feets and then we have airfield elevation) or QNE (1013,25hPa - 29,92inHg - 760mmHg in my opinion this setting is only useful for maintaining proper separation, for example, between planes flying in formation) pressure in the cockpit altimeter. When we click default LAlt+A on fly we can refresh QFE to nearest airport preassure. If bombsight altimeter show us AMSL (QNH) to determine the exact relative height difference we need target elevation right? For flat, lowland terrain, the error will be small, and you can use the AGL setting from cocpit alt or is it better to set the height from bombsight alt without subtract the difference in height. Sorry for me english, i hope that you understand what i mean. I send greetings!

[@noodlemochi322]

0 Dislikes. Lets keep it that way :)

[@XGhettotacoX]

Personally I'll stick to manual mode. I'd definitely fatfinger the controls and slide my crosshairs off target lol. Its not like you have smart munitions so you have to sit there in the bombardier station until drop time anyway, at which point i'd rather rely on my own crosshair aiming skills. Nice vid tho, I might try it out next time I'm on TAW

[@RequiemsACTL]

You're missing out by not using auto Taco! Anything to take away the headache is helpful! Once you try it you may not want to go back LOL

[@ColonelAkirNakesh]

Hey there! Sorry I didn't know where else to ask, but I found your wing line bombing video helpful and pretty awesome. I'm really getting into the DCS Bf109 but can't find any level bombing tutorials out there, especially with the new delayed fuzes. Have you flown that in DCS at all?

[@RequiemsACTL]

Look up my video for foolproof luftwaffe bombing for 109 examples

[@ColonelAkirNakesh]

@@RequiemsACTL thanks, I missed it when searching your archives. Appreciated!

[@sebastianbombasti7554]

Are there Shortcuts for the steering-control (left/right)? Ive been searching for it for some time now. Thx for the video. Really excited to try it out :)

[@RequiemsACTL]

Left shift X and Z if I remember right.

[@KhanGirey]

Do you have any pictures what the bombardier's controls really looked like? It would be cool to get a skin or mod that semi replicates the actual look

[@RequiemsACTL]

No I don't. I'm sure someone who watches this video at some point will know and share with us though.

[@pnzrldr]

@@RequiemsACTL Strangely enough, I was told that the older IL-2 Cliffs of Dover has a more accurate depiction of level bombing with a few more variables. It also uses 'clickable' versions of the real bomb sight controls. Here is a link to a tutorial from that series: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHulooRsrM9jb7c Also, I've never played it so not plugging, but CLoD is coming out with an expansion, supported by 1C, that simulates the battles for North Africa called 'Tobruk.' Its in Beta now and due out in a couple months.

[@icannon6611]

I'm assuming this works for all bomb loads?

[@RequiemsACTL]

Yeah pretty much. The bigger the bomb the less accurate you need to be though :-)

[@ethanos1604]

Why is your view direction to the right and it still hits

[@RequiemsACTL]

It's something where the view direction seems to change the second the bombs drop. As long as the view is on the right position until the bombs drop it's fine.

[@penguinth8040]

Hi is this a multiplayer or a campaign??

[@RequiemsACTL]

This was just a mission I made to demonstrate level bombing

[@swiftplus175]

The only thig I don't understand, why is the auto tracking constantly drifting? In the Norden, once you set everything right, tracking will absolutely not drift away from the point chosen... Any clue why the drift in auto no matter what? Is it maybe due to QNH altitude used instead of nearest friendly field QFE (changeable by LAlt-A by the way), assuming relatively flat terrain of course?...

[@RequiemsACTL]

I wouldn't read too much into how these bombsights work. It's a very "gamey" feature

[@geramos109]

The auto mode on this game is just useless. Much better to use manual drop and that way you will be more precise and you can make more than one drop on the target. The only use I find for the Auto mode is to be able to drop when there are some clouds there you can fix the target if you are able to see that between the clouds for a brief moment. When that happens the drop will be not precise so I made some tables for myself taking in mind the corrections depending the angle you are able to fix the target on the sight. That is much better and I manage to drop sometimes like that.

[@Starcos]

Auto mode is not bad, but you have to be really precise with your altitude. And it works backwards - no matter, what you instruments show, if your speed is set correctly, dial your altitude to the point where the auto bombsight stays stationary. You can notice in the video, that his sight moves a bit, and his bombs do fall a little short.

[@geramos109]

@@Starcos depending the distance you fix your auto you need to change your values for the sight to stay fixed. When the sight stays fixed does not mean the bomb will drop on the cross. If i want to use the auto is for fix and forget and that is why I made my tables. I know how much I need to change on the values depending if I fix target on 60° 55° 50° etc.

[@RequiemsACTL]

I understand what you're getting at Geramos. That's a good tip too mentioning about using auto to if the target is obstructed by a cloud and it's very cool you made your own correction tables to use. I'm far from a altitude bombing expert so I like auto for the easiest way which lets me drop all my bombs off in one pass to hit the area. I'm not expecting perfectly guided bombs, but I know that my bombs will generally hit what I'm aiming at.

[@squarehat]

Do the Russians have auto mode?

[@RequiemsACTL]

No

[@hauitsme5678]

DO NOT start this video and expect to hear anything without increasing the volume by at least +50% to even begin hearing what is being said.