Your favourite WW2 guns

[Flanker15]

Originally Posted by mondo

Think of it differently. Its a valid tactic and was used extensivly. The 2nd TAF and 9th AF specialised in this sort of thing.

What it boils down to is the defending airforce should protect its airstrip.

It's ok in some missions where everyone agrees to it and it's a special mission circumstance (a historic recreation for example)

On almost all servers there's a gentleman's agreement not to, as people play to dogfight each other and getting shot up when you can't fight back yet over and over isn't going to be a good experience for anyone.
Most of the time when it happens you can't rely on other planes to protect the airfield as they'll be miles away in an engagement or stuck on the ground with you (as your allies get shot down they end up stuck with you until the whole team is getting shot to pieces by vulchers).
You are allowed to attack planes on the ground with bombs and rockets if it's your mission to attack the airfield however.

If you end up getting vulched repeatedly a last resort tactic is:
Change to a bomber of some sort and outfit the largest bombs available (you know where this is going). Sit on the ground and wait for the offending aircraft to come in for a pass and as he moves over you, drop the bombs. The wonderful shrapnel system in Il-2 will swiss cheese his plane and send him into the ground (netting you a kill). Then you just change back and take off.