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I know exactly what you mean, but I think you're just discovering the challenges that ww1 pilots had with the very primitive technology available to them. For bombing they had very limited sights, and in smaller aircraft they typically relied on the mark 1 eyeball for aiming, possibly with a simple iron sight, or nail sticking out of the side of the fuselage. In practice I find the best technique is what I would describe as shallow dive bombing, where you dive at the target at a roughly 45 degree angle, releasing the bomb(s) just short of the target at the same time you start to pull out of the dive. Using this technique allows you to use the gunsight to aim the bombs, and is far superior to level bombing which is only really suitable for large area targets where accuracy doesn't matter as much. At some point I want to add a tutorial to help teach this as it's something that requires a bit of history knowledge.

The rockets used during the ware were also notoriously inaccurate, and were generally fired on mass. From my research the pilots appeared to have had two switches in the cockpit, one for each side which would fire all rockets on the relevant side with a small delay between rockets. I suspect that in practice they fired all at once to avoid the negative impacts on handling that would have existed if they left the rockets on one wing. That all said this is a game and so I've added an option to fire the rockets in pairs which you can find at the bottom of the preferences screen.

A Zeppelin model is under construction and there will be missions to attack them in the air, and on the ground. I'm also looking to add missions where you launch from a carrier and attack the Zeppelin yards as this really did happen, although I don't think any of the strike group returned. If you want to keep up to date with the latest progress then you can join the discord server here https://discord.gg/UXnD7Q4UJ4 where I post daily updates.

Ok. I was thinking about the Airfield mission, where you have to K.O all ground aircraft. The AA/HMG fire makes it only for the brave. I also like shooting other targets, like the trucks, the train engine, etc. Also, correct me if you please, but this seems like a sim-lite.

Ah okay, yeah the trick there is that you can usually out range the soldiers manning the MG's on the ground, and they have blind spots that you can exploit. If you can take out one head on, then you can usually work your way through the rest by attacking them from behind. There's a new mission coming out in a demo update this week where you can fly around attacking targets of opportunity, that only ends when you return to your airfield. There's also missions under development that specifically target convoys of trucks and trains.

Yes, sim-lite is probably a good description of the game, it's possible to play it like an arcade game if that's what you enjoy, but it's also possible to play it more like a simulator if that's what you're looking for.

I also think, before the 'rockets and bombs' update, it was a lot more... slower and more stable.

Also, any recommendations on how to land??? Speeds? brakes?

By slower and more stable, I'm assuming you mean the aircraft handling? The next update makes further changes to the handling so it might be a good idea to wait for that version to come out, and then let me know how you find it. The landing is probably the same as the airfields will be 5 times the size, and it'll be quite a bit different compared to the current build. That said, for the build you'll be playing now you almost need to glide down the last 50 meters (~50 yards), and try to touch down near the beginning of the airstrip so that you have enough time to stop. The other thing is to make sure you flair just before touch down, i.e. level the nose so there's very little vertical drop, otherwise the undercarriage will collapse on you. One of the complaints about the current airfields is that they're just too short, and they're like trying to land on an aircraft carrier, but without the arrester hook. It should be much easier in the new build.

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Speaking of aircraft carriers and zeppelins, the raid did happen!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tondern_raid

Yes this is the raid that I want to replicate.

I think that you could make a 'Special Missions'/'Challenge' category. These are basically real, somewhat obscure achievements done by aircraft in World War 1. You unlock them by progressing the date. Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Prieur_rocket

Yeah there's some stuff in the early design stage at the moment around procedural missions, campaigns, etc. I'm also thinking that the short missions might change as the date progresses, i.e. fly the big battle in 1915 and you'll be up against early war fighters, but fly it again in 1918 and you'll be facing late war fighters. I'd probably have an override too so that you could choose the date that you want to fly a mission, up to your current date, this way you could go back and fly against older aircraft. You should check out the discord server, I do almost daily updates and discuss ideas: https://discord.gg/UXnD7Q4UJ4

Sorry, I would join Discord except there is some kind of weird technical issue saying that my Email address is already taken.