P-47 Dive & Glide Bombing Techniques

This lesson is part one of how to use the P-47 in a ground attack role.
This video covers:
- War Emergency Power Takeoffs
- Dive bombing
- Glide bombing

Part Two covers attacks using rockets and ground strafing.

Comments and feedback are always welcome, so if this video helped you out hit the like button and let me know in the comments below. Cheers!

[theras]

I just watched the Midway movie and came here to understand dive & glide bombing better. This was perfect.

[hillbillykoi]

Found your videos after searching for P47 in IL 2. Just reloaded the game and want to start a P47 career. Now just waiting for my new joystick and throttle to arrive. Needless to say, you have a new subscriber. Thanks!

[gustaf]

You did it again Requiem. You have a great knack for knowing what really need. Your P-47 content shows how to match and use the right tool for the right job. Maybe I'll understand why this fighter was so successful or why the famous 56th FG (all Jugs) refused to upgrade to P-51's.

[TheExcuseme]

Precise and entertaining as usual. You should consider selling merch such as t-shirts for your channel with aviation-themed designs. I would certainly buy one!

[TheRaptorXX]

Fantastic! Great specs on this one Req. I particularly liked the glide bomb drop, right into the front door! I shall get on and start practising this very morn, armed with the vital information!!

[rderespini]

I’ve watched all of your videos Requiem, and this one might be the best. I have a feeling I’m going to be doing a lot more ground attack missions in the Jug, with great success!

[lwallace]

Thanks for this! 👍I'd been struggling with how to dive-bomb properly in the P-51B, and this is just what I needed to figure out what I was doing wrong.

[barnacles]

I read somewhere that despite having a jettisonable canopy, it recommends that takeoffs and landings are conducted with the canopy open.

[matydrum]

What an awesome flying! Thank you so much!I make check lists based on your videos! Greetings from France!

[Hosscoller]

Requiem are you going to do a video of the P-38 bombs/Rockets/Guns attacks?.. using the dive recovery system or dive brakes...

[Vitasalato]

Great video as always! Just a word of advice, a times in the video was hard to hear your voice (at least for me) as it was covered by the engine noise. You might want reduce the game noise by a touch.

[NPC_-mfdw]

You make it look easy and almost sound bored. :D

[bobyer]

Would be nice if you could make a low level bombing tutorial one day. Not persé for the P47 in particular but for fighters in general, you know, the trick where you drop your bomb when the target dissapears under your nose.

[robcooper]

Great video. Hope to give these tips a try soon. I noticed you seem to be able to maintain about 2700 rpm during your flights in the p47. Any more tips about how to get the best performance from it?

[renebachmann]

Hey... could you please make video about your controller/joystick settings??? Your flight looks always so increadible Thank you and greetings from germany

[templed]

8:07 I thought you weren't pulling out of the dive

[neighborhoodturnt]

Question what order do the wing bombs drop left then right or opposite? And how much of an offset do you recommend?

[RoyRogerer]

Could you maybe one day make a video regarding fighter bombing or assault plane bombing (like IL-2, Bf-110 etc)? Or even with Pe-2, not level bombing but low alt shallow dive bombing (The lines with degrees on Pe-2 some sort of guide for aiming?). Or these types of bombing in general. I don't understand how I am ever supposed to aim for a target. Is it pure guesstimate?

[arturaspaketuras]

Hello. Thanks for great lesson. Training at the moment. How many seconds you put on bomb delay. And what is trim settings wile ataking. Thanks one more time😉

[jecammarata]

Thank you for all the time you spend creating these videos. I downloaded the mission and put it in my game folder. When I try to launch it in when I create my own dog fighting server in multiplayer, the folder is empty. When I tried to open it in the mission editor, I received a message that there was an error opening the mission file. Any advice from anyone is much appreciated.