While transiting to my patrol area NE of Port of Spain, I expected the possible appearance of aircraft based in Bridgeport. Had flack manned and proceeded on low TC.
The weather was CAFB ( Clear as a bell
), sea calm.
The silly screen telling me aircraft sighted popped up forcing me to click PD then C. For the few seconds I was on the bridge, machinegun bullets were already stitching my boat.
A couple of bombs exploded in the vicinity but no damage was done --panic over.
An hour later, I'm on the bridge at TC-1.
"Fluzeug gesichted!"
I ordered crash dive and flipped to the next ship view. A PBY Catalina was on top of my sumbie and firing its forward machine guns. This time we took damage from bombs and we had a bit of a time dealing with all the leaks.
Here are my questions to the GWX modders:
1.) Are my lookouts blind to PBYs?
2.) How come a notoriously slow airplane (climbs at 90, cruises at 90, glides at 90 ((actually they cruised at 110 kts)) gets to me faster than a Hurricane doing well over 200 kts?
3.) Are different speeds factored in GWX aircraft?
I'll admit, maybe crafty AI played a role by diving out of the sun.
Your comments will be appreciated (no, I wasn't lounging on a deck chair, enjoying the weather, and slurping pina coladas)