Has course auto pilot taken the place of level stabilizer?

[Marabekm]

Think of it as a difficulty setting.

IE... Level Autopilot did not exist in real life. The bombardier and pilot had to work together to drop the bombs on target. Pilot had to fly the plane straight and level and bomb aimer directed him to the release point. So... prior to 4.13, the pilot and bomb aimer had to be the same person. Kind of hard to do both jobs. Enter level autopilot. This key basically takes over pilots job of flying plane straight and level, allowing player to concentrate on bomb aiming.


After 4.13 patch, bomb aimer and pilot can now be separate people. Norden bombsight and Lofte 7 bombsight had a basic auto pilot function available to the bombardier that allowed him to "fly" the plane whilst looking through the bombsight to make fine course adjustments to maintain the target. This is course autopilot. Japanese and Russian bombers still require coordination between pilot and bomb aimer. For the Russians, the bomber can use to arrows to point in the direction he wants pilot to turn plane. Japanese bombardier must verbally talk to pilot.