OK, WTF. I can understand being a n00b at piloting - I was once a n00b as well. Most games usually have a few extra planes to go around, the n00bs should be able to fly too. Even though they crash and generally suck, they'll learn and get better. But WTF? Why. In. Holy. Dear. Sweet. Bejeesus. Would you take a fucking B-17 (with no gunners!) when you don't know how to fucking fly!? I was playing Market Garden and I was doing some CAP in my Mustang when I see this tard taking off in a B-17 by himself. By some miraculous act of luck, it didn't explode as he finally gained some altitude and barely cleared the hill in front of him. Then he managed to pull a weird 70-degree right bank/partial-loop type dealie, flying lower than I usually fly with a fighter (

). By this time, the B-17 was nearly out of control and flying towards the city anyways, so I went back to my business. A few seconds later, I see him flying straight and level by the church! ...for a couple seconds. He then managed to lose control and list the bird back and forth up to 40 degrees each time, until he finally crashed into a hill. Goddamn.
Now that I'm done with the n00bs...
What the fuck people? Bombers are not your fucking toy airplanes. You may be a decent fighter pilot, but (surprise!) BOMBERS ARE NOT FIGHTERS. I am fucking sick of seeing people prance about in B-17s as if they were BF109s! Making 70-degree banks 10 full feet over the roofs of the city buildings is not how you fly a fucking bomber. And these people miraculously survive, too. Until they stall from trying to get a bomber to perform like their precious fighters. God-fucking-damn. You know what I do? That actually fucking works? FLY ABOVE THE FUCKING CLOUDS AND BOMB THE ENEMY USING THE FUCKING MAP. The advantages of this method are as follows:
1) It shows YOU ARE NOT A FUCKING RETARD
2) You avoid extremely lethal flak and machinegun fire
3) Harder for fighters to find you
4) You don't have to maneuver at all, thus not stalling, thus maintaining altitude, thus not crashing into a hill.
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Anyone else have problems with BF1942 idiots?