It's an Il-2, not an IL-2. It's the first syllable of constructor Sergej Iljuschin's family name. It's *not* an abbreviation, Americans! Same goes for almost every other Russian plane, like the Su, the MiG (which is also not an MIG - and US folks got it, I still wonder how and why), An, Ka etc. pp. The clue is already in the spelling: a capital followed by a lowercase! I remember that you, as a kinda pleasant exception across the big pond, had got it right already in older videos. The only US-American I knew so far. And now you're calling her an IL as well? What happened? What a shame! Thumb down for this unnerving nuisance and incivility of US people of not only constantly raping foreign people's personal names but also Russian plane type designations by mispronouncing them just as they see fit.

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Andy, this is an example of the principle of primacy in my case. As you know I am aware of how it's pronounced, but I make mistakes just like anyone else. It's not intentional on my part. I'll do my best to avoid it in future videos, so thanks for pointing it out. By the way...I may live in the USA, but I'm a proud Australian :-)

@CapFreddy

5 жыл бұрын

It’s strange how even the game writes IL-2. I do it cause it differentiates L from i. And seems that everyone else on internet does it, including the IL-2 game producers...

@CapFreddy

5 жыл бұрын

Actually i was searching i did not find one reference other then IL-2...

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

I think it's simply because looking at all the kinds of box art the "STURMOVIK" after it is usually all capatilised as well. The capatlised L does make it easier to distinguish though, so it was probably a marketing thing going back to 1946.

@Bellator151

5 жыл бұрын

Two good reasons to keep pronouncing it IL-2 even though some of us know that's not the 'authentic', i.e. original Russian way: 1. if you say it like 'ill', very few people even in the aviation community will know what you're talking about (and communication is kind of the point of language); 2. the 'ill' pronunciation would tend to correspond to a lower-case presentation, which in most mainstream fonts renders the capital 'i' and the lower-case 'l' indistinguishable from an uppercase roman numeral 'II', thus making it impossible for a reader (at least, one unfamiliar with the context) to recognise (let alone pronounce) the intended syllable. So no, Andy, this is not an example of linguistic aggression against the proud heritage of Russian aviation design (otherwise, why do we pronounce all the other examples- Su, MiG etc- you gave correctly??) but simply a pragmatic deviation from the 'correct' pronunciation so as to avoid confusion; and your anger is excessive, since there are plenty of examples where non-native speakers of English compromise on 'correct' pronunciation of English words for the sake of maintaining clarity.

Single best subscription I have on KZread

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for being a subscriber CheckSix! It's just really great to see how these videos help people out

@typeonewombat

5 жыл бұрын

100% agree Munaz, your videos have helped me immensely in my simming career.

I have learned more about combat maneuvers and procedures from your channel then the entirety of my flight sim experiences(which goes back to the late 80's). Your videos are the best tutorials I have ever had. Great work.

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew, I really appreciate that! I'll keep doing what I'm doing for you all :-)

Love these ground attack tutorials. Helps a ground pounder out a ton

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

I enjoy making these and since I've neglected the ground attack side a bit it's fun to cover some different aspects

+RequiemBoS *Thanks for an illustration of level bombing with iron cannon sights.* The Iljushin-2 attack aircraft originally shipped with the fixed sights shown this vid, a robust solution for dive bombing and gunnery at a time when pursuit planes such as the Central Engineering Bureau I-16-24, Jakovljov-1, and Lavochkin-Gobrunov-Gudkov-1 had more need of reflector gunsights.

thanks! this is great in WThunder sim as well! :D much appreciated, i always pondered why the front screen is so cluttered, now it makes sense! easy low tech precise estimation from the MK1 eyeball! can work even when your front window is scratched! it only fails when you lost the top cover of the engine, but even then you can do it from feels! :D oh the russians...i love low-tech solutions

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Yep it will definitely work in WarThunder. I'd say that pretty much every video I have in my channel will work for WT honestly :-) Unless it's airplane specific stuff such as this, I present all my videos in a way so you can apply it no matter what simulator you use.

I always wondered what they were for.Cheers great vid.

Just started the Red Dragon campaign. This video comes right no time for me to learn hot to ground attack properly :D

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Nice, how do you like it? I haven't looked at it yet. Keep an eye out as soon I'll have the videos covering rocket attacks and strafing you will find useful as well!

@Vitasalato

5 жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL I'm just at the second mission so can't really judge, but so far been pretty nice and the writing is good. Yes can't wait for those! :)

Great info since this is one of the aircraft I love to fly. I'm already pretty accurate with bombs on reasonable sized targets, but the info on the bomblet drop is real handy. Thanks, great video.

I didn't even know those lines were there, lol, i guess "necessity is the mother of invention", i always just guessed at it and to be honest had pretty good luck but now knowing this i think my bombing will definitely improve, thank you.

@RequiemsACTL

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's definitely an ingenious, low tech solution that cannot fail unless your cockpit windscreen gets blown out lol

Is awesome how optimised was this gunsights. Never knew this before. Very educative videos on your channel!

I love your videos! They are very helpfull.😃✈✈✈

Thank you! I just started messing around with this IL-2 and was curious about those lines. I had a feeling they were for bombing, but had no idea on how to use them.

Requiem, these series of videos are absolutely FANTASTIC!!! I made an immediate improvement with the Jug, and now I’m sure I’ll do the same with the Sturmovik. I’ve shared them all with my squad, and I’m going to beg you to make a series with the Fw190 A-8 variant/weapons. You’re the man, great job!!

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Ronald, I appreciate that you shared them with your friends. Usually people don't really know about what I make unless someone shares it with them as I don't tend to post much outside of the IL-2 forum.

I'm getting so excited about buying il-2 bos now, this is amazing detail precision! 1 year ago , when i started war thunder , i thought that wt was the ultimate simulator !! (I was so stupid)

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

You won't regret it, the IL-2 STURMOVIK series is a lot more enjoyable than WT. At least for me anyway.

Thanks a lot for this video, i was looking for it.

I am terribly late to these tutorials, but they are either teaching me a great deal or reminding me not to just trust my instincts from my 20 years of flying. Much appreciated, old chap!

@RequiemsACTL

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Bert, glad to know they've helped!

great tutorial man. keep up the good work.

Another superb video nice drop

Excellent vídeo as always

Great Tutorial! As usual! :)

Very useful info! Thank you!

Never knew it was this "simple" I always just try to guess where it is under me, always end up short or over extending my run. Super helpful.

Your videos are just wonderful !!! I did learn a lot....cheers mate !!!!

Excellent tutorial of a very cool aiming system. Those bomblets look like its raining destruction :-)

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

I love the bomblets...they're just so damn loud!

That was super great, thank you!

Fan bloody TAStic! I wondered what those lines on the nose were for!! Thanks M'sieur Le Req!!

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Anytime mate :-)

Learned a lot. Thanks for sharing.

@RequiemsACTL

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! There's always little details about these sorts of things like this that you can skip over without even noticing if you're bombing your own way

I had no idea. Thanks for this.

This is very useful. I've been using them wrong for dive purposes lol

Thank you so much. I tend to play il-2 in War Thunder air simulator battles.

That is pretty brilliant! Thanks

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Yep it's an ingenious solution

Outstanding!

Gotta love the bomblets. Great video!

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

They're the easiest and most fun things to attack with...but at low altitude the sounds of them exploding is a bit overwhelming ecen through the closed cockpit lol

Perfect timing for TAW great video as always thanks Requiem. Sorry If I got your name wrong :)

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Astrix...and you spelt it right ;-)

I like it!

A great video.

@RequiemsACTL

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Super handy!

Que bacana estou me dedicando para este de bombardeio obrigado pelos ensinamentos.

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Espero que você tenha muito sucesso com isso!

Those bomblets were very satisfying.

GREAT

Outstanding. I was wondering about the change from reflex sight to paint-it-on-the-windscreen sight between the 1942 and 1943 models. (According to the pilots, early fighters often had windscreen gun sights because reflex sights were in short supply.) Always wondered what the horizontal lines were about and I don't think I even noticed the lines on the cowling. Estimating altitude above ground level is going to be a critical skill. I don't remember whether target altitude is given anywhere. (Enough of a challenge for some of us converting meters to feet.) I don't remember whether target altitude is given anywhere, and you would have to add the step of correcting the altimeter to nearest friendly airfield. Since you want to keep your eyes out of the cockpit and may be dodging fighters and flak, learning to judge the altitude above ground seems a better approach. Starts me thinking about custom skins for other planes to get the same kind of effect.

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's hard to get the altitude right as you get higher so correcting to nearest field would be a good option if you don't know the elevation of the area. These maps are done very close to real life so the elevation in game should be the same as RL. I personally prefer just doing the 50m drop. It keeps you low and it's easier to judge your altitude and when to drop the bombs.

@themigmadmarine

5 жыл бұрын

I think for things like career missions the briefing does state altitude of target above sea level.

@Claude-Eckel

5 жыл бұрын

Why would you convert metres into feet? In Russian planes there are no feet anyway (as well as not in Germans). This backward and annoying habit of still measuring altitudes and other lengths in lengths of certain human body parts was introduced to us first after the WWII. Thanks to: victor's justice meets characteristically submissive, spineless German attitude, I assume. But thankfully it's still not true in Russian aviation as Russians had had the balls to say fuck off. Because converting reasonable, beautiful metres (based on a natural constant) into ugly human, medieval feet stinks. Proverbially and literally. Since the Il-2 is not only a Russian but also still a WWII plane, there are no other feet needed but those you were born and need to fly the plane with. ;)

@Lemard77

5 жыл бұрын

Another fact that led to the convertion to the "painted" sight was that often IL-2s had to make emergency landings (damaged by aaa or fighters) and the pilots were injured (and sometimes died) when their heads hit the reflex gunsights in the crash, so appart from the added capability to aim rockets and bombs, it was also made for better pilot protection.

great content man, ty so much, i had no idea about the vv1 sight. I was just wondering if theres any guide you can point me to as how to bomb with the il2 without the sight, like the 1942 and 1941? im trying to find out how to dive or glide bomb with it but its hard without specific speeds and points to aim etc... ty again!

@RequiemsACTL

2 жыл бұрын

I don't have anything for the earlier il2s yet but a general technique is to release your bombs just as the target passes under the nose in a dive

@joaoluc

2 жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL ty, ill try it

Thanks for this but I understand the principle but am unable to put it into practice. As far as I can see you raise or lower your head to line up black lines on white. However I cannot raise my head high enough, either with TrackIR or with the keys. The other variable must be proximity of the head to the sight. I am using the standard view set up. Your head must be quite close to the windscreen to achieve the rapidity of line movement compared to head movement. Off topic: I also notice your field of view especially sideways is wider than the standard view. How is that done with TrackIR?

I'll give it a go!

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Let us know how it works out for you :-)

Hi Req, I've been following the technique you use for level bombing, but I've been having trouble. I use Vr with the oculus rift s, and whenever I try to follow the procedure, I drop my bombs late. I find that in order to line up the top and bottom bars with the lines on the fuselage, I have to move my head forward instead of up. My VR system will not let me just move my head straight up without my whole view shifting. Do you think that my head position might have something to do with it? Cheers.

@RequiemsACTL

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Eric, I think as long the lines are lined up it shouldn't make a difference. Maybe your airspeed or altitude is off?

@ericwolf6995

4 жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL After practicing a bit more, I think my problem was confusing Altitude ASL with AGL. Gonna be practice estimating AGL more. Thanks for the videos! They are super helpful.

"Oh, I'll just watch a sneak peak of the new video" I say foolishly to myself as I proceed to stand dumbstruck watching the whole thing...

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

LOL Sorry to sucker you in on this one Wolf :-)

Will you be doing a similar video on the bomb sight of the HS-129?

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

It wasn't on my radar but I can make one. I wouldn't expect it until a few more videos down the road as I'm working on several at the moment.

How do I adjust my head's vertical position? Can't seem to do it with my tracking software. Is there a way to do it via button press?

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

If you have TrackIR you can just sit up in your chair, but otherwise you can use PageUp and PageDown to adjust your visual height

Great video as usual mate. For the next plane can you do the Ju87D5 with gun pods or the Hs129?

@RoyRogerer

5 жыл бұрын

I believe he alreayd has a video on Ju87 gunpods

@Jbroker404

5 жыл бұрын

Is there a Ju87 D5? I thought the game only had the D3. Either way, are you referring to the 7.92mm gunpods? Or the 37mm ones? If you're talking about the 37mm gunpods, I'm pretty sure he already did a video on that.

@mrstorch5068

5 жыл бұрын

7.92mm and 20mm gun pods.

@Jbroker404

5 жыл бұрын

@@mrstorch5068 I haven't seen an option for 20mm gunpods on the Ju87

@mrstorch5068

5 жыл бұрын

Oh. I did not know there weren’t 20mm options. Are there 7.92mm ones then?

I use TrackIR, but I can't set head to proper line (when I'm using Track IR, head position settings are off). Which settings do you use, to adjust your head?

@RequiemsACTL

3 жыл бұрын

On my discord channel and on the Il-2 forums I make my TIR profile available to download

He Req, Did you choose these alts and speed settings out of mere guess and test? Or were these set in official manuals? Game manuals? Just curious. Nice drops btw. : )

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

All the values on the sight and cowling are official. The only testing by me was to verify that I could use the sight and nose markings in this way. There was a developer diary back when the IL-2 1943 was released that explained how to use the sight.

How are you moving the black line vertically? Do you mean simply adjust your head position to get the right parallax? So the black line is just a visual aid to project the cowling lines out to the sides? In the second Sea Dragons mission the Il2 wing drops bombs from ~600m at 260kph in level flight - I assume they aren't using this VV-1 sight for that?

@RequiemsACTL

3 жыл бұрын

The lines are fixed. You're right that I'm moving my head to get the right alignment depending on the release conditions. The AI is all seeing and all knowing, so they don't need to use a sight at all to do level bombing.

@meowsqueak

3 жыл бұрын

The Air Combat Tutorial Library ah, so in VR I’m having a lot of trouble lining up the 200m or 300m line as I can’t get my virtual head close enough to the windscreen. Are you using TrackIR? With the AI in Sea Dragons I assumed I’d follow the wing but it sounds like I need to break off and do my own bombing run.

@RequiemsACTL

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I use TrackIR

hey i just got BoK, this plane was included, thanks for this tutorial! i got the basics down, now i just need practice. Btw do you have a guide on how to use the gunsights for dive bombing with the 1943 variant? sometimes level bombing isnt ideal. ty

@RequiemsACTL

4 жыл бұрын

Sent you a PM on the forum.

This game needs a MMO version, like WWIIonline. I would stop working ;)

@RequiemsACTL

4 жыл бұрын

That would be a similar problem for many people I think Turbo! lol

@kaletovhangar

3 жыл бұрын

War Thunder is something like that,but it doesn't has that much detail.

Huh! I had no idea

How do you get your camera angles for the bombs?

@RequiemsACTL

3 жыл бұрын

F6 follows bombs, F10 is a free camera view where you move around with WASD. All under "camera controls" in the options

I’m curious, what level of graphics settings do you tend to use for your in-game videos? I know everyone’s system is different, and there’s no “Golden bullet”, but I’ve noticed you tend to value a higher stable FPS rather than aesthetics (similar to myself, especially with TrackIR). Do you usually turn down some of the settings to do so? If so which ones? Thanks for all your input.

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

I usually don't record videos on my gaming PC, but instead I use a custom setting so I can record at 60FPS on my laptop (GTX 1060). This is so when I'm out flying a trip I can do the menial video stuff away from home. Big hits on FPS are grass, shadows, and horizon distance I think. Here are my graphic settings: www.dropbox.com/s/d94wqlxbktsxw0f/GFX%20settings.png?dl=0

@specopdude

5 жыл бұрын

The Air Combat Tutorial Library I appreciate the answer my man, your videos are calm, cool, and collected in the best way. I watch em all the time.

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Anytime :-)

Thx for the video. How did you know you were at the correct altitude? Your altimeter kept telling you you were higher than what you wanted.

@Jbroker404

5 жыл бұрын

My guess is that his altimeter was showing altitude above sea level, whereas this requires you to do altitude AGL (above ground level).

@kungfuchef8500

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jbroker404 and how do you do that?

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

The altimeter was showing altitude above Mean Sea Level (MSL), so to figure out Above Ground Level (AGL) you take the elevation of the area and subtract it from MSL. Otherwise eyeballing 50m is the easiest way to go about it.

@kungfuchef8500

5 жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL ahhhhhh that makes sense. Thx! I've been waiting for a level bombing video for a while. My dive bombing sometimes results in me ramming into trees...

How does one adjust the seat position in game? 1:52

@RequiemsACTL

4 жыл бұрын

You either use TrackIR or VR to move in your seat, but if you don't have either of those then adjust your seat position using HOME, END, INS, DEL, PgUp, PgDn keys on the numpad.

@TheSerec

4 жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL So I have watched a few of your videos and one thing i have noticed is that, especially in your ground attack videos, your plane stays extremely calm during attack dives which allows you to accurately get your shots/rockets/bombs on target, whereas I have trouble keeping it steady. Do you use trim during these attacks or is that your joystick settings? Oh and I also plan on investing into a new stick, what setup are you using and would you recommend it?

@RequiemsACTL

4 жыл бұрын

It depends on the strength of your centering force for the joystick. Those ground attack videos I flew using my old Logitech G940 and had the centering force down to nearly zero, so I didn't have any resistance pulling the stick back to center, which made it easy to keep a steady aim. I never needed to trim using that stick. I use the Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS now, so I'm trimming all the time to keep my aim steady. I much prefer the Warthog since I fly DCS as well as Il-2 and the HOTAS covers what I need in both sims nicely.

me he quedado loco con el titulo en español..

Interesting! So one question. Could I drop the bomb in a dive?

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think so. AFAIK the lines were designed based on level flight so if your diving the line wouldn't indicate when to drop

@fenbeiduo

5 жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL I mean don't use guide line as reference.Like a P-47 dive bombing.---Why not

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

@@fenbeiduo Ah sorry I know what you mean now. Yes of course you can drop the bombs in a dive just like any other airplane. This is just how to use those sight lines for level bombing. If you drop them in a dive you would just need to guess the right time to drop.

@fenbeiduo

5 жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL Bravo ;

Why did he close the radiators?

@RequiemsACTL

4 жыл бұрын

Closing the oil radiator in the Il-2 helps protect it from ground fire hitting it

is the adjusting the seat part doable with a key binding or how is he "adjusting his seat" bruh

@RequiemsACTL

Жыл бұрын

You can use the INSERT/DEL/HOME/PG UP/PG DN/END keys to adjust your seat if you don't do it using TrackIR

@leviartigas7429

Жыл бұрын

@@RequiemsACTL thank you very much

Amigo, hablas español?

@RequiemsACTL

4 жыл бұрын

No, solo a través de Google Translate

Жалко на русском языке нет ... а так, классные уроки делаешь, молодец!

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

Спасибо! Я хочу, чтобы мои видео переводились на другие языки с субтитрами, но я знаю только английский (это сделано гугл переводчиком)

Yeah nice vid but the game is floored. There is not way to adjust the pilot seat on the fly so all of this is useless as u can not change the view for a static sight like what the Il2 has!!! Sorry but pointless!

@RequiemsACTL

5 жыл бұрын

You can use TrackIR to move position or use the Insert, Delete, Home, End, PgUp. PgDn keys to adjust your view while flying.