Did you use Makarov or ppsh?

Nope. I used ТТ.

But now, that ClOD prooved an economical dead birth, I personally dont see any more reason for the ban.
Id clearly like to see the flying pencil.

hmm, i think now not so simple down fw-189, but i have not so much practice, against peoples especially, and of course, in this old game modelled not all what can be modelled, and something just can't be modelled...

oh, what interesting here, i heard what some gunners in all countrys had tompson/ppsh-41 how "last chance"...

and read many times what some gunners of il-2 took additional machine gun (maybe, something like DP-27), and for attack ground targets too, as well as signal flares for scaring away...

mainly this is байки/tales or not, don't tell, but i think we really need these signal flares for pilots/gunners, it's be more realistic signalisation than navigation lights or headlights, which now used in online, especially because headlights had mainly night/PVO fighters...

Fw-189 is not flyable in stock game (in UP3 and HSFX - yes).
I just noticed that 2-3 20-mm ShVAK's rounds enough to set FW-189 on fire, shoot off a wing or make an "bloody mess" inside of its cockpit.

What about the current state of development? When? :(

Wow.

These guys have lives around Christmas too, savvy?

fw-189 flyable on some servers with realistic mods, and this is not packs like UP3 or HSFX, well, and i had only one fight against 189, but when i fired all ammo in rama from lagg-3 8 or 11 serie, 2 other pilots trying this too, and fw still alive...

but i think, mainly, it's was settings of connection (DM work better with old settings, my opinion, ie when internet was not so fast), on servers where you can fly with very good parameters, planes not so strong...

plus if hits like in attach and are spread throughout the aircraft, plane can fly and in game and in RL, why not...

in total, rama metal, very thin, but not small, plus in game modelled not all things of FM, so..., but and 2-3 20 mm shells in cabine, fuel tanks etc it's not strange...

Hopefully one day they can put some actual ground troops in the sim . It would be awesome to be able to strafe soldiers who are shooting back at you (along with blood and gore effects )Also hands and feet in the cockpit view. I realize that's asking too much but it would be cool .