PWCG P-38 Lightning Strikes Co-op Campaign

[Crash]

Something a bit odd in the AAR. It said I shot down an 88. I didnt even see one! I shot the port horizontal stabliser off a190. It went into a spin and thats the last I saw of it. I also shot at and hit a 109 that was low and near Sid.

[DD_Fenrir]

I know Dave. Sufficed to say I logged two kills for you; a Fw 190A-8 and a Bf 109G-14 based on the fact that I thought I heard your squad mates confirm both. Where the -88 came from? PWCG making it's own rules it seems! 

[Painless]

Good show 485th !

[wingflyr]

Good show and well done crash, sorry I missed it chaps, I was nursing a broken big toe.

[DD_Arthur]

Have you noticed Crash has quietly become a VR killer?

[BluBear]

Good show chaps, look forward to the next one. RIP Major.

[Crash]

2 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

Have you noticed Crash has quietly become a VR killer?

It wont last. Joe Walsh is ready

 

[BluBear]

Reporting for duty 

[DD_Fenrir]

Noice!

@Painless you have a new recruit joining the 485th; 2nd Lt. David Reginald is now rostered with your squad. 

[Crash]

I will be there

[FoolTrottel]

yes

[Painless]

Rgr that Major Leakage sir 🤭

[wingflyr]

Checking in.

[Sid]

I'm in 👍

[Crash]

Shame about no AAR, better luck next time .

[FoolTrottel]

11 minutes ago, Crash said:

Shame about no AAR, better luck next time .

Wot? Did anything happen? I remember nothing ... 

[DD_Arthur]

2 hours ago, Crash said:

Shame about no AAR, better luck next time .

Oh you’re joking?  I was enjoying being dead.😎

[Jabo]

4 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

Oh you’re joking?  I was enjoying being dead.😎

is the pressure of leading that bad Arthur?

[DD_Arthur]

At least next time I'll have more than fifteen minutes notice and hopefully Fruitbat will have finished mowing his freaking meadow by then.

[Painless]

Is a “freaking meadow” an area of land dedicated to stress relief? 
If so, I want one 🤪

[DD_Arthur]

By request of Blubear;  Jabo cam!

 

[BluBear]

Spectacular! Thanks Arthur and Jabo.

It's all a little hazy, but If I recall, I was climbing up onto a bandit travelling in the opposite direction to this one with a single '38 long to it's six not in firing range. You can tell by my behaviour I am blissfully unaware of you Arthur!

I didn't even see you until the very split second before we collided. Looking at the angles, I suspect you were obscured by the canopy framing for most of the collision course and I was fixated on my target.

Having said that, perhaps I misjudged the angles and what I was actually pursuing was your 190 and all I could see was Jabo's '38 as you were obscured?

Any chance we could see it from my perspective? I'd be interested to see how it differs from my recollection!

[DD_Arthur]

Here you go Chris;

As you can see, we're both in pursuit of different bandits that are going into left hand turners to evade.  I've started firing so I'm blissfully unaware of anything and you are cutting the corner into yours and in another five seconds or so you would have been in firing range too.

C'est la guerre!

  

[BluBear]

Aha, so my initial recollection was mostly correct.

I would conclude then that on my part, a combination of target fixation and you being almost certainly obscured by my canopy frame for the majority of the collision course.
And judging by that last footage, I was certainly hidden under your nose so we were both blissfully unaware of our impending 'amalgamation'.  🥴

Fascinating stuff really! You can only imagine just how difficult it was to achieve accurate combat reporting at the time.

S~ Sir!

[DD_Fenrir]

Fascinating insight chaps. Just a case of damn bad luck. It's amazing considering the sheer volume of sky that two entities, so relatively tiny in comparison to the vastness that surrounds them, can so catastrophically gravitate towards one another, particularly in light of the fact that that you were each chasing different bandits!