One more movie: Hurricane vs. Do-17's over London

[Eklund89]

Set correct distance and wingspan setting in the sight. Do17 should be 59ft. Range depends on your convergence. If you have convergence 200, set the sight to 420 and 58ft and when the Do17s wings touch the inner lines of the gun-sight you fire. Not at 20 meters. If you shoot at correct distance with correct convergence you can down 10 Do17 with the ammo you wasted.
When you see the rounds go under the bombers when you aim directly at them, correct and don't continue fire under them. Next time, put the pepper just above the target at that close range and you should hit better.

[Freycinet]

Thanks for the advice, I'm a nitwit and haven't even looked into setting the gunsight yet! - Not to speak of convergence...

This bit I don't understand:

Originally Posted by Eklund89

If you have convergence 200, set the sight to 420 and 58ft

What is 420?

[Eklund89]

The range is set in yards.
200 meters = 218 yards.
The gun-sight measures from the dot to the inner line so double to get from inner line to inner line. Add some reaction time and error and you get around 420 yards range setting.
Standard convergence is 333m i think.

[Freycinet]

Originally Posted by Eklund89

The range is set in yards.
200 meters = 218 yards.
The gun-sight measures from the dot to the inner line so double to get from inner line to inner line. Add some reaction time and error and you get around 420 yards range setting.
Standard convergence is 333m i think.

Ok, just for me to get my head around it:



I should set the luminous circle I see in the above pic to:

(whatever my convergence is)
x 2
+ a little bit more for the yards to meters conversion

Is that it?

And then I should set the horizontal bars to the wingspan of the enemy?

Thanks, great help!