Hun 2-Seater Spotted!

[Bullethead 12]

Last night, for the very 1st time ever, I actually saw a Hun 2-seater while flying a Brit scout. Fortunately, I took this screenshot so that this morning, when I'd recovered from my hangover, I could look at it and finally convince myself it hadn't been a drunken halucination

 

I see frequently see Hun 2-seaters when flying a Fee, but never before in a single-seater. This is made me think they must always see me before I see them, and run away immediately, just like the Brit bombers I've flown with. But I must now retract those statements.

 

This guy (and his several buddies) isn't running away. But OTOH, he's rather high up. I get the impression from using TAC constantly that the range setting is spherical, but the TAC itself is 2D. Thus, the bigger the altitude difference between you and the other plane, the closer to the center his dot is when it first appears. I've seen more-or-less co-alt planes appear out near the 8-mile edge. As you can see here, this guy is half-way in towards the center when he 1st appeared, and he looks to be way up there, certainly far above me. Maybe that's why he didn't run away immediately.

 

Still, there has to be some sort of explanation for why my Fee pilots meet them a lot and my scout pilots never until last night. The vast bulk of my flying time in OFF, over dozens of careers in Pups and Fees, has been in the March-April 1917 timeframe over the Arras/Ypres area. I assume the OOBs in that area are the same regardless of which squadron you fly for, so you'd think the odds of meeting a Hun 2-seater would be the same for everybody.

[Rick Rawlings 139]

Hey Bullethead,

 

I see two-seaters quite frequently, maybe 30% of the time. I usually fly in RFC 40 squadron in March and April of 1917, but am currently in the midst of a long run in February 1917 that started in November of 1916 with RNAS #8. I have even managed to shoot down about 5 or so with my current pilot. I do not think that they are as frequent as they should be, but I definitely see them. It may have to do with the time period and the frequency of the versions that are modeled in the game.

[Interlocutor 0]

When I flew my summer 1916 campaigns with my Storks pilot(s) using TAC, I used to see two-seaters on about a quarter to a third of my missions. Never saw them again, though, once I stopped using TAC.

[Siggi 10]

I'm assuming you chaps mean 2-seaters on their own? I can't recall seeing any alone, but I frequently encounter them in pairs or more, in various careers in various years.

[Olham 164]

The range of the TAC is like a ball around your plane as the center.

When your TAC range is set on less than 8 miles, high flying two-seaters will not appear, or only,

when they enter the very pole of that ball, only to leave it soon again. So, unless you fly very high

yourself, you may not even spot them per TAC.

[Canvas Wings 1]

I see 2-seaters about 25% of the time as well- in almost any time/locale I fly.

Well, except for one of my pilots who flys out of Flanders in Jan/15 - he just past his 17 hour and for some reason has never seen a single enemy plane of any type. Hence his longevity.

Otherwise, -perhaps one sortie in four, or a little less. Always in flights of three or more, sometimes with escort. This is with TAC on, of course.

[Interlocutor 0]

I'm assuming you chaps mean 2-seaters on their own? I can't recall seeing any alone, but I frequently encounter them in pairs or more, in various careers in various years.

 

Not alone, I always saw them in threes, as I recall.